Charles Berling’s Typical Vibe
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Charles Berling has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by What's in a Name.
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
Comedy · Drama

Barney's Version
2010
Comedy · Drama

Mr & Mme Adelman
2017
Romance · Drama

Le Week-End
2013
Comedy · Drama

Cycling with Molière
2013
Drama · Comedy

Captain Fantastic
2016
Drama · Comedy

The First Beautiful Thing
2010
Comedy · Drama

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
Drama · Comedy

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...
Dir. Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière · With Patrick Bruel, Valérie Benguigui, Charles Berling

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Pierre Niney, Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet

Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
Dir. Nicolas Boukhrief · With Sandrine Bonnaire, Charles Berling, Pablo Pauly

Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Dir. David Moreau · With Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Gilles Cohen

as Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke
Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
Dir. Vincent Garenq · With Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
Dir. Luc Jacquet · With Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Dir. Antonello Grimaldi · With Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino

Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Catherine Mouchet

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny

Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Dir. Safy Nebbou · With Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Dir. Erick Zonca · With Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Sandrine Kiberlain
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Dir. Frédéric Schoendoerffer · With Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life hell.
Dir. Jim Ben Soussan · With Jimmy Labeeu, Sophie Mousel, Charles Berling
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Isabelle Huppert, Lou de Laâge, Vincent Macaigne
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Dir. Patrick Alessandrin · With Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
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