Simon Abkarian

Simon Abkarian

Born: March 5, 1962
in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, France
Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French-Armenian actor.

Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris. He took classes at the Acting International school, then he joined Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil.

Abkarian left the Théâtre du Soleil in 1993 and played in 2001 "Beast on the Moon" by Richard Kalinoski, directed by Irina Brook, a play about the life of a survivor of the Genocide of the Armenians, a role which won him critical acclaims and the Molière of the best comedian.

His first roles in cinema were proposed by French filmaker Cédric Klapisch, who asked him to play in several of his movies, notably in "Chacun cherche son chat" ("When the Cat is Away" (1996) and in "Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire)" en 2003.

He was featured in Sally Potter's Yes (2004), in which he played the lead role.

Abkarian then played Mehdi Ben Barka in the thriller "J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka" by Serge Le Péron, about the kidnapping and the murder of the leader of the Moroccan opposition. He then played in "Prendre Femme" by Ronit Elkabetz which won him several interpretation prizes. Playing different roles and in different genres, he was featured in the adventure "Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas" by Bourlem Guerdjou, in the comedy "Le Démon de midi" by Marie-Pascale Osterriet. He has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's Ararat (2002), he was Albert in Almost Peaceful (2004) by French Director Michel Deville a film about Holocaust survivors, he was featured in "Your Dreams" (2005) by Denis Thybaud. He played the role of villain Alex Dimitrios in the James Bond film, Casino Royale. The character is a Government contractor and arms dealer working against Bond.

He was featured as Sahak in the thriller "Les Mauvais Joueurs" ("The Gamblers") (2007) by Frédéric Balekdjian. He has also been the voice of Ebi in the French version of the animated feature "Persepolis". Abkarian played the role of the eminent Armenian poet Missak Manouchianin in "Army of Crime" (2010) by Robert Guédiguian, a French filmaker based in Marseilles, who is also of Armenian parentage.

He has also played Dariush Bakhshi, the Iranian Special Consul, in the BBC drama Spooks MI-5.

Abkarian is known for his intensity in acting and for his ecclectism in the roles he choses.

