Jean Benguigui
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1944-04-08
Place of Birth:Oran, Algérie
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I, Cesar (2003)
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one...

Man's Best Friend (1999)
This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has...

The Bitch (1984)
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a...

My Life Is Hell (1991)
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel...

El hermano pequeño (1999)
Leo Minués, who used to be a classmate of Carvalho, is found dead the same day he had to testify in a case of corruption and someone asks...

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer (1999)
To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken...

La soledad del manager (1999)
Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man's wife has given him. But he cannot imagine that the...

Cita mortal a l’Up & Down (2003)
Carvalho is investigating the murder of a prison officer. The police suspect a young delinquent who had threatened to kill the officer. But Carvalho...

Tal como éramos (1999)
Carvalho is hired to investigate the alleged threats to the daughter of the civil governor of Barcelona. Step by step, Carvalho realizes that there...

Buscando a Sherezade (1999)
Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona...

Padre, patrón (1999)
Mister Joaquim Pelletier and his wife request the services of the private detective Pepe Carvalho to find the murderer of their only son, Mariano. As...

Les mers du sud (2004)
Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a...

La rose d'Alexandrie (2004)
When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A...

Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a...

One Way Ticket (2001)
Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire...

Salut cousin ! (1996)
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to...

Buffet Froid (1979)
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of...

Fatal (2010)
Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of...

The Beautiful Story (1992)
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief...

Mixed Marriage (2004)
A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

Son of Gascogne (1995)
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because...

Souvenirs souvenirs (1984)
A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone...

Dead Weight (2002)
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

Tango (1993)
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to...

Gomez vs Tavarès (2007)
Two crooked lawmen (Stomy Bugsy, Titoff) search for a precious stone to collect an inheritance.

Hello Goodbye (2008)
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a...

Coco (2009)
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La...

Le Jeune Marié (1983)
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.

So Happy Together (2009)
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle....

The African (1983)
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted...

A Cat in Paris (2010)
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

Across the Road (2000)
Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris...

Still Waters Run Deep (1996)
Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three...

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre (2005)
A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life.

Lucky Luke and the Daltons (2004)
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...

The Young Casanova (2002)
Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova...

Plato's Banquet (1989)
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them...

The Swindle (1997)
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5...

A Day to Remember (1991)
Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take...

Loulou Graffiti (1992)
A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he...

No Trifling with Love (1977)
Perdican, his studies completed, returns to his family castle at the same time as Camille, returning from the convent where she was raised. The two...

Bingo! (1998)
Vincent, a great connoisseur of racing and poker, and therefore in debt, lives in a hotel, as does André who is writing his first novel....

The Judge (1984)
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.

Once Upon a Time in Algeria (2023)
The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his...

Les Gorilles (2015)
Alfonso, brutal agent of the Department of Protection of High Personalities, is forced to team up with young inexperienced recruit Walter, fascinated...

The Story of Paul (1975)
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.

The Question (1977)
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected...

The Red Sweater (1979)
A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted...

Le Cri des hommes (1991)
1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its...

The French Calvinists (1972)
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

The Jackpot! (1991)
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a...

My New Partner II (1990)
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not...

The Flight of the Phoenix (1984)
Staubli is happy. He has just concluded a considerable deal with El Farik, one of his biggest successes as an arms dealer. To sign his final...

Brillantissime (2018)
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best...

Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by...

Control (1987)
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long...

Conviction (2019)
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering...

Grosse chaleur (2004)
On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers...

Little Marcel (1976)
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer....

Milan noir (1987)
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

Over the Rainbow (1997)
An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants.

Un homme d'État (2016)
Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the...

Lili Within the Clouds (2018)
While on vacation with Meï at her grandfather's place, Lili decides to build a plane to go and visit the person she misses.

Qui mange quand ? (2004)
Two young parents are desperate to regain more defined roles when they realize that their son does not know his father from his mother.

The Bit Between the Teeth (1979)
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math...

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale (1988)
The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Le Grand Carnaval (1983)
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.

La Culotte (1987)
At Théobald, it’s not Louise who wears the pants. And for good reason: she just lost hers in public! The court official already feels...

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves (2007)
The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.

The Big Pardon 2 (1992)
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he...

The Big Pardon (1982)
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé...

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder (2012)
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition...

The Fugitives (1986)
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained...

Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître (2012)

Those Happy Days (2006)
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues,...

La Moustache (2020)
Today is a big day for Sylvain Sabourdin: he has to meet his future father-in-law, go through a job interview and make big decisions. But while he is...

La juge Beaulieu (2001)
Sophie Beaulieu, examining magistrate, cannot manage to find the limits between her work and her family life. The boundaries are further blurred...

Maman que man (1982)
Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.

Bay of Algiers (2012)
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is...

Amanda (2016)
The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories.

Our dear neighbors (2012)
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor,...

Lupin (2021)
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy...

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (2007)
Set in and around Bagdad of the old times ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES is the highly entertaining tale of kind but luckless Ali, played by French...

Capitaine Marleau (2015)
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual...

Police Commissioner Moulin (1976)
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Les Copains d'abord (2020)
Faced with eviction, two neighboring families will risk everything to continue living together — even if it’s the worst idea...