Driss Roukhe

Acting

Driss Roukhe

Born

1968-07-05 (58)

Place of birth

Meknès, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Babel poster
7.2

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Babel

2006

Green Zone poster
6.5

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Green Zone

2010

Rendition poster
6.4

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Rendition

2007

Arn: The Knight Templar poster
7.6

Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.

Arn: The Knight Templar

2010

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter poster
5.8

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter

2012

The Shore Waves poster
NR

Hemaida is a young man who leaves his mother to travel to the city of Casablanca, where his friend Al Arabi is going to help him find a job and provide him with accommodation. However, he faces many problems while he is there when he discovers that his friend works in drug trafficking.

The Shore Waves

2001

Film credits

2010s · 13 titles

Green Zone poster
6.5

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Green Zone

2010

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter poster
5.8

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter

2012

Black Gold poster
6.5

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.

Black Gold

2011

Dallas poster
7.0

Dallas is a director forced to make a film to get out of a bad financial situation, he associates with a rich businessman who is a passionate film cinephile. During the shooting, the main actor dies. A crazy adventure full of twists and turns and humor ensues.

Dallas

2016

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

Pegasus poster
5.5

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.

Pegasus

2010

Love in the Medina poster
NR

In the Medina of Casablanca, Thami, a young man from a conservative family with a lineage of honourable Koranic lawyers, incenses his father as he decides to enter the profession of butchery. Whilst handling the meats, he soon discovers another taboo passion: women and love. “Love in the Medina” is about a journey of initiation, a quest for freedom and Thami’s revolution of romance in ever-changing Morocco.

Love in the Medina

2011

Burnout poster
NR

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.

Burnout

2017

The Evil Slave poster
8.0

Three lives collide and go over the dark side.

The Evil Slave

2015

Traitors poster
5.8

Malika, a punk rocker, agrees to smuggle drugs to save her family from eviction and fund her band's studio time, but her mission becomes complicated when she decides to help her fellow mule, Amal, escape.

Traitors

2013

Life poster
NR

The film counts the return trip of thirty Moroccan immigrants from their country of emigration to their home country in a bus. It tells the several events happening among a group of people forced to coexist in a single, narrow space despite the differences of their worlds and their cultural backgrounds.

Life

2017

Chaïbia poster
NR

Chaibia spends her childhood and adolescence in poverty and in the illiteracy. Her life changes when she is contacted with the paints of her son. The true history of the great painter Chaibia Talal from Morocco.

Chaïbia

2015

Karyane Bollywood poster
NR

The protagonist is obsessed with the 1982 film Disco Dancer that his now deceased projectionist father showed him when he was a kid, a film that, his father said, contains the answers to all questions. Jimmy adopts the name and dress of its hero, his bedroom is an altar to Bollywood and disco, he lives in a state of arrested development that starts and stops with Disco Dancer. Of course, he is in love with Mouna, the dream girl who lives on the other side of the tracks, and whose bourgeois demeanor rubs up his pal, Houda, the wrong way. In order to get to her, the dazzled thirty-year old dreamer decides to shoot a remake of Dirty Dancer with a “borrowed” IPhone, in the slums. The destruction of the latter is imminent, under the harsh command of a cruel villain: Barkour.

Karyane Bollywood

2015

2000s · 18 titles

Babel poster
7.2

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Babel

2006

Rendition poster
6.4

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Rendition

2007

The Shore Waves poster
NR

Hemaida is a young man who leaves his mother to travel to the city of Casablanca, where his friend Al Arabi is going to help him find a job and provide him with accommodation. However, he faces many problems while he is there when he discovers that his friend works in drug trafficking.

The Shore Waves

2001

Secrets of State poster
5.8

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.

Secrets of State

2008

The Situation poster
5.8

The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.

The Situation

2007

No artwork available
NR

The film tells the story of the young firefighter Bahloul, who takes his father's place in the profession after he is retired, but suddenly, due to his lack of discipline, he finds himself in constant confrontations with the barracks commander, Allal, who is waiting for every opportunity and occasion to trap him with the aim of making his life in the barracks miserable.

ALLO 15

2009

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes poster
10.0

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges of filming a deeply interconnected narrative across four continents. Directed by Carlos Armella and Pedro González-Rubio, the documentary reveals Iñárritu’s commitment to authenticity and cultural sensitivity, from collaborating with local actors and communities to meticulously recreating environments. Through behind-the-scenes footage and the director’s reflective commentary, it delves into themes of human connection, the boundaries we hold within ourselves, and the visceral nature of communication, offering profound insights into the philosophy behind the acclaimed film.

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

The Dark Room poster
NR

Based on Jaouad Mdidech’s renowned account, La chambre noire is a powerful reconstruction and reflection on the horror of what Moroccans have called the “Leaden Years,” when the government enforced an oppression of Political dissenters.

The Dark Room

2004

Casanegra poster
6.7

A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.

Casanegra

2008

God, Smell and Her poster
NR

A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal and what can not be seen, but there is. A woman traveling around the world. We follow her to Ireland, Iceland, India, Spain and Egypt, where she faces both real and fictional people.

