Lubna Azabal
Also Known As: לובנה אזאבל, 루브나 아자발
Biography: Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress, born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. After studing at the Conservatoire royal of Brussels, she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker Vincent Lannoo chose her to act beside Olivier Gourmet in his short film J'adore le cinéma. She performs in both French and Arabic films. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber). She also speaks fluent English and Arabic. Her most widely known role is in the 2005 Golden Globe-winning Palestinian political thriller, Paradise Now. She can also be spotted in a smaller role in Ridley Scott's recent film Body of Lies. Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies. She also won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 31st Genie Awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bruxelles, Belgium
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Birthday: August 15, 1973
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Female
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Paradise Now
Overview: Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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Body of Lies
Overview: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Somewhere in Love
Overview: Nicole and her son Serge live in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, where their love for each other thrives against all odds. But as Christmas approaches, Nicole has her checkbook and credit card confiscated, turning their relationship and their lives upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-04
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Echo
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Almost Peaceful
Overview: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Changing Times
Overview: In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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Suicide Club
Overview: France court
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-27
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Far Away
Overview: Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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Comme les 5 doigts de la main
Overview: Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Incendies
Overview: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Genres: Drama War Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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Exiles
Overview: One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the land their parents once had to flee.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-19
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Headwinds
Overview: Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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I Am Slave
Overview: Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah ,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-14
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Betelgeuse
Overview: Maybe this is the end. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is about to die and the gamma rays from the supernova could destroy life on Earth. Scientists are divided, the rumour is unstoppable. Sarah, a Belgian astrophysicist based in New Mexico, is spending her days reviewing calculations and controversial theories about the star. Since her colleague and lover Elliot died in a car crash, she is stuck alone inside her home, and suffers violent panic attacks every time she tries to step outdoors. She decides that the time has come to end this impossible situation. But a ghost from the past persuades her to do one last thing: if she must kill herself, to do it in the middle of the mountains, at the place where she first met her lost love. Finally the day comes. Betelgeuse is ready to explode and Sarah is ready to leave the house. Maybe this is the beginning.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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24 Bars
Overview: It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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A Minute of Sun Less
Overview: Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri. The victim's mistress Touria, just living for her fatally-ill younger brother Pipo, is considered the main suspect, so Kamel learns more and more about their hard life circumstances. During the observation, the sexually-confused Kamel falls in love with the young woman, but realizes the imminence for Touria and Pipo too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-04-15
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Free Men
Overview: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-28
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L'école des espions
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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25 Degrees in Winter
Overview: An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-21
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Coriolanus
Overview: Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with certain colleagues. When a riot results in his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Together, the pair vow to destroy the great city.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-14
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Here
Overview: Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must decide where to go from Here
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Overview: Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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Aram
Overview: Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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For My Country
Overview: Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-08
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The Blue Caftan
Overview: Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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Strangers
Overview: Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Viva Algeria
Overview: This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-07
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Goodbye Morocco
Overview: Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be able to leave Morocco with her son, who she hardly ever sees since her divorce. The death of a worker disrupts her plan...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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The Love
Overview: Rotterdam, the Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to finally break the silence. But in order to be accepted, he must come to terms with his own feelings first.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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Rock the Casbah
Overview: The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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You Promised Me the Sea
Overview: Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-04
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Occupation
Overview: Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-15
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Bajo el mismo cielo
Overview: A pair of Moroccan immigrants in Spain splits apart. He returns to Morocco because he only find precarious jobs and his wife decides to stay. Their daughter is 11 and shares with a professor from her school a taste for writing, but she decides to follow her father. The girl's mother tries to recover her, for what is essential the mediation of the teacher.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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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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Amal
Overview: An idealistic and passionate literature teacher in a suburban Brussels school becomes the target of intense hostility from students and colleagues tied to Islamic extremism when she chooses to help a teenage Muslim girl accused of homosexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-17
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Rabia
Overview: Driven by the promise of a new life, Jessica (19) and her best friend Laila left for Syria to join DAECH. But when they arrive, they find themselves locked up in a women’s house run by the authoritarian and charismatic Madame. When Jessica rebels, a game of domination and submission begins between her and the director. Between fascination and fear, Jessica will have to give up her humanity to survive within this system.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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Des blessures invisibles
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Genres: Mystery TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-12
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Champion
Overview: At 24 years old, Zack has all the appearances of a young man who feels good in his own skin. His secret is well kept. He's talented carpenter, he builds tree houses with his father. But his passion is boxing, which he teaches as a volunteer. Zack is thinking of moving in with Marjorie when his father has a work accident and falls into a coma. He must face alone the task of running the small family business. The weaknesses he thought he had overcome will be brought back. And as a newcomer, Ines, enters his life, his secret is in danger of being revealed at any time: Zack is illiterate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-19
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Buğday
Overview: The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation..
