Smaïn

Smaïn

Born: January 3, 1958
in Constantine, France [now Algeria]

Movies for Smaïn...

Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Title: Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Character: Doctor Farès
Released: November 15, 2023
Type: Movie
The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.
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Fernandel, l'homme au sourire
Title: Fernandel, l'homme au sourire
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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The Imaginary Doctor
Title: The Imaginary Doctor
Character: Inspecteur Bachir
Released: April 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Alex, aka DJ Wethu, is a star of the night world. On the verge of burnout, he plays concerts all over the world... Until the day when, in the middle of a festival in Morocco, Alex takes a bad fall and falls off the stage. Immobilized on the spot during his convalescence, he is placed under the vigilance of Abdel, who dreams of becoming an assistant nurse. The problem is that he is not quite! An unexpected encounter, to say the least...
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Placés
Title: Placés
Character: Père d'Elias
Released: January 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Because he forgot his identity card, Elias cannot take the entrance exam to Sciences Po. In search of a job while waiting to be able to take the exam again, he becomes an educator in a children's home. Confronted with an environment he doesn't know how to work, Elias doesn't yet know how much this experience will change his life.
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Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Title: Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: The Masked Singer France
Character: Monstre
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: TV
Twelve celebrities are masked under spectacular costumes, with their identity hidden. They compete by singing their own versions of songs, and the judges and audience must guess who is behind each mask!
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Title: À votre service
Character: L'huissier
Released: October 6, 2015
Type: TV
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Certifiée Halal
Title: Certifiée Halal
Character: Aziz Boukamache
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
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Gates of the Sun
Title: Gates of the Sun
Character: Slimane
Released: March 18, 2015
Type: Movie
An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Title: Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Character: Maklouf
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules...
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Poor Richard!
Title: Poor Richard!
Character: Farid
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: Movie
It is in a small popular district that the pot of the Eurogagnant, 124 million euros, is won - But who is the lucky winner?
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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The Bag of Flour
Title: The Bag of Flour
Character: Sarah's Father
Released: January 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
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Le Carnaval des animaux
Title: Le Carnaval des animaux
Character: Le père
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Every night, a father tells his son a bedtime story. As if by challenge, the child always chooses the same book, with scores, orchestra photos and images of animals. It’s about Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”. Under the impetus of the gentle complicity of father and son, this somewhat austere book is transformed, comes to life and makes music: the carnival animals come to life...
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Tomboy
Title: Tomboy
Character: Amrani
Released: December 16, 2008
Type: Movie
One morning Noureddine, who always considered himself a little boy, discovers that his mother Fatima lied to him for 11 years and, in fact, he is a girl.
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Harkis
Title: Harkis
Character: Saïd
Released: March 20, 2008
Type: Movie
1972, le sud de la France, en pleine forêt, une famille aux maigres bagages découvre le nouveau camp où elle va vivre. Malgré le paternalisme affiché du chef de camps, les harkis ont la vie dure et aucune liberté réelle. Une vie de misère et de tutelle que Leila, la fille aînée des Benamar, refuse. Elle a l'âge de la révolte, celles du premier amour aussi. Pour elle, son père, marqué par la guerre et l'exil, habitué à plier, ne doit rien aux Français qui ne les ont pas protégés en Algérie...
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Smaïn - Mon dernier avant le prochain
Title: Smaïn - Mon dernier avant le prochain
Character: Smaïn
Released: May 26, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Camping paradis
Character: Christian Dissaut
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: TV
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For the Love of God
Title: For the Love of God
Released: November 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Kévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. He befriends a girl from a strict religious family and falls in love with her
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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Smaïn: Rebelote
Title: Smaïn: Rebelote
Released: October 3, 2005
Type: Movie
From a tour of Paris in a tourist bus, to a father who has decided to become a "stay-at-home dad", to a manager who believes in his rap group, Smaïn underlines with his words and humor the flaws of our society that are, in the end, so familiar to us.
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La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Title: La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
Title: Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 2003
Type: Movie
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.
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Title: Commissariat Bastille
Character: Capitaine Mo Loumani
Released: February 22, 2001
Type: TV
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Old School
Title: Old School
