Rachid Bouchareb

Rachid Bouchareb

1953-09-01 Paris, France 35 Credits

Biography

Rachid Bouchareb (born September 1, 1953 near Paris) is a French film director of Algerian descent. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production (S.F.P). Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988. Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Baton Rouge. Since the...

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The Empire

The Empire

2024

Producer

4.8
Producing

In a quiet fishing village on northern France's Opal Coast, the birth of a peculiar child sparks a hidden war between extraterrestrial forces of good ...

Our Brothers

Our Brothers

2022

Director, Writer, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on th...

Our Ties

Our Ties

2022

as Salah

6.4
Acting

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who ...

France

France

2021

Producer

5.2
Producing

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

Belleville Cop

Belleville Cop

2018

Director, Writer, Idea

5.0
Directing Writing

When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local office...

The Insult

The Insult

2017

Producer

7.5
Producing

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attent...

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

2017

Producer

6.1
Producing

France, 1425. During the Hundred Years’ War, Jeannette, age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day she tells her friend ...

Slack Bay

Slack Bay

2016

Producer

5.6
Producing

Summer, 1910. Inspectors Machin and Malfoy investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on the beautiful beaches of Slack Bay, where ...

Road to Istanbul

Road to Istanbul

2016

Director, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Writing

Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care o...

Two Men in Town

Two Men in Town

2014

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.

Camille Claudel, 1915

Camille Claudel, 1915

2013

Producer

6.1
Producing

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's recl...

Just Like a Woman

Just Like a Woman

2013

Director

5.5
Directing

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, ...

Camille Claudel 2012

Camille Claudel 2012

2012

Producer

Producing
Outside Satan

Outside Satan

2011

Producer

6.6
Producing

Along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet, with its dunes and marshes, lives a mysterious wanderer from nowhere who struggles along, poaches, prays and bu...

Outside the Law

Outside the Law

2010

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army...

London River

London River

2009

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their ...

Days of Glory

Days of Glory

2006

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, alon...

Flanders

Flanders

2006

Producer

6.2
Producing

André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a sold...

Barrage

Barrage

2006

Producer

2.0
Producing

Sabine, a 30-year-old woman, has recently moved to an isolated house near to a river with a dam. She is accompanied by her son Thomas, aged 15. As s...

The Colonial Friend

2004

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

In 1940 France went to war against Germany and announced not only the mobilization of its territory, but also of its colonies. Senegalese family man A...

The Ugly Little Chicken

2004

Director, Screenplay, Editor

Directing Writing

An ugly little chick finds itself in the industrial hell of a chicken factory.

Twentynine Palms

Twentynine Palms

2003

Producer

5.1
Producing

A photographer and an unemployed woman embark on a chaotic trip to the California desert for a photo shoot, filled with passionate encounters and freq...

La bande du drugstore

La bande du drugstore

2002

Producer

5.3
Producing

In the sixties, the Drugstore "minets" were the best dressed, believed only in themselves and imagined themselves reinventing everything. The drag, th...

Little Senegal

Little Senegal

2001

Director, Producer, Writer

6.1
Directing Producing Writing

Fascinated by the history of his people, Alloune, an old guide at the African museum "La Maison des Esclaves" in Gorée, sets off on a pilgrimage to fi...

Humanité

Humanité

1999

Producer

6.8
Producing

In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.

Living in Paradise

Living in Paradise

1999

Producer

4.9
Producing

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants try...

Ouvertures faciles

Ouvertures faciles

1999

Acting

A panel of people representing nothing at all tries to open supposedly easy-open packages.

West Beirut

West Beirut

1998

Producer

7.2
Producing

In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise w...

The Life of Jesus

The Life of Jesus

1997

Producer

6.7
Producing

Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming...

My Family's Honour

My Family's Honour

1997

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects. She...

Dust of Life

Dust of Life

1995

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

Based on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camp...

Cheb

Cheb

1991

Director, Screenplay, Producer

10.0
Directing Writing Producing

After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign...

Bâton rouge

Bâton rouge

1985

Director

5.0
Directing

Three penniless Parisians dream of the U.S.: Abdenour has fallen in love with a tourist, Alain ("Mozart") loves jazz, and Karim wants to escape his fa...

Peut-Être La Mer

1984

Acting

Peut-Être La Mer

1984

Director

Directing