Lyes Salem
Lyès Salem (Algiers, 1973) is an Algerian actor and film director. His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France. Source: Article "Lyes Salem" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nous, les Leroy
A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.
Maria
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée
Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train inspector, dreams of being transferred to the South of France. To validate his transfer, he has to make one last routine run under the supervision of Madeleine, a slightly sociopathic inspector who won't let him go.
La vraie famille
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake.
Coupez!
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
Cigare au miel
Paris, 1993. Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets and is strongly attracted to Julien, a dashing young man, she realizes for the first time the heavy rules of her patriarchal family and how they affect her intimacy.
ADN
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
Je suis à vous tout de suite
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
Rock the Casbah
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for her father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Poupoupidou
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist.
La tête en friche
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Des filles en noir
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything...
Mascarades
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers.
Le premier jour du reste de ta vie
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
Munich
The political thriller based on the historical events and tragedies of the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich where 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team where kidnapped and killed. The film shows the Israeli secret service and how they acted. A Steven Spielberg film.
Banlieue 13
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.