God, Smell and Her

2009

SALHA poster
NR

Haj Lakbir preserved his agricultural legacy, and even worked to develop it. He is the father of two sons, each named Muhammad and Abdul Rahman, and he also has a daughter named Al-Salha. The latter was favored by her father, who brought her close to him, and began to consult her and rely on her on many matters, while Muhammad and Abdul Rahman were marginalized, in contrast to the customs and traditions of the rural world, which give preference to men over women. What distinguishes Al-Salha is that she is a mature woman, very intelligent and persistent, while her two brothers are dominated by lethargy and weak personality. In the midst of events, the character of Bouchaib, one of the village's sons, emerges. He is a reckless person. He spends most of his time hanging around bars, scattering his father Hajj Al-Muati’s wealth left and right. This young man wants to marry Al-Salha, a request that does not receive the blessing of Hajj Lakbir or Hajj Al-Muati.

SALHA

2009

No artwork available
NR

A Moroccan citizen named Mansour emigrated abroad for more than twenty-five years during which he left his wife carrying a daughter, suffering after that from the torment of conscience to leave his daughter, so he decides to return to his country and compensate his daughter for depriving her, without knowing his truth

Mansour returns

2009

No artwork available
7.0

Le Regard is Nour-Eddine Lakhmari's first film. It is a film about abuse of power, guilt, and redemption. In Le Regard, 70-year-old French photographer Albert Tueis finds himself confronted with his past. As he prepares for an exhibition that will bring together all the works from his photographic career, he remembers the photos he took at the age of 19. A soldier during Morocco's war of independence, the young Albert was a photographer for the French army. The photos he took at the time were never published. One thing is clear: without these photos, the retrospective of his career will not be complete. Albert Tuies decides to return to Morocco to find the negatives he buried there. But he finds himself confronted with a new Morocco. And as he encounters the present and the rivalries and difficulties it hides, increasingly powerful and brutal images from the past resurface.

Le Regard

2005

Abdou With The Almohades poster
8.5

Abdou is tricked into an experiment by American researchers and is suddenly propelled into a distant civilization, that of the Almohad dynasty who ruled the great Maghreb and Muslim Spain from 1147 to 1269 during the reign of Yaqub Al Mansour.

Abdou With The Almohades

2006

Satan's Angels poster
NR

Casablanca, 2003. 14 young hard-rockers are arrested and condemned for sentences from 3 months to 1 year. What are the accusations? Satanism and shaking the foundations of Islam. Based on actual events.

Satan's Angels

2007

Mona Saber poster
7.0

Mona, a young Parisienne, learns that her real father is Moroccan. The only traces of his existence are a name, Mahmoud Saber, a black-and-white photo and a love letter to her mother. She decides to set off for Morocco in search of this man, whose existence turns out to be enigmatic, on a journey that takes her from Casablanca to Essaouira and turns into a journey of discovery.

Mona Saber

2001

L'ombre du crime poster
NR

The Inspector (Youssef) and his colleague Morad begin to investigate the attempt to unravel the mystery of the five crimes. Ibelieving that this is a complex series of crimes. However, as the investigation progresses, doubts begin to arise regarding the possible involvement of his colleague Murad in this series of crimes. Is he really the real criminal? Was he able to mislead justice? Or is the offender free outside ?

L'ombre du crime

2005

Allo Canada poster
NR

The film tells the story of Said, an agricultural engineer , who one day decided to emigrate to Canada for improve their standard of living. But his bag will be stolen from him, which contains all the documents necessary for his trip. Said, accompanied by the sister of the thief, who recently returned from Canada, they begin to follow her brother among a group of villages.

Allo Canada

2008

Series credits

Behind the camera

I love you , let's get divorced poster
NR

Nora, who has been attached to her work and her career, decides to sacrifice everything so that she can raise her daughter, Hind one year old, and take care of her house, because her husband Salim earns a good living. Since they had Hind, the couple decides to reduce their quarrels and shouting matches so as not to create bad energy in the house and around their daughter. The violence decreases in the house, but the traps and dirty tricks are still there to entertain. Nora and Salim can't live without bothering each other.

I love you , let's get divorced

2022

I Love you too poster
NR

Ghita and Farid are a couple who constantly quarrel, as if there is a war between them that never ends. The conflict remains intense until the wife becomes pregnant, at which point they decide to try to end that war between them and live together peacefully like other couples, but it is somewhat difficult

I Love you too

2014

Lost poster
NR

Ranya is a young woman who finds herself at the center of a conspiracy, she has been «programmed» and manipulated by members of a mysterious organization, to serve as a lab rat in an experiment carried out by these people for a very specific purpose. A whole protocol was set up to shape her and create the desired character. Stripped of her life and souvenirs, with a confused memory and a suffocating present, Ranya decides to set off in search of her true life. A life lost in a plot to rule the world through the conditioning of high-ranking personalities. A well-crafted scheme to monitor, govern and rule.

Lost

2021

Lost poster
NR

Ranya is a young woman who finds herself at the center of a conspiracy, she has been «programmed» and manipulated by members of a mysterious organization, to serve as a lab rat in an experiment carried out by these people for a very specific purpose. A whole protocol was set up to shape her and create the desired character. Stripped of her life and souvenirs, with a confused memory and a suffocating present, Ranya decides to set off in search of her true life. A life lost in a plot to rule the world through the conditioning of high-ranking personalities. A well-crafted scheme to monitor, govern and rule.

Lost

2021

Lost poster
NR

Ranya is a young woman who finds herself at the center of a conspiracy, she has been «programmed» and manipulated by members of a mysterious organization, to serve as a lab rat in an experiment carried out by these people for a very specific purpose. A whole protocol was set up to shape her and create the desired character. Stripped of her life and souvenirs, with a confused memory and a suffocating present, Ranya decides to set off in search of her true life. A life lost in a plot to rule the world through the conditioning of high-ranking personalities. A well-crafted scheme to monitor, govern and rule.

Lost

2021