Biography
Arben Bajraktaraj (born January 29, 1973) is an Albanian actor from Kosovo. He has starred in numerous French films but also in international films, such as Eden Log and Sex Traffic. He has frequently portrayed crime syndicate operatives in films like Taken and Verso. He was also well known for his role as the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov in the Harry Potter films. Bajraktaraj has worked throughout his career with numerous film directors such as Gérard Pirès, Xavier Ruiz, Tony Gatlif and Pierre M...
Known For
Complete Filmography

In the Name of Blood
2025
as Dardan
In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox p...

Pandemonium
2024
as Daniel
Nathan and Daniel are caught in a road accident that kills them both. As they come to grips with their deaths, Nathan confronts his past and the conse...

Troubleshooters
2024
as Viktor
Two friends from Tirana attempt to solve a murder mystery at a Durrës resort while masquerading as wealthy men, encountering love interests, criminals...

Canary Black
2024
as Arben
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she...

Waterdrop
2024
as Ilir
Aida, 45 years old, city hall manager in a small Southern Albanian town by the shore of Ochrid Lake has to fight against the infernal machine of a cor...

The Stork
2024
A sleepy Montenegrin village, where most of the people have emigrated to the USA, is the setting for a bitter-sweet of three women fighting for autono...

The Last Boy on Earth
2024
In a distant future, a mysterious boy becomes the central figure in the search for a new hope. Who is this kid? Why is everyone looking for it? Someti...

Survive
2024
as L'homme au harpon
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the dep...

Target Number One
2023
as Xavier
In order to strengthen his connections on the street, a young man has to participate in a violent robbery. But, after surviving the war between street...

Piper
2023
as The Piper
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those ...

A Short Trip
2023
Mira and Klodi, a young Albanian couple arrive in Marseille with a crucial mission. As they face a fateful appointment and a room full of waiting men,...

Policë për kokë
2023
as Astrit Kulla (the minister)
Xhino is a rookie police officer with one objective in his life: to make his late father proud. His career will make a big turn once he meets for the ...

Kanun
2022
as Aleks
The story homes in on Lorik, who's barely thirty years old yet who works as an enforcer for the Albanian mafia in Brussels, alongside his mentor Aleks...
Ismail's Dilemma
2020
as Ismail
As Nazi's arrive in his village, an Albanian peasant is torn between protecting his family or saving two Jewish men he's been hiding for a year.

Fan Noli Street
2020
as Muha
In a peaceful neighborhood life is quiet, but a traumatic past promises to change lives of people that live there, forever.

Island and Mainland
2019
Louise is a mermaid. One day, a young man discovers her secret.

A Shelter Among the Clouds
2019
as Besnik
Besnik is a lonely shepherd and devoted Muslim, haunted by unfulfilled love. He is the son of a Catholic mother and formerly Communist father whom he ...

Three Days and a Life
2019
as Andreï Kowalski
Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : t...

The Van
2019
as The Father
The van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, tak...

City Hunter
2019
as Gants Noirs
Nicky Larson is tasked to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make anyone who uses it irresistible.

The Uncovering
2018
as Vincent
The sudden reappearance of the young Vera in a coastal village makes Jordi decide to undertake the search for his father, who has been presumed dead f...

Money
2017
as Goran
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.

Bon appétit
2017
A man hungry for power finds a new way to satisfy his appetite.

Paris Prestige
2017
as Ghost
Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PR...

Lost Exile
2016
as Emir
To escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo, Hana decides to resort to the services of Emir, an illegal smuggler in Serbia that will drive her to H...

Crack of Dawn
2015
as The bar man
In Paris, 25-year-old Damien has sex with men who pay him. He also has a life in his housing estate, and tries to keep these two lives as separate as ...

The Maneater
2014
as Stan
Jezebel is a nihilistic artist who hides her fragility by living a fast-paced, promiscuous lifestyle. After attending her father's funeral, the sultry...

Ma vie au grand air
2014
as Majid
Colombe and Jo have been friends since childhood, but their life has its difficulties. Due to finances, a death, and work-related problems, the two wo...

On/Off
2013
as Cid
An astronaut hears a mysterious message that turns a routine space-walk into a dangerous mission.

Balcony
2013
as Cera
Jeton, a 10-year-old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the 4th floor. Neighbours and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police...

Josephine
2013
as le forain
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To ...

Lapsus
2013
as Terry

Asphalt Playground
2013
as Gitan
Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especiall...

Chat
2013
as Homme au Caddie
Have you ever dreamed of freezing time?

The Man Who Laughs
2012
as Hardquanone
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has becom...

The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2012
as Lucien
After her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son's ashes in Macedonia. Meanw...

Superstar
2012
as Associé Lolita Club
An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

Armed Hands
2012
as Gustav Alana 'Coach'
Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconne...

Polisse
2011
as Runaway Man
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed ag...

Welcome to Hoxford : The fan film
2011
as Warden Gordon

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Antonin Dolohov
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

Sarah's Key
2010
as Wladyslaw Starzynski
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands ...

Of Gods and Men
2010
as Croatian Laborer
A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a blood...

Verso
2009
as Besim
Alex belongs to an elite unit of the Geneva police. When Victor, his former teammate, is released from prison, Alex is caught up with his past. He tes...

Freedom
2009
as Darko
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "le...

Crossfire
2008
as Marinescu
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The d...

Taken
2008
as Marko Hoxha
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let K...

Eden Log
2007
as Technician
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he fi...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Azkaban Death Eater
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

Porn Theatre
2002
as SDF
A tale set in a decaying Parisian porn theatre, where within its dark confines, male patrons -- soldiers, transvestites, married men -- regularly enga...

The Hero
N/A
A war hero confronts his post war life in the new Kosovo.

Perhaps
N/A
A story of two delicate and beautiful women whose dreams have been destroyed by three brutal men, and of the women’s ultimate, liberating revenge.
N121
N/A
as Dimitri
Dua
N/A
The daily life of a teenage girl and her family in Pristina at the end of the 90s. Kosovo is on the brink of war with Serbia, and 13-year-old Dua has ...