Sami Bouajila
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix decides to find the father he never knew in Marseilles. Agreeing to meet Daniel in the southern port city in a week's time, Félix throws on his backpack and starts hiking. On his way, he discovers that family need not always be connected by blood.
Director: Olivier Ducastel
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Patachou, Charly Figuiere, Ariane Ascaride
Il y a 35 ans, sur l'île de la Réunion, Toman assiste à l'assassinat de ses parents alors qu'il n'est âgé que de 5 ans. Traumatisé, il grandit seul dans la montagne tel un enfant sauvage, et devient à son tour un assassin. En 15 ans, il tue six personnes qu'il juge coupable d'avoir « fait du mal aux enfants ». Daphné, une journaliste de métropole, débarque sur place pour enquêter sur la disparition d'un jeune homme, qui s'avère être la dernière victime de Toman.
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Actors: Sami Bouajila, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sara Martins, Jan Hammenecker
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Director: Moufida Tlatli
Actors: Amel Hedhili, Najia Ouerghi, Fatima Ben Saïdane, Zahira Ben Ammar, Sabah Bouzouita
Hired in the Montsou mines, Étienne Lantier meets the Maheu family and falls in love with their daughter Catherine. She is courted by Chaval, a brutal worker. When the Compagnie des Mines lowered wages, Étienne, already outraged by this misery, rose up. Dreaming of justice, he pushes for a strike. Weeks go by, the starving strikers struggle, but, victims of violent repression, resign themselves to returning to work.
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Actors: Louis Peres, Thierry Godard, Alix Poisson, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Sami Bouajila
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.
Director: Thomas Kruithof
Actors: François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian, Alba Rohrwacher
After the murder of her family, a traumatized little girl becomes mute and amnesic. She is the only remaining witness of the murder. To solve the case, police will have to call on a former psychiatrist.
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Actors: Marie Gillain, Sami Bouajila, Zélie Rixhon, Julie-Anne Roth, Philippe Duclos
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
Director: Jalil Lespert
Actors: Lubna Azabal, Benoît Magimel, Sami Bouajila, Bérangère Allaux, Archie Shepp
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...
Director: Agnès Merlet
Actors: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlović, Luca Zingaretti, Emmanuelle Devos
Paul (Sami Bouajila of The Adventures of Felix and The Siege) is a smart, well-educated Frenchman of Arab ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he impresses his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His brother, Daniel (Jalil Lespert of Human Resources) also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job at a sex club.
Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Jalil Lespert, Sylvie Testud, Simon Bakinde, Roger Ibañez
This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real. Anna's world begins coming apart after she is picked up by the police for witnessing an awful crime she cannot remember seeing. When she realizes that her dream alter-ego is trying to kill her, only her lover Marc's calming and supportive influence can save her from madness.
Director: Eric Rochant
Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gérard Lanvin, Sami Bouajila, Grégori Derangère, Emmanuelle Devos
Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just the right time. But as soon as Sami previously appeared, he vanishes back into the blackness of night, leaving the recovered Nina with no one to thank for saving her life. Determined to let her guardian angel know just how thankful she truly is, Nina discovers that Sami was once a promising long-distance runner whose dreams of Olympic stardom had been dashed, and who now scrapes by as a transvestite prostitute. Realizing that they've both hit rock bottom, Nina and Sami make a pledge to support one another to the point where they can both get clean and pursue their dreams before it's too late.
Director: Liria Bégéja
Actors: Fanny Ardant, Roschdy Zem, Fanny Cottençon, Sami Bouajila, Jean-Yves Gautier
Un soir, sur la route d'Honfleur, après sa journée de travail, Philippe Tessier, père de deux fillettes, renverse accidentellement un garçon à vélo, Victor Harfouche, 10 ans. Affolé, redoutant les conséquences, il abandonne l'enfant inanimé sur le bord de la route. Sans secours, Victor meurt des suites de ses blessures. Dès lors, Philippe Tessier devient un assassin. En apprenant la nouvelle, Antoine Harfouche, le père de l'enfant, veut à tout prix retrouver l'assassin de son fils.
