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Omar Sy has 39 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 The Intouchables.
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To the Top
2017
Adventure · Comedy

OMG: Oh My God!
2012
Comedy · Drama

The King's Musketeers
2018
Adventure · Comedy

Date Night
2010
Comedy · Action

The Do-Over
2016
Action · Adventure

Survival Family
2017
Comedy · Drama

Tag
2018
Comedy · Action

Tower Heist
2011
Action · Comedy

The Intouchables
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

The Wolf's Call
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Prime Video · Included

The Call of the Wild
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Disney+ · Included

Lupin
2021 · Series · Actor
Top 20%Netflix · Included

The Killer
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Peacock · Included

The Takedown
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Netflix · Included

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano · With François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.
Dir. Antonin Baudry · With François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.
Dir. Chris Sanders · With Harrison Ford, Dan Stevens, Colin Woodell

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Dir. Hugo Gélin · With Omar Sy, Gloria Colston, Clémence Poésy

Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...
Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano · With Jean-Paul Rouve, Marilou Berry, Omar Sy

Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
Dir. George Kay, François Uzan, Marie Roussin, Florent Meyer, Tigran Rosine · With Omar Sy

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Dir. Roschdy Zem · With Omar Sy, James Thierrée, Clotilde Hesme

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

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Dir. Colin Trevorrow · With Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
Dir. Philippe Godeau · With Omar Sy, Fatoumata Diawara, Lionel Louis Basse

When a faun named Mune becomes the Guardian of the Moon, little did he had unprepared experience with the Moon and an accident that could put both the Moon and the Sun in danger, including a corrupt titan named Necross who wants the Sun for himself and placing the balance of night and day in great peril. Now with the help of a wax-child named Glim and the warrior, Sohone who also became the Sun Guardian, they go out on an exciting journey to get the Sun back and restore the Moon to their rightful place in the sky.
Dir. Alexandre Heboyan, Benoît Philippon · With Michaël Grégorio, Omar Sy, Izïa Higelin

Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent
Dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache · With Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carré, François-Xavier Demaison
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on their heads, and the vengeful Shadow Force hot on their trail, one family's fight becomes all-out war.
Dir. Joe Carnahan · With Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Jahleel Kamara
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
Dir. Lorraine Lévy · With Omar Sy, Ana Girardot, Alex Lutz
Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.
Dir. Charles Nemes · With Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Marina Foïs

Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Dir. John Woo · With Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington

Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Omar Sy, Laurent Lafitte, Izïa Higelin

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Dir. John Wells · With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy

When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins — but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?
Dir. Lisa-Nina Rives · With Omar Sy, Sara Giraudeau, Pascale Arbillot

A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with other French celebrities of the Black community will make it a whole new adventure.
Dir. Jean-Pascal Zadi, John Wax · With Jean-Pascal Zadi, Fary Lopes, Caroline Anglade
A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.
Dir. Pierre Coré · With Omar Sy, Louane, Franck Gastambide
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.
Dir. Jeymes Samuel · With LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, RJ Cyler

It’s summer in the hood. As every year, there are those who stay, those who leave, and... those who should have left. Some, like Joe Hustleton, work «under the table» in the rich neighborhoods and fall head over heels for a pretty girl. Some, like Tony Pepperoni, play businessman and spend the summer fleeing a local gang leader and a psychopathic girlfriend. Some, like Sammy and Harvey, pretend to have left. Tropics are far for the homies... and summer promises to be very hot!
Dir. Emmanuel Klotz, Albert Pereira-Lazaro · With Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Omar Sy

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano · With Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim

Bad boy or football genius? Famed French footballer Nicolas Anelka's controversial legacy is examined in an unflinching documentary.
Dir. Franck Nataf · With Nicolas Anelka, Thierry Henry, Omar Sy
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
Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordinary stories come to life somewhere in an imaginary world inhabited by knights, pirates and other dragons. In this world that belongs only to them, Sofia is always the princess to save, and the brave Prince is none other than Djibi himself. But 3 years later, the entry of Sofia to the college will mark the end of her childhood. To the despair of her father, she no longer needs her stories at night. On the one hand, Djibi will have to accept that his daughter will grow up and move away from him. On the other hand, in the World of Stories, the Prince will have to face the most epic of all his adventures. Find your destiny in a world where it no longer has a place.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Omar Sy, Bérénice Bejo, François Damiens

Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
Dir. David Charhon · With Omar Sy, Laurent Lafitte, Sabrina Ouazani

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy
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