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Guillaume Canet has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by La Belle Époque.
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Tell No One
2006 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 23%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Siege of Jadotville
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

Jappeloup
2013 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 34%Prime Video · Included

Ad Vitam
2025 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 50%Netflix · Included

Hunting & Gathering
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Blood Ties
2013 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 57%Prime Video · Included

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Dir. Christian Carion · With Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
Dir. Richie Smyth · With Jamie Dornan, Guillaume Canet, Mark Strong

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and Pierre is exhausted at work. Despite the love of his wife and children, he is slowly falling...
Dir. Édouard Bergeon · With Guillaume Canet, Veerle Baetens, Anthony Bajon

A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
Dir. Christian Duguay · With Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Daniel Auteuil

The sequel to Little White Lies ("Les petits mouchoirs"), set 7 years later. The group of friends, which had separated, reunites for the surprise birthday party organized for Max.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Dir. Christian Carion · With Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
Dir. Gilles Lellouche · With Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde

When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.
Dir. Rodolphe Lauga · With Guillaume Canet, Alexis Manenti, Stéphane Caillard

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard

Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Frank at the last minute for the start of the Vendée Globe. Nine days into the race and leading, Yann is forced to stop in Cape Verde to repair his broken center-board. Back in the race, Yann discovers a stowaway on board, a Senegalese teenager named Moussa. Faced with the risk of disqualification because of Moussa’s presence, Yann hesitates… Their encounter leads to the most unforgettable round-the-world race ever.
Dir. Christophe Offenstein · With François Cluzet, Samy Seghir, Virginie Efira

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Dir. Cédric Kahn · With Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi

Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small seaside resort in Western France. He is a famous actor, about to turn fifty. She is a piano teacher in her forties. They were in love fifteen years ago, then separated. Time has passed. They each went their ways and slowly healed. When Mathieu goes try to overcome his melancholia in a thermal spa, he stumbles upon Alice.
Dir. Stéphane Brizé · With Guillaume Canet, Alba Rohrwacher, Sharif Andoura

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
Dir. Pitof · With Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Dir. Christophe Barratier · With Jean Texier, Clément Godefroy, Théophile Baquet
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.
Dir. Gilles Lellouche, Tristan Aurouet · With Guillaume Canet, Zabou Breitman, Guillaume Gallienne

Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.
Dir. Cédric Anger · With Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Canet, Alice Pol
Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.
Dir. Cédric Anger · With Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Michel Fau

Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
Dir. Massy Tadjedin · With Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu est organisé. "Le ticket pour l'espace", un jeu à gratter, va permettre à deux civils de séjourner dans la station orbitale européenne.
Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux, Marina Foïs
The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...
Dir. Christian Carion · With Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist

Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets help from his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche
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