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Zinedine Soualem has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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The Sweet Escape
2015
Comedy · Drama

Friends with Kids
2012
Comedy · Drama

18 Years Old and Rising
2011
Comedy · Drama

The English Teacher
2013
Comedy · Drama

Text for You
2016
Romance · Comedy

Just to Be Sure
2017
Drama · Comedy

Words and Pictures
2014
Comedy · Drama

Two Friends
2015
Drama · Romance

Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï, Denis Podalydès

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Dir. Tim Fehlbaum · With Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by retracing their ancestor's steps.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
Dir. Michel Leclerc · With Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Zinedine Soualem

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou

A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Dir. Eric Valette · With Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
Dir. Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar · With Noémie Merlant, Naomi Amarger, Sandrine Bonnaire

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Renée Le Calm

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Dir. Mabrouk El Mechri · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini
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
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
Dir. Stéphanie Murat · With Mathilde Seigner, JoeyStarr, Shana Castera

Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With François Civil, Ana Girardot, Camille Cottin
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost
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

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy
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