
Acting
Zakia Tahiri
Born
1963-06-23 (63)
Place of birth
Lille, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
17 titles
Known for
NRMina and Saïd, a young engaged couple, return to Morocco to marry. But when his traditional immigrant parents meet her wealthy liberal family, tensions erupt. Can love bridge two worlds that seem irreconcilable?
Marh'ba
2011
7.7Lhadj Benmoussa, a rich jeweler, is married to several wives and appear to be a good manager of the three concubines, except when Houda, his third wife, who is young and gracious, is repudiated for the third time.
In Search of My Wife's Husband
1993
8.0Story of two women in a small fishing village, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. Touria is married to the school teacher, who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. Touria befriends Moira and together they learn how to dance the flamenco.
Badis
1989
5.8A government agent leads his team's effort to stop Russian rebels from smuggling a stolen missile through Sweden.
Hamilton
1998
7.0A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Krim
1995
NRAs Eid al-Adha approaches, a struggling father desperately tries to find a way to buy a sacrificial sheep for his family. With the help of his friend, he turns to a series of schemes and desperate attempts to raise the money, leading the two friends into increasingly complicated and absurd situations. As the pressure mounts, their struggle exposes the realities of poverty, social expectations, friendship, and a father's determination to preserve his dignity and make Eid special for his son.
Mabrouk Al Aid
2012
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
7.7Lhadj Benmoussa, a rich jeweler, is married to several wives and appear to be a good manager of the three concubines, except when Houda, his third wife, who is young and gracious, is repudiated for the third time.
In Search of My Wife's Husband
1993
5.8A government agent leads his team's effort to stop Russian rebels from smuggling a stolen missile through Sweden.
Hamilton
1998
7.0A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Krim
1995
9.0A drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
Sons of the Earth
1991
1980s · 3 titles
8.0Story of two women in a small fishing village, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. Touria is married to the school teacher, who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. Touria befriends Moira and together they learn how to dance the flamenco.
Badis
1989
6.7A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Les Mots pour le dire
1983
7.8In this Sufi tale, Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is overcome by the voice of mystic Kirana chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as they decide to turn the father's palace into a shelter for Muslim women.
A Door to the Sky
1989
Behind the camera
NRMina and Saïd, a young engaged couple, return to Morocco to marry. But when his traditional immigrant parents meet her wealthy liberal family, tensions erupt. Can love bridge two worlds that seem irreconcilable?
Marh'ba
2011
NRMina and Saïd, a young engaged couple, return to Morocco to marry. But when his traditional immigrant parents meet her wealthy liberal family, tensions erupt. Can love bridge two worlds that seem irreconcilable?
Marh'ba
2011
7.0A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Krim
1995
NRAs Eid al-Adha approaches, a struggling father desperately tries to find a way to buy a sacrificial sheep for his family. With the help of his friend, he turns to a series of schemes and desperate attempts to raise the money, leading the two friends into increasingly complicated and absurd situations. As the pressure mounts, their struggle exposes the realities of poverty, social expectations, friendship, and a father's determination to preserve his dignity and make Eid special for his son.
Mabrouk Al Aid
2012
NRAs Eid al-Adha approaches, a struggling father desperately tries to find a way to buy a sacrificial sheep for his family. With the help of his friend, he turns to a series of schemes and desperate attempts to raise the money, leading the two friends into increasingly complicated and absurd situations. As the pressure mounts, their struggle exposes the realities of poverty, social expectations, friendship, and a father's determination to preserve his dignity and make Eid special for his son.
Mabrouk Al Aid
2012
7.8Aziz, a Moroccan macho, is changed to a "super feminist" after his wife casts a spell on him.
Number One
2008
7.8Aziz, a Moroccan macho, is changed to a "super feminist" after his wife casts a spell on him.
Number One
2008
NRKévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. He befriends a girl from a strict religious family and falls in love with her
For the Love of God
2006
NRKévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. He befriends a girl from a strict religious family and falls in love with her
For the Love of God
2006
8.3Patrick Morel has his limits tested when he's thrown in jail after a misunderstanding with the lovely Sonia and the brash Youssef, all three of them bound for deportation until a last-ditch escape frees them in more ways than one.
Made in France
2001