Director: Pierre Aknine
Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Sami Bouajila, Audrey Lamy, Anne Marivin, Paolo Mollica
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishness by his entourage. Only Moussa defends him, who has great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers a head injury. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without a filter and tells his relatives the truth. He ends up falling out with everyone except Ryad.
Director: Roschdy Zem
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
Director: Xavier Durringer
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Tewfik Jallab, Mélanie Doutey, Hugo Becker, Kool Shen
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...
Director: Roschdy Zem
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Maurice Bénichou, Denis Podalydès, Salomé Stévenin, Nozha Khouadra
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.
Director: Laurent Tuel
Actors: Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel, Vahina Giocante, Sami Bouajila, Isaac Sharry
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?
Director: Olivier Jahan
Actors: Jérémie Renier, Aurore Clément, Johan Leysen, Sami Bouajila, Alexia Stresi
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 London terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Francis Magee
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika
Une grande maison au milieu des vignes. Un réveillon de Noël dans une famille très recomposée se transforme en cauchemar absolu lorsque la maîtresse de maison annonce à son nouveau mari qu’elle est enceinte. Elle ignore qu’il ne peut pas avoir d’enfant…
Director: Olivier Doran
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Émilie Dequenne, Géraldine Pailhas, Linh Đan Phạm, Guillaume de Tonquédec
Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, sur le point de quitter une bonne maison d'édition pour écrire un sitcom pour la télévision, que sa femme est sur le point d'accoucher et de surcroît quand les déménageurs sont des Roumains qui travaillent au noir et qu'ils n'ont pas vraiment le sens de la ponctualité...
Director: Olivier Doran
Actors: Dany Boon, Emmanuelle Devos, Sami Bouajila, François Cluzet, Marine Delterme
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
Director: Catherine Corsini
Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Dani Levy, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Sami Bouajila
Xavier Alvarez est un petit architecte d'Aix-en-Provence en recherche perpétuelle de reconnaissance sociale. Il s'est fait tout seul et prospère, mais ne parvient pas à décrocher de gros marchés publics pour assouvir ses rêves de grandeur. Il décide donc de se lancer corps, âme et biens dans la campagne de Vincent Cluzel, le candidat outsider à la mairie, persuadé qu'il renverra l'ascenseur en cas de victoire. À force d'énergie et de ruse, il parvient à discréditer le favori et à faire élire son protégé. Mais leur amitié sincère, nouée dans la conquête du pouvoir, se heurte alors aux limites des intérêts et de l'ambition.
Director: François Favrat
Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Christian Clavier, Sami Bouajila, Vimala Pons, Valérie Benguigui
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.
Director: Jean Cubaud
Actors: André Dussollier, Isabelle Carré, Ludivine Sagnier, Irène Jacob, Simon Abkarian
11 years ago, inspector Malik couldn’t solve a kidnapping case and a little girl died. Now with only a few days before the crime gets classified, he decides to reopen the case. Malik owes it to the mother and to himself. As he digs into the past, a child is kidnapped again. The pattern is the same one as a decade ago, it’s no coincidence. Malik knows he has a few days to make things right and to bring justice.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Anne Azoulay, Yannick Choirat, Manon Azem
A father and daughter : Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern, cover the murder of a girl attacked with acid for their magazine. Struck by the brutality of this murder, as well as by his daughter’s interest in the case, Samuel decides to conduct an independent investigation, without the knowledge of his editorial staff, and discovers disturbing similarities with the murder of another woman...
Director: Peter Dourountzis
Actors: Sami Bouajila, Mallory Wanecque, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Donzelli, Andréa Bescond
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Director: Rupert Sanders
Actors: Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Josette Simon, Laura Birn
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
Director: Jacques Maillot
Actors: Marie Payen, Cécile Richard, Camille Japy, Sami Bouajila, Eric Bonicatto
Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most prestigious of all races : the Agdal. Along she'll have to face powerful OMAR and learn to trust her newly discovered father Mustapha.
Director: Bourlem Guerdjou
Actors: Aziza Nadir, Simon Abkarian, Sami Bouajila, Michel Favory, Assaad Bouab
An honorable and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, makes himself an enemy of the Emperor Kisra after he helps a fugitive king and princess in the desert.
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Actors: Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, Ben Kingsley, غسان مسعود, Sharlto Copley