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Chantal Lauby

Chantal Lauby

French actress, comedian, film director and screenwriter
March 23, 1948 (76 years old)
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Philippe de Chauveron with Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Daniel Russo. A bourgeois Catholic couple celebrate 40 years of marriage with the parents of their four sons-in-law, all of whom are from cultural and religious minorities.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2020. Comedy by Jézabel Marques with Chantal Lauby, Camille Chamoux, Giovanni Pucci. On the run from the CIA, special ops sniper and his legendary father take on Russian mercenaries and a yakuza-trained assassin.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Philippe de Chauveron with Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Ary Abittan. A bourgeois couple from the country whose four daughters have married immigrants uses various strategies to convince them not to go live abroad.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2016. Sports comedy by Thomas Sorriaux with Medi Sadoun, Gérard Depardieu, Barbara Cabrita. To restore his media image, an injured and disgraced soccer player returns to his hometown and coaches a local junior team.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rouve with Mathieu Spinosi, Annie Cordy, Michel Blanc. A literature student, whose father is having a hard time with his retirement, goes in search of his grandmother who has fled the residence where her sons put her against her will.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2013. Comedy by Philippe de Chauveron with Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Élodie Fontan. A couple of good Catholics from the countryside have difficulty accepting the fact that their four daughters have decided to marry men of different races and religions.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Gilded Cage

V.O.: La Cage dorée
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Ruben Alves with Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud. Having inherited a vineyard in their native country, a well-established Portuguese couple in Paris is reluctant to leave France.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2011. Comedy by Olivier Baroux with Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Théo Fernandez. A poor family, who won 100 million euros in the lottery, moves to Monaco, where their presence does not go unnoticed.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2010. Musical by Audrey Estrougo with Leïla Bekhti, Benjamin Siksou, Cécile Cassel. A student of Arabic origin who is friends with an undocumented African immigrant, falls in love with a young middle-class man, unaware that he is already engaged and that his father is a police commissioner.
Runtime: 88 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2010. Comedy by Régis Musset with Charlotte de Turckheim, Chantal Lauby, Chantal Ladesou. At the dawn of their fifties, two dapper middle-class women and their cleaning lady are forced to question themselves.
Runtime: 90 min.

Public Benches

V.O.: Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)
Fr. 2009. Comedy by Bruno Podalydès with Florence Muller, Denis Podalydès, Émeline Bayart. Various funny and strange incidents happen over the day to a group of workers and inhabitants of a small town in the suburbs of Paris.
Runtime: 114 min.

Ugly Melanie

V.O.: Vilaine
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit with Marilou Berry, Frédérique Bel, Pierre-François Martin-Laval. Humiliated by her girlfriends, a chubby and amenable girl decides to take revenge on everyone around her.
Runtime: 92 min.

Mr. Average

V.O.: Comme tout le monde
Bel. 2006. Satire by Pierre-Paul Renders with Khalid Maadour, Caroline Dhavernas, Chantal Lauby. Elected ""average Frenchman"" by a televised quiz, a young teacher is secretly spied on day and night by a polling firm without his knowledge.
Runtime: 94 min.

Your Hands on My Hips

V.O.: Laisse tes mains sur mes hanches
Fr. 2003. Sentimental comedy by Chantal Lauby with Chantal Lauby, Jean-Pierre Martins, Armelle Deutsch. An unhappy forty-year-ol actress falls in love with a gruff Andalusian showman.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2001. Fantasy comedy by Alain Chabat with Jamel Debbouze, Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier. Three Gauls come to the aid of an Egyptian architect who must build a lavish palace for Caesar in three months.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2000. Police comedy by Pascal Légitimus with Med Hondo, Chantal Lauby, Thierry Desroses. The mayor of an island in Guadeloupe goes to Paris to obtain the release of his wife, kidnapped by developers who want to force him to give up land in his commune.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1998. Mores comedy by Élisabeth Rappeneau with Richard Bohringer, Chantal Lauby, Pauline Bureau. A divorced woman and a widower decide to live together, without suspecting that the daughter of one is the ex-girlfriend of the other
Runtime: 89 min.
Runtime: 93 min.

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