
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
8.1A 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
6.6Raised 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
7.5A 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
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
NRHemaida 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
6.6A 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
8.1A 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
6.6Raised 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
6.6A 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
3.9A 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
NRA short fiction about a man who fights against the seizure of his land by powerful developers.
Shining
2017
NR1999: 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
NRMalak, 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Androman - De sang et de charbon
2012
6.4A 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
5.3Farid, 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
2.0The 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
6.5Three 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
5.8When 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
7.2Zero 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
7.5A 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
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
NRHemaida 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
NRA 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
7.7A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father.
Tenja
2004
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
7.0Mustapha, 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
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
6.7Ali, 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
6.8Reda, 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
NRA 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
NRFollowing 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
NRThami 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
4.3Samy, 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
10.0In 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
NRA 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
9.0Kamel 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
5.0A 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
NRThe 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
5.41981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
A Thousand Months
2003
1990s · 3 titles
NRCaught between chasing his past and accepting his impending end, a man follows his childhood memories through the dark alleyways and desolate cemeteries of Boujad, Morocco.
Whispers
1999
6.8David, 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
6.9The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
1998
1980s · 2 titles
6.0In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman develop and flourish.
Deadline
1988
NRThe movie deals with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the struggle of the Afghan people against them, through the story of an Afghan girl, a university professor and a religious scholar before the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan For What?
1984
Series credits
5.0Set in and around Bagdad of the old times ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES is the highly entertaining tale of kind but luckless Ali, played by French superstar Gérard Jugnor who finds himself unwilling in the centre of multiple difficult situations.
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Terre de lumière
2008

