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Michèle Laroque has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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While working part-time as a food deliveryman, Antoine, an aspiring young rapper from the suburbs of Paris, meets Mrs. Loiseau, an eminent teacher at the Paris Opéra. Stunned by the young man's raw talent, she introduces him to the world of opera. As Antoine becomes one of Mrs. Loiseau's students, he hides his new dream from his friends and family, fearing that they won’t understand – this double life burdens him... Somewhere in between the gilded and uptight Parisian upper-class, and the harsh yet free-spirited and familiar suburbs he grew up in, Antoine will have to find his own voice.
Dir. Claude Zidi Jr. · With MB14, Michèle Laroque, Guillaume Duhesme
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
Dir. Coline Serreau · With Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou Breitman

Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation, and guilt -- as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
Dir. Alain Berliner · With Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina, linked by their Sephardic families as much as by their friendship, share their lives between love affairs, a beauty institute under fiscal control, children to raise, an undocumented Moroccan nanny to marry, repeated diets, family and religious holidays to honor, but before being beautiful, their biggest challenge is to be themselves.
Dir. Lisa Azuelos · With Michèle Laroque, Aure Atika, Valérie Benguigui
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
Dir. Gabriel Aghion · With Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry
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
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost

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
In the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
Dir. Yann Samuell · With Audrey Fleurot, Michaël Youn, Michèle Laroque
Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Dir. Fabrice Bracq · With Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Judith Magre
Clumsy policeman Rayane has three days to rescue his kidnapped grandmother from a Mexican cartel.
Dir. Tarek Boudali · With Tarek Boudali, Philippe Lacheau, Julien Arruti
Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their 27-year-old broke daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and come knocking on the door to stay. With Yann’s mid-life crisis spinning out of control, their couch surfing daughter and partner getting increasingly invasive and their stay becoming indefinite, Catherine will try everything to kick them out of the parental home and get her life back on track!
Dir. Michèle Laroque · With Michèle Laroque, Stéphane De Groodt, Alice de Lencquesaing
Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, because soon they will lose their children. They have only two days left to find them, before their parents join them.
Dir. Fabrice Bracq · With Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Nicolas Martinez
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
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing...
Dir. Fabien Onteniente · With Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot
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