Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd Taghmaoui

Born: July 19, 1973
in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Saïd Taghmaoui (born July 19, 1973) is a French actor and screenwriter of Moroccan background. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.However, Saïd has also appeared in a number of more recent English Language films, with roles such as the U.S.-trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain 'My Main Man' Saïd in Three Kings, and as "Omar", the close radical Islamic associate of Don Cheadle (Samir), in the 2008 thriller Traitor.

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Tin Soldier
Title: Tin Soldier
Character: Shinja Atlas
Released: September 12, 2024
Type: Movie
The Bokushi, who preaches to hundreds of veterans who have been drawn to the promise of protection and purpose under him. After several failed infiltration attempts on his impenetrable fortress, military operative Emmanuel Ashburn recruits Nash Cavanaugh, an ex-special forces asset who was once a disciple of The Bokushi. Nash agrees to use his insider knowledge of the enigmatic leader as he seeks vengeance on the man who took everything from him, including the love of his life.
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The Family Plan
Title: The Family Plan
Character: Augie
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on a road trip unlike any other.
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The Forgiven
Title: The Forgiven
Character: Anouar
Released: July 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
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Title: Professionals
Character: Tariq Basari
Released: November 23, 2020
Type: TV
After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela "Grace" Davila, turn to a hardened former counterintelligence officer.
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Embattled
Title: Embattled
Character: Claude
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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Title: All the Way Up
Character: Nasser Berou
Released: March 20, 2020
Type: TV
A talented young rapper, supported by his two childhood friends, finds himself overnight "validated" by one of the stars in the business. Only, this alliance quickly turns into a dangerous rivalry ...
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Title: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Character: The Elder
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
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At First Light
Title: At First Light
Character: Cal
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A high school senior, Alex Lainey, has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities and turns to her childhood friend Sean Terrel. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.
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Espionage Tonight
Title: Espionage Tonight
Character: Iskandar Yasin
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.
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Etta's Mission
Title: Etta's Mission
Character: Sameer
Released: August 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Etta Candy and the rest of the Wonder Woman team meeting up to discuss a top-secret mission.
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Wonder Woman
Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Sameer
Released: May 30, 2017
Type: Movie
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Money Man
Title: Money Man
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Short film that accompanies A$AP Mob & Skepta's collaboration "Put That On My Set." The short film is a surrealist take on drug gangs, finding Rocky trafficking psychedelic butterfly wings as part of an organized crime ring. They run a tight moneymaking operation, and "Put That On My Set" showcases the importance of the rappers' crews in the illegal business.
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The Infiltrator
Title: The Infiltrator
Character: Amjad Awan
Released: July 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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American Hustle
Title: American Hustle
Character: Irv's Sheik Plant
Released: December 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
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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: Touch
Character: Guillermo Ortiz
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: TV
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
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My Brother the Devil
Title: My Brother the Devil
Character: Sayyid
Released: January 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.
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Conan the Barbarian
Title: Conan the Barbarian
Character: Ela-Shan
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
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An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
Title: An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: Movie
It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the French in the bitter Algerian war, from 1954 to 1962. Why did they make that choice? Why were they slaughtered after Algeria's independence? Why were they abandonned by the French government? Some fifty to sixty thousands were saved and transferred in France, often at pitiful conditions. This is for the first time, the story of this tragedy, told in the brilliant style of the authors of "Apocalypse".
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Aroui
Released: July 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Title: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Character: Breaker
Released: August 3, 2009
Type: Movie
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
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Linear
Title: Linear
Character: Cop/Biker
Released: March 2, 2009
Type: Movie
The film is based on a story by Corbijn and Bono, and includes several of the characters Bono created for the album. The plot focuses on a Parisian motorcycle officer, played by Saïd Taghmaoui; the character has become disillusioned with his life and the conflict between immigrants and the police in the city, causing him to leave to see his girlfriend in Tripoli.
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Kandisha
Title: Kandisha
Character: Dakir Nesri
Released: December 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named Kandisha.
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Mogadischu
Title: Mogadischu
Character: Captain Mahmud
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
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Traitor
Title: Traitor
Character: Omar
Released: August 23, 2008
Type: Movie
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
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Title: House of Saddam
Character: Barzan Ibrahim
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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Vantage Point
Title: Vantage Point
Character: Suarez
Released: February 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
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The Kite Runner
Title: The Kite Runner
Character: Farid
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Title: Suspectes
Character: Stan Lamérat
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: TV
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Djihad!
Title: Djihad!
Character: Youssef
Released: December 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.
