"France's answer to the Italian job"

2000

1h 22m

6.3(1793 votes)

Action

Comedy

Adventure

Crime

Overview

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Cast & Crew

70 members

Acting

Samy Naceri

Daniel Morales

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Frédéric Diefenthal

Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec

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Marion Cotillard

Lilly Bertineau

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Emma Wiklund

Petra

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Bernard Farcy

Commissaire Gibert

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Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Général Edmond Bertineau

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Frédérique Tirmont

Mother

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Marc Faure

French Minister

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Haruhiko Hirata

Japanese Minister

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Tsuyu Shimizu

Yuli

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Ko Suzuki

Katano

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Yoshi Oida

Yuke Tsumoto

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Kentaro

Yakuza

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Hiro Uchiyama

Master hypnotist

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Onochi Seietsu

Master hypnotist

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Édouard Montoute

Alain

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François Cottrelle

Plainclothes cop at airport

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Tewhik Behar

Djamel

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Jean-Louis Schlesser

Jean-Louis

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Henri Magne

Co-Pilot

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Michel Muller

Pregnant woman's husband

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Miren Pradier

Pregnant woman

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Richard Guedj

Docteur

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Jean-Luc Borras

Bookseller

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Sébastien Thiery

inspecteur du permis de conduire

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Cyril Raffaelli

le ninja au nunchaku

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François Nguyen

Belote player

Crew

Louis-Marie Nyee

Belote player

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David Moulin

Belote player

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Jean-Luc Mehler

Old cop at radar

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Jean-François Regazzi

Deputy chief at radar

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Dominique Chevalier

Traffic controller

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Franck Maigne

Assistant traffic controller

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Hiroyuki Yanagisawa

Japanese ambassador

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Emile Gerard

Lieutenant-colonel Bertrand

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Nicky Naudé

Swimming man

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Shirley Bousquet

Swimming woman

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Jean-Claude Houbart

Green light driver

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Christophe Gorlier

Expert chief

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Sound

Maïdi Roth

Driving school student

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Philippe du Janerand

Passenger

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Eric Challier

Cop at police station

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Jacques Buron

Colonel Picard

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Stephane Aizac

GIGN soldier

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Sébastien Pons

Rachid

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Malek Bechar

Marco

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Michel Elias

Rally speaker

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Pierre Brichese

Cop at police station

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Fedele Papalia

Park keeper

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Dorel Carenco

Young girl at radar

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Jui Gui Kwon

Yakuza 3

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Ken Chung

Yakuza 4

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Raymond Khamvene

Yakuza 5

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Jean Lebidan

Yakuza 6

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Crew

Pierre Nguyen

Yakuza 7

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Châu Belle Dinh

Ninja

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Williams Belle

Ninja

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Guylain N'Guba-Boyeke

Ninja

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Malik Diouf

Ninja

Acting

Charles Perrière

Ninja

Acting

Laurent Piemontesi

Ninja

Acting

Yann Hnautra

Ninja

Directing

Luc Besson

Boat Owner (uncredited)

Acting

Jacques Chirac

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Wilfrid Grenier

Cop (uncredited)

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Acting

Daniel Herzog

Lionel Jospin (voice) (uncredited)

Acting

Lionel Jospin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Yves Lecoq

Jacques Chirac (voice) (uncredited)

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Junko Murakami

Passant (uncredited)

Acting

Victoria Obermayer

Olivia (uncredited)

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