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Vincent Elbaz has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Instant Family
2018
Comedy · Drama

The Fundamentals of Caring
2016
Comedy · Drama

Dumplin'
2018
Comedy · Drama

Late Night
2019
Comedy · Drama

The Champion
2019
Comedy · Drama

Alex Strangelove
2018
Comedy · Drama

Come As You Are
2011
Drama · Comedy

Dirty Girl
2010
Drama · Comedy

Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since her mother's disappearance. During a walk in the forest, a shepherd gives Victoria a puppy named "Mystery" who will gradually give her a taste for life. But very quickly, Stéphane discovers that the animal is in reality a wolf… Despite the warnings and the danger of this situation, he cannot bring himself to separate his daughter from this seemingly harmless ball of hair.
Dir. Denis Imbert · With Vincent Elbaz, Shanna Keil, Marie Gillain

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Romain Duris, Vincent Elbaz, Nicolas Koretzky

Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent
Dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache · With Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carré, François-Xavier Demaison

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
In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis.
Dir. Edouard Pluvieux · With Kev Adams, Vincent Elbaz, Paul Bartel

The chauvinist Damien wakes up in a world where women and men have their roles reversed in society, and everything is dominated by women.
Dir. Eléonore Pourriat · With Vincent Elbaz, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Pierre Bénézit

To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Bérénice Bejo, Stéphane De Groodt, Suzanne Clément

Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.
Dir. Pierre Salvadori · With Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Audrey Tautou
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
Dir. Michel Blanc · With Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Blanc

Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.
Dir. Lucien Jean-Baptiste · With Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Zabou Breitman
Adrien, 40 years old and totally immature, is dumped by Maude, 35 years old, eager to finally found a family. In an attempt to regain the love of his life, Adrien decides to move into the future ex-married apartment: a nursery home - The beginning, an improbable educational experience.
Dir. Maxime Govare · With Vincent Elbaz, Laurence Arné, Grégory Fitoussi

as David Hayoun / Raymon Hayoun
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...
Dir. Alexandre Arcady · With Vincent Elbaz, Éric Caravaca, Patrick Bruel

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Françoise Lebrun
Scott, a gifted young snowboarder, has one dream: to be number one. He wants to do what no one has ever succeeded in doing: to climb Mount Everest and ride the world's purest, steepest, and most dangerous descent. Once in Chamonix, the riders' Mecca, he crosses paths with Pierrick, a former champion turned mountain guide. Scott knows that this is the encounter that could take him to the top.
Dir. Serge Hazanavicius · With Kev Adams, Vincent Elbaz, Mélanie Bernier
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
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.
Dir. Philippe Harel · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Elbaz, Karin Viard

December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
Dir. Julien Leclercq · With Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier
Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?
Dir. Rémi Bezançon · With Vincent Elbaz, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche
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