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Richard Anconina has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
New Biz in the Hood
2019
Comedy · Drama
In the 18th Arrondissement of Paris, Lambert, an aloof garage manager working the night shift at a petrol station spends his time drinking on the job, content in his own company. One night, Bensoussan, a small-time drug pusher in dire straits falls in on a stolen moped pretending to need a spark plug. The two men develop an unlikely friendship.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Coluche, Agnès Soral, Richard Anconina
as Albert Duvivier aka Al, Sam's fired employee
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
Dir. Claude Lelouch · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Marie-Sophie L.
A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.
Dir. Alain Corneau · With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district.
Dir. Thomas Gilou · With Richard Anconina, Vincent Elbaz, Richard Bohringer
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.
Dir. Thomas Gilou · With Richard Anconina, José Garcia, Gad Elmaleh
Die-hard fans of the 1980s, Vincent and Antoine run a company that supplies doubles of faded stars throughout the whole of France. What starts out as a promising business venture ends up as a calamity when Vincent and Antoine have over forty engagements booked but no one to attend them. They then have a brainwave. Why not get in touch with the real stars of the 1980s and persuade them to make a comeback? Why make do with an imitation when you can have the real McCoy?
Dir. Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann · With Richard Anconina, Patrick Timsit, Bruno Lochet
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina
Eddie, Dov, Yvan and the others ... Our warm friends have migrated from the moribund Sentier to the flourishing suburb of Aubervilliers ... Where the old Jewish entrepreneurs left the ground to young courageous and dynamic Chinese wholesalers ... The little band is as close to each other as in previous episodes, and life goes on at the mercy of small family events and business. Dov still seems frivolous, enterprising Eddie, chilled Yvan, casual Karine, resolute Sandra, naive Chochana, irresponsible Serge and mythomaniac. As for Patrick, he is in love and the happy elected is far from easy to access. Everything would be fine until a bad wind brings its share of adversity seriously compromising the cohesion of the group. Will they succumb under the storm to the turmoil, or, once again, by mutual aid, cunning and skill, will they triumph over the crisis with panache?
Dir. Thomas Gilou · With Richard Anconina, José Garcia, Bruno Solo
Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads for the Flots Bleus camping site near Arcachon. Jean-Pierre had been hoping for peace and calm. Instead he meets Patrick Chirac and his entourage of inveterate holidaymakers...
Dir. Fabien Onteniente · With Franck Dubosc, Richard Anconina, Mathilde Seigner
Vincent and Antoine, tired of the tours, decide to go on holiday with all the troop of Stars 80.
Dir. Thomas Langmann, Frédéric Auburtin · With Richard Anconina, Patrick Timsit, Bruno Lochet
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