Mohamed Bastaoui
Also Known As: محمد البسطاوي, Mohamed Bestaoui
Biography: Famous moroccan actor (1954-2014) Mohamed Bastaoui in arabic [محمد البسطاوي] was born in Mrizig on june 3,1954 and died in rabat on decembre 17, 2014 with a career spanning 30 years. He begin his acting career in the theater on 1987, with a theater group called "Masrah al Yaoum", Then ten years later with group "The sun". In cinema, his career started in the late 1990s, exactly on 1998 into a movie "Adieu Forain" And then rolled his roles simple and complex in several films, serials and plays. His departure left a great sadness for his friends in the profession or the Moroccan public in general.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mrizig, Morocco
Birthday: June 03, 1954
Deathday: December 17, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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David
Overview: A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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Break
Overview: The movie is about an alcoholic policeman who abuses his wife and his children .
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-08-20
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A Thousand Months
Overview: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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Rough Hands
Overview: Mustapha is a forty-year-old barber in Casablanca. His clients are retired high-ranking government officials, former cabinet ministers and power brokers in Morocco. On the side, Mustapha has an underground business "facilitating" paperwork, using his privileged access to these retired bigwigs to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. While his operation thrives, Mustapha keeps a shameful secret: he is illiterate, and has hired Said to assist him with managing appointments and tracking transactions. He does not know that Said is being paid to monitor his underground dealings.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Taif Nizar
Overview: The film tells about the Moroccan past in its black section in the years of lead, the experience of the left in Morocco, and the wave of arrests at that time. After the 1971 coup attempt, the soldiers began to defend themselves that they were carrying out orders. The former Minister of the Interior, ADISC, asks for a written order to do his work. Everyone hides behind duty. Khaled is a young doctor in a hospital in Casablanca. He meets a man on death row. He killed all his family members. His name is Jamal, a detective who was working alongside a man he met a year ago with a burner. Jamal could not burn Ahmed al-Sabbar, so he killed all his family except his daughter Lamia, then burned the bodies, and blamed Ahmed al-Sabbar, who remained silent. The judge who sentenced Ahmed suffers from marital problems His wife is cheating on him with a young advisor, so the lover is killed and the circles go round.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-08-09
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Jawhara Fille de Prison
Overview: Jawhara has grown in prison after the rape of her mother, Safia, and has lived for six years behind bars by her mother's side. Through her innocent vision, Jawhara grew up looking and watching the world of families telling the story that brought her mother together with her alleged father Saeed. Saeed and Safiya lived together a period of youth marked by enthusiasm and ideal values. Inhuman living conditions. Jewel's search for the truth of her mother and father's story leads her to tragedy...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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L'écharpe rouge
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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Tarfaya
Overview: Just like so many North Africans, a young Moroccan woman wants to reach Spain by the sea. But she'll face a lot of difficulties along the way.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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WWW: What a Wonderful World
Overview: Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives his encrypted assignments online. After his executions, he usually calls Souad, an occasional prostitute. But the phone is always answered by her friend Kenza, traffic officer and responsible for the largest roundabout in the city. Kamel soon falls in love with that voice and begins to seek her. Meanwhile, Hicham, a computer hacker, who dreams of emigrating to Europe, is infiltrated by chance in Kamel plans ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-03
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The Blind Orchestra
Overview: In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king, is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud father of Mimou. This is a very particular troupe, male musicians who are sometimes forced to pretend that they are blind in order to play at parties reserved for women in conservative Moroccan families. But then young Minou runs into Chama, the neighbor’s new maid
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-10-26
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Allal Al Kalda
Overview: Allal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-12-28
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Paris or Perish
Overview: Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-15
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Bye-Bye Souirty
Overview: The nomadic life of Moroccan carnival performers forms the basis of this debut from director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Rabi, a female impersonator who dances with traveling fairs, teams up with Kacem, who hires him to ballyhoo his gambling concession. While Rabi's lack of romantic interest in women befuddles Kacem's son, he does strike up a friendship with a schoolteacher (Nezha Rahile), who in her way is as much of a misfit as Rabi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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El Kabch
Overview: In one of the Moroccan villages, the competition is for those who are elected to run the village affairs, and then agree on the establishment of a football team as a criterion for competition.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Agadir Express
Overview: Aziz is chased by three brothers who want to avenge their sister, He meets Daoui a retiree in search of recognition. The film tells the story of this tormented journey.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Women's Road
Overview: Amina is on a trip to the North where her husband is imprisoned for a drug case. When her car breaks down, she meets Lalla Rahma, an old lady who must also go to the North to make sure that her son did not die while illegally crossing the sea to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-11-21
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Sotto Voce
Overview: During the Algerian war, the road to Beni Boussaid on the Morocco-Algeria border is obstructed by the Morice line, a 430-mile long belt that is electrified and heavily mined. Moussa, a Moroccan friend of the revolution, helps refugees across the mountains. However, he must go through Beni Boussaid when he finds out that the path he usually takes is no longer safe. Hans, a Communist militant of the GDR, loses a leg on the way, while trying to remove a mine from a passageway. Normally, the wounded and sick are put to rest, but Hans is not a Muslim and cannot be a martyr.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2013-06-04
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The witness
Overview: The film tells the story of a maid who is the only witness to a murder involving the son of a former minister. She hesitates a lot before informing the police of the crime, and from here begins the threat and problems.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Waiting for Pasolini
Overview: Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Atlas treasures
Overview: In Morocco, just before modern times, Ould Bah is the eldest of a powerful man reigning on a kasbah on the side of the Saharian Atlas. A spoiled child, he was excluded from the succession of his younger brother. Ould Bah then decides to bend the spell ...
Genres: History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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Jeremiah
Overview: The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-14
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