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Gérard Darmon has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy.
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as Commissioner Patrick Bialès / Maurice Bialès / Alicia Lampéro
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A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Dir. Alain Berbérian · With Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Dir. Kheiron · With Kheiron, Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix · With Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon

Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix · With Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin

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
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
Dir. Marc Esposito · With Bernard Campan, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
King, a trafficked lion cub, escapes from the airport and takes refuge with Inès and Alex, who then have the crazy idea of getting him back to Africa. Anything can happen when Max their kooky grandfather, decides to join the adventure.
Dir. David Moreau · With Lou Lambrecht, Léo Lorléac'h, Gérard Darmon

After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.
Dir. Igor Gotesman · With Jonathan Cohen, Gérard Darmon, Liliane Rovère
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Dir. Marc Esposito · With Bernard Campan, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american town. Despite their differences, they must team up: the local police is hostile and they can only count on themselves to solve the crime. They meet Ginger, Pamela's best friend, and discover soon enough she knows more than she says.
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux, Gérard Darmon

as Roselyn Bacheron , ministre de la Fonction publique
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Dir. Jérôme Commandeur · With Jérôme Commandeur, Laetitia Dosch, Pascale Arbillot
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
Dir. Frédéric Forestier, Alain Berbérian · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Lanvin, José Garcia

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Saïd Taghmaoui
Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Franck Dubosc, Valérie Lemercier, Gérard Darmon
Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they will do almost anything to get back home.
Dir. Maurice Barthélemy · With Jean-Paul Rouve, Judith Godrèche, Gérard Darmon
Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous father with a very ordered life. After a drunken evening, the two childhood friends find themselves cast back into 1986, when they were 17 years old. This return to the past is a dream opportunity to try to change the path their lives will take. What will they do with this second chance?
Dir. Dominique Farrugia · With Franck Dubosc, Kad Merad, Alexandra Lamy
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
Dir. Michèle Laroque · With Michèle Laroque, Kad Merad, Françoise Fabian
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
Dir. Fabien Onteniente · With Samuel Le Bihan, Gérard Lanvin, Lorànt Deutsch

as Nottingham's Sherif
Robin des Bois, with his friend Tuck, are bad guy: they only steal poor, women and old people. They dream to get they own brothel in town, like the Pussycat. They decide to rob Nottingham's tax office, but they meet the Sherwood gang - who steal to rich to feed the poors - with the same idea in mind: Robbing the Nottingham sherif. The true story of Robin des Bois can finally begins!
Dir. Anthony Marciano · With Max Boublil, Gérard Darmon, Patrick Timsit
Faced with the tyranny of Caesar who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him.
Dir. Kheiron · With Kheiron, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Darmon
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