Saïd Taghmaoui
Also Known As: Said Taghmaoui, سعيد تغماوي, سعيد التغماوي, سعید تغماوی
Biography: Saïd Taghmaoui (born July 19, 1973) is a French actor and screenwriter of Moroccan background. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.However, Saïd has also appeared in a number of more recent English Language films, with roles such as the U.S.-trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain 'My Main Man' Saïd in Three Kings, and as "Omar", the close radical Islamic associate of Don Cheadle (Samir), in the 2008 thriller Traitor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saïd Taghmaoui, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Birthday: July 19, 1973
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Gender: Male
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La Haine
Overview: After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Hideous Kinky
Overview: In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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Hidalgo
Overview: Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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The Good Thief
Overview: An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Mogadischu
Overview: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
Genres: Thriller History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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Vantage Point
Overview: During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Crime Spree
Overview: An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Traitor
Overview: When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Overview: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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Conan the Barbarian
Overview: A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-17
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Break of Dawn
Overview: An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-11
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The Slammer
Overview: This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute, who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden and the Chief Guard try to get him to tell what he knows about the disappearance -- the Guard through violence, the Warden by transferring him to a new cell with four other prisoners and cutting off TV privileges to the inmates until the Mute spills the beans. One of the Mute's new roommates is a white collar criminal who has just landed in prison and is not dealing well with the pressures of life behind bars, but his skills with computers make him a very usefully ally among the prisoners. Meanwhile, Flic, a self-important police detective, is investigating the escape of the Mute's cellmate and is not happy with the low level of cooperation among the prison's population.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-12
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Heroines
Overview: Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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The Forgiven
Overview: Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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O Jerusalem
Overview: A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-17
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Nationale 7
Overview: In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-06
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Gamer
Overview: Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Stranded
Overview: Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .
Genres: Mystery Action Horror War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-08
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Absolutely Fabulous
Overview: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Overview: Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Confession of a Dredger
Overview: During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One afternoon, while the eye follows a young girl he had noticed for several days, he made the acquaintance of Fab, a seducer getter, effective and apparent misogyny, which will teach him the basics drag. Starting first with a documented learning every evening in his diary, Paul soon to be questionable practices to limit crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-24
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The Garden of Eden
Overview: Alessandro D'Alatri directed this Italian drama about Jesus Christ, covering his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, an 18-year span not chronicled in the Bible. The film uses names of the period instead of names given in the Bible. The adult Jeoshua (Kim Rossi Stuart) reflects on past events -- his journey into the desert, baptism, acceptance into the Essenes' community, Jewish life in Galilee, his yeshiva studies, education from his father Josef (Omar Chenbod), and his spiritual growth. After seeing slavery, crucifixions, the stoning of an adulteress, and brutal Roman soldiers, Jeoshua turns to God for answers, leaves the village, and is betrayed by his friend Aziz (Said Taghmaoui), who leaves him to die in the desert. Issues such as carnality bring Jeoshua in conflict with the Essenes, yet he speaks out on behalf of the Essene David (popular Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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American Hustle
Overview: A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-03
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Before the Sunset
Overview: A young Moroccan immigrant, living in southern Italy, escapes from his forthcoming wedding to the daughter of a local Mafia member to a hotel where he remains in hiding with his true love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Tin Soldier
Overview: The Bokushi, who preaches to hundreds of veterans who have been drawn to the promise of protection and purpose under him. After several failed infiltration attempts on his impenetrable fortress, military operative Emmanuel Ashburn recruits Nash Cavanaugh, an ex-special forces asset who was once a disciple of The Bokushi. Nash agrees to use his insider knowledge of the enigmatic leader as he seeks vengeance on the man who took everything from him, including the love of his life.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-22
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The Killer
Overview: Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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I ♥ Huckabees
Overview: A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Family Plan
Overview: Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on a road trip unlike any other.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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Etta's Mission
Overview: Etta Candy and the rest of the Wonder Woman team meeting up to discuss a top-secret mission.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-29
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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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Wonder Woman
Overview: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-30
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Brothers: Red Roulette
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Room to Rent
Overview: Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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Three Kings
Overview: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Genres: Action Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-27
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Linear
Overview: The film is based on a story by Corbijn and Bono, and includes several of the characters Bono created for the album. The plot focuses on a Parisian motorcycle officer, played by Saïd Taghmaoui; the character has become disillusioned with his life and the conflict between immigrants and the police in the city, causing him to leave to see his girlfriend in Tripoli.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-02
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Djihad!
Overview: A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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The Infiltrator
Overview: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-13
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Money Man
Overview: Short film that accompanies A$AP Mob & Skepta's collaboration "Put That On My Set." The short film is a surrealist take on drug gangs, finding Rocky trafficking psychedelic butterfly wings as part of an organized crime ring. They run a tight moneymaking operation, and "Put That On My Set" showcases the importance of the rappers' crews in the illegal business.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Spartan
Overview: U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.
Genres: Mystery Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Overview: Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Tom Thumb
Overview: Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-16
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Last Minute Kasbah
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Five Fingers
Overview: Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-01
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The Kite Runner
Overview: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Alive
Overview: After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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At First Light
Overview: High school senior Alex has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities, and turns to her childhood friend Sean. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Espionage Tonight
Overview: In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-24
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J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites
Overview: Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Il était une fois... « La Haine »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-11
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For Bread Alone
Overview: Inspired by the life of the Novel's Author Mohamed Choukri , For Bread Alone or El khoubz El Hafi , is one of the truest manifestations of the dark history that Morocco went through during and after the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, from famine and plagues to the Berber migration .Also, it reveals Morocco's rituals and religious practices at that time
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Embattled
Overview: The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Putain de porte
Overview: Four young men try to gate crash a birthday party.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
Overview: It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the French in the bitter Algerian war, from 1954 to 1962. Why did they make that choice? Why were they slaughtered after Algeria's independence? Why were they abandonned by the French government? Some fifty to sixty thousands were saved and transferred in France, often at pitiful conditions. This is for the first time, the story of this tragedy, told in the brilliant style of the authors of "Apocalypse".
Genres: Documentary War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-20
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My Brother the Devil
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-22
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