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Richard Berry has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s.
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After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil
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
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Dir. Michel Munz, Gérard Bitton · With Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
Dir. Richard Berry · With Jules Sitruk, Joséphine Berry, Mabô Kouyaté
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
Dir. Émile Gaudreault · With Richard Berry, Waly Dia, Jacques Gamblin
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
Dir. Richard Berry · With José Garcia, Marion Cotillard, Michel Duchaussoy
Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.
Dir. Dominique Farrugia · With Franck Dubosc, Richard Berry, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Dir. Patrick Alessandrin · With Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
Dir. Myriam Aziza · With Sarah Stern, Jean-Christophe Folly, Julia Piaton
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Dir. Benoît Jacquot · With Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy
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