Zinedine Soualem Filmography

Roman de Gare

Actors: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Bernier

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's thriller Roman de Gare (aka Crossed Tracks) features a number of characters and a timeline that skips back and forth, keeping the audience guessing as to how these characters all relate to each other. Fanny Ardant plays a novelist named Judith whose famous works might have been Read More

Paris

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, François Cluzet

Synopsis: Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama from French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch. Pierre (Romain Duris) has enjoyed a successful career as a dancer performing in Parisian nightclubs, but when he's diagnosed with a serious heart condition, his Read More

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis

Actors: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne

Synopsis: A man born and raised on France's Southern coast is exiled to the Northern territories in this comedy from actor, director and screenwriter Dany Boon. Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) helps run the post office in a picturesque small town in the South of France. Philippe's wife Julie (Zoe Felix) has Read More

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

1 Day

Actors: Bruno Todeschini, Natacha Régnier, Noemie Kocher, Zinedine Soualem, Louis Dussol

Synopsis: The crumbling relationships within a suburban Geneva family are detailed from three distinctly unique perspectives in Swiss director Jacob Berger's insightful family drama. As the rain falls heavy outside his family's modest Meyrin apartment, radio newsman Serge (Bruno Todeschini) rises from bed Read More

The Nativity Story

Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig

Synopsis: Australian-born Whale Rider sensation and Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Annunciation, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. House of Sand and Fog's Shohreh Aghdashloo Read More

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

Dream House

Actors: Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost, Zinedine Soualem, Laurent Gamelon

Synopsis: A simple cottage in the country becomes an increasingly difficult matter for cash-strapped husband in this French comedy. Charles Boulin (Dany Boon) works for a mortgage company, where he has the unenviable job of overseeing the repossession of homes when owners default on their loans and Read More

Emmenez-Moi

Actors: Gérard Darmon, Zinedine Soualem, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Damien Jouillerot, Witold Heretynski

L'Incruste

Actors: Titoff, Frédéric Diefenthal, Zoe Felix, Agnes Soral, Zinedine Soualem

Ne Quittez Pas!

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Gélinas, Rachida Brakni, Dominique Pinon

Ni Pour Ni Contre (Bien Au Contaire)

Actors: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Zinedine Soualem, Simon Abkarian, Dimitri Storoge

Synopsis: A not-so-worldly twentysomething gets caught up with some shady Parisians in director Cedric Klapisch's 2003 crime comedy-drama Not for or Against. Wallflower camerawoman Caty (Marie Gillain) is three years into her career and residency in the French capital with little to show for it in the Read More

Silver Moumoute

Actors: Zinedine Soualem, Stéphanie Raphaël, Jean Dell, Enrico Di Giovanni, Farid Elouardi

Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

Ma camera et moi

Actors: Zinedine Soualem, Julie Gayet, Julien Collet, Isabelle Grare, Juliette Andrea

Synopsis: Christopher Loizillon's Ma Camera et Moi (My Camera and Me) is the story of Max (Zinedine Soualem), a young man obsessed with videotaping life. Adopted and later ignored by parents who eventually conceived a biological child of their own, Max becomes preoccupied with videotaping everything after Read More

Ah! Si j'etais riche

Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Richard Berry, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: French filmmakers Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz write and direct the comedy Ah! Si j'etais Riche (If I Were a Rich Man). Salesman Aldo (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is getting divorced from his wife Alice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). When he unexpectedly wins ten million euros in the lottery, he has to Read More

Inch'Allah Dimanche

Actors: Fejria Deliba, Zinedine Soualem, Marie-France Pisier, Mathilde Seigner, Rabia Mokedem

Synopsis: Set in 1974, when the French government decided to allow the families of Algerian men working in France to legally emigrate to join them, Inch'Allah Dimanche tells the story of one such family. Upon arriving in France with her three children, Zouina (Fejra Deliba), is sent off to live in a house Read More

La Maitresse en Maillot de Bain

Actors: Franck Gourlat, Eric Savin, Lyece Boukhitine, Jocelyne Desberchere, Paco Cabezas

L'ange de goudron

Actors: Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Trudeau, Rabah Ait Ouyahia, Hiam Abbass, Raymond Cloutier

Synopsis: Following up on his directorial debut Clandestins -- about desperate refugees stowing away on a ship -- Denis Chouinard created this taut thriller about immigrants after they have arrived on Canada's shores. Ahmed Kasmi and his family fled Algeria and he is now only a week away from getting his Read More

Mademoiselle

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Candelier, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: Two people with little in common enter into a brief, impulsive love affair in this comedy-drama. Pierre (Jacques Gamblin) is the leader of an improvisational comedy team known as The Unpredictables, who specialize in blending unnoticed into social functions and large gatherings, then making comic Read More

Voyance et Manigance

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Dieudonne, Anémone, Zinedine Soualem, Serge Hazanavicius

