Lyna Khoudri
Also Known As: Lina Khoudri, لينا خودري, لینا خدری
Biography: Lyna Khoudri (born 3 October 1992) is an Algerian-French actress. In 2017, she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for her role in the Sofia Djama-directed film Les Bienheureux (The Blessed). In 2020, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Papicha. In 2021, she portrayed a student activist in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. In 2023, Khoudri portrayed Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady. Khoudri has been a brand ambassador for the French fashion house Chanel since 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lyna Khoudri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alger, Algeria
Birthday: October 03, 1992
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Gender: Female
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Babyphone
Overview: Freshly installed in a country house with her husband and their 6-month-old son, Agathe discovers a child's bedroom that had previously been locked behind a partition. Untouched, nothing seems to have moved since the 90s. Even the old baby monitor abandoned in a drawer is still functional. Buoyed by her husband's enthusiasm, the young mother agrees to install their son there, at the price of hanging on to the device, listening for the slightest noise. But when strange emanations sow doubt and confusion in Agathe's mind, she will have to sort out her new environment, her latent fatigue and her maternal anxieties.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-13
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Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-23
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Houria
Overview: A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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Cannes chante le cinéma
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-27
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Polina
Overview: Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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The Party Is Over
Overview: Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find themselves left to themselves, to the test of the real world and its temptations. They will have to fight to finally live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-28
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Les Magnifiques
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Original Language: fr
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Our Brothers
Overview: Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-07
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A Place to Fight For
Overview: Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy that Greg discovers, despite the risks of being unmasked. For each of them, time is short: soon everything will disappear.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-08
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The Empire
Overview: The Opal Coast, northern France. In a quiet and picturesque fishing village, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-21
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Eagles of the Republic
Overview: Egypt's most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, falls into disgrace with the authorities overnight. On the verge of losing everything, George is forced to accept an offer he can't refuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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How Kids Roll
Overview: In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two 12-year-old boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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Le Gang des amazones
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
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In Waves
Overview: AJ, a shy teenager, meets Kristen while in high school in Los Angeles. Kristen is passionate about surfing… and she’s the most beautiful person he’s ever met. He falls madly in love with her. As life seems to finally come together for AJ, Kristen’s life starts falling apart, shattered by illness. Together, they will fight adversity with dignity and enjoy their now-shared passion for surfing and for the ocean, but also their loyal band of friends… even when they know Kristen is doomed. This is what happens when love and friendship become a wave stronger than anything.
Genres: Animation Romance
Original Language: fr
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13 Days, 13 Nights: In the Hell of Kabul
Overview: Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are marching on the capital to seize power. Amid the chaos, Commander Mohamed Bida and his men are in charge of security at the French embassy, the last Western mission to remain open. Trapped along with 500 people, left to their own devices, the team must reach the airport at all costs. A perilous mission with no guarantee of success to flee the hell of Kabul and rescue what remains of humanity.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: fr
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An Urban Allegory
Overview: A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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The Blessed
Overview: Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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Luna
Overview: A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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The French Dispatch
Overview: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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The Breitner Commando
Overview: 1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-17
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Fatiya
Overview: Fatiya agrees to replace her cousin at a babysitting gig. When she meets the mother of the young boy she is supposed to look after, prejudice and racism cause the afternoon to take a turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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Papicha
Overview: Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a normal life. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to put on a fashion show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Avaler des couleuvres
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-13
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Albertine Gone
Overview: Jean is a fireman whose girl friend Albertine died of a horse accident shortly after having left him. He suffers a great pain because he had serious hopes of her coming back home. It’s a double punishment which he attempts to confess to his fellow firemen between two rescue urgencies. His grief and his doubts invade gently the fire station.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Les Princes de la ville
Overview: At the bottom. That's where Yaya and Zakri feel they are living in the projects of Paris. One day, they discover a bag full of money hidden in a parking garage. The two friends finally see an opportunity for them to change things and decide to throw the biggest party their hood has ever known. But their new found luck won't last very long...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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The Specials
Overview: For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-23
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Republique: The Interactive
Overview: 10pm on a summer's evening. The sun goes down over the Place de la République in Paris. Lucie and Rio embark on an "urbex", descending into the city's abandoned underground networks. The two teens share their adventure live on social media. On a subway platform, two young lawyers are on their way to join some friends. They film themselves as they wait for the train. Nora and Djibril have just made love. While he heads off to work, she meets a friend for the evening. None of them yet know it, but moments later, a terrorist attack will change their lives, linking their destinies forever. In a few moments, they are about to enter the darkness. The fiction unfolds through three simultaneous video feeds, filmed on cellphones and available to all via social media.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-03
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Gagarine
Overview: Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-11
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Haute Couture
Overview: Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-10
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The Spark
Overview: Maya is an apprentice in a welding workshop. She likes her boss, maybe a little too much. The day she gets hurt, she keeps quiet to preserve the business. But when she discovers that she is being manipulated, Maya decides to take justice into her own hands…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-16
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Overview: D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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Secret Name
Overview: Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-07
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The Three Musketeers: Milady
Overview: D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-13
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November
Overview: In November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred - face an unprecedented level of pressure: in a race against the clock, they must find the perpetrators of the attacks as quickly as possible before they can strike again, travelling across Europe and beyond in one of the biggest manhunts in history.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-05
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Lise
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Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
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