Character: M. Fonblard
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
In this mock documentary, television journalist Christie and her camera crew trace the history and nefarious exploits of the new terrors of the French criminal underworld. The "Old School" Gang are four young men who grew up in the same orphanage; led by Letiole, they affect outlandish mid-'70s fashions and a retro-gangster/neo-blaxploitation persona as they rob, loot, and shoot their way through the seamy underbelly of Paris.
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Le Schpountz
Title: Le Schpountz
Character: Irénée
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "Schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract and a departure for Paris.
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Title: Le Grand Tralala
Character: Self
Released: August 7, 1999
Type: TV
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Recto/Verso
Title: Recto/Verso
Character: Fred
Released: June 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to succeed without the couch. That's why he decides to present his cousin, a rather naive karaoke fan, as his boyfriend.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Charité biz'ness
Title: Charité biz'ness
Character: Sam
Released: August 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Two friends organize a fake solidarity concert in order to seize the recipe. But their amateurism leads to many misunderstandings.
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Bingo!
Title: Bingo!
Character: Vincent
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Vincent, a great connoisseur of racing and poker, and therefore in debt, lives in a hotel, as does André who is writing his first novel. Vincent's lenders are getting more and more urgent. To repay he must participate in a big game.
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Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Title: Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Released: February 8, 1997
Type: Movie
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Three Lives and Only One Death
Title: Three Lives and Only One Death
Character: Luca
Released: May 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
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Two Dads and One Mom
Title: Two Dads and One Mom
Character: Salim
Released: April 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...
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Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Title: Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Released: March 8, 1995
Type: Movie
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Tom est tout seul
Title: Tom est tout seul
Character: Le musicien des rues
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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Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Title: Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Released: March 6, 1993
Type: Movie
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Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra
Title: Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra
Released: January 20, 1992
Type: Movie
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One Can Always Dream
Title: One Can Always Dream
Character: Rachid Merzahoui
Released: February 16, 1991
Type: Movie
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
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J'aurais jamais dû croiser son regard...
Title: J'aurais jamais dû croiser son regard...
Released: August 27, 1989
Type: Movie
In this romantic thriller, Zoe (Nathalie Cardone), a girl who has gotten into serious trouble, finds an ally and protector in Bambi (Smain), a juvenile delinquent who has fallen in love with her.
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L'Œil au beur(re) noir
Title: L'Œil au beur(re) noir
Character: Rachid
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian.
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Le Passager du Tassili
Title: Le Passager du Tassili
Character: Fefer
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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The Joint Brothers
Title: The Joint Brothers
Character: Le jeune homme du train
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Comedian of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Title: The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Character: Momo
Released: January 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
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La Smala
Title: La Smala
Character: Le jeune maghrébin de la bagarre
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...
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Dorothée : Le Show
Title: Dorothée : Le Show
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Théâtre de Bouvard
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Abdel
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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Les Chômeurs en folie
Title: Les Chômeurs en folie
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
André and Lucien, two unemployed men with a taste for petty thefts, get embarked on a film project involving Anatole, a young count who lends his castle and his antique camera. But soon problems arise...
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Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Title: Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Released: March 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Mosaïque
Title: Mosaïque
Character: Self
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who live in France. When it was created, it aimed to promote the cultures of origin of immigrants, but also to make them better known to the rest of the population. However, the program was never financed by public television which considers that it was aimed at a specific audience and was therefore not part of a public service mission. It received financial support from the Ministry of Labor, through its subsidy to the National Office for the Cultural Promotion of Immigrants, ONPCI (later becoming Information Culture and Immigration, ICEI, in 1977, then Agency for the Development of Intercultural Relations , ADRI). , in 1982).