Ariel Zeitoun

Ariel Zeitoun

1949-09-26 Tunis, Tunisia 33 Credits

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, ...

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Kursk

Kursk

2018

Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Miss Sloane

2016

Producer

7.4
Producing

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

Shut In

Shut In

2016

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

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

Heartstrings

2016

Producer

6.4
Producing

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

Angelique

2013

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

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

Operación E

2012

Producer, Story

6.6
Producing Writing

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Colombiana

Colombiana

2011

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Masked Mobsters

2007

Director

5.7
Directing

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

3 Friends

2007

Producer

5.1
Producing

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

Bandidas

2006

Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Other Worlds

2004

Producer

7.0
Producing

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

Renegade

Renegade

2004

Producer

4.8
Producing

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

Father and Sons

2003

Producer

6.8
Producing

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

Gangsters

2002

Producer

6.7
Producing

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

Yamakasi

2001

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Bimboland

1998

Director, Producer

4.3
Directing Producing

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

XXL

1997

Director

4.0
Directing

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

A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love

1997

Writer, Director

2.5
Writing Directing

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

Le nombril du monde

1993

Director

2.0
Directing

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

The Elegant Criminal

1990

Producer

5.2
Producing

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

La fille des collines

1990

Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

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

Baby Blood

1990

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

Baxter

1989

Producer

6.3
Producing

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

L'enfance de l'art

1988

Producer

4.6
Producing

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!

Chouans!

1988

Producer

5.9
Producing

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

Saxo

1988

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Descent Into Hell

1986

Producer

4.8
Producing

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

Souvenirs souvenirs

1984

Director

5.3
Directing

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

The Wounded Man

1983

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

Entre Nous

1983

Producer

6.7
Producing

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

The Big Brother

1982

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

The Big Pardon

1982

Producer

6.2
Producing

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

The Lady Banker

1980

Producer

5.4
Producing

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