Saïd Amadis

Saïd Amadis

Born: July 2, 1946
in Oran, France [now Algeria]

Movies for Saïd Amadis...

Lost Illusions
Title: Lost Illusions
Character: Matifat
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
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Title: The Spy
Character: Latif Al Hashan
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Pachamama
Title: Pachamama
Released: December 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A young boy living in a remote village in the Andes Mountains dreams of becoming shaman.
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The Tower
Title: The Tower
Character: Sidi (voice)
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
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La lisière - The Edge
Title: La lisière - The Edge
Character: Selim
Released: July 22, 2015
Type: Movie
In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.
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Hafida
Title: Hafida
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: Movie
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Human Zoo
Title: Human Zoo
Character: Mohamed
Released: February 5, 2009
Type: Movie
In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a deserter called Srdjan Vasiljevic in 1999. They move to Belgrade where Srdjan becomes a gangster, dealing weapons and becoming an assassin. Adria learns how to shoot and helps Srdjan with his work at first, becoming his mistress later.
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Bonté Divine
Title: Bonté Divine
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Shaïtana
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Secrets of State
Title: Secrets of State
Character: Client Lisa
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
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Title: House of Saddam
Character: Adnan Khairallah
Released: July 30, 2008
Type: TV
The intimate world of Saddam Hussein and his closest inner circle is in this gripping four-part drama that charts the rise and fall of one of the most significant political figures in recent history.
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The Situation
Title: The Situation
Character: Mayor Tahsin
Released: February 7, 2007
Type: Movie
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.
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The Nativity Story
Title: The Nativity Story
Character: Tero
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
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A Few Days in September
Title: A Few Days in September
Character: Le vieux banquier
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Title: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Character: Le ministre égyptien
Released: April 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Love Bites
Title: Love Bites
Character: Owner of the 'Custom Bar'
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
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Return to Algiers
Title: Return to Algiers
Character: Nader Mansour
Released: April 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
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Water War
Title: Water War
Character: Fahad
Released: April 18, 1998
Type: Movie
The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.
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The Honour of the Tribe
Title: The Honour of the Tribe
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Though this is billed as a combination drama and comedy, but the storyline gives no clue as to the humorous elements of this Algerian picture. In the story, a brother and his sister are orphaned when their father accepts a challenge to fight a trained bear and is killed by it. Two decades later, the Algerian war of independence is underway. The siblings have had an incestuous relationship, but the sister falls in love with a French officer in charge of their village, and the brother leaves for parts unknown. After the war is over, the brother returns to his village, only to discover that his sister did in childbirth. He has brought back a Russian wife, and for some reason the villagers elect him to be their mayor.
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Brothers in Arms
Title: Brothers in Arms
Character: Ali Radjani
Released: March 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
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Un coupable
Title: Un coupable
Released: December 18, 1988
Type: Movie
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Le caïd
Released: February 27, 1985
Type: Movie
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
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Gwen, or the Book of Sand
Title: Gwen, or the Book of Sand
Character: Nomad (Voice)
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
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Fort Saganne
Title: Fort Saganne
Character: Amajar
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
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The Big Pardon
Title: The Big Pardon
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Karim
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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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker