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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Empire
2024
Producer
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
2022
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2022
as Salah
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
2021
Producer
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

Belleville Cop
2018
Director, Writer, Idea
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
2017
Producer
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
2017
Producer
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
2016
Producer
Summer, 1910. Inspectors Machin and Malfoy investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on the beautiful beaches of Slack Bay, where ...

Road to Istanbul
2016
Director, Screenplay
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
2014
Director, Producer
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
2013
Producer
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
2013
Director
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
2012
Producer

Outside Satan
2011
Producer
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
2010
Director, Screenplay
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
2009
Director, Screenplay
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
2006
Director, Writer
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
2006
Producer
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
2006
Producer
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
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
An ugly little chick finds itself in the industrial hell of a chicken factory.

Twentynine Palms
2003
Producer
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
2002
Producer
In the sixties, the Drugstore "minets" were the best dressed, believed only in themselves and imagined themselves reinventing everything. The drag, th...

Little Senegal
2001
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1999
Producer
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.

Living in Paradise
1999
Producer
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
1999
A panel of people representing nothing at all tries to open supposedly easy-open packages.

West Beirut
1998
Producer
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
1997
Producer
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
1997
Director, Writer
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
1995
Writer, Director
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
1991
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
1985
Director
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
Peut-Être La Mer
1984
Director