Sami Bouajila
Also Known As: 사미 부아질라, Сами Буажила
Biography: Sami Bouajila (born in Grenoble, France on 12 May 1966) is a French award-winning actor of Tunisian origin. Bouajila's grandfather was a Berber born in Tripoli, Libya and immigrated to Tunisia. Bouajila's father decided to immigrate to France in 1956. Sami was born and grew up in Échirolles, a suburb south of Grenoble. He studied theater.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Tronche, Isère, France
Birthday: May 12, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Adventures of Félix
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-19
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The Stone Council
Overview: In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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Nés quelques part
Overview: Sarcelles. The TGV, broken down, takes a break at the city's RER station. A young passenger, music manager, has never set foot in the suburbs. This is an opportunity for him to go and study urban music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-19
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Summer Things
Overview: Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-04
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Pretend I'm Not Here
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-17
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The Siege
Overview: The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-06
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Desert Warrior
Overview: It’s 7th century, when Arabia is made up of rival, feuding tribes, disunited and forever at each other’s throats. Emperor Kisra has a fearsome reputation for being utterly ruthless. But when the Arabian Princess Hind refuses to become the emperor’s concubine, the stage is set for an epic confrontation. It is a battle that, by its conclusion, will have changed the region forever and echo throughout history. Escaping with her father, King Numan, into the vast and unforgiving desert, Hind is pursued by Kisra’s seasoned mercenary Jalabzeen and his bloodthirsty troops. Hind and her father are forced to entrust their safety to a mysterious bandit, whose fighting prowess is second to none. The bandit harbors his own secrets, which will play a large part in deciding the fate of the battle. Hind inspires the fractious tribes to come together for one last stand and unite against an army that outnumbers them and is far better equipped.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
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The Whistler
Overview: Cannes, the French Riviera. Armand Teillard is happy with life; a busy store downtown, a delightful girlfriend, a magnificent record collection and lunch every day at Sofia and Martial's family restaurant with a perfect sea view. So when Sofia tells Armand that Zapetti, a property developer with mafia connections, is putting the squeeze on her to sell up, he is horrified. Armand is an easy-going guy, but when he gets mad... actually, Armand never gets mad. He leaves that to his twin brother, Maurice, The Whistler. When Maurice rides into town in his Aston Martin and designer suit, Zapetti, his mob and the corrupt local politicians are in trouble. But what if, behind the dyed hair and tinted contact lenses, Maurice and Armand are one and the same guy? Is Cannes big enough for the both of them?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-06
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Ultimate Heist
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-03
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The Witnesses
Overview: Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Replay
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-22
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Outside the Law
Overview: After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Masked Mobsters
Overview: From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are bewildered by the calm audacity shown by the group.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Omar Killed Me
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-21
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Le Déménagement
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-02
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24 Bars
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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Love Affairs Usually End Badly
Overview: Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-28
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Life Kills Me
Overview: Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African 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 tries to impress 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 secretly gay brother Daniel 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 as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-26
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Beautiful Lies
Overview: A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Bitter Victory
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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No Big Deal
Overview: Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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Poetical Refugee
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-14
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Carré Blanc
Overview: Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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Our Happy Lives
Overview: Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Change My Life
Overview: Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out afterwards to return some property and discovers he works at night as a female prostitute. Nina is drawn to him and a friendship develops as he attempts to kick his drug habit and she tries to revive her acting career that sidelined when she moved to Russia for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-28
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Overview: A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Bye-Bye
Overview: In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-30
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Our Ties
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-23
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The Crow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-21
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Abyss
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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My Son's Murderer Will Die Tonight
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-07
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Avant l'oubli
Overview: Jeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she worked in a soap factory leading a peaceful life until the day she was asked to pass out leaflets in her factory. to Algerian workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-15
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Inséparables
Overview: Twenty years ago, Robert left his home in the provincial northern town of Boulogne to make it as an actor. His career never amounted to much, as he managed only a couple of acting jobs on TV. Without warning, he returns to his hometown and drops in on his sister who is in the throes of a sordid affair with her married boss. Later, Robert drops in on his younger brother, who lives with his elderly mother. As the film progresses, it quietly, sensitively depicts Robert's disruption of the lives of the members of his family.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Patchwork Family
Overview: Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Zaina: Rider of the Atlas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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Divin enfant
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-15
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Anna Oz
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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The Legend of Princess Parva
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-12
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A Stormy Summer Night
Overview: Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in a tiny hotel in a small Andalusian city. This small city has been the scene of a crime of passion. The police search the murderer, an immigrant worker. The whole city is aroused by this murderous act which roused resentment and a dangerous desire for vengeance...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-07
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Good Luck Sam
Overview: Samir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. When the contract fails, his business partner and closest friend plans to save their company by sending Samir to represent Algeria at the Winter Olympics! Already broke, and expecting his second child, Samir trains to become the first Algerian cross-country skiing male athlete to participate in the winter games. Samir, the eldest son of an Algerian emigrant must first go back to his father's homeland in order to achieve this goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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The Crew
Overview: One of the members of a gang of thieves commits a serious mistake that force them to work for a ruthless gang of drug dealers, endangering the future of the team, their lives and those of their families.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-04
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Rapaces
Overview: 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...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-07-02
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London River
Overview: After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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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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Scribe
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-19
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The Silences of the Palace
Overview: The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Through the Fire
Overview: Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-28
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Artemisia
Overview: The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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Don't Leave Me!
Overview: A French women lives her worst nightmare when she discovers that her daughter has been radicalised, and plans to leave for her "husband" in Syria.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-02
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La thune
Overview: Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-20
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The Bouncer
Overview: A tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover after an unfortunate event.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-22
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Paradise Beach
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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A Son
Overview: Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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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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Earth and Blood
Overview: A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-04-17
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Red Soil
Overview: Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-11
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The Hour of the Pig
Overview: In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Une voix en or
Overview: Marion Courbet young ardéchoise meets Louise Dawson, large international singer recovering in the region. From this encounter is born a friendship that will change their lives. Marion will tour with Louise and discover show business.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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