Saïd Amadis
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oran, France [now Algeria]
Birthday: July 02, 1946
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Gender: Male
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The Nativity Story
Overview: Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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Lost Illusions
Overview: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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Fort Saganne
Overview: In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Water War
Overview: The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Overview: Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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Human Zoo
Overview: In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a deserter called Srdjan Vasiljevic in 1999. They move to Belgrade where Srdjan becomes a gangster, dealing weapons and becoming an assassin. Adria learns how to shoot and helps Srdjan with his work at first, becoming his mistress later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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Love Bites
Overview: Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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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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The Honour of the Tribe
Overview: Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is Slimane El Mabrouk who defends the honor of the tribe. But this time, he dies, leaving two orphans, Omar and Ourida. Robbed of their inheritance, the children will grow up alone. The years pass, the French army settles in, and with it, the war. Mysteriously, one day, after the murder of a French legionnaire, Omar disappears into the bush, while his sister dies in childbirth. Omar will return to the village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution has not forgotten you". Personal revenge? Sincere desire to bring progress and modernity? ... The inhabitants of Zitouna, upset in their ancestral way of life, will not be long in having an answer to their questions.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Hafida
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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A Few Days in September
Overview: 1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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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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Mad Love
Overview: After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-27
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Secrets of State
Overview: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Bonté Divine
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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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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Pachamama
Overview: A young boy living in a remote village in the Andes Mountains dreams of becoming shaman.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-12
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La lisière - The Edge
Overview: In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.
Genres: Thriller Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-22
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The Big Pardon
Overview: The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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The Situation
Overview: The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.
Genres: Drama History Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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The Tower
Overview: Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Gwen, or the Book of Sand
Overview: Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Led by the Nose
Overview: Three times divorced, a man consoles himself with another version of success, that of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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