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O Jerusalem
Title: O Jerusalem
Character: Saïd Chahine
Released: October 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
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Five Fingers
Title: Five Fingers
Character: Dark Eyes
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate
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Title: Sleeper Cell
Released: December 4, 2005
Type: TV
A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
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Title: Lost
Character: Caesar
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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I ♥ Huckabees
Title: I ♥ Huckabees
Character: Translator
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
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For Bread Alone
Title: For Bread Alone
Released: May 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Inspired by the life of the Novel's Author Mohamed Choukri , For Bread Alone or El khoubz El Hafi , is one of the truest manifestations of the dark history that Morocco went through during and after the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, from famine and plagues to the Berber migration .Also, it reveals Morocco's rituals and religious practices at that time
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Spartan
Title: Spartan
Character: Tariq Asani
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.
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Hidalgo
Title: Hidalgo
Character: Prince Bin Al Reeh
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
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Crime Spree
Title: Crime Spree
Character: Sami
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
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The Good Thief
Title: The Good Thief
Character: Paulo
Released: April 3, 2003
Type: Movie
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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Break of Dawn
Title: Break of Dawn
Character: Werner
Released: September 11, 2002
Type: Movie
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.
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Alive
Title: Alive
Character: The DJ Box
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
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Tom Thumb
Title: Tom Thumb
Character: le chef de troupe
Released: October 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
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Absolutely Fabulous
Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Character: Manu
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
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Confession of a Dredger
Title: Confession of a Dredger
Character: Fabio
Released: July 24, 2001
Type: Movie
During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One afternoon, while the eye follows a young girl he had noticed for several days, he made the acquaintance of Fab, a seducer getter, effective and apparent misogyny, which will teach him the basics drag. Starting first with a documented learning every evening in his diary, Paul soon to be questionable practices to limit crime.
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Room to Rent
Title: Room to Rent
Character: Ali
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
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Gamer
Title: Gamer
Character: Tony
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.
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Nationale 7
Title: Nationale 7
Character: Rabah
Released: December 6, 2000
Type: Movie
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Title: Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Character: Dib
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
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The Slammer
Title: The Slammer
Character: L'innocent
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute, who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden and the Chief Guard try to get him to tell what he knows about the disappearance -- the Guard through violence, the Warden by transferring him to a new cell with four other prisoners and cutting off TV privileges to the inmates until the Mute spills the beans. One of the Mute's new roommates is a white collar criminal who has just landed in prison and is not dealing well with the pressures of life behind bars, but his skills with computers make him a very usefully ally among the prisoners. Meanwhile, Flic, a self-important police detective, is investigating the escape of the Mute's cellmate and is not happy with the low level of cooperation among the prison's population.
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Last Minute Kasbah
Title: Last Minute Kasbah
Character: Raschid
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
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Three Kings
Title: Three Kings
Character: Captain Said
Released: September 27, 1999
Type: Movie
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
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Before the Sunset
Title: Before the Sunset
Character: Alì Ben Sellam
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A young Moroccan immigrant, living in southern Italy, escapes from his forthcoming wedding to the daughter of a local Mafia member to a hotel where he remains in hiding with his true love.
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Hideous Kinky
Title: Hideous Kinky
Character: Bilal
Released: November 17, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Aziz
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Alessandro D'Alatri directed this Italian drama about Jesus Christ, covering his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, an 18-year span not chronicled in the Bible. The film uses names of the period instead of names given in the Bible. The adult Jeoshua (Kim Rossi Stuart) reflects on past events -- his journey into the desert, baptism, acceptance into the Essenes' community, Jewish life in Galilee, his yeshiva studies, education from his father Josef (Omar Chenbod), and his spiritual growth. After seeing slavery, crucifixions, the stoning of an adulteress, and brutal Roman soldiers, Jeoshua turns to God for answers, leaves the village, and is betrayed by his friend Aziz (Said Taghmaoui), who leaves him to die in the desert. Issues such as carnality bring Jeoshua in conflict with the Essenes, yet he speaks out on behalf of the Essene David (popular Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini).
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Heroines
Title: Heroines
Character: JP
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
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La Haine
Title: La Haine
Character: Saïd
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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Brothers: Red Roulette
Title: Brothers: Red Roulette
Character: Paul
Released: February 9, 1995
Type: Movie
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J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites
Title: J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites
Character: Maxime
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Jean-Marc and Pamela attend the première of a film directed by one of their friends. They gradually lose control of things.
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Putain de porte
Title: Putain de porte
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Four young men try to gate crash a birthday party.
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
John Woo's remake of his own 1989 film, The Killer