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Philippe Katerine has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Dir. Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares · With Marion Cotillard, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Dir. Romain Gavras · With Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
Dir. Gilles Lellouche · With Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde

Thirteen-year-old Bastien is the center of a reconstructed family: six half-brothers and sisters, eight "parents," and as many houses. His tasks within the family are far more complex than what he has to do at school. But enough's enough: the children decide to wage a revolution and turn the rules upside down. All together, they squat a large apartment and now it'll be up to the parents to come to them!
Dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière · With Julie Gayet, Thierry Neuvic, Julie Depardieu
Annie lives in harmony with her husband Laurent and her children: the sensitive elders Maximilien and César; the younger Antoine whom Poupi, never-complaining teen, helps raising him. But a positive pregnancy test will disturb the harmony.
Dir. Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud · With Alexandra Lamy, Philippe Katerine, Matteo Perez
Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.
Dir. Mélanie Laurent · With Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mélanie Laurent, Manon Bresch
Aurora's life suddenly gets complicated after her seven grandkids arrive to her house for vacation.
Dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière · With Chantal Ladesou, Julie Gayet, Thierry Neuvic
Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of forty years that deep down, she has always been... A MAN! Totally blindsided, Jean didn't see this coming. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is too much! But Edith, still the loving wife, make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition and stay a woman until after the elections. But as we know, campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning
Dir. Tristan Séguéla · With Fabrice Luchini, Catherine Frot, Philippe Katerine
A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".
Dir. Ludovic Colbeau-Justin · With Dany Boon, Philippe Katerine, Anne Serra

The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of its generation. But few hours before the start of the mission, Paul disappears.
Dir. Romain Quirot · With Hugo Becker, Jean Reno, Paul Hamy
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
Dir. Mathieu Sapin · With Alexandra Lamy, Finnegan Oldfield, Gilles Cohen
Jerem decides to settle at his grandma’s place to compose his first album. There he meets So, a mysterious investigator working on behalf of the startup Digital Cool. She will persuade Jerem to try out Yves, a new kind of smart refrigerator gifted with an IA.
Dir. Benoît Forgeard · With William Lebghil, Doria Tillier, Philippe Katerine
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the bellhop school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure.
Dir. Nicolas Bary · With Sacha Pinault, Natacha Régnier, Pierre Richard

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine

as Martin Guénaud, le premier adjoint
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.
Dir. Valérie Donzelli · With Valérie Donzelli, Pierre Deladonchamps, Thomas Scimeca

as Colonel Janouniou
Ernest Krakenkrick and Bachir Bouzouk are about to become pilots in the French army. But after the bad consequences of a test undertaken with the centrifuge, they are forced to give up their dream. They are eventually given the position of baggage handler at Orly-West Airport in Paris. But one night, there is a hostage-taking in the airport and the "Moustachious", a group of terrorists, take hold of the control tower.
Dir. Éric Judor · With Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Marina Foïs
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