Adel Bencherif

Adel Bencherif

Born: May 30, 1975
in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France
Adel Bencherif is a French actor of Tunisian origin. He is most famous for his role in the 2009 film A Prophet.

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Bisons
Title: Bisons
Character: Fredo
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
“Respect for the vanquished”, remarks Steve “is what separates man from beast.” As a champion in Swiss-style wrestling, Steve knows a thing or two about observing codes of combat. But when his family farm faces repossession, he is forced to join hands with his ex-convict brother Joel and enter the lucrative, clandestine world of no-rules fighting.
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Title: Croisement Gaza - Boulevard Saint-Germain
Character: Amine Badjelal
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: TV
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Dark Satellites
Title: Dark Satellites
Character: Hamed
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.
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Heartbeast
Title: Heartbeast
Character: Karim
Released: November 4, 2022
Type: Movie
When Elina, a young aspiring rapper forced to move from Finland to southern France, meets Sofia, her new step-sister and an impressive ballerina, she immediately falls in love with her.
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Title: Black Gold
Character: Ilyès
Released: July 12, 2021
Type: TV
At the end of the failed robbery, all are isolated, injured or prisoners. The cops are on their trail and already, in the neighborhood, young people are trying to take the place they left. Outside, the world of organized crime seems far too wild for them. Will they be able to come together again and free Inès from the clutches of the dangerous Colonel Sekhou? Caught in the storm they themselves unleashed, can they save their skins?
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Flash
Title: Flash
Character: Adel
Released: September 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A police squad on a mission… A football match… Tension rises on both sides… The shooting starts and the team must face the pressure. When rivalry and betrayal slide onto the field, the team spirit and trust fly to bits.
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Title: All the Way Up
Character: Mounir
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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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Colonel Mustafa Mokrani
Released: October 28, 2019
Type: TV
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?
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Title: Ad Vitam
Character: Elias Azuelo
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: TV
In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled young woman investigate a strange wave of youth suicides.
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Title: The Little Drummer Girl
Character: Tayeh
Released: October 28, 2018
Type: TV
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
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Close Enemies
Title: Close Enemies
Character: Imrane Mogalia, aka 'Tonton'
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
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In the Shadow of Iris
Title: In the Shadow of Iris
Character: Capitaine Malek Ziani
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.
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London Has Fallen
Title: London Has Fallen
Character: Raza Mansoor
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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Spectre
Title: Spectre
Character: Abrika
Released: October 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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The Man of My Life
Title: The Man of My Life
Character: The Coach
Released: September 10, 2015
Type: Movie
When Alice sees Eric kissing another girl, she is devastated. To make matters worse, her rival runs with her in the same relay team. If Marie thinks that she is going to get away lightly after stealing Eric, she is mistaken. Alice might only be thirteen, but there are two things that she is sure of: she can run faster than Marie and Eric is the man of her life.
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Anna e Yusef
Title: Anna e Yusef
Character: Yusef
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Les Gorilles
Title: Les Gorilles
Character: Felon
Released: April 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Alfonso, brutal agent of the Department of Protection of High Personalities, is forced to team up with young inexperienced recruit Walter, fascinated by the world of show biz. This improbable duo is in charge of the protection of Jal-Y, a young R'n'B star threatened by his ex, a criminal on the run.
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Samba
Title: Samba
Character: The seller of residence cards
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
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Bodybuilder
Title: Bodybuilder
Character: Luigi
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.
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The Runaway
Title: The Runaway
Character: Lakdar
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
A youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders goes to court along with one of the teenagers he's in charge of, Sabrina.
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À la maison pour Noël
Title: À la maison pour Noël
Character: Hedi
Released: December 22, 2012
Type: Movie
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Sleepless Night
Title: Sleepless Night
Character: Abel
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Vincent, a police officer, and his partner Manuel steal a large amount of cocaine from José Marciano, a ruthless crime lord who is quick to seek revenge, endangering Vincent's life, career and family.
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Point Blank
Title: Point Blank
Character: Luc Sartet
Released: November 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
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Of Gods and Men
Title: Of Gods and Men
Character: The terrorist
Released: September 8, 2010
Type: Movie
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
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Les Révélations 2010
Title: Les Révélations 2010
Released: January 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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A Prophet
Title: A Prophet
Character: Ryad
Released: August 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
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Go Fast
Title: Go Fast
Character: Sed
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
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Andalucia
Title: Andalucia
Character: Farid
Released: March 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.
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Frontier(s)
Title: Frontier(s)
Character: Sami
Released: July 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
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Cages
Title: Cages
Character: Rabbah
Released: May 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien (Sagamore Stévenin), a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside. When Damien and Eve become a couple, she joins him in looking after the bar and becomes friendly with the regular customers, but things take an unexpected turn when Eve is in a serious auto accident. While Eve walks away with no serious physical injuries, she's emotionally ravaged by the experience, and develops a severe speech impediment. Eve's new stutter makes it hard for her to communicate with Damien and she becomes the butt of jokes from the customers. Eve is increasingly isolated and Damien takes up with another woman until Eve retaliates by trapping him in their home and forces him to re-establish the building blocks of their relationship, starting with their sexual communication. Meanwhile, Eve's struggle to speak is contrasted with one of the tavern's annual events, an animal calling contest.
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Djihad!
Title: Djihad!
Character: Karim
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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Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961
Title: Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961
Character: Le collecteur
Released: June 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.
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Ze Film
Title: Ze Film
Character: Aziz
Released: February 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
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Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim
Title: Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: The Cage
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Déjà loin
Title: Déjà loin
Character: Rody
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Elles deux
Title: Elles deux
Character: Samir
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie