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Alain Chabat has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy.
Drillbit Taylor
2008
Comedy
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 9%Prime Video · Included
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight
2025 · Mini · Voice · Creator
Top 58%Netflix · Included
Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 62%Tubi · Free w/ ads
French Twist
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 64%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Smoking Causes Coughing
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 68%Hulu · Included
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 75%Hulu · Included
as Serge Karamazov / Youri / Jacques, TV journalist · Writer
Prime Video · Rent
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Dir. Alain Berbérian · With Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia
as Jules César · Director · Writer
Prime Video · Included+1
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
Dir. Gilles Lellouche · With Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Mallory Wanecque
In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.
Dir. Anthony Marciano · With Max Boublil, Alice Isaaz, Malik Zidi
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou
Hidden in Rome, King Arthur is planning his return to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot.
Dir. Alexandre Astier · With Alexandre Astier, Lionnel Astier, Anne Girouard
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
Dir. Agnès Jaoui · With Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Maurice Barthélemy, Marina Foïs, Elise Larnicol
Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough moment for Santa, better known as Father Christmas. He's left no choice: he must make an emergency trip to Earth with his reindeer to search for a remedy. When he arrives, he must find some allies to save the magic of Christmas.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Alain Chabat, Golshifteh Farahani, Audrey Tautou
A non-narrated documentary following the lovesome lives of four infants from birth to their first birthday. The babies featured are two from rural areas: Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, and Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, as well as two from urban areas: Mari from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie from San Francisco, USA.
Dir. Thomas Balmès · With Hattie, Ponijao, Mari
as Astérix (voice) · Voice · Creator
Netflix · Included
When their druid forgets how to prepare the magic potion, Asterix and Obelix must defend the village as Caesar plots to use a Gallic law against them.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Alain Chabat, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier
Somewhere between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny lean over a large white sheet of paper and bring to life a mischievous and endearing boy, Little Nicolas. From schoolyard games and fights to summer camp pranks and camaraderie, Nicolas lives a merry and enriching childhood – and brings friendship and newfound life to his creators, too.
Dir. Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre · With Alain Chabat, Laurent Lafitte, Simon Faliu
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Dir. Josiane Balasko · With Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Isabelle Gélinas
Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Anaïs Demoustier
Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him to drop everything else in his life as well. The two men then throw themselves into a new brats' life full of adventure, convinced that freedom is elsewhere. But at what cost do we rediscover our adolescent dreams?
Dir. Anthony Marciano · With Alain Chabat, Max Boublil, Sandrine Kiberlain
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier
Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Larry's (mis)adventures this time include close encounters with Amelia Earhart, Abe Lincoln and Ivan the Terrible.
Dir. Shawn Levy · With Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson
In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony.
Dir. Louis Clichy · With Roger Carel, Alexandre Astier, Lionnel Astier
A village in the South of France, 1960. A band of country boys aged 7 to 14, led by fearless young Lebrac, wages an uncompromising battle against their sworn rivals, the kids from the neighboring village. A war of honor and allegiance that's been kept alive for generations, in which humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme, including attacking the enemy stark naked!
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Éric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot
Stéphane lives a quiet life as an eminent French Chef but when he decides to visit Soo, a mysterious Korean lady he fell in love with on Instagram, he'll embark on an adventurous journey full of discoveries.
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Alain Chabat, Bae Doona, Jules Sagot
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Dir. Yvan Attal · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
Dir. Brian Robbins · With Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Dir. Merzak Allouache · With Gad Elmaleh, Alain Chabat, Claude Brasseur
as Dan Geraldo · Director · Writer
When reporter Dan Geraldo arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito, D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Alain Chabat, Jamel Debbouze, Fred Testot
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.
Dir. Claude Berri, François Dupeyron · With Alain Chabat, Mathilde Seigner, Fanny Ardant
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