Kad Merad

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Dir. Christophe Barratier · With Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

Dir. Emmanuel Courcol · With Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

Dir. Philippe Lioret · With Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

Dir. Dany Boon · With Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix

It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...

Dir. Daniel Auteuil · With Daniel Auteuil, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs

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

After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its field. To avoid this disaster, there is only one solution: creating a new team made up exclusively of women to defend the city’s colors! But in a community where football has always been an activity reserved for men, these women’s new status will be sure to shake up the daily lives of the town’s residents…

Dir. Mohamed Hamidi · With Kad Merad, Alban Ivanov, Céline Sallette

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.

Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Maxime Godart, Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad

A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.

Dir. Rachid Hami · With Kad Merad, Samir Guesmi, Renely Alfred

Thirty-year-old Camilla, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princess.

Dir. Noémie Saglio, Eloïse Lang · With Camille Cottin, Lou Cottin, Cécile Boland

French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Gérard Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Jean-Paul Rouve).

Dir. Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux · With Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux, Audrey Fleurot

When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his mother.

Dir. Nicolas Cuche · With Michèle Laroque, Julien Frison, Rossy de Palma

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.

Dir. Christophe Barratier · With Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad

Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idolatrous father for a doctor he can not stand, he will do everything to get his son-in-law back. His daughter will not let it go.

Dir. François Desagnat · With Kad Merad, Pauline Étienne, Julie Gayet

Tridan Lagache has spent his whole life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigns from the vacation spot where he was born, determined to track down his great mini-club childhood love, Violette. He shows up in Paris, naïve and lost but glad to be lodged by Louis, a half-brother he never knew he had. In order to be rid of the cumbersome Tridan, Louis passes one of his fling off as Violette, and Tridan, all emotional, thinks he recognizes her at first glance.

Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kad Merad

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

Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!

Dir. Bruno Lavaine, Nicolas Charlet · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Kad Merad, Fred Testot

How to live happy and rich without working? To be Gigolo. But after 25 years of living with Denise, Alex the "gigolo" gets fired without notice and finds himself on the street. Forced to move to his sister and his nephew of 10 years, he then has an obsession: find quickly a rich heiress.

Dir. Olivier Baroux · With Kad Merad, Anne Charrier, Léopold Moati

Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.

Dir. Olivier Baroux · With Kad Merad, Valérie Benguigui, Roland Giraud

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

Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for...

Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol

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

An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.

Dir. Fanny Robert · With Hatik, Noémie Schmidt, Camille Lou

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

Serge Renart, a television journalist who's now a has-been, and Natacha Bison, a war reporter who has been laid off because she posed too much of a danger to her colleagues, find themselves forced to investigate a story together, which will take them to Thailand, in search of one of the best kept secrets of contemporary history. What really happened during the televised broadcast of the Apollo 11 mission, when man first walked on the moon?

Dir. Olivier Baroux · With Kad Merad, Alice Taglioni, Peter Coyote

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.

Dir. Laurent Tirard · With Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad, Mathéo Boisselier

When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.

Dir. Frédéric Berthe · With Kad Merad, Mélanie Doutey, Manu Payet

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.

Dir. Thomas Sorriaux, François Desagnat · With Michaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat, Zoé Félix

A small coastal town in the south-west of France is on high alert after a surfer disappeared. Soon the incredible truth is revealed: a shark is prowling in the harbor.

Dir. Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma · With Marina Foïs, Kad Merad, Jean-Pascal Zadi