Banqueroute

Actors: Mathieu Demy, Gwendola Bothorel, Zinedine Soualem, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: Antoine Desrosieres directs this black comedy road flick about a coke-addled, misogynist stockbroker and an abandoned pregnant woman thrown together by fate. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Lila Lili

Actors: Alexia Monduit, Genevieve Tenne, Simon Abkarian, Zinedine Soualem, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home who are also pregnant the frequently asked question is whether they will keep their baby or not. In her first film, director Marie Vermillard Read More

Peut-être

Actors: Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas, Vincent Elbaz, Riton Liebman

Synopsis: What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom? French director Cedric Klapisch asks this question and many others in this oddball sci-fi flick. The film opens at a wild Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. After smoking a requist amount of Read More

Que La Lumière Soit

Actors: Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado, Pierre Arditi, Gordon Tootoosis

Synopsis: Arthur Joffe directed this French comic fantasy, in French and English dialogue, about God (voice of Pierre Arditi), invisible and spinning through Heavenly space on an asteroid, along with his sidekick angel Rene (Ticky Holgado). God observes Earthly events on His television set. After hacking Read More

Serial Lover

Actors: Michèle Laroque, Albert Dupontel, Elise Tielrooy, Michel Vuillermoz, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: James Huth co-scripted and made his directorial debut with this French comedy offering inventive and appealing aspects not unlike the memorable innovations that distinguished Delicatessen (1990). Crime fiction editor Claire (Michele Laroque of Ma Vie en Rose) lives in a jazzy, glass-bricked duplex Read More

Je Ne Vois Pas Ce Qu'on Me Trouve

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Karin Viard, Tara Romer, Estelle Larrivaz, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: Comedian Pierre Yves (stand-up comic Jackie Berroyer, who co-scripted) has an act based on his sexual hang-ups. With his adult son Arthur (Tara Romer), Pierre travels to his childhood hometown, drab industrial Lievin in northern France, for an all-night comedy festival. Fest staffer Monica (Karin Viard Read More

Messieurs Les Enfants

Actors: Pierre Arditi, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Jacob, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: This French family fantasy follows in the footsteps of the fine and funny Big (1988). Solemn French schoolteacher Albert Crastaing (Jean-Louis Richard) punishes a trio of 12-year-olds by having them write a Kafkaesque essay with a body-switching premise, cueing the film's storyline of kids Read More

Le Ciel est à nous

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Romane Bohringer, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Isaac Sharry, Jean-Claude Flamand

Synopsis: This film is the directorial debut of 29-year-old Graham Guit, who co-scripted with Eric Neve. Young Frenchman Lenny (Melvil Poupaud) takes some cocaine from London to Paris where he makes a risky connection with dapper drug dealer Joel (Jean-Phillippe Ecoffey) and his violent henchman Sammy (Issac Sharry Read More

Tenue Correcte Exigée

Actors: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Gamblin, Zabou

Synopsis: His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces charges of fraud. To save himself from nine months in jail he must find his wife and force her to tell the courts the truth, that though she has married Read More

Didier

Actors: Alain Chabat, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Gélinas, Caroline Cellier, Michel Hazanavicius

Synopsis: In this French fantasy-comedy, a magical moonbeam turns a dog into a man's best friend. Annabelle (Caroline Cellier) is a reporter who is sent on an overseas assignment and doesn't think it would be such a great idea to bring Didier, her Golden Retriever, along, so she leaves the pooch in the care Read More

Un Air de Famille

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Agnès Jaoui

Synopsis: In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri (Jean-Pierre Bacri) runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called "The Sleepy Dad," and in the Read More

L'Echappée Belle

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Anémone, Olivia Bonamy, Antoine Dulery

Synopsis: An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he Read More

When the Cat's Away...

Actors: Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Renee Le Calm, Olivier Py

Synopsis: When the Cat's Away is a gentle French comedy that explores the problems and anxieties of contemporary urbanites. When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay Read More

Les Apprentis

Actors: François Cluzet, Guillaume Depardieu, Judith Henry, Claire Laroche

Synopsis: Two losers find an especially bad way to beat the high cost of living in this off-beat comedy from France. Antoine (Francois Cluzet) aspires to write plays, but in the meantime he scrapes together a living writing articles for a martial arts magazine and creating crossword puzzles; he spends his Read More

Le Rocher D'Acapulco

Actors: Margot Abascal, Antoine Chappey, Zinedine Soualem, Howard Vernon

Un' Anima Divisa In Due

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Jessica Forde, Felice Andreasi

Synopsis: Many tribal people, including the Gypsies, have a form of marriage ceremony where the bride is ritually kidnapped from her home. Pietro De Leo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), a store security guard, spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in the custody of his Read More

Hanna K.

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri, David Clennon

Synopsis: In this political drama, Hannah Kaufman, a Jewish-American attorney, must defend Selim Bakri, a young Palestinian suing Israel for the right to live on his Left Bank ancestral land. The government's lawyer, a cocky Israeli attorney, is Hannah's lover and the father of her unborn child. Conflict Read More