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The Hunter(2010)

Name: The Hunter
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2010-01-20
Rating: 3.5

January 20, 20101 Season · 6 Episodes

Ended

Crime

Drama

3.5from 2 users

Overview

French thriller about a serial killer whose life is about to fall apart. Samuel Delauney is a professional hitman working for his mother, the glamorous and domineering matriarch Natacha who helps wealthy clients get rid of their enemies. Natacha has never quite forgiven Samuel for the one and only contract he never fulfilled. On that occasion, instead of killing his mark, he married her.

Network France 2

Seasons

Season 1

6 Episodes

2010

E01

Episode 1: The Hairdresser

1/20/2010·45m

A serial killer is arrested and, to clear his name, commissions skilled assassin Samuel Delaunay to carry out a murder replicating his sadistic ritual of shaving his victims' skulls after the killing

E02

Episode 2: Alice Sonneville

1/20/2010·45m

Franck Peszynski, a casino owner who ordered the murder of Samuel's wife Lauren, returns and discovers that she's still alive. Samuel's mother Natacha sends him to kill an editor and fake her suicide.

E03

Episode 3: The Thiriet Brothers

1/20/2010·45m

A fugitive gives Natacha and Samuel a new contract: to kill the person who betrayed him to the police - his own brother. A persistent Peszynski discovers the connection between Natacha and Lauren.

E04

Episode 4: Mother's Own Hands

1/27/2010·45m

A representative of a bank in Luxembourg needs Samuel to dispose of an MEP who is proposing to regulate tax havens and then make the death look like an accident. Natacha meddles in her son's marriage.

E05

Episode 5: Doctor Piriot

1/27/2010·45m

A woman hires Samuel to assassinate her boss, a plastic surgeon whom she's accused of sexual abuse. When Lauren finds her son Arthur playing with a gun, she turns to her neighbour Charlotte for help.

E06

Episode 6: Lauren Laccan

1/27/2010·45m

When Samuel realises that Natacha has delivered Lauren to Peszynski, he is furious and heads off to rescue her. But at the rendezvous, the French intelligence services give him a terrifying ultimatum.

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Cast

Yannick Soulier

Samuel Delaunay

Marie-France Pisier

Natacha Delaunay

Estelle Skornik

Lauren Delaunay

Olivier Rabourdin

Gilles Mercier

Jean-François Stévenin

Franck Peszynski