Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti

Born: March 6, 1984
in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Yasmine Leïla Bekhti (born 6 March 1984) is a French film and television actress, best known for her roles in Tout ce qui brille (2007) and, in 2006, Paris, je t'aime and Sheitan.

She has already been nominated for 9 awards and won 4, including a César (french movies award) in 2012 as most promising actress.

She met her husband on the set of the movie "Un Prophète"(2008).

Movies for Leïla Bekhti...

Maria Montessori
Title: Maria Montessori
Character: Lili d’Alengy
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
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Loving Memories
Title: Loving Memories
Character: Julie Delaunay
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
1916. Julien Delaunay is reported missing in action during the Great War. His wife, Julie, refuses to believe he is dead. 1919. When a photo of an amnesic drifter appears in the press, Julie immediately recognizes him as her beloved husband. They are reunited and, little by little, she helps him to fall in love with her again. Until another woman claims to be the man’s real wife…
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All Your Faces
Title: All Your Faces
Character: Nawelle
Released: March 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
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Title: Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra
Character: Alexandra
Released: May 23, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Hot Ones France
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 12, 2022
Type: TV
Watch Kyan Khojandi interview celebrities as they burn their tastebuds!
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Saddle Up For Revenge
Title: Saddle Up For Revenge
Character: Crystal Clear
Released: October 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecting that he only wants her money and is having an affair with her best friend, Crystal. Craig and Crystal have a plan to get rid of Stephanie and steal her fortune by making her suffer a terrible accident, which leaves her face disfigured. She is saved by the handsome Doctor Danley, who performed a plastic surgery on Stephanie that turned her into a completely different and beautiful woman. Stephanie starts plotting her revenge against Craig and Crystal, who believe that she died in the accident.
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The Restless
Title: The Restless
Character: Leïla
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.
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The Third War
Title: The Third War
Character: Yasmine
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
After completing his military training, young Léo, a taciturn soldier with family problems and secret addictions, is assigned to one of the units that patrol the streets of Paris in search of possible terrorist threats as part of Opération Sentinelle.
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Title: LOL : Qui rit, sort !
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2021
Type: TV
Philippe Lacheau has invited 10 actors and comedians to live a unique experience in a grandiose setting. There is only one rule to follow for the next 6 hours: if you laugh, you are eliminated. The 10 comedians will have to keep cool despite having to try and make each other laugh. The winner will get 50 000 euros for the charity he/she represents. Nothing is off limits!
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How I Became a Superhero
Title: How I Became a Superhero
Character: Callista
Released: November 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
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Title: La Flamme
Character: Alexandra
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: The Eddy
Character: Amira
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: TV
The owner of a Paris jazz club gets tangled up with dangerous criminals as he fights to protect his business, his band and his teenage daughter.
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Perfect Nanny
Title: Perfect Nanny
Character: Myriam
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they engage Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy.
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Title: The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Character: Almerina (voice)
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Our story starts with Tonio, the son the bears King, being kidnapped by some hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Because of the harshness of a winter that threatens its clan with famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, he will succeed at both quests but he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live in the land of men.
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I'll Go Where You Go
Title: I'll Go Where You Go
Character: Mina
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect opportunity to bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s passion.
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Battle of the Classes
Title: Battle of the Classes
Character: Sofia
Released: April 3, 2019
Type: Movie
As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?
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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Title: Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Character: Self
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: Movie
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A Man in a Hurry
Title: A Man in a Hurry
Character: Jeanne
Released: November 7, 2018
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.
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Sink or Swim
Title: Sink or Swim
Character: Amanda
Released: October 24, 2018
Type: Movie
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
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Beirut
Title: Beirut
Character: Nicole
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
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Beirut
Title: Beirut
Character: Nadia Skiles
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
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Carnivores
Title: Carnivores
Character: Mona Barni
Released: March 28, 2018
Type: Movie
At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and proposals do not arrive. Short of resources, she is forced to move to Sam, her younger sister.
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The View from Up Here
Title: The View from Up Here
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Claire and Lila are neighbours. They both live in the same building, they see each other every day but they hardly know each other's names. Until today, when Claire decides to pay a visit to Lila and to ask for something that will definitely put at risk the cohabitation.
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Speak Up
Title: Speak Up
Character: Guest of Honour
Released: April 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Raise the voice, speak eloquently, construct and argue a discourse. Tools so necessary in life as exciting to build. In Paris, the date of Eloquentia, an oratory contest where young people —not exactly privileged— will measure their strength, is approaching.
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Title: Midnight Sun
Character: Kahina Zadi
Released: October 23, 2016
Type: TV
Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.
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Title: Serge le Mytho
Character: Nina
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: TV
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All Three of Us
Title: All Three of Us
Character: Fereshteh
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: Movie
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
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Astragal
Title: Astragal
Character: Albertine
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: Movie
