Amal Ayouch

Acting

Amal Ayouch

Born

1966-01-01 (60)

Place of birth

Casablanca, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Born in Casablanca in 1966, Amal Ayouch showed interest in acting from an early age, performing on stage at high school. When she was 18, she arrived in Montpellier where she studied to become a pharmacist. While at university, in 1987 she joined a theatre group attached to the French literature department. She began her film career thanks to another pharmacist, Hassan Benjelloun, who gave her an important part in Les Amis d'hier (1998). Soon afterwards, Hakim Noury invited her to star in Destin de Femme together with Rachid El Ouali. Playing a woman who refused to submit to a difficult husband, she contributed to the film's success. In 1999, she agreed to play a woman of loose morals in A…

Known for

Gladiator II poster
6.6

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

Gladiator II

2024

Operation Red Sea poster
7.4

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

Operation Red Sea

2018

The Story of a Rose poster
NR

Abdullah is released after several years of detention because of his opinions. His family throws a party and he meets Malika and falls in love with her. Al-Shadi, Malika’s husband, finds out about the matter, he feels jealous, and the relationship between them turns into hell.

The Story of a Rose

2000

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

Eye on Juliet poster
6.5

The story of an unlikely encounter between Gordon, a hexapod operator, and Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East. Gordon, guardian of a pipeline in this desert region, becomes fascinated by Ayusha, while piloting his robotic spider from the other side of the world, in America. Ayusha is promised to an older man she doesn't love. Despite the distance, their mutual fear and their imperfect interaction, he will do everything in his power to help her escape her fate.

Eye on Juliet

2018

Kandisha poster
5.3

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named Kandisha.

Kandisha

2008

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 11 titles

Operation Red Sea poster
7.4

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

Operation Red Sea

2018

Eye on Juliet poster
6.5

The story of an unlikely encounter between Gordon, a hexapod operator, and Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East. Gordon, guardian of a pipeline in this desert region, becomes fascinated by Ayusha, while piloting his robotic spider from the other side of the world, in America. Ayusha is promised to an older man she doesn't love. Despite the distance, their mutual fear and their imperfect interaction, he will do everything in his power to help her escape her fate.

Eye on Juliet

2018

Behind Closed Doors poster
NR

Samira is an attractive, young Moroccan woman who is happily married to a banker. Their lives are turned upside down with the appointment of a new director in the company where Samira works who begins to harass her. This is where she finds herself at a dead end she decides to proceed in another direction and puts into action an ingenious plan to obtain the proof she needs.

Behind Closed Doors

2014

The Midnight Orchestra poster
5.0

After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician travels to his home country to bury his father. As he meets the members of the band, his life unexpectedly transforms.

The Midnight Orchestra

2016

The Gospel of Matthew poster
8.4

The Gospel of Matthew was the most popular Gospel in the early Christian centuries. Written for a Christian community as it begins to separate from the Jewish world, Matthew's Gospel goes to great lengths to show that, as the Messiah, Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies referring to God's Saviour. Narrated in the NIV version by leading British actor Stephen Tompkinson and in the KJV by David Threlfall - featuring specially constructed sets and the authentic countryside of Morocco - it immerses the viewer in the world of first-century Palestine.

The Gospel of Matthew

2014

The Gospel of Mark poster
7.0

The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.

The Gospel of Mark

2015

Satan's tears poster
NR

A long-term political prisoner leaves the prison with the idea of ​​taking revenge on the person responsible for his torture in prison: a former soldier who is preparing to travel with his family to southern Morocco.

Satan's tears

2016

No artwork available
NR

During a reception organized on the occasion of Ghita's 44th anniversary, friends and family members of Said and Ghita will be confronted with unexpected events serious enough to provoke disturbing reactions, starting points of questioning the little material and emotional comforts by which all this little world was surrounded.

The Birthday

2014

Love in the Medina poster
NR

In the Medina of Casablanca, Thami, a young man from a conservative family with a lineage of honourable Koranic lawyers, incenses his father as he decides to enter the profession of butchery. Whilst handling the meats, he soon discovers another taboo passion: women and love. “Love in the Medina” is about a journey of initiation, a quest for freedom and Thami’s revolution of romance in ever-changing Morocco.

Love in the Medina

2011

Sotto Voce poster
7.0

During the Algerian war, the road to Beni Boussaid on the Morocco-Algeria border is obstructed by the Morice line, a 430-mile long belt that is electrified and heavily mined. Moussa, a Moroccan friend of the revolution, helps refugees across the mountains. However, he must go through Beni Boussaid when he finds out that the path he usually takes is no longer safe. Hans, a Communist militant of the GDR, loses a leg on the way, while trying to remove a mine from a passageway. Normally, the wounded and sick are put to rest, but Hans is not a Muslim and cannot be a martyr.

Sotto Voce

2013

The Return of the Son poster
NR

Fifteen years after being abducted by his European mother and taken to Europe, Mehdi, now in his twenties, decides to return to Morocco without informing her. The decision to go back is driven not only by the desire to visit his Moroccan father at home and discover the country where he spent the first five years of his life, but also to fill the voids in his own identity: two parents, two countries, two very different cultures.

The Return of the Son

2012

2000s · 10 titles

The Story of a Rose poster
NR

Abdullah is released after several years of detention because of his opinions. His family throws a party and he meets Malika and falls in love with her. Al-Shadi, Malika’s husband, finds out about the matter, he feels jealous, and the relationship between them turns into hell.

The Story of a Rose

2000

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

Kandisha poster
5.3

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named Kandisha.

Kandisha

2008

No artwork available
7.0

A police duo investigates different crimes. One of them is a brilliant policeman, while his mother is blind and has the unusual ability to revisit the past and predict the future.

Mi Taja

2008

Française poster
6.1

A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.

Française

2008

The Years of Exile poster
NR

this film shows the resistance of Berber villagers in the High Atlas against the representatives of the Moroccan administration in the 1960s.

The Years of Exile

2002

Tabite or Not Tabite poster
NR

Ali Brahma visits his homeland for the first time in order to attend his father's funeral. This first trip to Morocco coincides with the trial of serial rapist and police commissioner Mohamed Mustapha Tabet. On the flight back to Paris, Ali meets Zakia Malik. Together, they look into the Tabet trial to write a play and a film script.

Tabite or Not Tabite

2006

Satan's Angels poster
NR

Casablanca, 2003. 14 young hard-rockers are arrested and condemned for sentences from 3 months to 1 year. What are the accusations? Satanism and shaking the foundations of Islam. Based on actual events.

Satan's Angels

2007

Casablanca, Casablanca poster
5.0

The story of Aicha, a young girl who disappears one day, and whose father lives a difficult life that gets even worse after her disappearance.

Casablanca, Casablanca

2002

No artwork available
NR

The film highlights the suffering of couples when they do not have children, whether because the wife is barren or because of the husband is sterile.

The Silent Lips

2002

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