
Acting
Rachid El Ouali
Born
1965-04-03 (61)
Place of birth
Rabat, Morocco
Known for
Acting
Credits
51 titles
Rachid El Ouali [Arabic: رشيد الوالي] is a Moroccan actor producer, and director, born in Rabat (on 3 April 1965). Began his career in 1983 by passing a Dramatic Art Contest at the National Theater Mohamed V, and studying for 4 years under the leadership of a great Moroccan director: Abbass Brahim. He started on the scene for the 1st time in 1986, and he quickly passed on to television where he playing a multiple roles of series and TV films. His first film role was in 1994 in "Thief of Dreams" by Hakim Noury. In 2004, after 20 years of career, he passed behind the camera with a short film "Nini Ya Med" In 2006 he founded his own production company CLAPRODUCTION; Then he made the short f…
Known for
8.0Majda is a musician and a zither instructor, who has been living a happy and quiet life with her husband, who runs a restaurant. However, the winds of treachery and infidelity threaten to blow her quiet home when an old lover appears.
Majda
2004
NRA visual artist faces financial obstacles that prevent him from achieving his goals. A wealthy woman takes care of his finances, and he accepts her marriage proposal. Although she provides financial assistance, he is unhappy and dreams about Chadia, a fictional woman he paints who lives with him and nearly becomes real. Her effect is unavoidable, making his wife jealous.
Shadia
2001
7.0Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandestinely reach the Spanish shores in the hope of a bright future.
Et après?
2002
NRThree unemployed university graduates—M'Faddal, Abdelhamid, and Abdeslam—who struggle to find work and face harsh economic realities before considering drastic choices like illegal emigration.
Awlad Lablad
2010
6.8David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
Solomon
1997
NRAl Bahit (The Researcher) – A man obsessed with cracking the lottery system becomes convinced he has discovered a foolproof method to predict winning numbers. Drawing others into his scheme, he risks everything in pursuit of easy wealth—only to face the harsh consequences of addiction, illusion, and misplaced trust.
The Researcher
2007
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRThe story follows three young men, an engineer, a professor, and a scientist, who live under one roof, as well as Rahma, the young woman who handles the house chores. Problems begin when Rahma discovers her pregnancy, and she claims that Tawfiq is the father.
The Shared House
2020
NRAll that one could wish for in this life was provided to Haj Idris, a family united by love and harmony, a jewelry store and huge wealth. Everything was fine, until the day a person known as Sharif crept into the life of Haj Idris.
Cherif Moul El Baraka
2021
2010s · 12 titles
NRThree unemployed university graduates—M'Faddal, Abdelhamid, and Abdeslam—who struggle to find work and face harsh economic realities before considering drastic choices like illegal emigration.
Awlad Lablad
2010
NRYARA ZED is a Commercial Agent and goes around the world to sell a service for the less special …
YARA ZED
2018
NRAfter Saadia, a cleaning woman working at a cinema, lost two of her sons in attempts to illegally immigrate, she is devastated by the disappearance of her third son, who is also trying to emigrate the same way. Saadia embarks on a desperate search for her son, traversing the hidden corners and outskirts of Casablanca and navigating the networks of smugglers and human traffickers, hoping to find him. Along the way, she encounters Zouhair, a homeless boy who impersonates Commissioner Mouaiti and offers to help Saadia. Together, they embark on a journey that intersects with their search for both father and son.
By The Sea
2015
NRA long-term political prisoner leaves the prison with the idea of taking revenge on the person responsible for his torture in prison: a former soldier who is preparing to travel with his family to southern Morocco.
Satan's tears
2016
NRA man one day discovers a clone that looks like him. Not satisfied with being a creature that no one wants to have in his paws, the clone steals his entire life from the human by living it in his place...
Nhar Tzad Tfa Dow
2011
NRAtil, born without arms, living in the care of his father, Noah, who lost his wife to drowning in the river. Jimana, came to Noah after putting an end to the life of her stepfather, the tribal elder, who raped her, forcing the three parties into the path to escape the dock with a murder.
Noah doesn't know how to swim
2017
NRThe Green March is a film where the destinies of a handful of men and women intertwine, all united by the common goal of peacefully fighting for the freedom of a colonized territory, driven by the same dream: to contribute to the construction of modern Morocco. It is also the story of Zhor, who risked her life 40 years ago to bring her child into the world on the land of occupied Moroccan Sahara.
Al Massira: The Green March
2016
NRMalika, a mathematics professor faces deep problems with her husband. As a result, she seeks treatment from psychiatrist Omar, who tries hard to instill hope in her and make her cling to life.