On a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice fugitive, and so is born a burning passion between them. He takes her to Paris and hides her. But while he leads his gangster life here and there, the young woman struggles for her freedom and against the wounds inflicted by Julien’s absence, and writes poetry.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: Juliette Lesage
Released: August 23, 2014
Type: Movie
As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
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Le Débarquement 2
Title: Le Débarquement 2
Character: Various Characters
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
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Before the Winter Chill
Title: Before the Winter Chill
Character: Lou
Released: November 26, 2013
Type: Movie
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
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Title: Le Débarquement
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: TV
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
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Le Débarquement
Title: Le Débarquement
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
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Nous York
Title: Nous York
Character: Samia
Released: November 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Thirty-somethings Michaël, Nabil and Sylvain head to New York to surprise their friend Samia on her birthday, secretly arranged with the help of another friend, Gabrielle. The two women had moved to NYC two years previously to try their luck. Samia shares a fabulous loft with a renowned American actress and works as her assistant. Gabrielle has a more mundane job in a small retirement home. Transposed to New York, the close bonds formed over the years between the five friends from a housing project on the outskirts of Paris take on a different aspect. The laughter and emotion is dictated by the adventures they share during their stay, from the daily lives of the women to the discovery of this cult city.
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Armed Hands
Title: Armed Hands
Character: Maya Dervin
Released: July 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.
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A Better Life
Title: A Better Life
Character: Nadia
Released: November 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: Leila
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
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Title: Bref
Character: Leïla Bekhti
Released: August 29, 2011
Type: TV
Short videos showing typical funny moments in French life, depicting way of life, being, laughing, habits, and using slang vocabulary. Specially recommended for Parisians and / or people who lived there.
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Itinéraire bis
Title: Itinéraire bis
Character: Nora
Released: August 3, 2011
Type: Movie
35-year-old Jean still lives with his mother in a small village in Corsica and works as a cook in the family's restaurant. His future, to his great despair, is all mapped out: he'll take over the restaurant. But one day Nora, a young and forceful woman, is thrown into the sea from a racing yacht. She washes up on the beach at Jean's feet - adventure has at last knocked at his door.
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Leila
Title: Leila
Character: Leïla
Released: February 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Revelations 2011
Title: The Revelations 2011
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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Title: Longlasting Youth
Character: Alina
Released: December 13, 2010
Type: TV
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Fracture
Title: Fracture
Character: Zora
Released: November 29, 2010
Type: Movie
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Bacon on the Side
Title: Bacon on the Side
Character: Anissa
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
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Conte de la frustration
Title: Conte de la frustration
Character: Safia
Released: August 8, 2010
Type: Movie
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All That Glitters
Title: All That Glitters
Character: Lila
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.
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A Prophet
Title: A Prophet
Character: Djamila
Released: August 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
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Twenty Show: The Film
Title: Twenty Show: The Film
Character: Yasmine
Released: May 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Twenty Show was the first "user generated film", edited from fictional and real video-blogs. A unique experience initiated on the Internet, a mockumentary that paints a generational portrait of young French people in their twenties.
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Myriam's choice
Title: Myriam's choice
Character: Myriam
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The arrival in France of the first generation of Algerian immigrants. In the early sixties, Kader, soon joined by his wife Myriam, tries to build a new life on French soil. Like many other couples, they soon find themselves torn between the dream of returning to their homeland and that of prospering in a land that is not always welcoming.
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The Revelations 2009
Title: The Revelations 2009
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Title: Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Character: Fellaga's daughter
Released: October 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
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Dolls and Angels
Title: Dolls and Angels
Character: Lya
Released: June 25, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...
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Harkis
Title: Harkis
Character: Leila
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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Choosing Love
Title: Choosing Love
Character: Sarah
Released: January 23, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.
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Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
Character: Morgiane
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
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Title: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
Character: Morgane
Released: October 29, 2007
Type: TV
Set in and around Bagdad of the old times ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES is the highly entertaining tale of kind but luckless Ali, played by French superstar Gérard Jugnor who finds himself unwilling in the centre of multiple difficult situations.
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Bad Faith
Title: Bad Faith
Character: Mounia
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: Movie
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because Clara is Jewish and Ishmael a Muslim. Although not practicing, this difference will gradually sow trouble in their love life.
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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: Les Tricheurs
Character: Vally Devailly
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: TV
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Zarka (Quais de Seine)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Quais de Seine
Title: Quais de Seine
Character: Zarka
Released: May 18, 2006
Type: Movie
This short from the anthology film Paris, je t’aime looks at the meeting between two teenagers, one a catcaller and the other a Muslim girl. Directed by Gurinder Chadha.
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Satan
Title: Satan
Character: Yasmine
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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Tue l'amour
Title: Tue l'amour
Character: Isabelle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
Title: Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie