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Philippe Duquesne has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.
Dir. Nicolas Benamou, Philippe Lacheau · With Philippe Lacheau, Alice David, Vincent Desagnat

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

Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize

He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
Dir. Clovis Cornillac · With Clovis Cornillac, Mélanie Bernier, Lilou Fogli

Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack! Ariane doesn't remember any of what has happened, so she has no idea what to expect...
Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié
With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.
Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Catherine Frot, Bouli Lanners

A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Cécile de France, Nicolas Marié

Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...
Dir. Tarek Boudali · With Tarek Boudali, Philippe Lacheau, Charlotte Gabris
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Nicolas Marié
Alex, 43, is not a man of many responsibilities. He works as a tow truck driver in the car repair garage run with an iron fist by his mother Antoinette. She hopes he will someday take over the business, but Alex manages to consistently prove that he’s not up to the task. One day, he assists a woman whose car broke down and ends up spending the night at her place. The next morning, she is nowhere to be found, and Alex discovers he is alone... with three kids!
Dir. Julien Guetta · With Éric Judor, Laure Calamy, Brigitte Roüan
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
Dir. Jérôme Cornuau · With Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Édouard Baer

as Armand
Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most: Vanessa, the high school bombshell who never so much as looked in his direction. She's back in Paris, and the only person she now knows is him…
Dir. Rodolphe Lauga, Manu Payet · With Manu Payet, Anaïs Demoustier, Emmanuelle Chriqui

as Patrick, le chef de gare
Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train inspector, dreams of being transferred to the South of France. To validate his transfer, he has to make one last routine run under the supervision of Madeleine, a slightly sociopathic inspector who won't let him go. That's when everything goes wrong: between a driver who thinks he's driving a fighter jet, a jealous colleague and passengers who are each crazier than the last, what was supposed to be a formality turns into the worst trip of his life.
Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt · With Artus, Elsa Zylberstein, Benjamin Tranié
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