Oulaya Amamra

Oulaya Amamra

Born: November 12, 1996
in Viry-Châtillon, France
Oulaya Amamra (born 12 November 1995) is a French actress known for starring in the 2016 films Divines and Tamara. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2017 for Divines. Amamra is the younger sister of director Houda Benyamina. Amamra attended Catholic school and studied classical dance for 15 years.

Movies for Oulaya Amamra...

Animale
Title: Animale
Character: Nejma
Released: November 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Camargue, France - Nejma trains hard to win the local bullfighting competition. When she is mauled after a celebration, she starts to notice disturbing changes. News of a rogue bull on the loose terrifies the community, killing young men.
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Divertimento
Title: Divertimento
Character: Zahia Ziouani
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
’95–’96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversity and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.
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Smoking Causes Coughing
Title: Smoking Causes Coughing
Character: Ammoniaque
Released: November 30, 2022
Type: Movie
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
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Title: Le Late avec Alain Chabat
Released: November 21, 2022
Type: TV
Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!
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Citoyen d'honneur
Title: Citoyen d'honneur
Character: Selma
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all the invitations made to him. Until the day when he decides to accept to be made "Honorary Citizen" of Sidi Mimoun, the small town where he was born.But should he again meet with the inhabitants of this city, who year after year became the heroes of his various novels?
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I And the Stupid Boy
Title: I And the Stupid Boy
Character: Nora
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Nora is a striking young girl in new love. We see her dancing around her bedroom, lip-synching, testing outfits, in between sending heart emojis, and more, to the special boy. All dressed up, she takes a short cut through an abandoned building, on the way for her hot date. Kevin pulls up in the background on his scooter. He's Nora's recent ex, jilted and jealous. Kevin grabs Nora's phone, and what ensues is a now universal 21st century story of male-female power, sexuality and shame with a biting, feminist twist.
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Hard Shell, Soft Shell
Title: Hard Shell, Soft Shell
Character: Lila
Released: August 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anything to help him get his head out of the water.
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Canal+ Replay
Title: Canal+ Replay
Character: Bloquées
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings.
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The Salt of Tears
Title: The Salt of Tears
Character: Djemila
Released: October 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.
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Title: Vampires
Character: Doina Radescu
Released: March 20, 2020
Type: TV
A Paris teen who's half human, half vampire grapples with her emerging powers and family turmoil as she's pursued by a secret vampire community.
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Title: Kem's
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2019
Type: TV
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French Touch: Girls of Summer
Title: French Touch: Girls of Summer
Character: Sarah
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Feeling smothered by both stifling heat and their parents, these young women long for a dip in the enticing pool of adulthood. An anthology of award-winning French Shorts.
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Farewell to the Night
Title: Farewell to the Night
Character: Lila
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
Muriel is overjoyed, as her beloved grandson Alex is staying at her place for a few days before moving to Canada to work. But when the changes in his behavior arouse her curiosity, she is led to the discovery of a dark secret.
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Title: The Little Drummer Girl
Character: Salma
Released: October 28, 2018
Type: TV
Brilliant 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.
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The World Is Yours
Title: The World Is Yours
Character: Lamya
Released: August 15, 2018
Type: Movie
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
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The Odd Girl
Title: The Odd Girl
Character: La fille d'Idir
Released: January 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Following a long prison term, 30 year-old Céline must find a place in society. Hiding her past, she introduces herself with a new identity to get work for a trial period in a hotel. Céline finds herself endlessly walking a tightrope between truth and fiction. When she meets Idir, despite the threat of being unmasked, Céline falls in love and finds herself a prisoner to her own lies. But how can one live without taking risks?
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The Revelations 2017
Title: The Revelations 2017
Released: January 3, 2017
Type: Movie
For this 11th edition, the brilliant Valérie Donzelli demonstrates all her attachment to youth by associating her talent with the 34 Revelations 2017. A true surge of poetry and romanticism, Valérie Donzelli's cinema touches, disconcerts and makes us feel furiously free.
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Tamara
Title: Tamara
Character: Jelilah
Released: October 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big". To shut up the gossip, she made a bet with her best friend to go out with the first boy who pass the classroom door. No luck, the boy turns out to be Diego, the most handsome guy of high school. The bet is complicated for Tamara .... Between the dirty tricks of the mean girls of high school, a mother hen, boards "drag" his little sister, Tamara is a memorable year!
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The Blind Orchestra
Title: The Blind Orchestra
Character: Chama
Released: October 26, 2016
Type: Movie
In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king, is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud father of Mimou. This is a very particular troupe, male musicians who are sometimes forced to pretend that they are blind in order to play at parties reserved for women in conservative Moroccan families. But then young Minou runs into Chama, the neighbor’s new maid
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Divines
Title: Divines
Character: Dounia
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
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Mr Gaspacho
Title: Mr Gaspacho
Character: Julie
Released: August 6, 2016
Type: Movie
The end of the school year is approaching and Méline, an introverted teenager, has only one week left to get close to the boy she loves. Assisted by her loyal advisor Mr Gaspacho, and her best friend, Méline will attempt what would normally be impossible for her.
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Mariam
Title: Mariam
Character: Mariam
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
The year is 2004. France has passed a law banning religious symbols in public schools. Mariam, born in France to Arab parents, recently began to wear the hijab after performing the hajj with her grandmother. At the start of the academic year, she pretends the new law does not exist, as she does not want to acknowledge it and so be forced to make a decision. To complicate matters, Karim, a popular young Arab boy in school, starts paying attention to her and she develops a powerful crush on him. While her fellow veiled classmates argue with teachers about their desire to keep wearing the hijab, and her parents argue about her wearing hers, Mariam dreams of Karim, despite her best friend Sophia’s warning that he is not serious. Things come to a head when the deadline for removing the hijab or facing expulsion falls the same week Mariam sees Karim with another girl.
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Un Métier Bien
Title: Un Métier Bien
Character: Soraya
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
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Summer of Sarah
Title: Summer of Sarah
Character: Sarah
Released: January 19, 2015
Type: Movie
It is summer, in the South. Everyday, Sarah, aged sixteen, sells doughnuts with her father on the beach. One evening she meets Baptiste.
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Title: 3x Manon
Character: Yael
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: TV
After going before the judge for the third time, 15-year old Manon is placed in a reform centre for six months. Challenged by her own uncontrollable temper, and the bureaucracy of the institution, will this be Manon’s last chance at redemption?
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Toutes pour une
Title: Toutes pour une
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Women! They're women! They've cut their hair, strapped on their breasts, but they're women. When Sara, a young Morisco on the run, unmasks the three musketeers protecting the Queen of France, she decides to cling to these powerful women and their brilliant idea: disguise to be free, disguise to be yourself...