Mohamed Majd

Acting

Mohamed Majd

Born — Died

1940-01-01 — 2013-01-25

Place of birth

Casablanca, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Born in 1940, Mohamed Majd took his first steps on the stage in the late 1950s. After 10 years acting in theaters, he turned to the cinema and acted in the shorts of Abdelmajid R'chich then alongside Anthony Quinn in the historical epic : The Message (1975), Moustapha Akkad. Renowned Moroccan actor at the age of 47, he gained international fame, By Casting Director Ahmed Boulane to play along side with jhon Hurt in a Richard Stroud movie Deadline. and in Philippe de Broca The Thousand and One Nights (1989).

Known for

Incendies poster
8.1

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

Incendies

2010

Hanna poster
6.6

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

Hanna

2011

C.R.A.Z.Y. poster
7.5

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

C.R.A.Z.Y.

2005

No artwork available
NR

amal manages a clothing factory owned by Haj Sakali. He is tasked with infiltrating networks trafficking second-hand clothes, which are threatening the factory's business. He becomes caught between the criminal network and a romantic conflict involving Fawzia, a factory worker, and Nawal, the owner's daughter.

The Right Path

2005

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

The Source poster
6.6

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

The Source

2011

Film credits

2010s · 14 titles

Incendies poster
8.1

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

Incendies

2010

Hanna poster
6.6

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

Hanna

2011

The Source poster
6.6

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

The Source

2011

Prisoners of the Sun poster
3.9

A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

Prisoners of the Sun

2013

Shining poster
NR

A short fiction about a man who fights against the seizure of his land by powerful developers.

Shining

2017

The Golden Calf poster
NR

1999: Sami, a 17-year-old French-Moroccan boy, is sent to live with his cousin Azadade in Morocco by his father, who wants to punish him for his bad deeds. Sami has only one idea in mind: to return to France before he comes of age and find his fiancée, Mélanie. He decides to steal one of King Hassan II's oxen, leading his cousin along the roads of Morocco with two overzealous policemen in hot pursuit...

The Golden Calf

2014

Malak poster
NR

Malak, a teen girl, discovers she's pregnant. Rejected by the baby's dad, she faces a world that rejects her for being a single mum.

Malak

2012

Androman - De sang et de charbon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Androman - De sang et de charbon

2012

Atlantic poster
6.4

A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.

Atlantic

2014

Homeland poster
5.3

Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France...

Homeland

2013

Zaynab, the Rose of Aghmat poster
2.0

The film follows Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah, wife of husband Prince Yusuf ibn Tashfin, founder of the city of Marrakech during the Almoravid era

Zaynab, the Rose of Aghmat

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

Exit Marrakech poster
5.8

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.

Exit Marrakech

2013

Zero poster
7.2

Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.

Zero

2012

2000s · 20 titles

C.R.A.Z.Y. poster
7.5

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

C.R.A.Z.Y.

2005

No artwork available
NR

amal manages a clothing factory owned by Haj Sakali. He is tasked with infiltrating networks trafficking second-hand clothes, which are threatening the factory's business. He becomes caught between the criminal network and a romantic conflict involving Fawzia, a factory worker, and Nawal, the owner's daughter.

The Right Path

2005

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

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

Tenja poster
7.7

A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father.

Tenja

2004

No artwork available
NR

A taxi driver travels between Marrakech and Tahannaout to make a living, while his wife works at a large hotel. Her ambitions and growing independence create jealousy and conflict in their marriage.

The Road to Marrakech

2004

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

No artwork available
9.0

Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late second wife in a dream, he decides to visit her grave, in Azemmour. In the trip, he meets Driss who is going to Essaouira, looking for his mother whom he has never known after receiving a letter about her. The two men go to Marrakech together where Driss gets a combination motorbike that Tahar calls "wind horse". And they begin their journey together, first to Azemmour, then to Essaouira, looking for their past.

Wind Horse

2002

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

The Great Journey poster
6.8

Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.

The Great Journey

2004

The Shell Necklace poster
NR

A father searches for his son after he disappeared from view, especially after doubts were raised about his possibility of joining extremist groups

The Shell Necklace

2008

The Scent of the Sea poster
NR

Following an unpunished crime, a village of fishermen in northern Morocco is rising up around Simo against the local drug boss.

The Scent of the Sea

2007

Waiting for Pasolini poster
NR

Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.

Waiting for Pasolini

2007

Under Another Sky poster
4.3

Samy, a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything French. Samy's grandfather lives in the memory of a piece of land that no longer produces any wealth. Samy will never give the reason for his presence, but the chaotic climate of the country will revive the chaos that is in him.

Under Another Sky

2003

Sayidat Al Fajr poster
10.0

In a farm in the North, lives a saddened family : the grandfather, the mother locked in his memories, and two twin children. Their daughter Malika drowned in the village river, seven years ago, according to their belief, but in reality she left with a man. Only Mohamed, her husband, knows the truth. Death will come, in the guise of a beautiful woman wearing white, bringing anxiety to this peaceful home; she comes to pick up Mohamed, this one will be spared by the children... That night, Mohamed reports from the river a young stranger, Hiba, who will replace little by little Malika... ... During the festival of Achoura, Death returns. Is it for Hiba?

Sayidat Al Fajr

2009

Eclats du passé poster
NR

A young lawyer finds herself facing one of the most difficult cases of her life when her own father is accused of a crime. As she fights to prove his innocence, she is forced to confront the corruption, injustice, and abuse of power surrounding the case. Her search for the truth gradually brings painful memories and hidden secrets from the past to the surface, threatening to change everything she thought she knew about her family and those around her.

Eclats du passé

2003

A Minute of Sun Less poster
9.0

Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri. The victim's mistress Touria, just living for her fatally-ill younger brother Pipo, is considered the main suspect, so Kamel learns more and more about their hard life circumstances. During the observation, the sexually-confused Kamel falls in love with the young woman, but realizes the imminence for Touria and Pipo too late.

A Minute of Sun Less

2003

The Outskirts poster
5.0

A poor family living in a marginalized neighborhood in the city of Casablanca. The father is a gambling addict, the mother is an elderly woman, and the children face various conditions.

The Outskirts

2006

Oueld Al Hamria poster
NR

The film is a police story centered on the character of "Ould Hamriya", a young man who lived a difficult childhood and a social situation that led him to the professionalism of theft and robbery of luxury villas with two partners, which created confusion among the security men who became after him everywhere

Oueld Al Hamria

2002

A Thousand Months poster
5.4

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.

A Thousand Months

2003

Series credits