Affif Ben Badra

Acting

Affif Ben Badra

Born 1960-01-01 · Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Affif Ben Badra (sometimes credited as Afif Ben Badra or Ben Badra) (born 1960) is an actor and dancer currently living in France. In the United States he appeared as a warlord in the Roland Emmerich film 10,000 BC and as Tamas in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He also appeared in the suspense/thriller film Taken, written by Luc Besson, and in the Spanish public TV serie "Aguila Roja". Description above from the Wikipedia article Affif Ben Badra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Dune: Part Two poster
8.1

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Dune: Part Two

2024

Dracula poster
7.2

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

Dracula

2025

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows poster
7.1

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011

Colombiana poster
6.6

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Colombiana

2011

Grimsby poster
6.0

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

Grimsby

2016

District B13 poster
6.8

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

District B13

2004

10,000 BC poster
5.5

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

10,000 BC

2008

Kiss of the Dragon poster
6.9

Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.

Kiss of the Dragon

2001

Unleashed poster
6.9

Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.

Unleashed

2005

K.O. poster
6.5

A former fighter must find the missing son of an opponent he accidentally killed years ago, taking on a brutally violent crime gang in Marseille.

K.O.

2025

Beating Hearts poster
7.2

Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

Beating Hearts

2024

Mesrine: Killer Instinct poster
7.3

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

2008

The Lookout poster
5.6

When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.

The Lookout

2012

Io Capitano poster
7.8

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.

Io Capitano

2023

Dobermann poster
6.5

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.

Dobermann

1997

12 Warriors poster
5.0

A dozen top warriors from around the world are kidnapped and forced to participate in fight-to-the-death survival games. Affairs are overseen by a disgraced and sociopathic former Russian intelligence officer who has built a shadowy organization with a clientele of crime bosses, politicians, billionaires, and members of the global elite.

12 Warriors

2025

The Ottoman Lieutenant poster
6.0

Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.

The Ottoman Lieutenant

2017

School of Life poster
7.4

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.

School of Life

2017

On the Other Side of the Tracks poster
5.6

Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.

On the Other Side of the Tracks

2012

Denard: Anatomy of an Antihero poster
5.2

A vigilante, Franck Denard, is released from prison after serving 10-years for a crime he didn't commit. Discovering he's on borrowed time with a terminal illness, he sets out for one last blood-thirsty fight seeking redemption and vengeance.

Denard: Anatomy of an Antihero

2021

Collision poster
5.7

Deceit and betrayal rise to the surface after newlyweds survive a deadly car accident in the Moroccan desert.

Collision

2013

Jacquou the Rebel poster
6.4

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

Jacquou the Rebel

2007

8 Assassins poster
5.7

An outlaw thief flees to a desert village where he is shunned and jailed. He soon meets a tribal chief who reveals his powerful heroism.

8 Assassins

2014

The Last Nosferatu poster
4.0

A man falls in love with a woman he met on the internet, but the mysterious secret she's hiding could lead him to a tragic fate.

The Last Nosferatu

2023