The Silence of Butterflies
2018
NRKhalid and Mounia, a married couple, visit a friend and his wife for the weekend. They accidentally discover through a phone call that they aren't actually welcome. Feeling insulted, they decide to get their dignity back and set up a little scheme to get revenge.
Awili O Marhba
2013
NRThe plot is about an employee who hears that he's been promoted and transferred, then travels with his wife before everything is officially confirmed, leading to various comic situations.
Promotion
2015
NRLaaziza, 7 months pregnant, is rejected without consideration by her husband. She will give birth at her big brother’s house and will live there with her son Ihsan. Few years later, Ihsan will begin his first year at school, when his father shows his desire to have him back.
Laaziza
2018
NRLmaati is a stingy old man, After he inherits a lot of money from his dead cousin, His children fatine and Mehdi think they will live a better life but Lmaati refuse to change، things become complicated when he fall in love with Latifa
The giver is allah
2017
2000s · 15 titles
8.0Majda is a musician and a zither instructor, who has been living a happy and quiet life with her husband, who runs a restaurant. However, the winds of treachery and infidelity threaten to blow her quiet home when an old lover appears.
Majda
2004
NRA visual artist faces financial obstacles that prevent him from achieving his goals. A wealthy woman takes care of his finances, and he accepts her marriage proposal. Although she provides financial assistance, he is unhappy and dreams about Chadia, a fictional woman he paints who lives with him and nearly becomes real. Her effect is unavoidable, making his wife jealous.
Shadia
2001
7.0Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandestinely reach the Spanish shores in the hope of a bright future.
Et après?
2002
NRAl Bahit (The Researcher) – A man obsessed with cracking the lottery system becomes convinced he has discovered a foolproof method to predict winning numbers. Drawing others into his scheme, he risks everything in pursuit of easy wealth—only to face the harsh consequences of addiction, illusion, and misplaced trust.
The Researcher
2007
5.0In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.
Goodbye Mothers
2008
NRThoufa, a dancer, and a mother of a girl, gets condemned for killing her husband.
Jugement d'une femme
2002
NRSaid, a Moroccan émigré in Switzerland,arrives one day in a village in the High Atlas. He announced from the start the reason for his arrival in the village. He did not come to go sightseeing or visit family, but his reasons are professional or rather pecuniary. Said tells villagers that he has come to recruit young people who, after an accelerated training in Europe, will become future athletes like Hicham El Guerrouj. Soon the inhabitants of the village, women and children, are interested. They all dream of changing the course of their lives.
Moroccan Dream
2007
NRAnbar, a naïve yet pure-hearted man, falls for a girl who vanishes mysteriously after her stepfather discovers their secret love letters. As he searches for work, he faces misfortunes and touching encounters with his quirky neighbors.
Why Not...?
2005
NRAdil and Sanae, two young Moroccans studying in Canada, they live a love story that makes them hasten to return home for marriage. However, Sanaa's affluent family does not agree with this relationship, which it considers to be a bit hasty, especially since the fiancé is descended from a poor assets, but marriage is still done. After the wedding Adel returns to Canada shortly before his visa expires, while Sanaa and her Canadian friend Louise, they stayed for another week. On the day trip from Casablanca airport, customs officers find their wedding videos filled with cocaine. Inspector Shukri is driving a thorough investigation to find out the source of cocaine to arrive finally at surprising results
Friends from Canada
2004
NRAllal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.
Allal Al Kalda
2003
6.0Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.
She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die 2
2005
4.0As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an episodic narrative, with three related substories presented sequentially. The Nourys shoot the episodes in distinct cinematographic styles (and with distinct overtones) suited to each tale, recalling Humberto Solas's masterpiece Lucia (1969).
Heaven's Doors
2006
NRThe film revolves around a comic character in which he sarcastically discusses many of the issues in Moroccan society, with El Hadji El Souledi, a candidate for elections in Casablanca, whose character is a symbol of illegal wealth and moral corruption. His life is divided among bars, nightclubs and prostitution. While the police officer Adel and beautiful names that are associated with the life of the child and trying to get rid of it and corruption so that they succeed in the latter in it.
Les Amours de Haj Mokhtar Soldi
2001
5.0The story of Aicha, a young girl who disappears one day, and whose father lives a difficult life that gets even worse after her disappearance.
Casablanca, Casablanca
2002
NR“Rahal” immigrated to Europe forty years ago. Scandalized by the behavior of his eldest son who participated in a heist, he decides to return to Morocco for good. In his native country, “Rahal” intends to take matters into his own hands. Events take another detour.
