Lyes Salem

Lyes Salem

Born: July 7, 1973
in Alger, Algeria
Lyès Salem (Algiers, 1973) is an Algerian actor and film director.

His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France.

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We, the Leroys
Title: We, the Leroys
Character: Claude
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: Movie
A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.
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Paternel
Title: Paternel
Character: Amine
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
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Ma part de Gaulois
Title: Ma part de Gaulois
Released: January 31, 2024
Type: Movie
It's the year of the baccalaureate for Magyd, a little Arab from rue Raphaël, northern districts of Toulouse. A formality for the French, a seismic event for the “native”. Just think, the first Arab ferry in the city. The end of a tunnel, the climax of a long standoff with fate, under the incessant loving pressure of the all-powerful mother and the jeering quelibets of the gang. Because it is not good to pass for an “intellectual” after school, in the periphery of “living together”; Magyd and his inseparable friends, Samir the activist and Momo the chat artist, experience it on a daily basis.
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Veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée
Title: Veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée
Character: Le père d'Adel
Released: August 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train inspector, dreams of being transferred to the South of France. To validate his transfer, he has to make one last routine run under the supervision of Madeleine, a slightly sociopathic inspector who won't let him go. That's when everything goes wrong: between a driver who thinks he's driving a fighter jet, a jealous colleague and passengers who are each crazier than the last, what was supposed to be a formality turns into the worst trip of his life.
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For My Country
Title: For My Country
Character: Colonel Mohamedi
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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The In(famous) Youssef Salem
Title: The In(famous) Youssef Salem
Character: Rachid
Released: January 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls into the hands of his family.
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The Fragile Colossus
Title: The Fragile Colossus
Character: Tristan
Released: September 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Sébastien is a former rugby player and a true colossus. Between the ages of 12 to 16, he was a victim of rape by a beloved relative. Thirty years later, he has failed to speak out. After he meets a little colossus like him, he is compelled to make the right choice.
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Final Cut
Title: Final Cut
Character: Mounir
Released: May 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Driss, Anna's husband
Released: February 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?
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DNA
Title: DNA
Character: L'homme du consulat
Released: December 10, 2020
Type: Movie
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
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Honey Cigar
Title: Honey Cigar
Character: Selma's Father
Released: September 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Paris, 1993. Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets and is strongly attracted to Julien, a dashing young man, she realizes for the first time the heavy rules of her patriarchal family and how they affect her intimacy. As Islamism takes over her country of origin and her family crumbles, Selma discovers the power of her own desire. She must resist and fight. Through the strength of her people, she starts walking down the path of what it means to become a free woman.
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Ramdam
Title: Ramdam
Character: Amine
Released: May 29, 2020
Type: Movie
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Abou Leila
Title: Abou Leila
Released: April 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two friends from childhood, travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila, a dangerous terrorist on the run. Their quest seems absurd, given that the Sahara has not been affected by the wave of attacks. Lofti has only one priority : to keep S. as far from the capital as possible, knowing his friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed. But the closest they get into the desert, the more they will be confronted with their own violence.
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Title: Le Grand Bazar
Character: Mohamed
Released: June 25, 2019
Type: TV
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Les Justes
Title: Les Justes
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigue as follows: "In February 1905, in Moscow, a group of terrorists, belonging to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, organized a bomb attack against the Grand Duke Serge, Tsar's uncle ”. The rapper and slammer Abd Al Malik offers with this "musical tragedy" a contemporary staging of "The Just", a complete creation, faithful to the text of Camus, but reinventing a scenic and musical language resolutely inscribed in our time.
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Nefta Football Club
Title: Nefta Football Club
Character: Salim
Released: October 24, 2018
Type: Movie
In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
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Unveiled
Title: Unveiled
Character: Jibril
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband also died. The young, very pregnant widow feared that her lover, the Palestinian activist Djibril, might be entangled in it ... Now, 47 years later, Isabelle finds out that her granddaughter Anaïs has converted to Islam. But why does the young student keep her new faith secret from the family? Anaïs's mother, Léa, immediately rings the alarm.
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In the Game
Title: In the Game
Character: Hicham Soualem
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: Movie
A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.
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Just to Be Sure
Title: Just to Be Sure
Character: Madjid
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
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Sparring
Title: Sparring
Character: Omar
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Steve Landry, an aging boxer with more losses than wins, accepts to become a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay relevant.
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Carole Matthieu
Title: Carole Matthieu
Character: Alain
Released: August 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humiliated co-workers.
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I'm All Yours
Title: I'm All Yours
Character: Le douanier algérien
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
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L'Oranais
Title: L'Oranais
Character: Djaffar
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
During the first euphoric years following independence, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, are promised a bright future in a free Algeria until one day when betrayal separates them.
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Il était une fois... peut-être pas
Title: Il était une fois... peut-être pas
Character: Mohamed
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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Burners
Title: Burners
Character: The Fisherman
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Amine, a young Algerian, rents a camcorder and films souvenirs on his way to Eldorado.
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Nobody Else But You
Title: Nobody Else But You
Character: Gus
Released: January 12, 2011
Type: Movie
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.
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Top Floor Left Wing
Title: Top Floor Left Wing
Character: Hamza Barriba
Released: November 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his wild son...
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Title: Histoires de vies
Character: Kamel
Released: July 4, 2010
Type: TV
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My Afternoons with Margueritte
Title: My Afternoons with Margueritte
Character: Youssef
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: Movie
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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Le Silence Du Sphinx
Title: Le Silence Du Sphinx
Character: Slim
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
As usual, Slim goes to the Point Ephémère bar in Paris to have a last drink. As is often the case, he finds Lily there, an eccentric and intriguing character, then Seiko, whom he knew as a child soldier, once in Sierra Leone. While he listens to Lily tell him a few stories, Slim watches the Seiko ride, tracked and soon arrested by two plainclothes police officers.
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Title: Drôle de famille !
Character: Youssef
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: TV
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Mascarades
Title: Mascarades
Character: Mounir Mekbel
Released: November 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Title: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Character: Le type saoul qui veut du Abba
Released: July 23, 2008
Type: Movie
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
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L'Affaire Ben Barka
Title: L'Affaire Ben Barka
Character: Achaachi
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
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Good Night Malik
Title: Good Night Malik
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Malik raises his little brother and works as a doorman.
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Munich
Title: Munich
Character: Arab Guard
Released: December 23, 2005
Type: Movie
During 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.
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Alex
Title: Alex
Character: Karim
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has no trouble matching up to the men. She works on renovating an old dilapidated house, high up and lonely in the mountains of the Ardèche, in the hope that her teenage son Xavier, who was not brought up by her, will move in. The walls she is restoring are like her life, which she wants to build up bit by bit. Because it's clear that she has just lived through some difficult years - in her own defensive words, she says to her son: 'I was unstable.' She is still easily upset and can become angry and aggressive.
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District B13
Title: District B13
Character: Samy
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
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In Your Image
Title: In Your Image
Character: Antoine
Released: May 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
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Cousines
Title: Cousines
Character: Driss
Released: January 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.
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Only Girls
Title: Only Girls
Character: L'avocat jeune beur
Released: June 11, 2003
Type: Movie
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless
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Clan destin
Title: Clan destin
Released: February 2, 1999
Type: Movie
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American Cuisine
Title: American Cuisine
Character: Karim
Released: October 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Aram
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.