Hichem Yacoubi

Hichem Yacoubi - is an actor of Moroccan descent whose most recent film was A Prophet (in French Un prophète) (2009) directed by Jacques Audiard. He studied theater (including a course at the Actor's Studio) and dance. He has appeared in several films including a short film which he co-directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Kupferstein. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hichem Yacoubi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Munich (2005)

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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Spielberg
CAST:  Eric Bana  •  Daniel Craig  •  Ciarán Hinds  •  Mathieu Kassovitz

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Spielberg
CAST:  Eric Bana  •  Daniel Craig  •  Ciarán Hinds  •  Mathieu Kassovitz

A Prophet (2009)

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Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Audiard
CAST:  Tahar Rahim  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Adel Bencherif  •  Hichem Yacoubi

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacques Audiard
CAST:  Tahar Rahim  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Adel Bencherif  •  Hichem Yacoubi

Timbuktu (2014)

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abderrahmane Sissako
CAST:  Ibrahim Ahmed  •  Toulou Kiki  •  Layla Walet Mohamed  •  Abel Jafri

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abderrahmane Sissako
CAST:  Ibrahim Ahmed  •  Toulou Kiki  •  Layla Walet Mohamed  •  Abel Jafri

Printemps tunisien (2014)

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DIRECTION:  Raja Amari
CAST:  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Anissa Daoud  •  Bahram Aloui  •  Bilel Briki

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DIRECTION:  Raja Amari
CAST:  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Anissa Daoud  •  Bahram Aloui  •  Bilel Briki

Thugocratie (2018)

Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  FGKO
CAST:  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Abel Jafri  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Jo Prestia

Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  FGKO
CAST:  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Abel Jafri  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Jo Prestia

The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tarik Saleh
CAST:  Fares Fares  •  Yasser Ali Maher  •  Mari Malek  •  Mohamed Yousry

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tarik Saleh
CAST:  Fares Fares  •  Yasser Ali Maher  •  Mari Malek  •  Mohamed Yousry

Un enfant en danger (2013)

Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother Christelle, with whom he's separated. However Rebecca had seven years earlier witnessed the man being extremely ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérôme Cornuau
CAST:  Aure Atika  •  Claire Borotra  •  Arié Elmaleh  •  Lannick Gautry

Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother Christelle, with whom he's separated. However Rebecca had seven years earlier witnessed the man being extremely ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérôme Cornuau
CAST:  Aure Atika  •  Claire Borotra  •  Arié Elmaleh  •  Lannick Gautry

Totem (2016)

Animals are walking on the deserted streets of the city. Karim has found a shelter on a rooftop overpeering Paris. He is waiting for Audrey to come for an interview. During this one-on-one everything is questioned. Man, woman, animal. There are no borders anymore, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Youri Tchao-Débats
CAST:  Lalla Kowska Régnier  •  Hichem Yacoubi

Animals are walking on the deserted streets of the city. Karim has found a shelter on a rooftop overpeering Paris. He is waiting for Audrey to come for an interview. During this one-on-one everything is questioned. Man, woman, animal. There are no borders anymore, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Youri Tchao-Débats
CAST:  Lalla Kowska Régnier  •  Hichem Yacoubi

Terremere (2014)

Abdoulaye is a suburbanite of about twenty years old. When one of his brothers dies after a road accident, he takes care of transporting the body back to the village of his parents in Mauritania.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aliou Sow
CAST:  Oumar Diaw  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Mahamadou Coulibaly  •  Almamy Kanoute

Abdoulaye is a suburbanite of about twenty years old. When one of his brothers dies after a road accident, he takes care of transporting the body back to the village of his parents in Mauritania.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aliou Sow
CAST:  Oumar Diaw  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Mahamadou Coulibaly  •  Almamy Kanoute

Arab Blues (2020)

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manele Labidi
CAST:  Golshifteh Farahani  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Majd Mastoura  •  Aïsha Ben Miled

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manele Labidi
CAST:  Golshifteh Farahani  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Majd Mastoura  •  Aïsha Ben Miled

The Breitner Commando (2019)

1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdel Raouf Dafri
CAST:  Linh-Dan Pham  •  Johan Heldenbergh  •  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Olivier Gourmet

1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdel Raouf Dafri
CAST:  Linh-Dan Pham  •  Johan Heldenbergh  •  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Olivier Gourmet

Ali's Circle (2020)

With the aid of a social worker, young Salman Ali is preparing to argue his case for permanent settlement in front of France’s National Court of Asylum. The process stirs up memories of a fateful game of buzkashi – Afghanistan’s national sport – and the life, land ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine Beauvois-Boetti
CAST:  Ogabek Rajabov  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Simaga Demba  •  Fraidon Mansori

With the aid of a social worker, young Salman Ali is preparing to argue his case for permanent settlement in front of France’s National Court of Asylum. The process stirs up memories of a fateful game of buzkashi – Afghanistan’s national sport – and the life, land ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine Beauvois-Boetti
CAST:  Ogabek Rajabov  •  Hichem Yacoubi  •  Simaga Demba  •  Fraidon Mansori

Speak No Evil (2022)

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christian Tafdrup
CAST:  Morten Burian  •  Sidsel Siem Koch  •  Fedja van Huêt  •  Karina Smulders

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christian Tafdrup
CAST:  Morten Burian  •  Sidsel Siem Koch  •  Fedja van Huêt  •  Karina Smulders

Ghost Trail (2024)

Hamid, is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer whom he must confront. Based on true events.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Millet  •  Olivier Boonjing
CAST:  Adam Bessa  •  Tawfeek Barhom  •  Julia Franz Richter  •  Hichem Yacoubi

Hamid, is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer whom he must confront. Based on true events.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Millet  •  Olivier Boonjing
CAST:  Adam Bessa  •  Tawfeek Barhom  •  Julia Franz Richter  •  Hichem Yacoubi