Samy Naceri
Also Known As: Сами Насери, Saïd Naceri, 사미 나세리
Biography: Samy Naceri was born on July 2, 1961 in Paris, France as Saïd Naceri. He is an actor and producer, known for Taxi (1998), Taxi Taxi (2000) and Léon - Der Profi (1994). He has been married to Marie Guillard since 2005. His father Djilali comes from Algeria and his mother Jacqueline from Normandy. Samy grew up in modest circumstances with seven siblings. An older brother died of complications from drug use. Naceris father left the family when he was 16 years old.In his early twenties he was involved in a traffic accident, which left permanent scars on the left side of the face.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: July 02, 1961
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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The Moderator
Overview: After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Taxi
Overview: In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Taxi 2
Overview: A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-25
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Taxi 3
Overview: A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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Taxi 4
Overview: Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-10
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Days of Glory
Overview: 1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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The Nest
Overview: Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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Seconde chance
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Rai
Overview: Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-28
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Bab El Web
Overview: Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, more jovial, is an Internet enthusiast. He spends his time in a cybercafé chatting with girls from all over the world. Without really believing it, he invites them to Algiers. But one day, Laurence, one of his French correspondents, tells him that she accepts his invitation.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-16
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Tom Thumb
Overview: Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-16
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Menace sur Kermadec
Overview: A man is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Captain Marie Breguet who wanted to leave the region will have to stay a little longer to solve this crime. She will find a mysterious man on her way and fight to protect her daughter Lili.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-23
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The Code
Overview: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-22
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Féroce
Overview: Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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Dolls and Angels
Overview: The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-25
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Un pur moment de rock'n roll
Overview: Eric Renard is a drug addict torn between drugs and his dream of becoming a writer. After a failed robbery, he is sent to a rehabilitation center for delinquents in the countryside where he meets Kamel who will help him get off drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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The Repentant
Overview: A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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The Immigrant
Overview: Malik is one of many Russian immigrants who moved to Paris with his family. He begins to climb the hierarchy of the criminal ladder, covering shops, car services, nightclubs. However, a major drug dealer Jean-Michel, who has crushed Albanians, Turks, Nigerians and Moroccans, wants to distribute drugs at his points as well. Because of the threats to the family, Malik declares war on Jean-Michel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-08-01
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Melody for a Hustler
Overview: French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Tip Top
Overview: Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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Voyage sans retour
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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Coup de vice
Overview: It's the story of Charly Cohen, a young boy living in the Jewish quarter of Paris, who wants to become a musician and Zeff, his best friend, on a quest for his own identity. The story of a real friendship, which is going to deteriorate progressively as the differences in origin, religion and social standing appear. It's a testimony, a contemporary chronicle, a funky comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-13
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American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
Overview: An intimate, soul-baring new documentary covering the life and 40+ year career of actor and poet Michael Madsen, from troubled youth to film star, told through interviews with colleagues, friends, family members and the American Badass himself. Featuring Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Charlie Sheen, Ron Perlman, Daryl Hannah, and many, many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-15
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Return to Algiers
Overview: Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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Bouge !
Overview: Video director Jerome Cornuau made his feature-film debut with this showbiz-themed French film. Young Alice (Ambre Boukebza) hitchhikes into the city to seek out her music-executive dad (Bernard Le Coq) but instead becomes friends with a singing star (Ophelie Winter, portraying herself), learns dancing from African trashman Rudy (Ashanti), polishes her singing skills with an assist from vocalist Nathalie (Lea Drucker), and is romanced by producer Jeremy (Patrick Forster-Delmas).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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Mémoires à vif
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Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-02
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Brothers: Red Roulette
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Philosophale
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Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Petit Ben
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Lost in Transit
Overview: A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Léon: The Professional
Overview: Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-09-14
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Stolen Identity
Overview: Inspired by a true story, a young man from a good family becomes an effective and seductive con artist, crushing the dreams of innocent people in his wake.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Pourquoi partir?
Overview: Pierre and Maryel have the same mother but have never met even though they have been writing to each other for fifteen years. One day, Pierre decides to see his sister and goes to Saint-André where she lives. The local youths don't exactly appreciate his presence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-26
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Gone Into Fog
Overview: Strange things happen in city N. People massively fall into a state similar to a coma. Doctors are at a loss. Investigate the incident entrusted to the best investigator of the city. He, a follower of the materialist position, is faced with inexplicable and mystical events that change not only his worldview, but also his life...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-10-01
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Cas ID
Overview: A guy comes out of prison. A car is waiting for him. A reception committee or ambush classic and already seen? But when one is suffering from the case of Indeterminal Deficience, things do not always happen as in the classic scenarios.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Fake News
Overview: After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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Redemption Day
Overview: When his wife is kidnapped by terrorists for ransom, veteran war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operation that pits him against powerful and dark forces.
Genres: Action Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-08
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Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer
Overview: In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageously edited to a still briefer length.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-18
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One 4 All
Overview: Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-29
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Atoman
Overview: Hakim is a professional hacker and used to muscular interrogations. But his last encounter with the Moroccan secret service will change his life forever. He will discover that his genes give him extraordinary powers. And if they manifest themselves now, it is for a very simple reason: he is the only one who can prevent a global catastrophe…
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-08
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