Malik Zidi

Acting

Malik Zidi

Born

1975-02-14 (51)

Place of birth

Saint Maur des Fossés, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion. Zidi made his first film appearance in the 1998 Sébastien Lifshitz-directed Les Corps ouverts. In 2000, Zidi was chosen by director François Ozon to appear as the troubled, lovelorn, bisexual youth Franz in the Teddy Award-winning film Water Drops on Burni…

Known for

When Fall Is Coming poster
6.6

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

When Fall Is Coming

2024

Mysteries of Lisbon poster
6.5

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)

Mysteries of Lisbon

2011

Disturbing Disappearances poster
6.2

A school excursion to Strasbourg Cathedral turns into a tragedy when a teacher is murdered in the cathedral square and nine children disappear.

Disturbing Disappearances

2019

Oxygen poster
6.6

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

Oxygen

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Passe-muraille

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The Soul Eater poster
6.2

When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.

The Soul Eater

2024

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

When Fall Is Coming poster
6.6

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

When Fall Is Coming

2024

Oxygen poster
6.6

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

Oxygen

2021

The Soul Eater poster
6.2

When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.

The Soul Eater

2024

Sons of Ramses poster
5.8

Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tangier, disrupt his business and the whole neighbourhood. Until the day Ramses has an actual vision.

Sons of Ramses

2023

Flavors of Iraq poster
7.3

The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used for the ceremony to pay tribute to the deceased. Today, it's Amir’s Fatiha, Feurat Alani’s father, a French and Iraqi journalist. It’s the opportunity for his friends and family to reflect on Amir's story, and for Feurat to revisit his own story and Iraq's history.

Flavors of Iraq

2024

Child poster
NR

With their young son running out of time, Anne and Greg are willing to sacrifice everything for one last chance to save him. But after crossing an unforgivable moral line, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare where every choice demands an even greater price.

Child

2026

What's Wrong with My Family? poster
6.3

Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file. One day, they meet Darius and Julien, a homosexual couple who have started the process of GPA in Canada. The idea made its way, why not them? They ask themselves many questions, they hesitate. But despite their family's hostility to surrogate motherhood, they decided to go ahead.

What's Wrong with My Family?

2022

The Color of Kings poster
7.0

Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.

The Color of Kings

2020

2010s · 21 titles

Play poster
7.3

In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.

Play

2019

Made in France poster
6.2

Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.

Made in France

2015

Marie Curie poster
5.1

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Maria Skłodowska-Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

Marie Curie

2016

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti poster
5.6

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017

Wolfy: The Incredible Secret poster
6.2

Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they live the easy life in the Land of the Rabbits. But Loulou, who thought he was an orphan, learns that his bohemian mother is alive. The two friends set out to find her in the principality of Wolfenberg, the Land of the Wolves. They arrive in the middle of the Meat-eaters' Festival, a yearly get together for the world's great carnivores. Will Loulou and Tom's friendship survive in the land where herbivores always end up as the main course? What incredible secret lies behind Loulou's birth?

Wolfy: The Incredible Secret

2013

Daguerrotype poster
5.6

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Daguerrotype

2016

Rebellion poster
6.7

April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.

Rebellion

2011

Lines of Wellington poster
5.7

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Lines of Wellington

2012

The Assistant poster
5.6

With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone’s lives forever, including the young man’s mother Marie-France (Nathalie Baye), who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job as Thomas’s secretary without him knowing about her connection to his past. As Marie-France’s maternal rage reaches tragic proportions, she insinuates herself into his life, his work and his family in this classic thriller à la Hitchcock.

The Assistant

2015

Whatever Happened to My Revolution poster
6.3

Angela was 8 years old when the first McDonald's opened in East Berlin - Since then, she has been fighting against the curse of her generation: to be born "too late" at a time of global political depression. Coming from a family of activists, her sister chose the world of business and her mother abandoned overnight her political struggle to move alone to the countryside.

Whatever Happened to My Revolution

2019

The Marchers poster
6.3

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.

The Marchers

2013

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poster
NR

A mysterious Green Knight rides into a court celebration and challenges the young knights present to strike him with his own axe - on the condition that he, the Green Knight, may return exactly the same blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and cuts off his head. But the Green Knight stands up, retrieves his head, and rides away, reminding Gawain of his promise.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2014

You, Me and Us poster
5.8

Aya and Louis separated a long time ago. Their little girl, Lina, is now 7 years old. Today, Aya lives with Victor, with whom she’d like to have a baby. Louis is with Gaëlle, who’s his girlfriend but nothing more. Through nine secret meetings organised by Aya, the film tells the story of how a woman and a man, torn between romantic charades and the quest for a «permanent» harmony, take a fresh start at being lovers.

