Abdel Kechiche Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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The Secret of the Grain

Crew: Director

Actors: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Bouraouia Marzouk

Synopsis: Though it is seldom discussed (or acknowledged) in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial number of immigrant communities, with many indigenes from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet hones in on one such community Read More

12/26/08
Sorry, Haters

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, Abdel Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez, Aasif Mandvi

Synopsis: An embittered television executive working for a hip-hop-oriented music channel finds her fate intricately tied with a New York City taxi driver after hailing his cab for questionable purposes in director Jeff Stanzler's intimate look at the tenuous relationship between Caucasians and Muslims in Read More

3/1/06
Games of Love & Chance

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou, Aurelie Ganito

Synopsis: A young tough develops a taste for the classics when he falls for a girl who wants to be an actor in this drama from France. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz) is a streetwise teenager who doesn't have much to say to either his mother (Meriem Serbah) or his girlfriend, Magali (Aurelie Ganito), and plays Read More

9/2/05
The Magic Box

Actors: Marianne Basler, Abdel Kechiche, Hichem Rostom, Lotfi Bouchnak, Medhi Rebii

Synopsis: Over forty and in a bit of a midlife crisis, Tunisian film director Raouf (Abdelatif Kechiche) is prone to excessive drinking when not engaged in an argument with his French-born wife Lou (Marianne Basler). One respite to Raouf's dreary life is a recent film assignment -- to shoot an Read More

2002
La Faute à Voltaire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Aure Atika, Bruno Lochet, Virginie Darmon

2000
Bezness

Actors: Abdel Kechiche, Jacques Penot, Ghalia Lacroix, Manfred Andrae

Synopsis: Roufa (Abdel Kechiche) is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of "bezness:" he's a sex-for-hire boy for the tourists who come to Tunisia. His girlfriend deeply resents his having sex with other women but doesn't seem much bothered that a rich Read More

1992
Un Vampire Au Paradis

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Brigitte Fossey, Farid Chopel, Laure Marsac

Synopsis: Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange Read More

1992
Les Innocents

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de la Brosse, Jean-Claude Brialy, Abdel Kechiche, Stephane Onfroy

Synopsis: The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time, prompted by two events: the wedding of her sister, and the Read More

1987
Thé a la Menthe

Actors: Abdel Kechiche, Chafia Boudra, Dominique Pinon, Malick Bowens, Jean-Luc Boutte

Synopsis: A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother Read More

1984