Here and There
2004
1990s · 10 titles
6.8David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
Solomon
1997
NRA collective film made to celebrate the centenary of cinema.
Five Films for a Hundred Years
1995
10.0The film is considered one of the first Moroccan cinematic tapes that tried to convey Moroccan reality with its traditions and customs to the cinema screen in a bold way, especially the issue of sex in Moroccan society, an issue that cinematographic works have always avoided before.
A Love Affair in Casablanca
1991
6.4A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.
Mektoub
1997
NRDuring his 5 years of detention, Mehdi has questioned his life, and is considering the future. The future: Canada, where he wants to purify himself to be reborn again. Fate wanted him to meet Driss, a young marginal. Everything separates the 2 men. However, they have one thing in common: loneliness. A great friendship will be born between the 2 men, who will reveal their life, their anxieties and their dreams.
Dreams thief
1995
6.5As the son of the Sultan loves Aisha, the pampered daughter of the merchant, they both play tricks on each other to determine who is the most intelligent, a man or a woman.
Women's Wiles
1999
NRSaida, a young executive in a big company, meets Hamid, a 35-year-old computer scientist. They decide to get married, convinced both to have made the right choice. After a few years of happiness and stability, their marriage begins to rock.
Destin de femme
1998
8.0An old journalist, Omar, remembers the 70s and Salim a young 35-year-old journalist who had dared to investigate a corrupt senior state official. Omar knows it's a fight lost in advance but Salim refuses to let go. He resists because his duty as a journalist and his contempt for the untouchables who believe themselves above the law incite him to take all risks. But one day, the newspapers announce the death of Salim, cowardly murdered by a burglar. In short, a simple fact.
Un Simple Fait Divers
1997
7.0Hamid is shared between his wife Souad, his mistress Leïla, and his mother-in-law Hajja. Zhor, the servant is the guardians mistress. Brahim is Hamids scapegoat, until the day when he catches him red-handed. Hamid is blackmailed...
She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die
1999
NRAfter completing his studies and returning home, Adil settled in the city of Ifrane and works as a professor of art education, but the ghost of the girl he had previously known and abandoned He's been follow him.
هواجس بعد منتصف الليل
1999
Series credits
9.0Thirty years after her father was killed and her house was burned down, Samra returns to her village seeking revenge from the tyrant who caused it all. But her mission will not be easy, and she will have to go through a set of challenges in order to achieve her goal.
Jorouh
2022
10.0As the famous lawyer Saad El Ghali lives a quiet life with his family, things take a shocking turn, the father tries hard to keep his family together, despite their vengeance-driven stories and their psychological conflicts and traumas.
Al Madi La Yamout
2019
10.0Chef Rashid invests all his money to open his own restaurant, but the project fails, and in a desperate attempt to save it, he reluctantly enters into a partnership with somebody, unaware that he may destroy all his dreams.
Mal Al Donia
2023
NRThe series reflects the daily suffering and struggle of women on several levels, at work and at home, where they do homework, take care of their children, and take care of the various details that relate to their small family.
Jrit O Jarit
2022
NRFollows an elite police unit traveling across Morocco to pursue organized crime while confronting personal struggles that shape them into deeply human and empathetic characters.
K1
2026
NRNo synopsis available yet.
جريت وجاريت
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hiya
2020
Behind the camera
NRAtil, born without arms, living in the care of his father, Noah, who lost his wife to drowning in the river. Jimana, came to Noah after putting an end to the life of her stepfather, the tribal elder, who raped her, forcing the three parties into the path to escape the dock with a murder.
Noah doesn't know how to swim
2017
NRLarbi Trach is a retired Moroccan migrant worker who has lived in France for over fifty years. One day, he learns that not only is he suffering from a serious illness, but that he has only three months to live. The shock, which is great, is coupled with a serious question: how will he break such dramatic news to his children? Turning the question in his head, he plunges into the past, revisiting his early years in Morocco.
Coup de tampon
2023
NRLarbi Trach is a retired Moroccan migrant worker who has lived in France for over fifty years. One day, he learns that not only is he suffering from a serious illness, but that he has only three months to live. The shock, which is great, is coupled with a serious question: how will he break such dramatic news to his children? Turning the question in his head, he plunges into the past, revisiting his early years in Morocco.
Coup de tampon
2023
NRLarbi Trach is a retired Moroccan migrant worker who has lived in France for over fifty years. One day, he learns that not only is he suffering from a serious illness, but that he has only three months to live. The shock, which is great, is coupled with a serious question: how will he break such dramatic news to his children? Turning the question in his head, he plunges into the past, revisiting his early years in Morocco.
Coup de tampon
2023

