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Alban Ivanov has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Specials.
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Goon: Last of the Enforcers
2017
Comedy

Desi Boyz
2011
Comedy · Drama

Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
Comedy · Drama

Public Friends
2016
Comedy

Escort in Love
2011
Comedy

Dedicated to my ex
2019
Drama · Comedy

All Nighter
2017
Comedy · Drama

The Wedding Ringer
2015
Comedy
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache · With Vincent Cassel, Reda Kateb, Hélène Vincent

After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
Dir. Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade · With Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano · With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
Dir. Gilles Lellouche · With Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde
In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.
Dir. Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade · With Zita Hanrot, Liam Pierron, Soufiane Guerrab
A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.
Dir. David Charhon · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Alban Ivanov, Samir Decazza
Mika, a little crook, took a quick tour of the prison, where he got to know "Putin", a crazy and unpredictable detainee. As soon as his sentence has been served, he decides to start from scratch and start his life over again. As he prepares to marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman, his past catches up with him: Putin arrives without warning! Mika will quickly realize that we do not easily get rid of such a ball ...
Dir. Varante Soudjian · With Ahmed Sylla, Alban Ivanov, Judith El Zein
Community workers, Alex and Stéphanie take five teen dropouts on an educational journey across the Mediterranean. But their skipper happens to be an ex cop with a powerful hatred for youths from the hood.
Dir. Varante Soudjian · With Alban Ivanov, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Pirault
After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its field. To avoid this disaster, there is only one solution: creating a new team made up exclusively of women to defend the city’s colors! But in a community where football has always been an activity reserved for men, these women’s new status will be sure to shake up the daily lives of the town’s residents…
Dir. Mohamed Hamidi · With Kad Merad, Alban Ivanov, Céline Sallette

When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins — but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?
Dir. Lisa-Nina Rives · With Omar Sy, Sara Giraudeau, Pascale Arbillot
In spite of their total inexperience, three suburban lascars launch themselves into close protection. Thanks to a "mythical plan", they are assigned to protect Marie Van Verten: a capricious and whimsical young woman, heiress of the biggest fortune in Belgium... And incidentally, a target for over-trained killers! Will our heroes' sense of improvisation be enough to get them out of trouble?
Dir. Denis Thybaud · With Stéphanie Crayencour, Ralph Amoussou, Alban Ivanov
For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .
Dir. Varante Soudjian · With Alban Ivanov, Issaka Sawadogo, Judith El Zein
Willy and Tony have a brilliant idea for getting out of it financially: stealing a dog from the brigade des stups. But everything does not go as planned and the two accomplices will have to rely on the most corrupt of the cops.
Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt · With Michaël Youn, Florence Foresti, Alban Ivanov
After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.
Dir. Mouloud Achour, Dominique Baumard · With Roman Frayssinet, Djimo Salim, Ludivine Sagnier
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