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Tout le monde descend
Overview: Pierre-Antoine has a senior position at a famous consultancy firm. When his bosses are arrested for fraud, he must take on a simple position as an advisor in a poor rural suburb, where a new life awaits him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-26
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Life Suits Me Well
Overview: Mid-1990s, little town in Morocco and seemingly ordinary family. Fouad is dedicated to his work in local postal services. He is climbing the signal posts and tries to keep people’s connections running. He radiates warmth and is the soul of his family and local community. Until one day, his health begins to deteriorate and his mind starts to fade. Each day, his neurological disease gets worse and paralyzes his physical and mental health. Loved ones of Fouad are facing the challenge of reconciling the changing family dynamics and a fading life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Les siestes Grenadine
Overview: Wahid and his daughter Soufiya return to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa.Wahid would like to transform Soufiya into a real Tunisian, a true daughter of their land, but the country has changed a lot in there absence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-01
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Ustica: The Missing Paper
Overview: On the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens without sending any emergency signal. The aircraft, stabilized in cruise at 7.600 meters above sea level, sank into the Tyrrhenian Trench, between Ponza and Ustica. 81 people lost their lives, including 14 children. There are three hypotheses about the disaster, but none has ever been proven, until the analysis of the findings and documentary material reveals a fourth, chilling possible cause of the disaster.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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My Revolution
Overview: The Arab Spring in Paris: Head over heels in love, Marwann, aged 14, hopes to win over Sygrid by cleverly re-inventing himself as a revolutionary. Questions of identity arise in this romantic tale of first love
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-03
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Maldoror
Overview: When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-15
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Light Thereafter
Overview: Pavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in search of his idol, the enigmatic painter Arnaud. Desperately lonely and adrift, Pavel tries to adhere to the host of characters he meets along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
Overview: The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past, socially committed, who for years has offered outstanding performances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-05-12
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Lola Pater
Overview: When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-08-09
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Mary Magdalene
Overview: In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Une chaîne pour deux
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-08
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Sisters
Overview: Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-16
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Catch the Wind
Overview: Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Ruby Is Dead
Overview: The body of a teenager is found in a river.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-07
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Above the Law
Overview: Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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A Bluebird in My Heart
Overview: An ex-con's attempts to live a quiet life are derailed when the daughter of the woman sheltering him is the victim of a vicious attack.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Sofia
Overview: Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Hellhole
Overview: Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter jet pilot on a mission in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man from Algerian descent is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple favor. An Italian woman, who works in the heart of the European Institutions, is slowly losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. The same question that seems to haunt the city looms over their lives : where do we go from here?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Overview: Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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Le Donne della Vucciria
Overview: In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of clothes, music and dance in a charming, evocative study of the women of the Sicilian city of Palermo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Adam
Overview: Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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Pure fiction
Overview: Film based on the infamous 'Marc Dutroux' case that shook Belgium to its core.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-04
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Lockdown
Overview: In his own natural habitat, the infamous Brussels' neighbourhood Molenbeek that appeared in the international news several times after terrorist attacks in Europe, director Koen Van Sande tells a story about paranoia and misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-09
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Rebel
Overview: Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-31
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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L'île des esclaves
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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Tomahawk Springs
Overview: Mother and son hit the road west, stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs along the way.
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Original Language: en
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