
Research in the Interest of Families(2011)
A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty wife. Shortly after, she disappears.


Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.

Jacques Gamblin
Victor

Olivier Marchal
Milan

Carlo Brandt
Serki

Reda Kateb
Wilfried

Igor Skreblin
Etienne

Francis Renaud
Jose

James Kazama
Chef Japonais

Laure Marsac
Coralie

Anne Charrier
Sarah

Big John
Freddy
Paris Countdown is a thriller, crime film released in 2013. Directed by Edgar Marie, it stars Jacques Gamblin, Olivier Marchal, Carlo Brandt. Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.
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