Farida Rahouadj

Acting

Farida Rahouadj

Acting credits

How Much Do You Love Me? poster
5.9

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.

How Much Do You Love Me?

2005

Gagarine poster
6.6

Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”

Gagarine

2020

Hotel Acropole poster
NR

Rivka is pregnant. She has a strange and painful wound in her back that won’t heal, ever since her partner died. The day before his ashes are scattered, Abel, an old friend, shows up unexpectedly at her hotel room. He needs to revive an old memory between them at the Hotel Acropole.

Hotel Acropole

2025

À la poussière poster
NR

Fazia is a middle-aged cleaning woman. She appears tired and burdened by personal troubles. For the past few months, she has been starting her days working for the Martin-Pelissard family, a petty bourgeois household reluctant to officially declare her employment. One morning, an unexpected incident heightens the social pressure she endures daily, setting off a race against time to try and keep her job.

À la poussière

2020

La nuit sacrée poster
4.3

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to shave, leave a mustache and take his niece to wife. In the meantime, Ahmed's father is dying and wants to sail to heaven. He calls to Ahmed and calls her a female name Zahra and gives her freedom so that she can go out.

La nuit sacrée

1993

Paparazzi poster
5.0

Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Paparazzi

1998

Habibti poster
NR

It's the end of the day on a rooftop. Anissa invited her mother in Paris for a week-end together. But their reunion doesn't go quite as planned.

Habibti

La putain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La putain

2014

Touiza poster
NR

Algiers, 1994, in the middle of the civil war. Yasmine, a housekeeper, must take leave to visit her aunt. But on this particular day, Madame, her boss, loses her beloved dog, Touiza. Unable to be left alone, Madame is determined to prevent Yasmine from leaving her.

Touiza

2018

Under the Stars of Paris poster
6.7

Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...

Under the Stars of Paris

2021

Wide Load poster
4.2

This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake.

Wide Load

2019

Des lendemains qui chantent poster
5.7

Olivier and Leo, two brothers that are moved to Paris and that life has separated ... If the first sees himself as a journalist without concessions, the second is an ambitious and opportunistic communication adviser. Noémie, a charming presidential adviser, can not, over the years, choose between them. To the amusement of Sylvain, their childhood friend, who made his fortune in Pink Minitel, their destinies intersect over 20 years, are intertwined, in a funny epic, tender and nostalgic, in the 80 / 90.

Des lendemains qui chantent

2014

Lovers poster
5.5

In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.

Lovers

1994

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves poster
5.4

The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

2007

You Will Not Have My Hate poster
5.9

The night of November 13, 2015 changes everything for Antoine. Hélène, his wife and mother of his young son, dies during the terrorist attacks at the Bataclan club in Paris. In a moving Facebook post, he counters the assassins' hatred with the love for his son – a message, that moves people worldwide.

You Will Not Have My Hate

2022

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lucky Ravi

1987

The Girl in the Air poster
6.6

Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.

The Girl in the Air

1992

Nobody's Hero poster
5.8

Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in Médéric's building. Sympathizing with Selim, crazy about Isadora, Mederic's life suddenly turns into a mess.

Nobody's Hero

2022

Permis d'aimer poster
9.0

A cafeteria worker of Arab origin falls in love with a French co-worker, much to everyone else's chagrin.

Permis d'aimer

2005

Homeland poster
5.2

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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roule ma poule

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Une place au soleil

Queen Mom poster
6.2

Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While Mouna, her eldest daughter, begins to have visions of Charles Martel, and their request for new social housing drags on, Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself.

Queen Mom

2025

After the Night poster
NR

The day before she is due to arrive in a closed educational facility where she must serve out her sentence, sixteen-year-old Anastasia escapes from her tutor. While she's on the run, she encounters a woman who suggests that Anastasia stays at her place for the night. At break of day, Anastasia must choose.

After the Night

2018

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