Gad Elmaleh

Gad Elmaleh

Born: April 19, 1971
in Casablanca, Morocco
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971) is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, and La Doublure.

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Movies for Gad Elmaleh...

C'est Montreux bébé ! (De Pagnol à Jul)
Title: C'est Montreux bébé ! (De Pagnol à Jul)
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
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L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Title: L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Kev Adams : De l'autre côté du miroir
Title: Kev Adams : De l'autre côté du miroir
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
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Alibi.com 2
Title: Alibi.com 2
Character: Hafid
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! When he decides to propose to Flo, Greg is up against the wall and has to introduce his family. But with his crooked father and his ex-charm actress mother, this could ruin his future union. He has no choice but to reopen his agency with his former accomplices for an ultimate Alibi and to find more presentable fake parents.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Gad Elmaleh : D'ailleurs
Title: Gad Elmaleh : D'ailleurs
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
After Sans tambour and an international tour with Oh My Gad! performed in English in more than fifteen countries, Gad Elmaleh is back with a new one-man show, D'ailleurs. An intimate and jubilant show! For nearly two years, the comedian has crisscrossed France with this sixth show mixing stand-up and characters, free of the desire to please. An unfiltered return, eagerly awaited by his audience, to be discovered in this recording at the Dôme de Paris. Gad Elmaleh confides on his daily life, his American adventure, his relationship with his parents, his sons and his former girlfriends.
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Stay With Us
Title: Stay With Us
Character: Gad
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the love he has for his family.
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Title: Quelle époque !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2022
Type: TV
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Drôles de familles
Title: Drôles de familles
Character: Self
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: Movie
When comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is horrifying or hilarious in the family: from the "new generation" fathers to the dictates of the perfect mother, as well as the taboos of parenthood, unmanageable teenagers, and unbearable mothers-in-law.
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Le gala de Paul Mirabel (avec de l'aide)
Title: Le gala de Paul Mirabel (avec de l'aide)
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 2021
Type: Movie
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Enrico Macias, l'inattendu
Title: Enrico Macias, l'inattendu
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Enrico Macias is best known for his songs and his commitment to peace. He is less known for his self-mockery, his humor and his fantasy. Talents that Philippe Bouvard or Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier have highlighted in their variety shows, since the 70s. A taste for comedy that opened the doors of the cinema, at over sixty years, in the film "La Vérité si je mens". Through rarely broadcast archives, it is an unexpected portrait of Enrico Macias, virtuoso artist, discoverer of talents and great showman, which takes shape thanks to his complicity with Mireille Dumas and his friends.
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Title: Parler comme jamais
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: TV
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Flashback
Title: Flashback
Character: Maximilien de Robespierre
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
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Les seigneurs du château
Title: Les seigneurs du château
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
Title: Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Thirty-four years ago, Johnny Hallyday performed for the first time on the Bercy stage. He remains the artist who played the venue the greatest number of times. For the inauguration of the Esplanade Johnny-Hallyday, his unique voice will once again fill the legendary concert hall for a tribute show.
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Calvi Comedy Festival
Title: Calvi Comedy Festival
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2021
Type: Movie
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Purplemind
Title: Purplemind
Character: Arthur Trimbaldi
Released: June 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Sally aka Purplemind, a telepath who once founded a superhero collective, now lives in a retirement home. Interviewed by a journalist who wants to write her biography, Purplemind looks back on her past. The traumatic discovery of her powers in the 90s, the creation of a group of heroes, their fame and then their decline after the death of one of them.
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Title: LOL : Qui rit, sort !
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Samedi Sébastien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 17, 2021
Type: TV
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CamKev Comedy & Songs
Title: CamKev Comedy & Songs
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Camille Lellouche and Kev Adams are hosting a live special with some of their comedians and musicians friends.
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Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy
Title: Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: We're Live
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: TV
On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers, and where surprises, and humor are par for the course! It's freedom of speech, with guests coming to speak on the news for debates without filter. It's also an opportunity to discover new talents ...
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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: La Grosse Rigolade !
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
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L'Invitation
Title: L'Invitation
Character: Daniel
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Kem's
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Huge in France
Character: Gal Elmaleh
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: TV
Famous comedian Gad Elmaleh moves to LA to reconnect with his son and must learn to live without the celebrity perks he's accustomed to in France.
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Title: The secret song
Character: Self
Released: December 29, 2018
Type: TV
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La famille, ça me fait bien rire !
Title: La famille, ça me fait bien rire !
Character: Self
Released: March 17, 2018
Type: Movie
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Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
Title: Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
Released: March 6, 2018
Type: Movie
In his first English-language special, comedian Gad Elmaleh gleefully digs into America's food obsessions, dating culture, slang, and more.
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Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir?
Title: Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir?
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2018
Type: Movie
French humorist Yacine Belhousse tours the world to explore how stand-up comedians make audiences laugh across cultures.
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017
Title: Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017
Character: Self
Released: July 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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Gad Gone Wild
Title: Gad Gone Wild
Character: Himself
Released: January 24, 2017
Type: Movie
French comic Gad Elmaleh regales a Montreal crowd with tales of awkward mix-ups and baffling customs he's encountered since moving to the U.S.
