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Didier Flamand has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
Dir. Coline Serreau · With Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, James Thierrée

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz · With Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès
Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.
Dir. Pierre-François Martin-Laval · With Assad Ahmed, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Nanty

A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Édouard Baer
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was...
Dir. Alain Berbérian · With Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Caterina Murino
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Dir. Michel Munz, Gérard Bitton · With Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
Dir. Jérôme Cornuau · With Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Édouard Baer
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Dir. Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan · With Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
Dir. Bent Hamer · With Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei

At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Alexandra Lamy, Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner
While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy. These "few days" turn into "a few months". Jacqueline quickly feels at home. She prepares dinners, monopolizes the television, reorganizes the kitchen... She is here, and no one knows for how long!
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Josiane Balasko, Mathilde Seigner, Jérôme Commandeur
From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
Dir. Hervé Renoh · With Michaël Youn, Géraldine Nakache, Jimmy Jean-Louis
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The French have just sold a new high-power M51 rocket to the Russians for crazy money. Unfortunately for them, the rocket was hijacked before they could get it of their hands. However, not just any fool is up to neutralizing this threat, but only the craziest and most stupid of them can cope with such a task.
Dir. Gérard Pirès · With Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Édouard Baer
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Dir. Benoît Jacquot · With Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...
Dir. Djamel Bensalah · With Lorànt Deutsch, Roschdy Zem, Atmen Kelif
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