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Hafsia Herzi has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Dir. Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar · With François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche · With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche · With Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kéchiouche

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Biyouna
Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.
Dir. Stéphane Demoustier · With Hafsia Herzi, Moussa Mansaly, Florence Loiret Caille

Fatima, 17, the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family in a Paris suburb, leaves school for a prestigious prep class. She plays football, has a secret boyfriend, but hides that she loves women. In Paris, new freedoms clash with family tradition and faith, forcing her to find her own path.
Dir. Hafsia Herzi · With Nadia Melliti, Park Ji-min, Amina Ben Mohamed

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Dir. Bertrand Bonello · With Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Dir. Erick Zonca · With Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Sandrine Kiberlain
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Dir. Sylvie Verheyde · With Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier, Roschdy Zem
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
Dir. Sylvie Verheyde · With Hafsia Herzi, Ash Stymest, Karole Rocher
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