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Juste pour rire fait son show
Title: Juste pour rire fait son show
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Kev Adams & Gad Elmaleh - Kev Gad, Tout est possible
Title: Kev Adams & Gad Elmaleh - Kev Gad, Tout est possible
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Crisis in Six Scenes
Character: Moe
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: TV
A comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.
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The Midnight Orchestra
Title: The Midnight Orchestra
Character: Rabbi Moshe
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician travels to his home country to bury his father. As he meets the members of the band, his life unexpectedly transforms.
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Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya
Title: Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya
Character: Le Marocain
Released: February 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Franky and Krimo dream of leaving the grey grime of their neighborhood behind and of traveling to the famous and diabolical Thai beach resort of Pattaya. To get there cheaply, the two friends have the crazy idea of registering, unbeknownst to him, the local little person for the Thai Dwarf Boxing World Championship. But what was supposed to be a dream vacation will transform into the most insane and dangerous adventure of their lives.
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
Title: Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
Title: Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2015
Type: Movie
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Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Title: Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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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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Gad Elmaleh - Sans tambour
Title: Gad Elmaleh - Sans tambour
Character: Gad Elmaleh
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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Gad Elmaleh: 20 Ans sur Scène
Title: Gad Elmaleh: 20 Ans sur Scène
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Un soir à la tour Eiffel
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
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Welcome to China
Title: Welcome to China
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Gad Elmaleh has agreed to be the guest star for the opening of a karaoke in China but the date doesn't suit him. He asks his brother Arie to stand in for him.
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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Chick
Released: January 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
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Départ immédiat
Title: Départ immédiat
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2012
Type: Movie
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Capital
Title: Capital
Character: Marc Tourneuil
Released: November 14, 2012
Type: Movie
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
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The Dream Team
Title: The Dream Team
Character: Rayane Ziani
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
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Title: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Character: Self
Released: July 19, 2012
Type: TV
Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up best when he says, 'You've finally made a show about nothing.'
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2012
Title: Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2012
Character: Self
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Marrakech du Rire is an annual international festival of humor that has been held since 2011 in Marrakech, Morocco. Created by comedian Jamel Debbouze, it has been broadcast every year since its creation on the French TV channel M6.
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Happiness Never Comes Alone
Title: Happiness Never Comes Alone
Character: Sacha Keller
Released: June 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Demonstrator in Wadiya (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 2012
Type: Movie
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Tout sur Jamel
Title: Tout sur Jamel
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
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Jack and Jill
Title: Jack and Jill
Character: Xavier
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
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The Adventures of Tintin
Title: The Adventures of Tintin
Character: Ben Salaad (voice)
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: Movie
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.
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A Monster in Paris
Title: A Monster in Paris
Character: Raoul (voice)
Released: October 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief.
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Midnight in Paris
Title: Midnight in Paris
Character: Détective Tisserant
Released: May 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
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Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut
Title: Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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Made in Jamel
Title: Made in Jamel
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Pour cette nouvelle aventure, Jamel a invité des artistes, à participer à plus d’une douzaine de courts-métrages originaux créés par lui-même et son équipe. Au programme des parodies désopilantes (Low School Musical, Les Experts Ouarzazate, Les Smashin’ Pump Spin’s…), des sketches hilarants (L’interview de la Chaussure de Bush, la leçon de Jamel…) et surtout la présence de guest stars tels que Florence Foresti, Audrey Lamy, Stromae, Didier Bourdon, David Pujadas ou Gad Elmaleh.Au final, un voyage humoristique de plus d’1h15, revisitant l’univers du cinéma et de la télévision et tout droit tiré de l’imagination délirante de Jamel.
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: Schmuel Weismann
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Coco
Title: Coco
Character: Coco
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
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Gad Elmaleh - Papa est en haut
Title: Gad Elmaleh - Papa est en haut
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Dans ce spectacle, mis en scène par sa soeur Judith Elmaleh, il parle de son enfance, de son fils et de son père ; 750 000 places seront vendus.
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Comme ton père
Title: Comme ton père
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques années plus tard, à peine installé à Belleville, Félix fait la connaissance de Serge, un parrain local avec qui il se lie d'amitié. Serge entraîne Félix sur les chemins du grand banditisme, jusqu'à ce que celui-ci se fasse prendre par la police et décide d'endosser, à la place de Serge, la responsabilité de chef de bande.
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Priceless
Title: Priceless
Character: Jean
Released: December 13, 2006
Type: Movie
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
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Omar & Fred - SAV des Émissions - Saison 1
Title: Omar & Fred - SAV des Émissions - Saison 1
Character: Caméo
Released: October 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Les Galas Juste Pour Rire:  Un monde sans femme
Title: Les Galas Juste Pour Rire: Un monde sans femme
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Valet
Title: The Valet
Character: François Pignon
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
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Olé !
Title: Olé !
Character: Ramon
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.
