Guy Marchand’s Typical Vibe
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Guy Marchand has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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The Big Chill
1983
Comedy · Drama

Little Darlings
1980
Comedy · Drama

What Time Is It?
1989
Comedy · Drama

Family Business
1989
Crime · Drama

The Student
1988
Romance · Comedy

The Breakfast Club
1985
Comedy · Drama

Educating Rita
1983
Drama · Comedy

Steel Magnolias
1989
Comedy · Drama

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.
Dir. Claude Miller · With Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
Dir. Alexandre Arcady · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Grace de Capitani
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.
Dir. Christophe Honoré · With Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Guy Marchand

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
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Dir. Claude Miller · With Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Dir. Gérard Lauzier · With Gérard Depardieu, Ticky Holgado, Michèle Laroque
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
Dir. Julien Hervé, Philippe Mechelen · With Kad Merad, Malik Bentalha, Guy Marchand

as Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake.
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Audrey Dana
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