Aïssa MaïgaFilmography

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Diamond 13

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Marchal, Asia Argento, Anne Coesens

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu, Oliver Marchal, and Asia Argento star in this thriller about a Paris police officer who puts his own career on the line to help his lifelong friend, a crooked narcotics cop who does some drug trafficking on the side. Mat works the night beat in the city, and his best friend Read More

1/21/09
Les Insoumis

Actors: Richard Berry, Pascal Elbe, Zabou Breitman, Aïssa Maïga, Bernard Blancan

Synopsis: A lawman infiltrates Paris's criminal underground to bring a gang of killers to justice in this violent thriller. Abel Vargas (Gerald Laroche) is a powerful crime boss who is serving time in prison, and as he's being transferred from one penitentiary to another, his police escort is met by a large Read More

2008
Paris, Je T'Aime

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
Bamako

Actors: Aïssa Maïga, Hélène Diarra, Tiecoura Tracore, Djénéba Koné, Habib Dembélé

Synopsis: Abderrahmane Sissako wrote and directed this offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they've done in the Third World. Mele (Aissa Maiga) is an attractive Malian lounge singer married to Chaka (Tiecoura Traore), though their Read More

2/14/07
Russian Dolls

Actors: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Bishop

Synopsis: A French writer finds his life is once again being turned sideways by his footloose European friends in this sequel to the international hit L'Auberge Espagnole. Five years after we last saw him, Xavier (Romain Duris) has given up his aspirations of a career in international finance, but his new Read More

5/10/06
Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Actors: Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Julien Boisselier, Aïssa Maïga, Isabelle Renauld

Synopsis: The unexpected disappearance of her troubled brother causes a nineteen year-old girl intense emotional distress as French filmmaker Philippe Lioret collaborates with author Oliver Adam to adapt Adam's popular novel for the screen. Upon returning from Barcelona after spending the summer with new Read More

2006
I Do

Actors: Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Vladimir Yordanoff, Gregoire Oestermann

Synopsis: A man tries to hold on to his bachelor lifestyle by getting engaged in this romantic comedy. Luis (Alain Chabat) is a man in his mid-fourties who has been happily unmarried all his life. Luis nearly wed his sweetheart when he was 21, but the meddling of his mother (Bernadette Lafont) and five Read More

2006
Place des Fêtes

Actors: Aïssa Maïga, Seydou Boro

Synopsis: South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz helmed this short about a young car attendant's deathbed meeting with the great love of his life -- and the aftereffects of seemingly isolated events. Starring Aïssa Maïga and Seydou Boro, Place des Fêtes was included in Paris, Je T'Aime, a collection of Read More

2006
Caché

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Lester Makedonsky, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard

Synopsis: Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical Read More

12/23/05
Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres

Actors: Richard Berry, Mathieu Amalric, Maurice Garrel, Elodie Peudepiece, Malik Zidi

Synopsis: French filmmaker and professor of music Denis Dercourt directs the family drama Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres (My Children Are Different). Widowed cellist Jean Debart (Richard Berry) is strict with his two children in regards to their musical education. Teenager Adele (Elodie Read More

2003
Marie-Line

Actors: Muriel Robin, Fejria Deliba, Valerie Stroh, Yan Epstein, Aïssa Maïga

Synopsis: A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for Read More

2001
Le Prof

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Yvan Attal, Dominique Besnehard, Hélène de Fougerolles

Synopsis: Two teachers find themselves at odds in this drama from France. Hippolyte (Yvan Attal) and Alexandre (Jean-Hugues Anglade) have been friends since childhood; now they're both instructors and assistant principals at the same high school. They're both dedicated to making education exciting and fun Read More

2000
Lise Et Andre

Actors: Isabelle Candelier, Michel Duchaussoy, Aïssa Maïga, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: A fallen woman seeks to renew her faith with the help of a clergyman who has nearly lost his in this French drama. Lise (Isabelle Candelier) is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging Read More

2000
Jonas et Lila, à demain

Actors: Jérôme Robart, Aïssa Maïga, Natalia Dontcheva, Jean-Pierre Gos, Cecile Tanner

Synopsis: Swiss director Alain Tanner, who wowed audiences in the 1970s with his art house classic Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), returns to the same territory with this decidedly more downbeat film. The movie details the life of Jonah (Jerome Robart), who has indeed just turned 25. A recent Read More

1999
La Revanche De Lucy

Actors: Desire Koumsongo, Adrienne Koutouan, Aïssa Maïga, Tom Novembre, Ann-Gisele Glass

Synopsis: After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this Read More

6/17/98
Saraka Bô

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yvan Attal, Anne Roussel, Aïssa Maïga

Synopsis: A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborhood in Paris. The corpses of the two masked Malian women were discovered ritually mutilated and hanging from a ceiling. The detectives' search leads Read More

1/15/97