Joseph Momo

Joseph Momo

Born: June 14, 1952
Died: October 7, 2022
in Baleveng, Cameroon

Movies for Joseph Momo...

Djib
Title: Djib
Released: November 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Djibril, nicknamed Djib, is a 13 year old black teenager, a rebel of the 90s, who lives with his grandmother in Asnières. He has a strange philosophy that he has posted above his bed: "A black person must never let himself be called the n-word by someone other than a black person, it's the worst insult". He is in love with Joséphine, an "Arab-Gauloise fatou" and decides to offer her a dream vacation.
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Title: The Gods Must Be Daring
Character: Joël
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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Clando
Title: Clando
Character: Chamba Rigobert
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Proud and determined, the hunter set out, leaving behind his village ravaged by a terrible drought. All the villagers came out to wish him well, and everyone gave what he could: an egg, a handful of peanuts or a few kola nuts... As in the folktale, Sobgui, a former computer programmer who now drives a "clando" cab in Douala, flees to Europe to escape a life in Cameroon which has become unbearable. In Cologne (Germany), Sobgui joins a community of African emigrants. Most are hard-working and ambitious people. Sobgui begins a love affair with Madeleine, a German political activist who encourages Sobgui and his friends to return home and fight for change.
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La Haine
Title: La Haine
Character: Ordinary Man
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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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.
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Does This Mean We're Married?
Title: Does This Mean We're Married?
Character: Malik
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: Movie
It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration investigation, and then a series of financial disasters push Deena and Nick into spending time together, and they fall in love. But can their in-name-only marriage become real?
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Le Tueur triste
Title: Le Tueur triste
Character: Le pompiste
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A crime comedy directed by Nicolas Gessner.
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The Syringe
Title: The Syringe
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
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Dog Day
Title: Dog Day
Character: Doudou Cadillac
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
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The African
Title: The African
Character: Bako
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to build this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?
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Operation Leopard
Title: Operation Leopard
Character: Niokolo
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
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Dance My Love
Title: Dance My Love
Released: January 31, 1979
Type: Movie
A filmmaker finds his brother who he has not seen for ten years and introduces him to the world of African musicians in Paris.
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Drummer-Crab
Title: Drummer-Crab
Character: Bongoba
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.