Abel Jafri

Abel Jafri

Born: December 5, 1965
in Tunis, Tunisia

Movies for Abel Jafri...

Title: Vikings, les premiers rois
Character: Al-Gazhal
Released: April 24, 2023
Type: TV
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Our Ties
Title: Our Ties
Character: Adil
Released: November 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishness by his entourage. Only Moussa defends him, who has great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers a head injury. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without a filter and tells his relatives the truth. He ends up falling out with everyone except Ryad.
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Blazing Neon
Title: Blazing Neon
Character: Mohand
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Two desperate characters search for freedom in action-packed road movie noir from FGKO, adapted from the thriller by Rémy Lasource.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Juge Algérie
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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Title: Lupin
Character: Vigile Accueil Journal
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
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Red Star
Title: Red Star
Character: Adel
Released: December 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Adel is a 57-year-old man. He dedicates all his time to his local soccer club, and gets by doing temporary work. Then he learns that he is no longer eligible for the government’s low income benefit.
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Title: The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Character: Captain Fik
Released: May 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.
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Thugocratie
Title: Thugocratie
Character: Abbas
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Title: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Character: Bus Driver
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: Movie
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
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Road to Istanbul
Title: Road to Istanbul
Character: Turkish Policeman
Released: February 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter.
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Story of Judas
Title: Story of Judas
Character: Prêtre
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A man ascends a barren summit. It is Judas, come to collect Jesus and carry him down the mountain on his back, joking and panting as he does so. After bathing in the river and taking part in a henna ceremony, Jesus leaves for Jerusalem. Judas is concerned for his friend’s safety, since the Roman occupiers look upon the prophet as an insurgent.
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Title: Accusé
Character: Maître Cipriani
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: TV
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
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Profumi d'Algeri
Title: Profumi d'Algeri
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Timbuktu
Title: Timbuktu
Character: Abdelkrim
Released: December 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
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Juliette
Title: Juliette
Character: Kimel
Released: July 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her.
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Frères ennemis
Title: Frères ennemis
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Massaoud, an FLN fighter is on the run from the French army with a mysterious suitcase. He takes shelter in an abandoned home only to find out that its inhabitant has a mystery of his own.
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Dans la tourmente
Title: Dans la tourmente
Character: Farid
Released: January 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, décide avec Max, son ami de toujours, de passer à l’action...
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Zabana!
Title: Zabana!
Character: Abdelkader Ferradj
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
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Smugglers' Songs
Title: Smugglers' Songs
Character: La Buse
Released: August 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have here a few objects of wonder, pious images, pamphlets against men of the cloth, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy cards, quills, writing paper…”
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Leila
Title: Leila
Character: Abdelatif
Released: February 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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Cargo, the Lost Men
Title: Cargo, the Lost Men
Character: Hassan
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Lady Blood
Title: Lady Blood
Character: Rachid
Released: July 18, 2008
Type: Movie
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.
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Dernier maquis
Title: Dernier maquis
Character: Mechanic
Released: May 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Talk of living wages and religious observances upsets the delicate accord between the boss of a run-down truck yard and his workers in this visually arresting take on the French-Algerian immigrant experience.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Le décontracté
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.
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Bled Number One
Title: Bled Number One
Character: Bouzid
Released: June 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Hardly freed from a French prison, Kamel is deported in his native state, Algeria, and discovers a country split between modernity and tradition.
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Le Biz des Nôtres
Title: Le Biz des Nôtres
Character: Mr. Traficante
Released: June 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Short film by French rapper "Rohff" (Housni Mkouboi).
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The Passion of the Christ
Title: The Passion of the Christ
Character: 2nd Temple Officer
Released: February 25, 2004
Type: Movie
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
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The Three Kings
Title: The Three Kings
Character: Aziz
Released: December 12, 2001
Type: Movie
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
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La femme à abattre
Title: La femme à abattre
Character: Tueur Photo
Released: July 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
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Jalousie
Title: Jalousie
Character: Abel
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.
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Title: 9.3 BB
Character: Père de Slim
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV