Hafsia Herzi
Also Known As: アフシア・エルジ
Biography: Hafsia Herzi (born January 25, 1987) is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor or actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Birthday: January 25, 1987
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Gender: Female
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Française
Overview: A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-28
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The Secret of the Grain
Overview: In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Singing Jailbirds
Overview: Following the success of his first feature "Django", Étienne Comar confronts with "Singing Jailbirds" the life in a prison for women with music and its capacity to unite people and a repertoire of international songs.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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A Man and His Dog
Overview: An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-14
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The King of Escape
Overview: 43-year-old Armand Lacourtade, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is getting sick of his homosexual life. When he encounters a young girl called Curly, he changes sides. Chased by her parents and the police, they brave all dangers to live this forbidden love and become an odd couple. But is it really what Armand dreamed about?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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My Sense of Modesty
Overview: Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-07
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House of Pleasures
Overview: The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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The Source
Overview: A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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The Rabbi's Cat
Overview: The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-31
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Jimmy Rivière
Overview: Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-09
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Buried Secrets
Overview: A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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Joseph et la fille
Overview: Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he needs an accomplice. He cannot trust anyone, so decides to prepare Julie, 20 years old. The confusion and uncertainty, however, stand between these two beings so opposite ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-18
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Inheritance
Overview: A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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The Gravity
Overview: As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.
Genres: Drama Action Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-03
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On My Way
Overview: Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-16
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Visiting Hours
Overview: Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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Exit Marrakech
Overview: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Sueur
Overview: Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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The Bag of Flour
Overview: Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-13
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The Marchers
Overview: In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-27
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War Story
Overview: Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-19
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Borgo
Overview: Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-17
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Pour Djamila
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Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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La Loi du courage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Tiens ferme ta couronne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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The French Trilogy
Overview: The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-08
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The Rapture
Overview: Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while she is holding her friend's baby in her arms, she sinks into a lie, at the risk of losing everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-11
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Certifiée Halal
Overview: In the Maghreb, Hajj Achour's plans for his daughter Sultana's marriage unravel when a defective dowry takes center stage. Meanwhile, in France, activism meets family tradition as Kenza confronts gender norms, leading to a chaotic wedding where secrets collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-13
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Dawn of the World
Overview: The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-27
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Paris monopole
Overview: Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-01
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Par accident
Overview: One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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My New Friends
Overview: Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-10
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Le Rodba
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-17
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Un vrai job
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-24
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Sex Doll
Overview: Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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Des Plans Sur La Comète
Overview: Two small time crooks brothers fall apart when they both meet very different women
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-21
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
Overview: Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Of Skin and Men
Overview: Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-28
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Persona non grata
Overview: José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-17
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Ma compagne de nuit
Overview: Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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This Teacher
Overview: A reunion between two childhood friends goes awry in this disquieting portrait of a young Muslim woman visiting New York for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Black Tide
Overview: When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-18
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Féminin plurielles
Overview: Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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You Deserve a Lover
Overview: Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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Madame Claude
Overview: Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Pygmalionnes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Overview: It’s the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Between Amin’s encounters with these women and his dreams of cinema, many choices open up to him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
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Sisters
Overview: For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-30
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The Blind and the Cardinal
Overview: Thomas is seduced by Julie and tells her stories in which he was involved or that he witnessed. All of them pose the question of what links and binds us to each other. But are we capable of perceiving this singular and poetic mystery?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-01
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Three Nights a Week
Overview: When young Baptiste meets Cookie Kunty, a young Parisian drag queen, he feels compelled to start a new photographic project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-09
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Au-delà des murs
Overview: Lina, is getting ready to go to the Baumettes' prison to attend her very first visit with her lately incarcerated boyfriend. His daughter Sofia tries to dissuade her. Their life is better without him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Overview: It's the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his Casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Nobody knows that they see each other, especially not Ophélie, his childhood friend, who instead confides her troubles to Amin : her father wants her to take over the family farm, her fiancé Clement will return soon from Iraq for their wedding, she is pregnant with Tony’s baby, and Tony wants to keep their affair secret instead of having a serious relationship. Ophélie constantly contemplates her choices : would it be better to get an abortion in secret and marry Clement or to follow her maternal instinct and keep the child, perhaps seeking refuge with Amin in Paris?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-23
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