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Mémoires de Palestine
Title: Mémoires de Palestine
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 19, 2023
Type: Movie
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Overdose
Title: Overdose
Character: Daniel Prat
Released: November 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
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Title: Notre-Dame
Character: Max
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: TV
As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer - they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each other, smile at or help each other - so that, in the end, they may have a chance to start all over again.
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The Way to Happiness
Title: The Way to Happiness
Character: Saül Birnbaum
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and owner of a Delicatessen dedicated to the "Septième Art" - the movies. With Joakin, his protégé, a young Chilean director, they decide to write the story of Saul's childhood and make it into a film. But love comes knocking at his door and confronts him with his past as a hidden child...
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Restless
Title: Restless
Character: Antoine Marelli
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
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Cop Goes Missing
Title: Cop Goes Missing
Character: Tristan
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
One morning, a worn-out field cop, nicknamed Ping-Pong by everyone, burns his police ID and disappears. During one night and one day, his colleagues look for him, meet him and lose him in Toulouse and its suburbs. But every hour that passes brings Ping-Pong a little bit closer to his own destiny.
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Off-Season
Title: Off-Season
Character: Anthony
Released: November 26, 2021
Type: Movie
A seaside resort in the middle of winter, with its abandoned beach bars and rain-battered alleys, can easily flank the drone. Refugees on the top floor of a building in La Grande Motte, Carole and Richard Lazure have zero morale: swindled by their tax advisor and badly defended by an incompetent lawyer, they lost their business, their house and no longer even enough to buy the essentials. The eruption into their life of a childhood friend of Richard, a talkative talker with questionable dating, could be a game-changer - or make their situation worse.
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Permis de construire
Title: Permis de construire
Character: Müller
Released: November 15, 2021
Type: Movie
When his father passes away, a dentist in Paris inherits a plot and the will to build a house on it. The situation becomes tricky when he learns the plot is located in Corsica.
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Black Notebooks
Title: Black Notebooks
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: Movie
With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz, and delivers a rare cinematic experience.
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Les Damnés de la Commune
Title: Les Damnés de la Commune
Character: Narrateur (voice)
Released: March 16, 2021
Type: Movie
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Le dernier jour du jeûne
Title: Le dernier jour du jeûne
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Wonderland
Character: Tony
Released: May 18, 2020
Type: TV
In this romantic fantasy-thriller, a man from the present travels back to 1960s Biarritz and meets a mysterious woman whose destiny is inexplicably linked with his own.
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The Audition
Title: The Audition
Character: Philippe
Released: November 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexander, in whom she alone sees great talent. She devotes much energy and attention preparing him for the next stage exam to prove she was right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into rivalry. At the same time her marriage is collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from her own family and starts an affair with her colleague Christian, who is encouraging her to join a quartet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts. With Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn...
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Someone, Somewhere
Title: Someone, Somewhere
Character: Mansour
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
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The Swallows of Kabul
Title: The Swallows of Kabul
Character: Atiq (voice)
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Ce soir-là et les jours d'après
Title: Ce soir-là et les jours d'après
Character: Karan
Released: June 26, 2019
Type: Movie
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Rebels
Title: Rebels
Character: Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father
Released: January 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.
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The Sonata
Title: The Sonata
Character: Charles Vernais
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
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Cyrano, My Love
Title: Cyrano, My Love
Character: Ange Fleury
Released: November 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
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Journey from Greece
Title: Journey from Greece
Character: Kakourgos
Released: August 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.
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Overdrive
Title: Overdrive
Character: Jacomo Morier
Released: June 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
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Title: Playground
Character: The Father
Released: March 22, 2017
Type: TV
A lonely teenage girl joins a school for promising killers and trains hard to become an professional assassin as she uncovers the mysteries of her parents' death.
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J'ai tué ma femme
Title: J'ai tué ma femme
Character: Le patron du café
Released: February 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even more troubled than they are. The world seems about to erupt.
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Scribe
Title: Scribe
Character: Gerfaut
Released: October 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.
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Chouf
Title: Chouf
Character: Le libanais
Released: October 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence…
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Title: Malaterra
Character: Thomas Rotman
Released: November 18, 2015
Type: TV
Malaterra: for the residents this village is a haven of peace, a refuge. Until the death of a child. This once united community, where everyone thought they could trust each other, falls apart. Who killed little Nathan? And why?
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Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
Title: Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
Character: Hovannès Alexandrian
Released: November 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to visit Gilles at the hospital and beg for his forgiveness, something that Gilles does not understand. Against the advice of his comrades in Beirut, Aram decides to go meet his victim.
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Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger
Title: Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger
Character: Narrator
Released: April 28, 2015
Type: Movie
On 15 March 1921, Talat Pasha, a high-ranking Turkish dignitary, was shot dead in a Berlin street by a young Armenian. A few months later, Soghomon Tehlirian, his assassin, appeared before a German court. He faced the death penalty. Yet, during the trial, the victim gradually changed into the guilty party, and the accused was finally acquitted.
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1915
Title: 1915
Character: Simon
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
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The Cut
Title: The Cut
Character: Krikor
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
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Colt 45
Title: Colt 45
Character: Commander Luc Denard
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Title: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Character: Elisha
Released: June 25, 2014
Type: Movie
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
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Angelique
Title: Angelique
Character: L'avocat François Desgrez
Released: December 18, 2013
Type: Movie
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.
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The Marchers
Title: The Marchers
Character: Le père de Farid
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Title: Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Character: Abraham Drucker
Released: December 19, 2012
Type: Movie
The young years of Michel Drucker.
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Title: Kaboul Kitchen
Character: Colonel Amanullah
Released: February 13, 2012
Type: TV
Kaboul Kitchen is a French comedy television series broadcast by Canal+. It was created by Marc Victor, Allan Mauduit and Jean-Patrick Benes. The series is based on the true story of Radio France Internationale journalist Marc Victor, who ran a restaurant for French expatriates in Kabul until 2008. The first series premiered on February 15, 2012 on Canal+ and ended on March 5, 2012. It set a ratings record for comedy series in the primetime slot on Canal+. A second series, which will have 12 episodes, has been commissioned. The series depicts the life of French expatriate Jacky who runs the popular restaurant Kaboul Kitchen in Kabul, Afghanistan. His daughter Sophie, who he has not seen in 20 years, arrives to do humanitarian work, while he is interested only in making money. The series won two Golden FIPA Awards at the 2012 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels: one for Best TV Series and one for Best TV Screenplay. It was screened at MIPTV and named fourth on The Hollywood Reporter's list of "MIPTV A-List Projects" for the most promising series screened at the event.
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Zarafa
Title: Zarafa
Character: Hassan (voice)
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
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Force
Title: Force
Character: Jimi Weiss
