Saïda Bekkouche
Actor · b. 1945
Movies12
Movie7.1DramaHistoryDuring the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Munich
2005 · 3.1K votes
Movie5.5DramaComedyA comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
Movie4.2ComedyThrillerTwo policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
Tip Top
2013 · 41 votes
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Petit Ben
2000 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaSpooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.
Movie4.2ComedyRomanceOlivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
Movie4.9DramaMuriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
Movie9.0DramaThis romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in France, and the lover who chose to stay in Algeria and fight the French colonials.
Sous les pieds des femmes
1997 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaAn orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
La Petite Jérusalem
2005 · 12 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
MovieDramaRoger Joly and his wife Monique have been happily married for 17 years and share three children. Roger is a highly respected sales manager at a luxury car dealership. However, his peaceful life shatters completely during a routine police identity check. The authorities accuse him of identity theft, claiming he has been living under a false name for nearly two decades. In reality, his birth name is Aziz Bensala. Caught between the identity he wanted to leave behind and the French life he built and desired at all costs, Roger is forced to fight for the only life he knows, even as the law stands against him.
Movie5.8ComedyIn this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.
Douce France
1995 · 4 votes