Charles S. Cohen
Charles S. Cohen is an American real estate developer, film distributor and producer, and patron of the arts. He is the owner, president and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation, a private commercial real estate development and management firm with a portfolio of Class A commercial office buildings and design centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, and South Florida. An attorney by training, Charles S. Cohen grew his family's real estate company and quadrupled the business to 12 million square feet through more than 70 acquisitions and financings, focusing largely on Manhattan office buildings. Cohen is the Owner and Chairman/CEO of Cohen Media Group, which he formed in 2008 to produce and distribute independent and arthouse films throughout North America. Cohen Media Group is today the largest American distributor of French films in the United States, while its specialty home entertainment label, the Cohen Film Collection, releases restored and remastered editions of classic Hollywood and foreign films on Digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD. Cohen Media Group has distributed over 60 films, including The Salesman from Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The Company has also acquired the rights to over 800 films, including cinema landmarks from Douglas Fairbanks and Buster Keaton. Most recently, Charles Cohen acquired Merchant Ivory Productions, best known for Howards End and Maurice. Additionally, Cohen Media Group has several feature film and television productions currently in the works. In 2014, Charles S. Cohen took over the reins at one of New York City's most revered movie houses, the historic Quad Cinema in the heart of Greenwich Village. Cohen has spent two years fully refurbishing the existing theater, offering cinema lovers a historic transformation of the Quad Cinema, which was unveiled in Spring 2017. A long time champion of independent and foreign film, Charles S. Cohen's experience in theater design includes the renovation of New York's AMPAS Academy Theater at Lighthouse International on 59th Street in New York City and the building of the SilverScreen Theater inside the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Under Cohen's direction, the Quad will continue to show critically acclaimed foreign and independent films, as well as restored titles from The Cohen Film Collection, and repertory films from other leading distributors, in a professionally curated way. Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the Lighthouse Guild, Real Estate Board of New York, Museum of Art and Design and The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). He has been honored twice by the Republic of France: In 2014, he received the Ordre National Du Mérite (National Order of Merit) from the French President for his efforts in promoting French cinema and art, and in 2015, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters).
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer
- 21 on MovieCove · 24 credits in all
What are Charles S. Cohen's films like?
Across their 21 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 21
A split, not a type: Light 9 · Serious 5 · Dark 7
Grounded 16 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 10 · Charged 8 · Intense 3
Steady 15 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 15 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 0
Slow burn 18 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 15 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 8 · Affecting 8 · Heavy 5
Resolved 15 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet11
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous7
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Charles S. Cohen's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 20 of their 21 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- Faces Places (2017) · producer · free
- The Insult (2017) · producer · free
- The Great Buster (2018) · producer · free
- Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) · producer · free
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) · producer · free
- Red Trees (2017) · producer · free
- My Old Lady (2014) · producer · free
- Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017) · producer · free
- Just Like a Woman (2012) · producer · free
- The Aspern Papers (2018) · producer · free
- Rodin (2017) · producer · free
- Spiral (2017) · producer · free
- Cohen Media Channel18 titles
- Cineverse, show their 3 titles on Cineverse
- Docurama, show their title on Docurama
Subscription and free streaming for Charles S. Cohen's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
24 credits, 21 with a MovieCove page.
Merchant Ivory(2023)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Black Tea(2024)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Operation Mincemeat(2021)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Casanova, Last Love(2019)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
The Aspern Papers(2018)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
The Great Buster(2018)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Spiral(2017)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Benji(2018)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Red Trees(2017)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Rodin(2017)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Faces Places(2017)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
The Insult(2017)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Hitchcock/Truffaut(2015)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Shipwrecked in a Studio: The Making of Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
My Old Lady(2014)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Two Men in Town(2014)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
Before She Was Scarlet O'Hara: An Interview with Anne Edwards (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
What Is Cinema?(2013)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Just Like a Woman(2012)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Frozen River(2008)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all filmsStoner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 19 titles, 18 of them dated from 2008 to 2024.
Biggest box office
Operation Mincemeat (2021)
Highest rated
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Most popular right now
Operation Mincemeat (2021)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Charles S. Cohen's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 21; across their 21 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 59th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
8 of their 21 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser8
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed8
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Charles S. Cohen's work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 4 categories sits near the median of all films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Charles S. Cohen work with?
People who share at least 2 of Charles S. Cohen's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rachid Bouchareb shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Rachid BoucharebShared titles: The Insult (2017), Two Men in Town (2014), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Rachid Bouchareb
- Chuck WorkmanShared titles: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014), What Is Cinema? (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Chuck Workman
Writers
- Joelle ToumaShared titles: The Insult (2017), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Joelle Touma
Actors
- Vanessa RedgraveShared titles: Merchant Ivory (2023), The Aspern Papers (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Vanessa Redgrave
- Vincent LindonShared titles: Casanova, Last Love (2019), Rodin (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Vincent Lindon
- Tim GuineeShared titles: Two Men in Town (2014), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Tim Guinee
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Christophe BeaucarneShared titles: Casanova, Last Love (2019), Rodin (2017), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Christophe Beaucarne
- Eric NeveuxShared titles: The Insult (2017), Two Men in Town (2014), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Eric Neveux
- Tom HurwitzShared titles: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014), What Is Cinema? (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Tom Hurwitz
- Yannick KergoatShared titles: Two Men in Town (2014), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Yannick Kergoat
Producers
- Daniel BattsekShared titles: Spiral (2017), Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015), My Old Lady (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Daniel Battsek
- Jean BréhatShared titles: The Insult (2017), Two Men in Town (2014), Just Like a Woman (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Jean Bréhat
- Olivier PèreShared titles: Black Tea (2024), Faces Places (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Olivier Père
- James IvoryShared titles: Merchant Ivory (2023), The Aspern Papers (2018)See all 2 shared titles with James Ivory
Mixed roles
- Etienne ComarShared titles: Faces Places (2017), Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Etienne Comar
