
Lubna Azabal
Actor · b. 1973 · Bruxelles, Belgium
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 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.
Movies24
Movie8.1DramaWarA 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.
Incendies
2010 · 3.5K votes
Movie6.6ActionDramaThe 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.
Body of Lies
2008 · 3.4K votes
Movie6.3DramaIn 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.
Mary Magdalene
2018 · 582 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerCaius 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.
Coriolanus
2011 · 515 votes
Movie6.9CrimeThrillerTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv
Paradise Now
2005 · 297 votes
Movie6.4ThrillerCrimeWhen 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.
Movie7.2DramaRomanceA middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerFilm based on the infamous 'Marc Dutroux' case that shook Belgium to its core.
Pure fiction
1998 · 1 votes
Movie7.7ActionThrillerKamal 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.
Rebel
2022 · 65 votes
Movie7.9DramaHistorySimone 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.
Movie6.2DramaAissa, 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.
Movie5.9CrimeThrillerFrank 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.
Movie3.0DramaA Lebanese-American teenager gets expelled from school and is forced to drive cross-country with his neurotic mother. What begins as punishment becomes the longest, funniest, and most unexpectedly meaningful trip of his life.
Hot Water
2026 · 2 votes
Movie6.1AdventureDramaOne 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.
Movie5.0AdventureDramaSet 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
Here
2011 · 25 votes
Movie5.8DramaScience FictionThe 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..
Buğday
2017 · 34 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceIn 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.
Movie6.3DramaThrillerDriven by the promise of a new life, Jessica 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.
Rabia
2024 · 42 votes
Movie6.0In 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.
Lockdown
2018 · 3 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerAn 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.
A Bluebird in My Heart
2018 · 139 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryTV MovieDocumentary 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.
Movie6.2CrimeFive 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...
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010 · 101 votes
Movie6.5DramaRotterdam, 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.
Movie7.6DramaAn 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.
Series14
TV6.6CrimeMysteryOld-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
TV7.1DramaWar & PoliticsBrilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
The Little Drummer Girl
2018 · 232 votes
TV7.5DramaCrimeSix stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Accusé
2015 · 4 votes
TV7.5DocumentaryDramaA historical exploration about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the preserved Roman city it left behind.
Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston
2026 · 32 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaHunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
TV7.1CrimeAction & AdventureMehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.
TV7.3DramaWar & PoliticsNessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.
The Honourable Woman
2014 · 128 votes
TV7.9DramaWhat if the terrible general "collapse" of our civilization, the collapse everyone is talking about right now, really happened soon? Several destinies of individuals and families, at different times of the collapse, trying to survive as best they can in a world that is no longer running smoothly, between lack of resources (energy, food ...), riots, panic and insecurity.
TV6.4DramaA horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge.
TV5.6DramaSci-Fi & FantasyThe economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall.
Trepalium
2016 · 25 votes
TV5.9DramaMysterySummer 2011: the Swiss financial market is abuzz with the news that Paul Béguelin, the director-general of the private bank Béguelin, was found dead in his office. Is it a case of suicide or score settling? This question is going to haunt his sister Elisabeth. Catapulted to the center stage of the bank, she embarks on an internal investigation. This is the beginning of a long road toward the truth, which will immerse her in the murky mysteries of the bank, her family’s secrets and banking secrecy.
TV6.9CrimeDramaJust released from prison six months ago, Cheyenne is cleaning ferries while dreaming of fleeing to the Amazon. Lola is a stunning, selfish Parisian without scruples who appears in the north of France to move in with her lover. When Lola murders her lover's wife, Cheyenne, an involuntary witness, knows she will be charged with the murder because of her criminal record. She is obliged to seek help from the local crime boss to get rid of the body. A favor that will drag the two women into a dangerous game of duplicity, all while making a fortune behind everyone's back.
TVDramaWar & PoliticsA powerful, affecting drama that spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Follow the lives of three soldiers and friends as they deal with the war in Iraq and life back home.
Occupation
2009
TVCrimeA psychiatrist living in seclusion in a mansion in Champagne-Ardenne is torn between caring for his patients, his work as a profiler for the police, and a past he is trying to hide.
Ardennes
2025