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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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Gad Elmaleh - L’autre c’est moi
Title: Gad Elmaleh - L’autre c’est moi
Character: Himself
Released: November 24, 2005
Type: Movie
L'Autre c'est moi est le troisième spectacle de l'humoriste Gad Elmaleh, en 2005.
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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 11 Commandments
Title: The 11 Commandments
Character: Gad
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: Movie
After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find that people aren't laughing anymore, He gives the six friends a mission: to save the world with the Eleven Commandments of the Joke. The men enthusiastically take on their task. They undertake various tests aimed at pushing the limits of stupidity.
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Gad Elmaleh
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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Chouchou
Title: Chouchou
Character: Choukri, alias Chouchou
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
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The Dope
Title: The Dope
Character: Le spécialiste des Stups
Released: February 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
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A+ Pollux
Title: A+ Pollux
Character: Halvard Sanz
Released: July 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It’s written in the tables of how the world works, right next to the law of series and the constant speed of light. Halvard therefore believes that he’ll be able to find Pollux again. She’s the woman of his dreams, but he didn’t get the time to tell her so. Dizzy as a bee, he’ll charge head first into the plate glass window of life.
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Title: As An Aside
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2001
Type: TV
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.
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Would I Lie to You? 2
Title: Would I Lie to You? 2
Character: Dove
Released: February 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.
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À bicyclette
Title: À bicyclette
Character: Le veilleur de nuit
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work by bicycle. Their meeting at a traffic light will change their lives.
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Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale
Title: Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale
Character: David
Released: January 23, 2001
Type: Movie
La Vie normale est un spectacle de Gad Elmaleh sorti en 2001 où sont dépeints les caractères de plusieurs personnages et où il joue son propre rôle.
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People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow
Title: People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow
Character: Jimmy
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: Movie
A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two tickets he couldn't use. Lovers Pauline and the pregnant, cranky Anita find their vacation complicated by an ex-lover of Pauline's. The playboy Jimmy is the hotel M.C., and Carla, free-spirited and sensual, coaches Laurette in the ways of seduction. She is hot and cold to these wiles, alternately attracting and putting off Aziz, hoping Jimmy will try to seduce her, and afraid he might. By week's end, with the help of Camille's diary, we'll know the outcomes.
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Second life
Title: Second life
Character: Lionel
Released: October 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his friend, what color should he buy shoes for? Life for him is an eternal dilemma. But one day, fate made a choice for him. Vansan crashes into an advertising post by car and makes a leap in time for 16 years in advance. Now at about forty, he heads a large corporation, is married to a woman with whom he is barely familiar, has a teenage son who is constantly bold to him, and an early-ripened daughter. And he has absolutely no idea what to do with all this. Realizing that he has become everything that he always despised, Vansan is desperate to go back and make the right choice. But can he turn back the clock? ..
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Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel
Title: Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2000
Type: Movie
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On fait comme on a dit
Title: On fait comme on a dit
Character: acteur
Released: May 23, 2000
Type: Movie
One fine day, at about 10 am, in a suburban house, three men, in their thirties are waiting for a fourth buddy. When he arrives, they plan to hold up the local bank where Séverine, their accomplice, is waiting for them. This could well be the beginning of a thrilling crime story, but these tough men, sporting tattoos, are not what they appear. "On fait comme on dit" is a comedy, and these guys could be descendants of the Keystone Cops. They are dreamers not gangsters. So much is riding on this bank heist, the pressure is intense. This tension creates the most diverse and unexpected obstacles for them...
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Les Petits Souliers
Title: Les Petits Souliers
Character: Samuel Azoulay
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Train of Life
Title: Train of Life
Character: Manzatou
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
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Man Is a Woman
Title: Man Is a Woman
Character: David Eskenazi
Released: March 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
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Les soeurs Hamlet
Title: Les soeurs Hamlet
Character: Malo
Released: February 18, 1998
Type: Movie
At long last, the two Hamlet sisters are allowed to go to Paris by themselves, and the discotheque they have heard about beckons. When the driver for their ride home becomes too drunk to drive, they cannot reach their mother by phone, and it is too late to take the last train back to where they live, they are stranded in town. The girls, who are themselves partly of Algerian descent, are accosted by a disreputable looking older Algerian immigrant, who tries to give them cash so that they can take a taxi back to their homes. They are afraid of him and try to get away from him. He apparently accepts this, but trails them without calling attention to himself. It is good that he does, for they soon run into real trouble, and then they find out that despite his frightening appearance, he means them well.
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XXL
Title: XXL
Character: Samy
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
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Long Live the Republic
Title: Long Live the Republic
Character: Yannick
Released: November 5, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
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Gad Elmaleh - Décalages
Title: Gad Elmaleh - Décalages
Character: David
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Décalages, c'est le titre de son premier one man show. Il retrace son parcours depuis le départ du Maroc, en passant par Montréal et finissant en France où il se forme au cours Florent.
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Salut cousin !
Title: Salut cousin !
Character: Alilo
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.
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Qui Veut Gagner de l'Argent en Masse
Title: Qui Veut Gagner de l'Argent en Masse
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie