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Catherine Jacob has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, the photo is published on Facebook and a storm overtakes their lives as they face bullying and rejection.
Dir. Didier Bivel · With Patrick Timsit, Bérenger Anceaux, Jules Houplain

Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Benoît Magimel, Valérie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt · With Jean-Luc Couchard, Mélanie Laurent, François Damiens

A black comedy about a widow who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Tsilla Chelton, Isabelle Nanty, Catherine Jacob
Lucie, Ben and William search an old woman's home for a hidden treasure and they encounter a series of supernatural events that change them forever.
Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury · With Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone

Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!
Dir. Franck Dubosc · With Franck Dubosc, Louna Espinosa, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
Dir. Marilou Berry · With Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Medi Sadoun

Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
Dir. Gérard Lauzier · With Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...
Dir. Noémie Saglio · With Juliette Binoche, Camille Cottin, Lambert Wilson

as Fleurette, épouse d'Urbain
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Christian Clavier, Marine Delterme, Tsilla Chelton

Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political party suggest she become their candidate at the mayoral elections.
Dir. Lucas Belvaux · With Émilie Dequenne, André Dussollier, Guillaume Gouix
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
Dir. Myriam Aziza · With Sarah Stern, Jean-Christophe Folly, Julia Piaton
Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married! Separated for two years with Nino, an Italian teacher with a strong character, she manages to convince him to follow her to Paris to divorce in 8 days flat. But their trip in the city of love looks much more eventful than expected...
Dir. Dorothée Sebbagh · With Géraldine Nakache, Kim Rossi Stuart, Pascal Demolon
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