Released: October 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison. Commander Damico promises him freedom in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses. There is no other solution, she is obliged to compel him by force.
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Les Amants naufragés
Title: Les Amants naufragés
Character: Milo Garavan
Released: June 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he is haunted every day by the only fear of discovering that Mathilde is unfaithful. Day after day, week after week, suspicions precipitate Stan in an infernal spiral driven by jealousy. The existence of Mathilde and Stan rocking after an irreparable act: Stan kills the one he thinks is his rival. Soon, doubt settles, jealousy resurfaced. What if Stan was abused by his paranoia? Could it be that his jealousy is only the result of a mad scheme? Who would then draw the strings? ...
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Title: Tony's Revenge
Character: Tony Roucas
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: TV
Tony Roucas, a long-term convicted criminal, escapes from prison with Kenz, a small-town big shot. Their run reveals a generational conflict of a new genre. Tony’s quest for truth and desire for vengeance take you to the heart of great French organized crime, from the 50s to today.
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Comme une ombre
Title: Comme une ombre
Character: Vincent
Released: December 21, 2010
Type: Movie
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Turk's Head
Title: Turk's Head
Character: Le veuf
Released: March 31, 2010
Type: Movie
A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all will be swept by the shock wave.
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Title: Pigalle, la nuit
Character: Nadir Zainoun
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: TV
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Merlin
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
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Army of Crime
Title: Army of Crime
Character: Missak Manouchian
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
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Secrets of State
Title: Secrets of State
Character: Al Barad
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
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The Wedding Song
Title: The Wedding Song
Character: Raoul
Released: November 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewess who are both preparing for their marriages.
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Le Menteur : La Pièce !
Title: Le Menteur : La Pièce !
Character: Lelio
Released: November 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: Gilles Paulin
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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Khamsa
Title: Khamsa
Character: Khamsa's Father
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
After fleeing from his foster family, 11-years-old Khamsa returns to the gypsy camp where he was born. With his cousin, Tony "The Midget", Khamsa dreams of getting rich with cock fights. Nothing seems to have changed since he left, the card games, the Mediterranean Sea... Until his best friend, Coyote, meets Rachitique, a small-time crook. Very soon they pass from stealing scooters to armed robbery, and Khamsa quickly spirals down into delinquency.
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The Seven Days
Title: The Seven Days
Character: Eliyau
Released: May 5, 2008
Type: Movie
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
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Minor Revelations
Title: Minor Revelations
Released: April 9, 2008
Type: Movie
"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
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L'Affaire Ben Barka
Title: L'Affaire Ben Barka
Character: le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
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Rendition
Title: Rendition
Character: Said Abdel Aziz
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Persepolis
Title: Persepolis
Character: Marjane's Father (voice)
Released: June 27, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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Trivial
Title: Trivial
Character: Pierre
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
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New Délire
Title: New Délire
Character: Gunter (voice)
Released: January 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Take a Bollywood film--a good Bolllywood film--with action, emotion, suspense, and laughter. With Indian actors who act, dance, sing and smother themselves with tomato sauce when feigning a bloody head wound. Now, watch the image with the sound turned down! And let Pascal Legitimus and Eric Le Roch re-invent a story, recreate the sounds and the atmosphere, rewrite the lyrics to the songs. They'll give a new meaning to the film, helped in doing so by many well-known actors, who'll lend their voices to the Indian actors on screen. This diversion isn't a danger to your health. You simply risk killing yourself laughing!
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Alex Dimitrios
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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The Snake
Title: The Snake
Character: Sam
Released: October 21, 2006
Type: Movie
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?
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Armenia
Title: Armenia
Character: Sarkis Arabian
Released: June 28, 2006
Type: Movie
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
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S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
Title: S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
Character: Cesari
Released: November 29, 2005
Type: Movie
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Title: I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Character: Mehdi Ben Barka
Released: November 2, 2005
Type: Movie
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.
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Zaina: Rider of the Atlas
Title: Zaina: Rider of the Atlas
Character: Omar
Released: October 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most prestigious of all races : the Agdal. Along she'll have to face powerful OMAR and learn to trust her newly discovered father Mustapha.
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Yes
Title: Yes
Character: He
Released: August 5, 2005
Type: Movie
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.
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The Demon Stirs
Title: The Demon Stirs
Character: Julien Cestac
Released: June 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers.
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Les mauvais joueurs
Title: Les mauvais joueurs
Character: Sahak
Released: April 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Paris, le quartier du Sentier. Noël approche et la vie de Vahé Krikorian part à vau-l'eau. La boutique de son père, avec qui il travaille, va bientôt fermer. Trop de dettes et d'impayés. Lu Ann, la femme qu'il aime, le quitte et il sent bien que les arnaques au bonneteau qu'il pratique avec Sahak et son frère Toros ne vont pas le mener loin.
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In Your Dreams
Title: In Your Dreams
Character: Wilson
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...
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To Take A Wife
Title: To Take A Wife
Character: Eliyahoo
Released: June 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
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Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
Title: Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
Character: Freddy
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.
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The Legend of Princess Parva
Title: The Legend of Princess Parva
Character: Swami (voice)
Released: February 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.
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Almost Peaceful
Title: Almost Peaceful
Character: Albert
Released: December 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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
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Aram
Title: Aram
Character: Aram
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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The Truth About Charlie
Title: The Truth About Charlie
Character: Lieutenant Dessalines
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.
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Ararat
Title: Ararat
Character: Arshile Gorky
Released: May 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Dariush Bakhshi
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Lila Lili
Title: Lila Lili
Character: Simon
Released: January 6, 1999
Type: Movie
Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home who are also pregnant the frequently asked question is whether they will keep their baby or not.
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Tempest in a Teapot
Title: Tempest in a Teapot
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).
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The Silence of Rak
Title: The Silence of Rak
Character: Customer
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.
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When the Cat's Away
Title: When the Cat's Away
Character: Carlos
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
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Ana El Awan
Title: Ana El Awan
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is looking for her lost son. They meet, fall in love, and discover the despair of the people of war-torn Lebanon.
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Le Poisson rouge
Title: Le Poisson rouge
Character: Customer
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Le Quatrième mur
Title: Le Quatrième mur
Character: Marwan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
Title: De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
Character: Charles De Gaulle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Part one of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
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De Gaulle – Partie 2
Title: De Gaulle – Partie 2
Character: Charles De Gaulle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
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Dieu reconnaîtra les siens
Title: Dieu reconnaîtra les siens
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie