Slimane Dazi

Acting

Slimane Dazi

Born

1960-05-16 (66)

Place of birth

Nanterre, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Slimane Dazi was born on May 26, 1960, in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor, known for Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), A Prophet (2009) and Hold Back (2012).

Known for

The Nile Hilton Incident poster
6.6

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

The Nile Hilton Incident

2017

Only Lovers Left Alive poster
7.2

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013

About Last Night... poster
8.5

Each episode features different groups of friends telling each other about their latest crazy antics. This is a tribute to people who sacrifice their dignity to have good anecdotes to tell their mates.

About Last Night...

2020

Oussekine poster
7.0

An examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young student, Malik Oussekine. Centred on his family’s fight for justice, the series explores the enormous impact this high-profile case had on French society.

Oussekine

2022

Agent Zero poster
5.6

When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana her former secret service unit officer.

Agent Zero

2025

Simple Passion poster
5.8

A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.

Simple Passion

2021

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

Agent Zero poster
5.6

When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana her former secret service unit officer.

Agent Zero

2025

Simple Passion poster
5.8

A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.

Simple Passion

2021

Freedom poster
6.3

Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured public attention for his many daring escapes from police custody...always to reunite with his beloved lover and accomplice Annie, becoming both France's Public Enemy #1 and an icon of Freedom.

Freedom

2024

Gold Brick poster
6.1

Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.

Gold Brick

2023

Algerican Road poster
NR

Slimane, an old, weary, and sick trucker, and Smaïn, his loader, are tasked with transporting a cargo deep into the Algerian Sahara. Along the way, they are violently attacked and their truck is stolen. When Anna, a young French researcher, and Sofiane, her traveling companion, come to their aid, the film plunges with them into the desert.

Algerican Road

2026

Serpent's Path poster
6.0

A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.

Serpent's Path

2024

For My Country poster
6.2

Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.

For My Country

2023

The Temple Woods Gang poster
5.9

A retired military man lives in the Temple Woods housing project. Just as he’s burying his mother, his neighbour Bébé, who belongs to a gang of robbers from the area, is preparing to rob the convoy of a wealthy Arab prince.

The Temple Woods Gang

2022

Romantique poster
5.0

After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. This time he will do his best.

Romantique

2022

Parisian Hustle poster
5.2

The story hones in on Mia, a 25-year-old Parisian who works in a nail bar on Rue des Dames. Unbeknownst to her employer and in exchange for money, she arranges access, for some of the salon’s female clients, to sought-after parties attended by high-profile footballers…

Parisian Hustle

2023

Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border poster
NR

In the rocky desert Algerian border country, Fethi and his fellow villagers eke out a living smuggling goods – mostly petrol – into Tunisia, working at night and paying off the local crime lords. Saad, a film-maker trying to raise money to finish his movie, has worked for a year with Fethi. He lives in his family’s shed, included as part of a loving household as well as their risky business. At the same time he is obviously an outsider: smartly dressed and prepared to talk back to anyone, including the imam. Tough, gritty but also moodily atmospheric, its tension sustained by a tumultuous soundscape, theis remarkable film delves deeply into the complexities of family, friendship and daily survival.

Bin U Bin, Elsewhere the Border

2024

Toute l'Algérie du monde poster
NR

The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.

Toute l'Algérie du monde

2021

Blackbird poster
5.5

In the depths of winter, a mysterious young woman lands in a caravan camping in the middle of a forest. There, she meets two other lonely souls: a taciturn former boxer turned hunter and a young dreamer with a passion for puzzles, working at the reception desk. By her side, a blackbird seems to follow her like a shadow, its songs resonating like an echo from the past.

Blackbird

2025

Dew Point poster
NR

When his older brother forgets a little orange stick, seven-year-old Noah decides to face the vast world and bring it back to him. A strange journey begins, during which his brother's portrait and a foggy and disturbing time will emerge.

Dew Point

2021

Le Petit Photographe poster
NR

Nathan, 14, is bored during his vacation. He learns at his neighborhood agency that the city is holding a photography contest. To win first prize, a trip, and finally go on vacation with his mother, Nathan must find a camera. The most accessible one is that of Farid, his old and mysterious neighbor. Nathan, 14 ans, s'ennuie pendant ses vacances. ll apprend à la régie de son quartier que la ville organise un concours photo. Pour remporter le premier prix, un voyage, et enfin partir en vacances avec sa mère, Nathan doit trouver un appareil photo. Le plus accessible est celui de Farid, son vieux et mystérieux voisin.

Le Petit Photographe

2025

The Horizon poster
8.2

On the northern outskirts of Paris, where housing projects rise out of fields, Adja, 18, burns with the desire to live intensely. While her brother breaks out as a pro soccer player, her best friend blows up as an influencer on social media, and her mother struggles to save her hometown in Senegal, Adja has only a blurred vision of her future. With Arthur, who becomes more than a friend, her political and environmental awareness rises, and Adja joins the fight of her generation.

The Horizon

2022

The Love poster
6.5

Rotterdam, the Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to finally break the silence. But in order to be accepted, he must come to terms with his own feelings first.

The Love

2022

Tom Medina poster
5.5

Tom Medina is sent by a juvenile judge to the Camargue, to live with Ulysses, a kind-hearted man in tune with nature. Inhabited by visions, fascinated by bulls and horses, Tom learns the trade of a herdsman at Ulysses’ side. He no longer steals and now thirsts for knowledge and aspires to become someone else. Revolted by the hostility which does not change towards him, he fights against his destiny and crosses the road of Suzanne…

Tom Medina

2021

Shukran poster
NR

In 2011 the Syrian people rise up against the Assad regime. When Dr. Haider, a pediatric heart surgeon, loses his brother in a terrorist attack, he decides to fulfill his last wish, finding himself questioning everything he has always believed in.

Shukran

2023

2010s · 39 titles

The Nile Hilton Incident poster
6.6

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

The Nile Hilton Incident

2017

Only Lovers Left Alive poster
7.2

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013

Exit Plan poster
5.9

Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.

Exit Plan

2019

Street Flow poster
6.9

Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

Street Flow

2019

A Stormy Summer Night poster
4.4

Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in a tiny hotel in a small Andalusian city. This small city has been the scene of a crime of passion. The police search the murderer, an immigrant worker. The whole city is aroused by this murderous act which roused resentment and a dangerous desire for vengeance...

A Stormy Summer Night

2015

It Must Be Heaven poster
6.5

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

It Must Be Heaven

2019

South Terminal poster
5.2

In a Mediterranean country plunging into armed conflict, a doctor tries to do his duty against all odds, until the day his destiny is turned upside down…

South Terminal

2019

The Angel poster
6.5

True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.

The Angel

2018

96 heures poster
5.4

Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who gave him.

96 heures

2014

Sweetness in the Belly poster
6.2

Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.

Sweetness in the Belly

2019

The Forbidden Room poster
5.6

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

The Forbidden Room

2015

Orchestra Class poster
6.4

A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.

Orchestra Class

2017

Wolf poster
6.7

A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.

Wolf

2013

Last Call for Nowhere poster
5.7

French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!

Last Call for Nowhere

2016

Vénéneuses poster
5.0

An aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde who asks him to kill her uncle (Richard Bohringer) because he guards her money but prevents her from using it. She asks the gangster to kill him and that way she won't turn the gangster in - she knows he's escaped. The gangster prepares to kill the uncle, except that he realizes he's a very good guy. He becomes friends with the uncle. He won't kill him and will simulate the murder.

Vénéneuses

2017

Pyromanes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pyromanes

2019

Terrain Vague poster
6.0

A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his sexuality.

Terrain Vague

2017

Fevers poster
6.9

Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 13-year old has been shunted from one care home to another. When his mother has to go to prison, he is sent to his father, whom he has never known. The man turns out to be a dead loss, a warehouseman who's given up on life, a man in his mid-40s who still lives with his Moroccan parents in a high-rise block in the banlieue. Benjamin's turbulence and violence soon prove too much for his new family.

Fevers

2014

Hold Back poster
5.1

Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo still rooted in the mentalities of the two communities: no marriages between Blacks and Arabs. Slimane, the elder brother, and guardian of traditions, will oppose this union in every way possible.

Hold Back

2012

Full Contact poster
4.5

Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose in life after accidentally bombing a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far away air force base, has never been to the foreign countries of his attacks, nor has he ever touched the plane he uses to kill. Modern warfare keeps him safe and disconnected from his prey. However, after this incident Ivan's disconnectedness starts to apply to everything in his life. He is overwhelmed by feelings of guilt that he is unable to process.

