Malek Kateb
Oyuncu · 1942 – 2000 · Algeria
Filmler11
Film7.4KomediJacob, bir hahamdır ve uzun yıllar sonra Fransa'ya dönmeye hazırlanır. Amerika'da yaşadığı süre boyunca çok sevilmiştir. Ancak bir gün, Schmolls ailesi onu bir kutlama için davet eder. Otuz yılın ardından Fransa'ya gitme zamanı gelmiştir. Bu sırada, kaba ve bağnaz bir karakter olan Victor, ertesi gün evlenecek olan kızı için Normandiya'ya doğru yola çıkar. Yolda şoförüyle birlikte kaza yapar ve arabaları göle düşer. Yahudi şoför, Victor'a yardım etmeyince Victor onu kovar. Bu arada, Arap lider Mohamed Larbi Slimane kaçırılmıştır. Victor, istemeden de olsa Slimane'ye yardım eder ve onu kurtarır. Bu ikili, polis ve katillerden kaçarken kimliklerini gizlemek için Haham Jacob ve arkadaşı Haham Samuel'e saldırır. Kıyafetlerini ve sakallarını çalarlar. İşte bu kimlik değiştirme, son derece eğlenceli ve bol kahkahalı olayların başlangıcı olacaktır.
Film6.8AksiyonSuçNew York narkotik dedektifi Popeye Doyle, Fransız bağlantılı uyuşturucu ticareti zincirini, elebaşını yakalamak için jandarma ile işbirliği yaptığı Fransa'ya kadar takip eder.
Film6.2SuçDramThe Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Film3.2DramKomediFrench novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
FilmDramOmar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry “Le Tassili” and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood that does not hide their heartbreaks.
Film8.0DramWesternIn prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
Film8.0DramThis somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988 · 1 votes
Film6.7GerilimAksiyonSimon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Film9.0DramKomediIn the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a public writer for illiterate compatriots whose lives he knows in detail. As he betrays none of their secrets, he enjoys great prestige in the bistros where he works. The three of them lead a casual life, raising money by illicit means. It's only when Poulou and Amar leave that Jibé understands his isolation and marginalization. The images as well as the sounds help to reinforce the feeling that Paris is a city where he is both at home and a terrible stranger.
Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique
1971 · 2 votes
Film4.5KomediThe comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.
Salut cousin !
1996 · 14 votes
Film5.8KomediIn 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