Smaïl Mekki

Acting

Smaïl Mekki

Born — Died

1950-01-14 — 2016-10-02

Place of birth

M'sila, Algeria

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Fortunes poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Fortunes

2008

Un pique-nique chez Osiris poster
6.0

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

Un pique-nique chez Osiris

2001

The Harem of Madame Osmane poster
6.1

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.

The Harem of Madame Osmane

2000

Aram poster
6.3

Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.

Aram

2002

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le meilleur commerce du monde

2005

Du goût et des couleurs poster
NR

Olivier Desroses and Juliette Carignan have two children, Mélanie and Quentin. They decide to leave Paris for Burgundy. Juliette, just out of a long period of unemployment, takes on the sales management of a major wine and spirits trading company, a unique and highly remunerated opportunity. Olivier, a committed French teacher in the Paris suburbs, tired of his years of teaching battle, decides to follow his partner and take a sabbatical year.

Du goût et des couleurs

2006

1990s · 8 titles

Irma Vep poster
6.7

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

Irma Vep

1996

L.627 poster
7.1

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.

L.627

1992

The Other poster
7.7

A man who survives an earthquake is convinced that there is another man still stuck in the debris.

The Other

1991

Cold Water poster
6.4

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.

Cold Water

1994

Unpredictable Nature of the River poster
5.8

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Unpredictable Nature of the River

1996

The Silence Of Elsewhere poster
10.0

Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for her husband Francois to return; he abandoned her and their son Christophe a couple of years ago. The boy is waiting for his father, too. Meanwhile, Jeanne's current lover Marcel is waiting for her to come to her senses about the cad who went a way, and recognize the worthiness of his love for her. Finally, the absent husband is also waiting for the right time to make his belated reappearance. All this takes place near the gas station Jeanne runs in a dessicated and remote region in southern France.

The Silence Of Elsewhere

1990

Ben Rock poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ben Rock

1992

No artwork available
8.0

In the East of Algeria, there is a family preparing for the important Islamic feast Eid-el-Kabir. The father is very sick and his only wish is that his daughter, Hanifa, should get married before he dies. Hanifa decides for her true love regardless the consequences . The movie also shows the difficult times Algeria is going through.

Aïd el kébir

1999

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