Full Contact

2015

The Tower poster
7.1

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

The Tower

2018

Chouf poster
6.3

Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence…

Chouf

2016

Paris Prestige poster
5.8

Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PRESTIGE, his brother's bar located right next to the Moulin Rouge, in the heart of Pigalle - one of Paris’ most diverse and rawest neighborhoods. But deep wounds between the two brothers make this collaboration difficult from the start, and even more so when Nasser decides to get back in the game by throwing exclusive parties against his brother's will.

Paris Prestige

2017

Two Birds, One Stone poster
4.2

Zayane is 75. Since arriving in France, she has never left her neighborhood. One day, she receives a letter informing her of the death of a man she once knew in Algeria. She sets off on a day trip to collect a box that the deceased left her. During her absence, her eleven children gather in her apartment and discover a part of their mother's life that was previously unknown to them all...

Two Birds, One Stone

2016

Force poster
4.6

Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison. Commander Damico promises him freedom in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses. There is no other solution, she is obliged to compel him by force.

Force

2011

I'm Not Dead poster
NR

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"

I'm Not Dead

2013

Welcome to Norway! poster
6.0

A couple decide to open a home for refugees in the remote cold mountains of Norway.

Welcome to Norway!

2016

Totems poster
5.0

After completing her PHD thesis on The Unknown Soldier, Adele returns to her rural hometown to look after her grandfather. Like a modern-day Antigone, her grandfather is a rebellious writer who has secretly kept the remains of a soldier from World War I buried at the bottom of their garden.

Totems

2014

Stray Sheep poster
NR

He literally falls from the sky. Azad, a young man carrying a little lamb in a suitcase, on his way to a new life: a wedding with a Dutch-Kurdish woman. The road to this wedding is an absurd, surprising and poetic one, with the young bloke being afflicted by all sorts of unexpected setbacks. What does he give up by coming over here and what does he gain by marrying a woman he has never met? In this allegorical film, the search for a better life is visualised in an intense way.

Stray Sheep

2018

Ink poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ink

2010

Si proche des miens poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Si proche des miens

2013

This Path Ahead poster
NR

An ordinary suburban town. The presence of law enforcement in the neighborhood leads to a confrontation between young people and the police when night falls. The eldest son of a fatherless family, an illegitimate child and asthmatic, is sent by his mother to find Mehdi, the 17-year-old youngest son, the beloved child.

This Path Ahead

2012

To Hell with Codes poster
6.8

Despite their high-security building, Death could easily get into their apartment.

To Hell with Codes

2018

Your Violence poster
8.0

A lawyer and his daughter are the victims of a brutal assault. When the police find the perfect suspect, an obsessive search for the truth begins. As the man himself walking the line between distressed father and ethical lawyer, he is faced with an inner struggle of conscience.

Your Violence

2014

Rabat poster
6.5

Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected.

Rabat

2011

Your Mother Should Know poster
6.8

A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.

Your Mother Should Know

2018

Home Suite Home poster
7.5

Ludwig is an aging hotel inspector who’s become bored with his luxury lifestyle. When he meets a young woman in Paris, it might just be the wake-up call he needed.

Home Suite Home

2015

Jules poster
NR

In the aftermath of a passionate relationship, a young woman, Jules, embarks upon new experiences through a series of encounters, consciously seeking to hurt herself in order to feel more alive.

Jules

2016

Vagabondes poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabondes

2019

Series credits

About Last Night... poster
8.5

Each episode features different groups of friends telling each other about their latest crazy antics. This is a tribute to people who sacrifice their dignity to have good anecdotes to tell their mates.

About Last Night...

2020

Oussekine poster
7.0

An examination of the terrible true events of December 5, 1986, that led to the death of a young student, Malik Oussekine. Centred on his family’s fight for justice, the series explores the enormous impact this high-profile case had on French society.

Oussekine

2022

The Source poster
6.9

In 2005, in a French suburb, a drug bust shatters the network of a family of drug dealers. Driss, a brilliant student, is forced to take over the family business, setting off on a downward spiral. Facing him is William, an ambitious and idealistic young cop who will do everything in his power to stop him. Their relentless struggle will take them from the suburbs to the Ourika valley.

The Source

2024

Ammo poster
6.7

The Norwegian arms industry is in the midst of the introduction of artificial intelligence. Bjørn is given responsibility for a large arms deal. Who will be the scapegoat if innocents are killed with these weapons?

Ammo

2022

The Countess of Monte Cristo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Countess of Monte Cristo

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Taken Down poster
6.4

Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.

Taken Down

2018