According to the Toronto Star, "Mitrani's first feature, On the Trail of Igor Rizzi has all the earmarks – pink from cold though they may be – of a confidently assured and dangerously promising new talent".

[5] Thanks to the critical success of his first film, Mitrani obtained a significant budget to direct The Kate Logan Affair (2010), a dark and mysterious thriller starring Alexis Bledel playing a psychologically unstable police woman who makes a big mistake and tries to clean it up.

His third picture The Military Man (Le Militaire), released in 2014, is a drama about a former French soldier, whose trauma caused by his memories of conflict leads him towards an unhealthy relationship with women.

An entirely independent production shot guerrilla-style in two weeks on the streets of Montreal in Super 16, The Military Man pulls the audience into a troubling downward spiral of paranoia.

Noël Mitrani, who shot four films with actor Laurent Lucas, defines their collaboration as follows : “We have incredible coordination when it comes to emotions and feelings.