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Samir Guesmi has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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The Five-Year Engagement
2012
Comedy · Drama

The Switch
2010
Comedy · Romance

You Are the Apple of My Eye
2011
Romance · Comedy

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Comedy · Drama

Love & Other Drugs
2010
Drama · Comedy

Tanu Weds Manu
2011
Comedy · Romance

Chinese Puzzle
2013
Comedy · Drama

Just Before I Go
2015
Comedy · Drama

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Dir. Pierre Morel · With David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Tony D'Amario

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and Pierre is exhausted at work. Despite the love of his wife and children, he is slowly falling...
Dir. Édouard Bergeon · With Guillaume Canet, Veerle Baetens, Anthony Bajon

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Dir. Rachid Bouchareb · With Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila

Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Bruno Podalydès, Sandrine Kiberlain, Agnès Jaoui

In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
Dir. Fabrice Gobert · With Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend with her on the Riviera. But when the lady disappears the next morning and the police drag him in for questioning, François discovers he's been set up to pass for her notorious outlaw husband on the run, Anthony Zimmer. Even though he's been lied to and manipulated, François' life is changed forever and he's ready to give anything - maybe even his life - to hold this mysterious beauty in his arms again.
Dir. Jérôme Salle · With Sophie Marceau, Yvan Attal, Sami Frey
Malik, a young Parisian hustler, discovers that his stepfather Serge, a famous bank robber, has been arrested along with his accomplices. During the trial, Iris, one of the accused's lawyers, Chérif, requests Malik to accept a dangerous heist in exchange for Serge and her client's liberty. Malik must convince and reunite Chérif's former partners to accomplish this high-risk stickup.
Dir. Jérémie Guez · With Sofiane Zermani, Waël Sersoub, Géraldine Nakache
Thirty-year old adulteen Vincent babysits animals and children for a living, and his latest job is 9-year old Bart, who just moved into the building with his overworked and single mom. At his new school, Bart is anxious to develop a cool reputation, so when everyone assumes that laid back, eccentric Vincent is his dad, he begs him to play along, especially when his “dad’s” fun, immature behavior delights all the kids in his class! Initially reluctant, Vincent changes his mind after falling in love with his “son’s” attractive young teacher. And in order to spend as much time with her as possible, he does his best to make sense of the mysterious codes and expectations of his weird new tribe: the Parent-Teacher Association. But Vincent soon faces a bigger issue: How to backtrack on the huge “tiny little lie” he’s gotten himself into.
Dir. Noémie Saglio · With Vincent Dedienne, Camélia Jordana, Samir Guesmi

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?
Dir. Noémie Lvovsky · With Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla

A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.
Dir. Rachid Hami · With Kad Merad, Samir Guesmi, Renely Alfred

Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Dir. Blandine Lenoir · With Agnès Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot

Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
Dir. Sólveig Anspach · With Florence Loiret Caille, Didda Jónsdóttir, Samir Guesmi

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier
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

Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
Dir. Arnaud Desplechin · With Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski · With Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig