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François Damiens has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The World Is Yours
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Brand New Testament
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Heartbreaker
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%AMC+ · Included

JCVD
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 62%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Stuck Together
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 73%Netflix · Included

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Louane, Karin Viard, François Damiens

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Dir. Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar · With François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Dir. Romain Gavras · With Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel
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

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
Dir. Jaco Van Dormael · With Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau

Diagnosed «crap with girls» by his friends, Anis’ love life has barely a pulse. Three years after the loss of Isma, his best friend and mentor, Anis takes his courage in both hands and decides finally to get out and meet people again. And the person he meets is Madeleine. Thinking she’s way out of his league, Anis gets tangled in a web of silly lies trying to impress her. But something huge is about to start. An unexpected thing. A thing called love.
Dir. Mourad Winter · With Hakim Jemili, Laura Felpin, Benjamin Tranié
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Dir. Pascal Chaumeil · With Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Dir. Katell Quillévéré · With Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Dir. Mabrouk El Mechri · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
Dir. Stéphanie Di Giusto · With Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Dir. Thomas Bidegain · With François Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
Dir. Carine Tardieu · With François Damiens, Cécile de France, Alice de Lencquesaing

Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours.
Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, François Damiens, Laurence Arné

Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea decides to write a novel, which turns into an immediate bestseller…
Dir. Daniel Cohen · With Bérénice Bejo, Vincent Cassel, Florence Foresti

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Dir. David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos · With Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Mélanie Bernier

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Dir. Dany Boon · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Julie Bernard
Max, a ruthless 50-year-old hitman, discovers he has a problem: he now faints at the drop of blood. With his future in the profession in jeopardy, he's going to have to retrain... But not so simple when his only professional skill is to kill people... They are helped by a couple of young neighbors, Karim and Stéphanie, who do not imagine for a moment who they are dealing with... Max becomes attached, in spite of himself, to the young couple, until his past catches up with him.
Dir. Cécilia Rouaud · With François Damiens, William Lebghil, Laura Felpin
Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who makes one blunder after another, is so happy to see Pierre again that he wants to spend time with him and delay the moment of signing. So Pierre has no choice but to take his cousin with him on a turbulent business trip during which his patience will be put to the test.
Dir. Jan Kounen · With Vincent Lindon, François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot
Lucas is an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Bénabar, Franck Dubosc, Jocelyn Quivrin
Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordinary stories come to life somewhere in an imaginary world inhabited by knights, pirates and other dragons. In this world that belongs only to them, Sofia is always the princess to save, and the brave Prince is none other than Djibi himself. But 3 years later, the entry of Sofia to the college will mark the end of her childhood. To the despair of her father, she no longer needs her stories at night. On the one hand, Djibi will have to accept that his daughter will grow up and move away from him. On the other hand, in the World of Stories, the Prince will have to face the most epic of all his adventures. Find your destiny in a world where it no longer has a place.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Omar Sy, Bérénice Bejo, François Damiens
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
Dir. François Damiens · With François Damiens, Matteo Salamone, Tatiana Rojo
Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.
Dir. Gérard Krawczyk · With Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Bernard Farcy
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the bellhop school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure.
Dir. Nicolas Bary · With Sacha Pinault, Natacha Régnier, Pierre Richard

as Jean-Marc Bastos
Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a bestseller and his television show breaks audience records. He is then approached by the mysterious Aurélie Diaz who will bring Jack Mimoun back to Val Verde to train him in search of the legendary sword of the pirate La Buse. Accompanied by Bruno Quézac, the ambitious but reckless manager of Jack, and Jean-Marc Bastos, a mercenary as disturbed as he is unpredictable, our adventurers will embark on an incredible treasure hunt through the jungle of the island of thousand dangers.
Dir. Ludovic Colbeau-Justin, Malik Bentalha · With Malik Bentalha, Joséphine Japy, Jérôme Commandeur
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
Dir. Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia · With Ramzy Bedia, Éric Judor, Benoît Magimel

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad, Mathéo Boisselier
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Kad Merad, Clovis Cornillac, Carole Bouquet
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.
Dir. Yvan Attal · With Yvan Attal, Benoît Poelvoorde, Valérie Bonneton
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