Saïd Taghmaoui Filmography

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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rachel Nichols, Sienna Miller, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Synopsis: Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with this Paramount Pictures production that pits the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity against the evil forces of the organization known as Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum star as General Read More

8/7/09
Vantage Point

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An Read More

2/22/08
Traitor

Actors: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough

Synopsis: An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed Read More

1/1/08
The Kite Runner

Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Shaun Toub

Synopsis: Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under Read More

12/14/07
O Jerusalem

Actors: JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Daniel Lundh, Mel Raido, Patrick Bruel, Tom Conti

Synopsis: Alternating between the unique vantage points of the Jews, the Arabs, and the British, director Elie Chouraqui's historical drama recreates the landmark struggle surrounding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. From the concrete jungle of New York City to the desert paradise of the Holy Read More

10/19/07
Five Fingers

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis: Writer-director Lawrence Malkin's thriller Five Fingers casts Ryan Philippe as Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist who flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. On Middle Eastern soil, however, he and his security person, Gavin (portrayed by Colm Meaney) are promptly kidnapped by Read More

2006
I Heart Huckabees

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law

Synopsis: Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more idiosyncratic territory of his earlier work with this intelligent and offbeat comedy. Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a Read More

10/1/04
Spartan

Actors: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Kristen Bell

Synopsis: David Mamet writes and directs the political thriller Spartan. Respected Secret Service agent Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), the missing daughter of a high-ranking political figure. Scott is teamed up with rookie Curtis (Derek Luke). Read More

3/12/04
Hidalgo

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Saïd Taghmaoui, Peter Mensah

Synopsis: Actor Viggo Mortensen made his first starring appearance in a film after his breakthrough performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy with this period adventure. Frank T. Hopkins (Mortensen) is a U.S. Cavalry officer who earned a reputation as one of the fastest and most daring riders in the Read More

3/5/04
The Good Thief

Actors: Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the Read More

4/2/03
Crime Spree

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Johnny Hallyday, Renaud, Harvey Keitel, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: The directorial-debut of screenwriter Brad Mirman (Truth or Consequences, N.M.), Crime Spree stars Gerard Depardieu as Daniel, the head of a trio of French crooks who cross the pond for a job in Chicago. Unfortunately, what was to have been a routine heist turns ugly when Daniel and his cohorts Read More

2003
Entre Chiens et Loups

Actors: Richard Berry, Saïd Taghmaoui, Joaquim de Almeida, Anouk Grinberg, Etienne Chicot

Synopsis: Alexandre Arcady's thriller Entre Chiens et Loups (Break of Dawn) is about dishonor among hitmen. Radman (Joaquim de Almeida) hires terminally ill Adrien (Richard Berry) and brash youngster Werner (Saïd Taghmaoui) to fire at a Romanian political figure. The catch is that they are supposed to miss Read More

2002
Confession d'un dragueur

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Thomas Dutronc

Synopsis: A young man learns just how much is truly fair in love and war in this purposefully outrageous comedy-drama. Paul (Thomas Dutronc) is a naïve student who has recently begun attending college in Paris. Paul has developed a furious crush on a fellow student and has spent two weeks trying to work up Read More

2001
Absolument Fabuleux

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it Read More

2001
Nationale 7

Actors: Nadia Kaci, Olivier Gourmet, Lionel Abelanski, Chantal Neuwirth

Synopsis: A group of medical therapists gets a new perspective on a patient's well-being in this drama with comic accents from France. Rene is a man in his early fifties who worked hard and led an active life until he was stricken with a degenerative disease that is slowly destroying his muscle tissues. Read More

2001
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis: A handful of street kids in Casablanca struggle to pay tribute to a fallen comrade in this drama. Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) is a homeless boy who runs with his friends Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussane), and Kouka (Maunim Kbab), all of whom get by on their wits and often stray Read More

2000
Room To Rent

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Juliette Lewis, Rupert Graves, Anna Massey, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: One man's pursuit of life, liberty, and a green card sets the stage for this comedy-drama. Ali (Said Taghmaoui) was born in Egypt but has come to England in hopes of finding his fortune. Nothing if not industrious, Ali juggles several low-paying jobs: He works in a Middle Eastern restaurant Read More

2000
Three Kings

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: Three stars team up for this unusual look at America's role in the war against Iraq. In 1991, as the Gulf War winds to a close, three American servicemen find themselves happy to have achieved victory but wondering about the ultimate importance of what they've done (especially since Saddam Hussein Read More

10/1/99
Prima Del Tramonto

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Vincenzo Peluso, Ninni Bruschetta, Gigi Savoia, Simona Cavallari

Synopsis: The second feature of Steano Incerti, who learned his trade as assistant director to established fellow Neapolitan filmmakers Mario Martone and Pappi Corsicato, Prima del Tramonto (Before Sundown) is set on Italy's southern coast, a transit point for every kind of human and illegal cargo from Read More

1999
La Taule

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Olivier Martinez, Bernard Le Coq, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gilbert Melki

Synopsis: This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute (Olivier Martinez), who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden (Bernard Le Coq) and the Chief Guard (Claude Brasseur) try to get Read More

1999
Go for Gold!

Actors: Lars Rudolph, Saïd Taghmaoui, Antonio Carmona, Maria de Medeiros, Chick Ortega

Synopsis: Maniacal hyperactive Jeff Gold (Lars Rudolph) and his companion Moussa (Said Taghmaoui) flee Berlin for a Spanish tourist resort where they share a room with a flamenco act. When Jeff gets a job as a Wild Adventure tour guide, he feels tourists need more of a jolt. He devises alternatives to the Read More

2/4/98
I Giardini Dell'Eden

Actors: Kim Rossi Stuart, Saïd Taghmaoui, Boris Terral, Kassandra Voyagis, Renzo Stacchi

Synopsis: Alessandro D'Alatri directed this Italian drama about Jesus Christ, covering his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, an 18-year span not chronicled in the Bible. The film uses names of the period instead of names given in the Bible. The adult Jeoshua (Kim Rossi Stuart) reflects on past Read More

1998
Onorevoli Detenuti

Actors: Massimo De Francovich, Gianni Cavina, Chiara Muti, Saïd Taghmaoui, Franco Castellano

Synopsis: Accused of corruption and unwilling to squeal upon his alleged cohorts, well-known Italian politician Massimo De Longhi (Massimo De Francovich) exchanges the amenities of his cushy position for the harsher realities of prison life. Determined to get the information he needs from De Longhi, his Read More

1998
Hideous Kinky

Actors: Mohcine Barmouni, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. Read More

1998
Héroïnes

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Maïdi Roth, Marc Duret, Saïd Taghmaoui, Dominic Gould

Synopsis: This French drama, adapted from the novel Playback by Didier Daeninckx, centers on small-town girl Johanna (Virginie Ledoyen) who dreams of becoming a rock star. Johanna and her shy friend Jeanne (Maidi Roth) perform in a small mining town when Parisian Luc (Marc Duret), on a visit to close the Read More

8/27/97
La haine

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui, Francois Levantal, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the Read More

1995
Freres: La Roulette Rouge

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Samy Naceri, Veronique Octon, Maureen Diot

Synopsis: The gritty, grungy lives of urban teens provide the focus of this taut drama. This film is the last in the "Tous les Garcons et les Filles de Leur Age" series which profiles the teen eras of nine prominent directors. This film is set in Paris, 1990. Zakari, though only 13-years old, is running for Read More

1994