Abel Jafri

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The Passion of the Christ (2004)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Gibson
CAST:  Jim Caviezel  •  Maia Morgenstern  •  Christo Jivkov  •  Francesco De Vito

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Gibson
CAST:  Jim Caviezel  •  Maia Morgenstern  •  Christo Jivkov  •  Francesco De Vito

Zabana! (2012)

Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saïd Ould-Khelifa
CAST:  Imad Benchenni  •  Khaled Benaissa  •  Abel Jafri  •  Nicolas Pignon

Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saïd Ould-Khelifa
CAST:  Imad Benchenni  •  Khaled Benaissa  •  Abel Jafri  •  Nicolas Pignon

Smugglers' Songs (2011)

Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Jacques Nolot  •  Christian Milia-Darmezin  •  Kenji Levan  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Jacques Nolot  •  Christian Milia-Darmezin  •  Kenji Levan  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Bled Number One (2006)

Hardly freed from a French prison, Kamel is deported in his native state, Algeria, and discovers a country split between modernity and tradition.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Meriem Serbah  •  Abel Jafri  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Farida Ouchani

Hardly freed from a French prison, Kamel is deported in his native state, Algeria, and discovers a country split between modernity and tradition.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Meriem Serbah  •  Abel Jafri  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Farida Ouchani

Dernier maquis (2008)

Talk of living wages and religious observances upsets the delicate accord between the boss of a run-down truck yard and his workers in this visually arresting take on the French-Algerian immigrant experience.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Abel Jafri  •  Sylvain Roumette  •  Christian Milia-Darmezin

Talk of living wages and religious observances upsets the delicate accord between the boss of a run-down truck yard and his workers in this visually arresting take on the French-Algerian immigrant experience.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Abel Jafri  •  Sylvain Roumette  •  Christian Milia-Darmezin

The Three Kings (2001)

The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Bourdon  •  Bernard Campan
CAST:  Didier Bourdon  •  Bernard Campan  •  Pascal Légitimus  •  Virginie de Clausade

The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Didier Bourdon  •  Bernard Campan
CAST:  Didier Bourdon  •  Bernard Campan  •  Pascal Légitimus  •  Virginie de Clausade

Juliette (2013)

Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Godeau
CAST:  Astrid Bergès-Frisbey  •  Féodor Atkine  •  Yannik Landrein  •  Élodie Bouchez

Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Godeau
CAST:  Astrid Bergès-Frisbey  •  Féodor Atkine  •  Yannik Landrein  •  Élodie Bouchez

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

Road to Istanbul (2016)

Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rachid Bouchareb
CAST:  Astrid Whettnall  •  Pauline Burlet  •  Patricia Ide  •  Abel Jafri

Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rachid Bouchareb
CAST:  Astrid Whettnall  •  Pauline Burlet  •  Patricia Ide  •  Abel Jafri

Story of Judas (2015)

A man ascends a barren summit. It is Judas, come to collect Jesus and carry him down the mountain on his back, joking and panting as he does so. After bathing in the river and taking part in a henna ceremony, Jesus leaves for Jerusalem. Judas is concerned for his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Nabil Djedouani  •  Mohamed Aroussi  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Marie Loustalot

A man ascends a barren summit. It is Judas, come to collect Jesus and carry him down the mountain on his back, joking and panting as he does so. After bathing in the river and taking part in a henna ceremony, Jesus leaves for Jerusalem. Judas is concerned for his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
CAST:  Nabil Djedouani  •  Mohamed Aroussi  •  Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche  •  Marie Loustalot

Dans la tourmente (2012)

Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, décide avec Max, son ami de ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christophe Ruggia
CAST:  Clovis Cornillac  •  Mathilde Seigner  •  Yvan Attal  •  Céline Sallette

Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, décide avec Max, son ami de ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christophe Ruggia
CAST:  Clovis Cornillac  •  Mathilde Seigner  •  Yvan Attal  •  Céline Sallette

Leila (2011)

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DIRECTION:  Audrey Estrougo
CAST:  Leïla Bekhti  •  Benjamin Siksou  •  Cécile Cassel  •  Chantal Lauby

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DIRECTION:  Audrey Estrougo
CAST:  Leïla Bekhti  •  Benjamin Siksou  •  Cécile Cassel  •  Chantal Lauby

Lady Blood (2008)

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Marc Vincent
CAST:  Emmanuelle Escourrou  •  Philippe Nahon  •  Serge Riaboukine  •  Shirley Bousquet

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Marc Vincent
CAST:  Emmanuelle Escourrou  •  Philippe Nahon  •  Serge Riaboukine  •  Shirley Bousquet

Asylum (2008)

Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Chateau
CAST:  Julien Courbey  •  Jean-Marie Lamour  •  Jacques Frantz  •  Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olivier Chateau
CAST:  Julien Courbey  •  Jean-Marie Lamour  •  Jacques Frantz  •  Jean-Pierre Kalfon

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

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

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In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luc Besson
CAST:  Dane DeHaan  •  Cara Delevingne  •  Clive Owen  •  Rihanna

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luc Besson
CAST:  Dane DeHaan  •  Cara Delevingne  •  Clive Owen  •  Rihanna

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Scott
CAST:  Dhanush  •  Bérénice Bejo  •  Barkhad Abdi  •  Erin Moriarty

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Scott
CAST:  Dhanush  •  Bérénice Bejo  •  Barkhad Abdi  •  Erin Moriarty

Jalousie (1991)

Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kathleen Fonmarty
CAST:  Lio  •  Christian Vadim  •  Odette Laure  •  Véronique Delbourg

Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kathleen Fonmarty
CAST:  Lio  •  Christian Vadim  •  Odette Laure  •  Véronique Delbourg

La femme à abattre (1993)

A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Pinon
CAST:  Aurélien Recoing  •  Marie Bunel  •  Patrick Lizana  •  Valérie Vogt

A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Pinon
CAST:  Aurélien Recoing  •  Marie Bunel  •  Patrick Lizana  •  Valérie Vogt
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