Assaad Bouab
Also Known As: Assaad El Bouab
Biography: Assaad Bouab is a French-Moroccan actor whose first co-starring role is Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-starring Laura Ramsey as Lola. The film premiered 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival. Bouab attended Cours Florent from 1999 to 2002, and graduated from CNSAD in Paris in 2006. He has had a regular role in the popular French television series Call My Agent!.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aurillac, Cantal, France
Birthday: July 31, 1980
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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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Overdose
Overview: Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Whatever Lola wants
Overview: A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-11
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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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Fashion Victim
Overview: Paris 1577 - King Henri III gives famous couturier Pic Saint Loup a crucial diplomatic mission. He must go to Spain to make a magnificent gown for the wedding of the King's nephew to the daughter of a Spanish noble. The trouble is that the real creative brains behind Saint Loup's outfit is his Moorish assistant, while his perfumer is a Marano Jew and his hairdresser is out, loud and very proud. And Catholic Spain, in the grip of the Inquisition, is no place for Arabs, Jews and homosexuals (Saint Loup is anything but heterosexual). To make matters worse, his secretary is an undercover Protestant plotting revenge for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and the father of the bride turns out to be the Chief Inquisitor of Cordoba.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-14
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Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
Overview: A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Overview: After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpinned her power. As buried lust and loneliness surge to the surface, her actions threaten to destroy everything she has built.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Close to Leo
Overview: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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God Will Know His Own
Overview: After a long journey through the circuit of international Islamism that took him from France to London via Bosnia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Hamid returns to his hometown in northern France. Everyone thinks he died in Bosnia and he doesn't want that to change. But he can't help but see Rafiq, his little brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Queen of the Desert
Overview: A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Kandisha
Overview: Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named Kandisha.
Genres: Horror Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-22
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Ali and Nino
Overview: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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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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Made in France
Overview: Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-04
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Rising Voices
Overview: A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon themselves, they discover the greatness of their true cause. From this realisation they learn to affirm their common humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Marock
Overview: Casablanca, the year of the baccalaureate. The carefree life of Morocco's golden youth and all its excesses: car races, friendships, music, alcohol, but also first loves and the anxiety of transitioning to adulthood... Marock presents a side of Morocco that is often unknown, seen through the eyes of Rita, 17, who is determined to live life on her own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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The Bay of Silence
Overview: Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Le dernier jour du jeûne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-17
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Pour te retrouver
Overview: Lucas, 11 years old, disappears one morning from the family home. His departure plunges Marion and Alexis, his recently separated parents, into unbearable anxiety. Their child is absolutely not equipped to face the outside world alone; Lucas is autistic and particularly vulnerable. For Marion and Alexis, it's a race against time to find their son, forcing them to delve into their past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Cliffhanger
Overview: During a weekend trip with a billionaire’s son, seasoned mountaineer Ray Cooper and his daughter Sydney are targeted by a gang of kidnappers. Ray’s other daughter Naomi, still haunted by a past climbing accident, witnesses the attack and escapes. To save her family, she must confront her fears and fight for survival.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
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