Salah Bensalah

Salah Bensalah


in Casablanca, Morocco
Moroccan artist Saleh Bensalah, joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Rabat, and studied theater for four years and obtained a diploma in diagnosis in 2003. He began working in the theater and the play Don Quixote with a Moroccan-style quote was the first play in which he participated, then he played limited roles on television until it came The experience of industrial film in 2005, and he also worked with international directors such as Florence Siri, director of the movie “The Intimate Enemy” with the great actor Benno Magimil. He also worked in documentaries produced by German companies specializing in topics related to the history of the Pharaohs. He played starring roles in several films, including the movie “The End.” This is his first starring in a movie with Moroccan director Hicham Lasri.

Movies for Salah Bensalah...

Moroccan Badass Girl
Title: Moroccan Badass Girl
Character: Saleh
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her - especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigrate, but things don’t go as planned.
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No Key
Title: No Key
Released: September 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Two young thieves find a sealed jewelry box that becomes the envy of rival gangs.
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Hounds
Title: Hounds
Character: Jalil
Released: July 19, 2023
Type: Movie
In the working class suburbs of Casablanca. Hassan and Issam, father and son, try to survive from day to day, doing small deals for the local underworld. One night, a man they were supposed to kidnap dies accidentally in their car. Hassan and Issam find themselves with a corpse to dispose of. Then begins a long night through the underworld of the city.
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The Unknown Saint
Title: The Unknown Saint
Character: The Brain
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint built directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.
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Masood saida and saadan
Title: Masood saida and saadan
Character: Korsakoof
Released: January 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Masoud is released from prison after around 15 years of detention. An old friend he meets after his release from prison asks him to look for his daughter, Saïda, who left her in the city of Dakhla, with one of her relatives before losing contact with her. "Masoud" finds "Saïda", who works as a singer in a bar, the latter steals a key to a mafia belonging to an imprisoned minister, this key opens a safe filled with precious documents which accuses a member of parliament. a monkey named "Saâdan" swallows this key, to become their travel companion in many adventures where they find themselves chased by the mafia, the police, the men of the member of parliament, as well as trafficking gangs.
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Nhar Lkbir
Title: Nhar Lkbir
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Daoud awaits the most important day of his life, the day he will meet the wealthy future father-in-law, to ask him to marry his daughter Ibtisam, but ahead of time to meet him David will face events that will change the course of the story
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Cambodia
Title: Cambodia
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A classic car belonging to the boss of the local mafia goes missing from the garage of a mechanic called Kwika who had taken it in to do some repairs. kwika thus finds himself in a dangerous predicament with the boss who asks him to pay for the full value of the car within the month. kwika has no choice, he has to find the money but unfortunately has no way of doing so and has already suffered several threats and beatings by Kiama.With time passing quickly, he decides on the spur of the moment to sell one of his kidneys to a family with a sick child called Ismail, on one condition, that he has the operation in Singapore. kwika and Ismail leave for Singapore but first of all they touch down in Cambodia where they leave the airport and have all their belongings stolen. They are thus in a tragi-comic situation in Cambodia where they have to find a way of organising the operation as well as getting back home to Morocco.
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Moul Ihsae
Title: Moul Ihsae
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Lotfi, a census enumerator (counting demographics) or at least that's what he claims. Visits a neighborhood full of nutcases to interview and "count" them but everything quickly turns into a huge mess in a hilarious comedic frame full of twists about the Moroccan society..
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Good Day
Title: Good Day
Released: November 19, 2016
Type: Movie
The horrible, terrible, unpleasant, insurmountable day of Daoud who has to cross Casablanca to get to an important meeting on a day of Zemzem and cab strike while his own car is stuck in the garage...
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Title: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: Movie
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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Tikitat A'Soulima
Title: Tikitat A'Soulima
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
For the last screening before it closes for good, the Marhaba cinema is showing Spider-Man 3. Hassan, an 11 years old, absolutely wants to go. But he doesn't have a cent and his mother refuses to let him go with his friends. But Hassan has only one thing in mind: to go and see the film, whatever the cost!
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Le Clair obscur
Title: Le Clair obscur
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A love story between a blind man who dreams of being a TV presenter and a young film student, despite everything that opposes them.
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The Sea Is Behind
Title: The Sea Is Behind
Released: December 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically abandoned him. One day, Tarik’s horse Larbi stops in the middle of a procession and refuses to take another step forward. Tarik will have to learn to live again and surrender to the colours of his life, which is the only way to escape the dullness of the world around him.
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They Are The Dogs
Title: They Are The Dogs
Character: presenter
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Members of a television crew stumble across the story of an old man whose tragic tale dates back to 1981 during upheavals in Morocco, where he was arrested. Released 30 years later in 2011, he is now trying to come to terms with a new reality. The TV crew decides to report his journey as he sets off on a quest to find his family and his place in this new world.
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Prisoners of the Sun
Title: Prisoners of the Sun
Character: Al-Khem Ayut
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse
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Traitors
Title: Traitors
Released: September 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in Tangier, Traitors tells the story of Maika, a calm, conservative girl by day and a leader of an all-girl punk group by night.
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Road to Tangier
Title: Road to Tangier
Character: Noureddin
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Moroccan film tells the story of four men at the age of sixty, living in the retirement home in Marrakech : Issa, Seddik, Ahmed and Taher. One day they decided to go on a trip to Tangier, on the way they fall into many problems.
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The End
Title: The End
Released: December 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Casablanca, July 1999. With longtime monarch Hassan II on his deathbed, there is an air of uncertainty weighing on Morocco - and especially on one marginalized young man, M'key. M'key finds a surrogate father figure in "pit bull" police commissioner Daoud and finds love with the enchanting Rita, but Rita is kept under close watch by her gangster brothers.
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Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit
Title: Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit
Character: Echnaton
Released: April 9, 2011
Type: Movie
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Terminus des Anges
Title: Terminus des Anges
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: Movie
A combination of three short films tackling the subject of AIDS, a subject approached by three different directors.
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Trip to Casablanca
Title: Trip to Casablanca
Character: Waiter
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A number of friends play cards and put the sums collected in the coin bank, a year later they will decide to take a trip to Casablanca, and there they are exposed to several situations and problems.
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Intimate Enemies
Title: Intimate Enemies
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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The People of the Clock
Title: The People of the Clock
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A musician whose career never took off decides one day to start a real career as an artist.
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Bone of Iron
Title: Bone of Iron
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Three close friends need to find 120 Dirhams to pay for their friend's bus pass so he doesn't drop out of college.. but are confronted with harsh reality. The cry of despair drives them to the ultimate act: taking a bus hostage.
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Haysh Maysh: False Drama
Title: Haysh Maysh: False Drama
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her, especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigration, but things don’t go as planned..
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Thank You Satan
Title: Thank You Satan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Previously called “Happy Lovers,” the dark comedy is about a penniless novelist who plans to assassinate a famous author that has been issued a fatwa. He wants to use the money to provide for his wife and upcoming baby.