Rachid El Ouali

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

Majda poster
8.0

Majda 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

Shadia poster
NR

A 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

Et après? poster
7.0

Mustapha, 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

Awlad Lablad poster
NR

Three 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

Solomon poster
6.8

David, 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

The Researcher poster
NR

Al 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

2010s · 12 titles

Awlad Lablad poster
NR

Three 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

YARA ZED poster
NR

YARA ZED is a Commercial Agent and goes around the world to sell a service for the less special …

YARA ZED

2018

By The Sea poster
NR

After 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

Satan's tears poster
NR

A 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

Nhar Tzad Tfa Dow poster
NR

A 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

Noah doesn't know how to swim poster
NR

Atil, 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

Al Massira: The Green March poster
NR

The 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

The Silence of Butterflies poster
NR

Malika, 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

Awili O Marhba poster
NR

Khalid 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

Promotion poster
NR

The 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

Laaziza poster
NR

Laaziza, 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

The giver is allah poster
NR

Lmaati 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

Majda poster
8.0

Majda 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

Shadia poster
NR

A 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

Et après? poster
7.0

Mustapha, 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

The Researcher poster
NR

Al 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

Goodbye Mothers poster
5.0

In 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

Jugement d'une femme poster
NR

Thoufa, a dancer, and a mother of a girl, gets condemned for killing her husband.

Jugement d'une femme

2002

Moroccan Dream poster
NR

Said, 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

Why Not...? poster
NR

Anbar, 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

Friends from Canada poster
NR

Adil 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

Allal Al Kalda poster
NR

Allal, 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

She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die 2 poster
6.0

Fakhita 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

Heaven's Doors poster
4.0

As 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

Les Amours de Haj Mokhtar Soldi poster
NR

The 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

Casablanca, Casablanca poster
5.0

The 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

Here and There poster
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

Solomon poster
6.8

David, 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

Five Films for a Hundred Years poster
NR

A collective film made to celebrate the centenary of cinema.

Five Films for a Hundred Years

1995

A Love Affair in Casablanca poster
10.0

The 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

Mektoub poster
6.4

A 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

Dreams thief poster
NR

During 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

Women's Wiles poster
6.5

As 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

Destin de femme poster
NR

Saida, 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

Un Simple Fait Divers poster
8.0

An 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

She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die poster
7.0

Hamid 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

هواجس بعد منتصف الليل poster
NR

After 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

Behind the camera

Noah doesn't know how to swim poster
NR

Atil, 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

Coup de tampon poster
NR

Larbi 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

Coup de tampon poster
NR

Larbi 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

Coup de tampon poster
NR

Larbi 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