Sami Zitouni

Acting

Sami Zitouni

Acting credits

Sink or Swim poster
6.9

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

Sink or Swim

2018

Cash Truck poster
6.4

Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm. It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.

Cash Truck

2004

The Secret of the Grain poster
7.0

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

The Secret of the Grain

2007

Virgil poster
6.3

Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting the eyes of Margot, a young woman who is also visiting. This week, Ernest tells her that he is going to get out and that he will finally be able to see Virgil in the ring. There's just one problem: Virgil hasn't boxed in three years.

Virgil

2005

Poetical Refugee poster
6.6

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute.

Poetical Refugee

2001

Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone poster
5.6

Stéphanie grew up with an absent mother and a brutal stepfather. One day, she knows, she'll leave the city to live the life she's always dreamed of.

Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone

2014

Tarim the Brave Against the Thousand and One Effects poster
6.3

As he is going to save a princess imprisoned in the dungeon of an evil sorcerer, Tarim understands that he is the main character of a movie, and decides to fight against the special effects.

Tarim the Brave Against the Thousand and One Effects

2015

Behind the camera