Salah Bensalah

Acting

Salah Bensalah

Place of birth

Casablanca, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Salah Bensalah (born in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

No Key poster
NR

Two young thieves find a sealed jewelry box that becomes the envy of rival gangs.

No Key

2023

Walud poster
NR

2014: Amuna (44) and her husband Aziz (48), an ISIS fighter, live as shepherds in the rural Syrian desert. When he takes a very young, European ISIS convert as his second wife, Amuna's everyday life is thrown into turmoil.

Walud

2025

Abdelinho poster
7.0

In love with Brazil and Maria, a soap opera heroin harassed by a corrupt contractor, Abdelinho suffers parallel ordeal in Morocco by pressure of Amr Taleb, a dogmatic, moralistic priest, enforcing religious purity on the community

Abdelinho

2021

Gentleman poster
NR

Moroccan comedy about Haitham, known for treating women like a “gentleman,” whose good intentions get him into trouble.

Gentleman

2022

Hounds poster
5.9

A father and son, live from day to day by carrying out petty crimes for the local mafia. Hired to kidnap a man and to deliver him across town seems simple enough until the man dies in the trunk of their car. What follows is a panicked after-hours odyssey with the police looking for them, the mafia expecting a live delivery, a dead body rotting in their trunk and they have no idea what awaits them next…

Hounds

2023

The Unknown Saint poster
6.6

Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.

The Unknown Saint

2020

Zaz poster
NR

Zaz, a man leading a simple life, has his life turned upside down by a video that goes viral on social media. His newfound fame leads him to be involved in advertisements and unexpected situations, creating tension with his family and drawing him into complex legal issues.

Zaz

2025

Moroccan Badass Girl poster
4.0

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her - especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigrate, but things don’t go as planned.

Moroccan Badass Girl

2023

Thank You Satan poster
NR

In this dark comedy set in the early 1990’s, all Serge wants to do is write his "Fucking Best Seller". When his publisher nags him to shake things up and bring out his ‘mainstream potential’, he gives it all he has and, with a killer edge.

Thank You Satan

2026

My Friend poster
NR

The film revolves around (My Friend) a young man in his thirties who works as a technician repairing televisions and satellite dishes. He lives in a modest neighborhood with his mother, who suffers from hearing loss, and seeks to travel to the United States by emotionally exploiting an American girl.

My Friend

2025

2010s · 19 titles

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi poster
7.3

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

2016

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

I'm Noura First poster
8.0

Noura, a woman approaching her thirtieth birthday, discovers a list of eight wishes she had written down during her teenage years, after promising herself that she would not get married until she fulfilled them. She decides to pursue those wishes, setting off a journey that dramatically changes her professional and family life.

I'm Noura First

2011

Good Day poster
NR

The horrible, terrible, unpleasant, insurmountable day of Daoud who has to cross Casablanca to get to an important meeting on a day of Zemzem and cab strike while his own car is stuck in the garage...

Good Day

2016

Road to Tangier poster
NR

Moroccan film tells the story of four men at the age of sixty, living in the retirement home in Marrakech : Issa, Seddik, Ahmed and Taher. One day they decided to go on a trip to Tangier, on the way they fall into many problems.

Road to Tangier

2012

Terminus des Anges poster
NR

A combination of three short films tackling the subject of AIDS, a subject approached by three different directors.

Terminus des Anges

2010

Tikitat A'Soulima poster
NR

For the last screening before it closes for good, the Marhaba cinema is showing Spider-Man 3. Hassan, an 11 years old, absolutely wants to go. But he doesn't have a cent and his mother refuses to let him go with his friends. But Hassan has only one thing in mind: to go and see the film, whatever the cost!

Tikitat A'Soulima

2016

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

Masood Saida and Saadan poster
8.0

Masood, freshly released from prison, is tasked with finding Saida, a cabaret dancer who has stolen a mafia's safe key, leading to chaos when a monkey named Saadan swallows the key, triggering a series of unexpected adventures.

Masood Saida and Saadan

2019

The Sea Is Behind poster
NR

Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically abandoned him. One day, Tarik’s horse Larbi stops in the middle of a procession and refuses to take another step forward. Tarik will have to learn to live again and surrender to the colours of his life, which is the only way to escape the dullness of the world around him.

The Sea Is Behind

2014

Moul Ihsae poster
NR

Lotfi, a census enumerator (counting demographics) or at least that's what he claims. Visits a neighborhood full of nutcases to interview and "count" them but everything quickly turns into a huge mess in a hilarious comedic frame full of twists about the Moroccan society..

Moul Ihsae

2017

The Big Day poster
6.5

Daoud awaits the most important day of his life, the day he will meet the wealthy future father-in-law, to ask him to marry his daughter Ibtisam, but ahead of time to meet him David will face events that will change the course of the story

The Big Day

2018

Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit poster
7.0

Around 3,000 BC, the first territorial state in history was created with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. The empire on the Nile was to exist for 3,000 years. The current section focuses on religion, temple economy and the cult of the dead and examines the reigns of Akhenaten and Ramses II. The culture of Ancient Egypt is characterized by religion, temple economy and the cult of the dead. Two pharaohs play an important role in this context: Akhenaten and Ramses II. When Akhenaten ascended the throne around 1,350 BC, religious customs in Egypt had hardly changed for almost 2,000 years. The influential priesthood was organized hierarchically and the rituals were set out in fixed rituals. The temples are not only the spiritual but also the economic centers of the country.

Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit

2011

Once Upon a Time... poster
NR

Once upon a time ... is a story of children played by adults. A story of dreams confront reality. A disillusioned clown-like cowboy, a sick woman who is preparing to become famous and a hysteric magician who dreams only of money, form the trio of dreamy tale.

Once Upon a Time...

2011

They Are The Dogs poster
6.0

Members of a television crew stumble across the story of an old man whose tragic tale dates back to 1981 during upheavals in Morocco, where he was arrested. Released 30 years later in 2011, he is now trying to come to terms with a new reality. The TV crew decides to report his journey as he sets off on a quest to find his family and his place in this new world.

They Are The Dogs

2014

Le Clair obscur poster
NR

A love story between a blind man who dreams of being a TV presenter and a young film student, despite everything that opposes them.

Le Clair obscur

2016

The End poster
NR

Casablanca, July 1999. With longtime monarch Hassan II on his deathbed, there is an air of uncertainty weighing on Morocco - and especially on one marginalized young man, M'key. M'key finds a surrogate father figure in "pit bull" police commissioner Daoud and finds love with the enchanting Rita, but Rita is kept under close watch by her gangster brothers.

The End

2011

Cambodia poster
3.0

A classic car belonging to the boss of the local mafia goes missing from the garage of a mechanic called Kwika who had taken it in to do some repairs. kwika thus finds himself in a dangerous predicament with the boss who asks him to pay for the full value of the car within the month. kwika has no choice, he has to find the money but unfortunately has no way of doing so and has already suffered several threats and beatings by Kiama.With time passing quickly, he decides on the spur of the moment to sell one of his kidneys to a family with a sick child called Ismail, on one condition, that he has the operation in Singapore. kwika and Ismail leave for Singapore but first of all they touch down in Cambodia where they leave the airport and have all their belongings stolen. They are thus in a tragi-comic situation in Cambodia where they have to find a way of organising the operation as well as getting back home to Morocco.

Cambodia

2018

Once Upon a Time... poster
NR

Once upon a time ... is a story of children played by adults. A story of dreams confront reality. A disillusioned clown-like cowboy, a sick woman who is preparing to become famous and a hysteric magician who dreams only of money, form the trio of dreamy tale.

Once Upon a Time...

2011

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