Biography
Ariel Zeitoun (born 26 September 1949) is a French director, producer, and screenwriter. Zeitoun started as a producer in 1979 with L'école est finie. Later, he wrote the script for and directed Souvenirs, souvenirs. In 2013 Zeitoun directed the historical drama Angélique, loosely based on the book of "Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels" by Anne Golon, which earned him international recognition by the critics and the public alike. Source: Article "Ariel Zeitoun" from Wikipedia in English, ...
Complete Filmography

Kursk
2018
Producer
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...

Miss Sloane
2016
Producer
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Shut In
2016
Executive Producer
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue ...

Heartstrings
2016
Producer
Marie is a violent cello and very talented teenager in school. Victor is a friendly boy, dynamic, but who knows some academic difficulties. Ignoring t...

Angelique
2013
Director, Writer
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a cen...

Operación E
2012
Producer, Story
A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Colombiana
2011
Executive Producer
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman...

Masked Mobsters
2007
Director
From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and h...

3 Friends
2007
Producer
Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is...

Bandidas
2006
Producer
When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest ...

Other Worlds
2004
Producer
The secrets about unlocking the mysteries of consciousness by plant-drugs. The related chances and risks involved in this shamanism. While filming Bl...

Renegade
2004
Producer
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily ad...

Father and Sons
2003
Producer
Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il v...

Gangsters
2002
Producer
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police ...

Yamakasi
2001
Director
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of trace...

Bimboland
1998
Director, Producer
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes o...

XXL
1997
Director
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...

A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
1997
Writer, Director
French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experie...

Le nombril du monde
1993
Director
Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to ...

The Elegant Criminal
1990
Producer
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while...

La fille des collines
1990
Executive Producer
When Tom returns from the army in the summer of 1958 to his country, the Pyrenees, he never thought he would meet an 18-year-old girl who is causing t...

Baby Blood
1990
Producer
A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. How...

Baxter
1989
Producer
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in ...

L'enfance de l'art
1988
Producer
A film director is making a film about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert, starring drama students at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

Chouans!
1988
Producer
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouan...

Saxo
1988
Director
A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, w...

Descent Into Hell
1986
Producer
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still...

Souvenirs souvenirs
1984
Director
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 ...

The Wounded Man
1983
Producer
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g...

Entre Nous
1983
Producer
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husba...

The Big Brother
1982
Producer
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the in...

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

The Lady Banker
1980
Producer
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with sma...