Souad Amidou
Biography: Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress. She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966. When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas. From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the Caesar of the best female hope. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg. On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991. She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008. In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals. Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon. Source: Article "Souad Amidou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: July 04, 1959
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Noisy Neighbours
1982-01-01
Noisy Neighbours
Overview: A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Best Job in the World
1996-12-11
The Best Job in the World
Overview: To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-12-11
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A Man and a Woman
1966-05-27
A Man and a Woman
Overview: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-27
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The Girls of Grenoble
1981-11-18
The Girls of Grenoble
Overview: In Grenoble, a prostitute is murdered in her hospital bed. Cora twenty-two and also a prostitute was one of her friends. On a daily basis these women suffer violence receive a miserable salary and work non-stop in terror of the pimps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-18
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The Big Brother
1982-09-08
The Big Brother
Overview: The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002-05-29
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Overview: A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-29
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Vaines recherches
1987-11-15
Vaines recherches
Overview: An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Goodbye Mothers
2008-02-01
Goodbye Mothers
Overview: In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Diesel
1985-08-07
Diesel
Overview: A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-07
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Black Really Suits You
2012-12-05
Black Really Suits You
Overview: The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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Munich
2005-12-23
Munich
Overview: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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Brillantes
2023-01-18
Brillantes
Overview: Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her is taken over, subject to the laws of capitalism, Karine will have to choose between being true to herself, or lie to protect herself and her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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Petit Con
1984-01-18
Petit Con
Overview: An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
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Shooting Stars
2002-04-24
Shooting Stars
Overview: A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-24
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The Fire Dance
1994-01-02
The Fire Dance
Overview: Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927. Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Levy & Goliath
1987-01-27
Levy & Goliath
Overview: A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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Tom est tout seul
1995-01-25
Tom est tout seul
Overview: After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Le Passager du Tassili
1987-08-05
Le Passager du Tassili
Overview: Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry “Le Tassili” and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood that does not hide their heartbreaks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Malady of Love
1987-09-30
Malady of Love
Overview: Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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The Best Years of a Life
2019-05-22
The Best Years of a Life
Overview: They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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7, rue de la Folie
2015-10-14
7, rue de la Folie
Overview: Comedy about a muslim and how is (expected) to behave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
2019-12-17
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-17
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Il faut sauver Saïd
2008-01-01
Il faut sauver Saïd
Overview: 10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he attends in the Parisian banlieue hardly give him a chance. And then he is drawn into the criminal machinations of his brother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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All You Need is Lie
2021-09-07
All You Need is Lie
Overview: In the jungle that is celibacy and dating apps, Zoé just found the man of her life. An idyll which lasts - 2 hours - before Robinson falls into a coma. One misunderstanding later, she is now engaged to this man and responsible for his two children while he is hospitalized. Playing along, Zoé will have to play the perfect girlfriend to man she barely knows - But along the line of lies and time passed in the world of this charming stranger, won't she end up by believing in this love? What will happen once Robinson wakes up?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-07
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