Hubert Koundé

Hubert Koundé

Born: December 30, 1970
in France
Hubert Koundé is a French actor and film director. Koundé is best known for his role as Hubert in the film La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz. He is also the author of a play: "Cagoule: Valentine and Yamina," performed in 2003 (Cagoule: Valentin et Yamina, montée en 2003). He made two short films: Qui se ressemble s'assemble and Menhir, and co-directed a feature film: Paris, la métisse. He has also worked on English language films such as The Constant Gardener.

He spent his childhood between France and Benin where he was born.

Movies for Hubert Koundé...

Title: Crooks
Released: April 4, 2024
Type: TV
A priceless coin puts rival gangs across Europe at odds, forcing a retired safecracker to team up with a two-bit gangster for one last heist.
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Paradise Beach
Title: Paradise Beach
Character: Goyave
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
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Gangsterdam
Title: Gangsterdam
Character: Ulysse
Released: March 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Ruben, Durex and Nora are three students in their last year of college. Ruben has already failed his exams once due to his lack of self-confidence. He's been as useless with Nora, to whom he dares not confess his feelings. And his childhood friend Durex, the most embarrassing guy in the world, is no help at all. When Ruben discovers that Nora is a dealer and that she's going to Amsterdam to bring back a new kind of drug, Ruben bucks up the courage to accompany her. This trip to Amsterdam is an ideal situation in which to at last seduce Nora. But his bad luck: Durex comes along for the ride. While the trio discover Europe's craziest capital, their lives really get complicated when they realize that the drug they've just picked up belongs to one of Amsterdam's most dangerous gangsters. Very quickly, Ruben, Durex and Nora will understand that to get their old lives back, they must stop being nerds in order to become true heroes.
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Color of the Ocean
Title: Color of the Ocean
Released: March 22, 2012
Type: Movie
After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, which places him in a position to decide the fates of many. José's weary attitude is put to the test when he encounters Nathalie, a German tourist assisting a boatload of refugees she discovered landing on the Canary shores. One of those people, a Congolese man named Zola, is placed in an internment camp. Much to the objections of her husband Paul, Nathalie tries to help him escape. Yet Zola and his son Mamadou eventually find themselves in yet another precarious situation, in which they are dependent on nefarious smugglers.
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Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Dessalines
Released: February 14, 2012
Type: TV
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
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Toussaint Louverture
Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Dessalines
Released: February 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
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Il était une fois... La Haine
Title: Il était une fois... La Haine
Released: February 11, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Pigalle, la nuit
Character: Adam
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: TV
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Le voyage de la Veuve
Title: Le voyage de la Veuve
Character: Léopold
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
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Une lumière dans la nuit
Title: Une lumière dans la nuit
Character: Julien Bourgade
Released: May 3, 2008
Type: Movie
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Ten Years of La Haine
Title: Ten Years of La Haine
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary tracing the history of La Haine, from the real-life shooting that inspired the screenplay to the film’s success at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Constant Gardener
Title: The Constant Gardener
Character: Dr. Arnold Bluhm
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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How I Killed My Father
Title: How I Killed My Father
Character: Jean-Toussaint
Released: September 19, 2001
Type: Movie
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
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The Price of Forgiveness
Title: The Price of Forgiveness
Character: Maxoye
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.
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Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
Title: Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
Character: Arthur
Released: June 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother. Each responds differently to his return according to how her character evolved from her relation with him and his unexpected departure. They eventually realize, though, that the somewhat elderly father is quickly losing his memory and his ability to function, and the youngest daughter's decision to accept him again while she can ends up permanently changing her family ties with her sisters.
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Simon, the Magician
Title: Simon, the Magician
Character: Paul
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?
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Restons groupés
Title: Restons groupés
Character: Aimé
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A group of French tourists goes on an organized trip to visit the American West. A dream trip from California to Las Vegas, passing through national parks and grandiose sites immortalized by the western.
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Les Enfants du Karoo
Title: Les Enfants du Karoo
Released: November 17, 1997
Type: Movie
South Africa: Julie, a young photographer passing through Johannesburg, seeks for her father who disappeared a few years ago near Pretoria. Julie meets Maseko, a young thug who irresistibly attracts her.
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Title: The Gods Must Be Daring
Character: Mamadou
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
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La Haine
Title: La Haine
Character: Hubert
Released: May 31, 1995
Type: Movie
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
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Métisse
Title: Métisse
Character: Jamal
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.
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Diên Biên Phu
Title: Diên Biên Phu
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.