Souad Amidou

Souad Amidou

Born: July 4, 1959
in Nanterre, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress.

She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966.

When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas.

From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the Caesar of the best female hope. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg.

On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991.

She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008.

In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals.

Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon.

Source: Article "Souad Amidou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Souad Amidou...

Brillantes
Title: Brillantes
Released: January 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her is taken over, subject to the laws of capitalism, Karine will have to choose between being true to herself, or lie to protect herself and her family.
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All You Need is Lie
Title: All You Need is Lie
Character: Odile
Released: September 7, 2021
Type: Movie
In the jungle that is celibacy and dating apps, Zoé just found the man of her life. An idyll which lasts - 2 hours - before Robinson falls into a coma. One misunderstanding later, she is now engaged to this man and responsible for his two children while he is hospitalized. Playing along, Zoé will have to play the perfect girlfriend to man she barely knows - But along the line of lies and time passed in the world of this charming stranger, won't she end up by believing in this love? What will happen once Robinson wakes up?
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La loi de Damien - L'égal des dieux
Title: La loi de Damien - L'égal des dieux
Character: Sabine Bernel
Released: December 17, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Best Years of a Life
Title: The Best Years of a Life
Character: Françoise Gauthier, la fille d'Anne
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: Movie
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
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7, rue de la Folie
Title: 7, rue de la Folie
Character: Fatima
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Comedy about a muslim and how is (expected) to behave.
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Black Really Suits You
Title: Black Really Suits You
Character: Maléké
Released: December 5, 2012
Type: Movie
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.
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Title: La Maison des Rocheville
Character: Antonella
Released: September 28, 2010
Type: TV
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Goodbye Mothers
Title: Goodbye Mothers
Character: Ruth Elkaim
Released: February 1, 2008
Type: Movie
In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.
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Il faut sauver Saïd
Title: Il faut sauver Saïd
Character: La mère
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he attends in the Parisian banlieue hardly give him a chance. And then he is drawn into the criminal machinations of his brother.
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Munich
Title: Munich
Character: Yussef's Wife
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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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Title: And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Character: la femme de chambre
Released: May 29, 2002
Type: Movie
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Fabienne
Released: April 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon
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Title: Mission : protection rapprochée
Character: Diane
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Best Job in the World
Title: The Best Job in the World
Character: Radhia
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: Movie
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
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Tom est tout seul
Title: Tom est tout seul
Character: L'infirmière
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons.
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The Fire Dance
Title: The Fire Dance
Character: Habiba M'Sika
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927.
 Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.
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Title: Rocca (série télévisée)
Character: l'inspecteur Fred Dubreuil
Released: June 17, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Les Hordes
Character: Sarah
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: TV
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form hordes that increasingly worry the state. In order to thwart the small group, a police officer declared dead infiltrates the hordes ...
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Title: La Valise en carton
Character: Linda de Suza
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: TV
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Vaines recherches
Title: Vaines recherches
Character: Soledad
Released: November 15, 1987
Type: Movie
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?
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Malady of Love
Title: Malady of Love
Character: Farida
Released: September 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
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Le Passager du Tassili
Title: Le Passager du Tassili
Character: Safia
Released: August 5, 1987
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Les A.M.I. du Tassili by the Algerian Akli Tadjer about Algerian immigration in France.
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Levy & Goliath
Title: Levy & Goliath
Character: Malika
Released: January 27, 1987
Type: Movie
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
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Diesel
Title: Diesel
Character: Kim
Released: August 7, 1985
Type: Movie
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
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Petit Con
Title: Petit Con
Character: Salima
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Zina Khelifa
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Noisy Neighbours
Title: Noisy Neighbours
Character: Dancer
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
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The Girls of Grenoble
Title: The Girls of Grenoble
Character: Liliane
Released: November 18, 1981
Type: Movie
In Grenoble, a prostitute is murdered in her hospital bed. Cora twenty-two and also a prostitute was one of her friends. On a daily basis these women suffer violence receive a miserable salary and work non-stop in terror of the pimps. - IMDB
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Mme le procureur
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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A Man and a Woman
Title: A Man and a Woman
Character: Françoise Gauthier
Released: May 27, 1966
Type: Movie
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.