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François-Xavier Demaison has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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2014
Comedy
A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding
Dir. Christophe Barratier · With Arthur Dupont, François-Xavier Demaison, Sabrina Ouazani
The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Marina Foïs
Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Dir. Hugo Gélin · With François-Xavier Demaison, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Pierre Niney
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Dir. Jean Becker · With Gérard Depardieu, Maurane, Gisèle Casadesus
Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.
Dir. Franck Dubosc · With Franck Dubosc, Alexandra Lamy, Elsa Zylberstein
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent
Dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache · With Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carré, François-Xavier Demaison
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Maxime Godart, Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now trapped between his bride, and his lover who in charge of his unwanted marriage.
Dir. Reem Kherici · With Reem Kherici, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Julia Piaton
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.
Dir. Nicolas Cuche · With Virginie Efira, François-Xavier Demaison, Raphaël Personnaz
Ben is devastated when his wife asks for a divorce. While everyone chooses her side, Ben comes across Patrick, an old friend from college, recently divorced. Patrick invites him to crash at his place. The two roommates are soon joined by other divorced, separated and single people looking for a refuge.
Dir. Michaël Youn · With Arnaud Ducret, François-Xavier Demaison, Caroline Anglade
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
Dir. Nicolas Vanier · With Elsa Zylberstein, François-Xavier Demaison, Stéphane De Groodt
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village...
Dir. Philippe Le Guay · With François Cluzet, Toby Jones, François-Xavier Demaison
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
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemployment to save their job.
Dir. Franck Magnier, Alexandre Charlot · With Franck Dubosc, Elsa Zylberstein, François-Xavier Demaison
On a Saturday night during lock down, a group of very good friends go online to share a virtual aperitif. Suddenly, one of them is attacked and kidnapped live by an unknown man in front of his friends who watch helplessly from behind their screens. They soon discover that this mysterious stranger knows all their worst secrets, which he intends to bring to light one after the other.
Dir. Romuald Boulanger · With Stéphane De Groodt, Nadia Farès, François-Xavier Demaison
25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
Dir. Djamel Bensalah · With Booder, Issa Doumbia, Sandrine Kiberlain
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
Dir. Fabien Onteniente · With Franck Dubosc, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu
A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.
Dir. Fabien Onteniente · With Franck Dubosc, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte
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