Hammou Graïa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: December 22, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Hell Train
Overview: Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train, the three men who were candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion beat Habib Grimzi, a 26-year-old Algerian, before throwing him out of a window. A young woman, who witnessed the murder, alerted the police. The investigation begins in a climate of extreme tension. In the city, provocations and attacks are increasing...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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Anything for Her
Overview: Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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The Chops
Overview: A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-28
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Un coupable
Overview: The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Asphalt Playground
Overview: Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older brother Djibril is 22, a student at the Sorbonne who dreams of becoming a lawyer. As for Mitraillette, he has his eye on Océane, the most beautiful girl in his school...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-27
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A Son
Overview: Selim, a young man adrift, is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his father's love. Omar, his father, lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships, they pass silently without ever really connecting. Only destiny will bring father and son together... a little too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-28
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After the Fire
Overview: Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-15
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Krim
Overview: A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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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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Le porteur de cartable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-03
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Voleur d'images
Overview: Jaffar methodically takes photos of everything that happens around him in his city. Sonia would like to run away despite being fifteen years old, “while there is still time”.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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Brothers in Arms
Overview: Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-15
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The Apaches
Overview: A young French-Algerian man lured by a dubious "family" lawyer into making an occult business deal within a similarly marginalized setting: one of Paris's largest and most diverse Kabyle communities. Having been drawn into the family bar business by his estranged father, Samir still agonizes over the memory of his late mother, while falling in love with a beautiful and mysterious single mom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-22
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Rituels meurtriers
Overview: Three cops of different hierarchy are shattered by the tragic death of their beloved sister. They come across three murder cases and all murders follow a similar pattern like that of Masonic rituals.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Personal Shopper
Overview: Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-14
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Bérénice
Overview: A staging of Jean Racine's play "Bérénice" by Jean-Louis Martinelli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Rupture
Overview: Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without news. Anna, a theater actress, was in the title role in Sade's "Justine" when she disappeared. The investigation leading Joa to the people who have known her sister, turns into an initiatory quest. Her journey, her stroll through a subterranean marginal Paris, leads also to the emergence of a new woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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The Wounded Man
Overview: Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much unrequited lust that it explodes with horrible results.
Genres: Romance Crime Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
Overview: The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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L'Affaire Ben Barka
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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Le mouton noir
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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The Salt of Tears
Overview: Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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Hyacinthe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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