You, Me and Us

2012

Mysteries of Lisbon poster
7.2

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

The Queen of Clubs poster
5.4

Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet for them by dealing in stolen metal. One night, his accomplice Simon suddenly arrives.

The Queen of Clubs

2010

Towards the Battle poster
5.0

The story unfolds around the year 1860. Louis, a photographer, convinces the general of the French Army to send him to Mexico to photograph the colonial war that is ravaging the country. Once he is there, nothing goes as planned. Never in the right place at the right time to see the battles, Louis can't snap a single picture of the war. But his encounter with Pinto, a Mexican peasant, changes his destiny. It leads him to discover neither glory nor wealth, but a way to confront the ghosts of his past.

Towards the Battle

2019

The Gordji Affair poster
6.5

Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: there is suspicion that the government had intervened in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case to each other.

The Gordji Affair

2012

Amaro amore poster
4.4

Love is a bitter history of formation and growth. The discovery of the world. The self-discovery. The restless overcoming fragile shadow line of the first youth marks the path of three boys from different worlds who meet in heaven and ancestral magic of the islands. Romance of André, Camille and Santino end up exploding inside the frame closed the island of Salina, surrounded by a sea that seems to contain the memory of legends, rumors and atavistic prejudices. Stands out in this scenario of green and blue, the figure of Assunta (Angela Molina), mother Mediterranean, passionate, possessive and mysterious.

Amaro amore

2013

Berthe Morisot poster
6.0

At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things from the same angle. Then Berthe meets Edouard Manet, who takes an interest in this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him.

Berthe Morisot

2012

The Sky of the Centaur poster
7.0

A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city.

The Sky of the Centaur

2017

Après moi poster
5.0

Jeanne and Hugo are tango dancers. When Jeanne conceals the reality of her coming death, she decides to find a new partner for her lover, and maybe a new lover. Her sister Sacha suddenly returns in her life.

Après moi

2010

2000s · 20 titles

Ex poster
5.7

Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.

Ex

2009

Clara poster
5.3

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Clara

2008

Water Drops on Burning Rocks poster
6.4

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

2000

The Great Meaulnes poster
5.4

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.

The Great Meaulnes

2006

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

Changing Times poster
5.6

In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.

Changing Times

2004

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress poster
5.6

The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress

2004

Almost Peaceful poster
5.7

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes

Almost Peaceful

2002

Old Goriot poster
4.6

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

Old Goriot

2004

A Moment of Happiness poster
5.3

Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seasonal jobs in the restaurant industry. Betty, 20, is a young mother full of life and tenderness for her 5-year-old son, Damien. They still live within the family household, but Betty's relationship with her father is strained. Damien is affected by this tense atmosphere. Betty finds a job, leaves the family home, and gains independence. Betty and Philippe will cross paths.

A Moment of Happiness

2002

Her Mother, the Whore poster
9.3

After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.

Her Mother, the Whore

2001

Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus poster
2.0

On an island, clones are secretly raised.

Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus

2007

Pardon My French poster
7.3

Nathalie is being stalked. By an interesting, intelligent young woman called Anaïs, who makes quite an impression on Nathalie, whose real name is Célimène and who happens to be a writer experiencing a crisis.

Pardon My French

2009

Beyond the Ocean poster
8.0

Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

Beyond the Ocean

2006

Miroir, mon beau miroir poster
NR

Marie-Line, 60 years old, continuously strives to fend off the effects of aging and lives with the obsession of recovering the missing panel of a painting that once belonged to her family. She shares her life between her daughter-in-law, Marion, and Marion's son, Ludo. The young woman lives in the house that Marie-Line just inherited after the mysterious disappearance of her husband. Problems begin when Marion becomes the victim of a series of incidents.

Miroir, mon beau miroir

2008

La mort n'oublie personne poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

La mort n'oublie personne

2009

Looking for Cheyenne poster
4.7

Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything - including her comfort - to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else.

Looking for Cheyenne

2005

My Children Are Different poster
6.4

A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

My Children Are Different

2003

Le baiser poster
NR

A man speaks to a woman who only wants one thing: to kiss him.

Le baiser

2008

Poison Friends poster
5.5

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.

Poison Friends

2006

1990s · 3 titles

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