Hafsia Herzi

Hafsia Herzi

Born: January 25, 1987
in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Hafsia Herzi (born January 25, 1987) is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor or actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.

Movies for Hafsia Herzi...

My New Friends
Title: My New Friends
Character: Julia
Released: July 10, 2024
Type: Movie
Lucie is a specialized agent in the scientific police. Her solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival in her housing estate of a young couple and their little girl. While Lucie gets to know her new neighbors, she discovers that Yann, the father, is an anti-police activist with a long criminal record. Lucie's moral conflict between her professional conscience and her desire to help this family will shake her certainties.
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Visiting Hours
Title: Visiting Hours
Character: Mina
Released: May 18, 2024
Type: Movie
The unlikely friendship between two women whose husbands are in prison. A meeting between a courageous young mother and a refined bourgeois woman. What brings them together? The hardships? Loneliness? One will help the other. Or maybe it’s the other way around
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Borgo
Title: Borgo
Character: Melissa
Released: April 17, 2024
Type: Movie
Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.
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The Rapture
Title: The Rapture
Character: Lydia
Released: October 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while she is holding her friend's baby in her arms, she sinks into a lie, at the risk of losing everything.
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The Gravity
Title: The Gravity
Character: Sabrina
Released: May 3, 2023
Type: Movie
As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.
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Three Nights a Week
Title: Three Nights a Week
Character: Samia
Released: November 9, 2022
Type: Movie
When young Baptiste meets Cookie Kunty, a young Parisian drag queen, he feels compelled to start a new photographic project.
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Singing Jailbirds
Title: Singing Jailbirds
Character: Jess
Released: April 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Following the success of his first feature "Django", Étienne Comar confronts with "Singing Jailbirds" the life in a prison for women with music and its capacity to unite people and a repertoire of international songs.
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Au-delà des murs
Title: Au-delà des murs
Character: Lina
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Lina, is getting ready to go to the Baumettes' prison to attend her very first visit with her lately incarcerated boyfriend. His daughter Sofia tries to dissuade her. Their life is better without him.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Farah / Leila 22 ans
Released: June 30, 2021
Type: Movie
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.
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Madame Claude
Title: Madame Claude
Character: Nadège
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
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Title: C ce soir, le débat
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 25, 2021
Type: TV
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Pygmalionnes
Title: Pygmalionnes
Character: Self - Actrice, réalisatrice
Released: January 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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You Deserve a Lover
Title: You Deserve a Lover
Character: Lila
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.
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Persona non grata
Title: Persona non grata
Character: Iris
Released: July 17, 2019
Type: Movie
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.
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Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Character: Camélia
Released: May 23, 2019
Type: Movie
It's the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his Casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Nobody knows that they see each other, especially not Ophélie, his childhood friend, who instead confides her troubles to Amin : her father wants her to take over the family farm, her fiancé Clement will return soon from Iraq for their wedding, she is pregnant with Tony’s baby, and Tony wants to keep their affair secret instead of having a serious relationship. Ophélie constantly contemplates her choices : would it be better to get an abortion in secret and marry Clement or to follow her maternal instinct and keep the child, perhaps seeking refuge with Amin in Paris?
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This Teacher
Title: This Teacher
Character: Hafsia
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A reunion between two childhood friends goes awry in this disquieting portrait of a young Muslim woman visiting New York for the first time.
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Black Tide
Title: Black Tide
Character: Chérifa
Released: July 18, 2018
Type: Movie
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
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Féminin plurielles
Title: Féminin plurielles
Character: Hafsia, student
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...
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Of Skin and Men
Title: Of Skin and Men
Character: Amel
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women.
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Un vrai job
Title: Un vrai job
Character: Safiye
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
Title: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
Character: Camélia
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.
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Des Plans Sur La Comète
Title: Des Plans Sur La Comète
Character: Franck
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Two small time crooks brothers fall apart when they both meet very different women
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Sex Doll
Title: Sex Doll
Character: Virginie
Released: December 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
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The Blind and the Cardinal
Title: The Blind and the Cardinal
Character: Julie
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Thomas is seduced by Julie and tells her stories in which he was involved or that he witnessed. All of them pose the question of what links and binds us to each other. But are we capable of perceiving this singular and poetic mystery?
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Par accident
Title: Par accident
Character: Amra
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling...
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Certifiée Halal
Title: Certifiée Halal
Character: Kenza Boukamache
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
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War Story
Title: War Story
Character: Hafsia
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
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The Marchers
Title: The Marchers
Character: Monia
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: Movie
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
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Exit Marrakech
Title: Exit Marrakech
Character: Karima
Released: June 28, 2013
Type: Movie
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.
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The French Trilogy
Title: The French Trilogy
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
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My Sense of Modesty
Title: My Sense of Modesty
Character: Hafsia Chouchane
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.
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On My Way
Title: On My Way
Character: Jeanne
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
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Inheritance
Title: Inheritance
Character: Hajar
Released: December 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death.
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Pour Djamila
Title: Pour Djamila
Character: Djamila Boupacha
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Bag of Flour
Title: The Bag of Flour
Character: Sarah
Released: January 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
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Title: Vestiaires
Character: The social worker
Released: November 14, 2011
Type: TV
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Ma compagne de nuit
Title: Ma compagne de nuit
Character: Marine, la femme de ménage
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: Loubna / Esmeralda
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
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House of Pleasures
Title: House of Pleasures
Character: Samira
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
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Le Rodba
Title: Le Rodba
Character: Aya
Released: June 17, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Rabbi's Cat
Title: The Rabbi's Cat
Character: Zlabya, the Rabbi's Daughter (voice)
Released: May 31, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
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Jimmy Rivière
Title: Jimmy Rivière
Character: Sonia
Released: March 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?
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Joseph et la fille
Title: Joseph et la fille
Character: Julie
Released: August 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he needs an accomplice. He cannot trust anyone, so decides to prepare Julie, 20 years old. The confusion and uncertainty, however, stand between these two beings so opposite ...
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Paris monopole
Title: Paris monopole
Character: Sabrinette
Released: February 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square.
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Buried Secrets
Title: Buried Secrets
Character: Aicha
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
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The King of Escape
Title: The King of Escape
Character: Curly Durandot
Released: July 15, 2009
Type: Movie
43-year-old Armand Lacourtade, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is getting sick of his homosexual life. When he encounters a young girl called Curly, he changes sides. Chased by her parents and the police, they brave all dangers to live this forbidden love and become an odd couple. But is it really what Armand dreamed about?
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Dawn of the World
Title: Dawn of the World
Character: zahra
Released: May 27, 2009
Type: Movie
The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
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A Man and His Dog
Title: A Man and His Dog
Character: Leïla
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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Sueur
Title: Sueur
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax. NOTE to TMDB and Letterboxd editors: this is not the same film as THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN and should not be merged with that film's record.
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Française
Title: Française
Character: Sofia - adult
Released: May 28, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Secret of the Grain
Title: The Secret of the Grain
Character: Rym
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Cimetière indien
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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La Loi du courage
Title: La Loi du courage
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Title: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Character: Camélia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
It’s the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Between Amin’s encounters with these women and his dreams of cinema, many choices open up to him.
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Tiens ferme ta couronne
Title: Tiens ferme ta couronne
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Silent Storms
Title: Silent Storms
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Nacer, a 45 year old journalist, is observing the appearance of strange yellow sandstorms looming over Algiers and its surroundings. While covering the phenomenon for his newspaper, he starts witnessing more and more supernatural events, until his late wife Fajar returns to life. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir has to face a dark past that haunts him.