Soumaya Akaaboune

Acting

Soumaya Akaaboune

Born 1974-02-16 · Tangier, Morocco

Soumaya Akaaboune is an actress, known for Green Zone (2010), Playing for Keeps (2012) and Lovelace (2013).

Acting credits

Tanger blues poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tanger blues

2026

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

Lovelace poster
6.0

Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Lovelace

2013

Redemption Day poster
5.9

When his wife Kate is kidnapped by terrorists for ransom, veteran war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operation that pits him against powerful and dark forces.

Redemption Day

2021

Deserts poster
6.6

Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of southern Morocco in their old car and share double rooms in shabby hotels. They are exactly the same size, and wear the same suits and ties, as well as the same shoes. Paid nearly nothing, they try to play hard to make good figures. One day, in a gas station planted in the middle of the desert, a motorcycle parks in front of them. A man is handcuffed to the luggage rack, threatening. It’s the Evader. Their meeting marks the beginning of an unforeseen and mystical journey.

Deserts

2023

Behind the Palm Trees poster
5.8

Mehdi leads an exemplary life with his family and Selma, his new girlfriend in Marrakech. For the young couple, things are going smoothly until Mehdi meets Marie, a young French woman caught up in the social life of the expatriate community.

Behind the Palm Trees

2026

Esther poster
6.8

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

Esther

1999

Djinn poster
4.4

Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emirates. Unknown to the couple, their new luxury apartment block, Al Hamra, was built on the site of an old abandoned fishing village of the same name. Legend has it the village was abandoned after malevolent beings haunted its inhabitants. Unsettled by her new surroundings and the eerie hallways of Al Hamra, Khalid worries his wife is failing to battle her personal demons – but could it be something far more sinister?

Djinn

2013

The White Dove poster
7.0

Rocío, is in love with Mario, a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, Domingo with whom she maintains incestuous relations. When Domingo passes away, both Mario and Rocío's mother have to put to the front of the business, finishing with the inheritance that could receive Rocío. In the midst of her frustration, a young business worker, secretly in love with Rocío, will try to have the legacy of her father end up in the hands of his rightful heiress.

The White Dove

1989

The Covenant poster
8.4

Lumo Project Films presents The Covenant, a captivating film rooted in the Torah, bringing to life the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and more. A Word-for word narration of the first five books of the Bible.

The Covenant

2023

Crossing poster
3.0

Como El Viento is a penetrating and realistic drama which threads the universal feelings of fear, hope and loss in a tense and dramatic two-hour ferry crossing between Morocco and Spain.

Crossing

2024

Life Suits Me Well poster
6.3

Mid-1990s, little town in Morocco and seemingly ordinary family. Fouad is dedicated to his work in local postal services. He is climbing the signal posts and tries to keep people’s connections running. He radiates warmth and is the soul of his family and local community. Until one day, his health begins to deteriorate and his mind starts to fade. Each day, his neurological disease gets worse and paralyzes his physical and mental health. Loved ones of Fouad are facing the challenge of reconciling the changing family dynamics and a fading life.

Life Suits Me Well

2021

Citoyen d'honneur poster
6.1

Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all the invitations made to him. Until the day when he decides to accept to be made "Honorary Citizen" of Sidi Mimoun, the small town where he was born.But should he again meet with the inhabitants of this city, who year after year became the heroes of his various novels?

Citoyen d'honneur

2022

I'm Still Here... Damn It! poster
4.0

Pregnant legendary controversial comedian Sandra Bernhard performs her Off-Broadway show that combines stand up, storytelling and musical performance. She also talks about the female musicians who paved the way for female artists today.

I'm Still Here... Damn It!

1998

No artwork available
NR

This scenic documentary attempts to reconstruct the last days of Jesus Christ - from his arrival in Jerusalem to his death on the cross. But what is faith and what is historical? The narrative begins with the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem with a small group of followers, continues with the scandal in the temple, the provocation of the Jewish rulers, the trial before the Roman prefect and the execution of the sentence.

INRI - Warum musste Jesus sterben?

2024

Moroccan Chronicles poster
6.2

In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.

Moroccan Chronicles

1999

Glimpsed poster
NR

A young boy experiences a powerful glimpse into a new family home before he has even seen it for the first time.

Glimpsed

Behind the camera