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Guillaume Laurant has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Amélie.
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
Dir. Jean Becker · With Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
Dir. Jérémy Clapin · With Hakim Faris, Victoire du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Dany Boon, Dominique Pinon, André Dussollier
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Nicolas Marié
If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of France. But Raoul has a terrible secret: he has never been able to keep his balance on a bike without using stabilisers. His childhood and teenage years were spent trying to overcome his flaw - in vain. All attempts to tell his secret have also failed. Nobody believes him. When photographer Hervé Figougne moves to Saint Céron, the two men become fast friends. And when Figougne offers to photograph Raoul riding a racing bike along a mountain precipice, the moment of truth has arrived. He does all he can to avoid the photo shoot. But everything goes against him and he finally has to accept his destiny. “At least”, he thinks, “people will have to believe me”. But for Raoul Taburin, things are never that simple...
Dir. Pierre Godeau · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Édouard Baer, Suzanne Clément
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, Claude Perron
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