Known For
Complete Filmography
Hood Witch
2024
as Lyes Boussoufi
A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one...
AKA
2023
as L'égyptien
A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss' young son.
Natural Born Liar
2022
as Salim
Jerome, 35, is a yacht salesman in Nice. But if you listen to him, in his spare time Jerome is also an astronaut, a karate world champion and a close ...
Kung-Fu Zohra
2022
as L'employé de la mairie
Zohra is convinced that separating from her husband Omar would break her little girl’s heart and so determines not to leave him despite the violence h...
New Biz in the Hood
2019
as Bibiche
Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administratio...
Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
2018
as Directeur HLM
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly comp...
Some Like It Veiled
2017
as Imam
Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmo...
Ghettotube
2015
Sofiane, a high school student from the projects who is mad about movies, decides to create an internet site where he posts fake news videos in order ...
May Allah Bless France!
2014
as L'imam
The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy ...
Miserere
2013
as Inspecteur local
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement...
The Italian
2010
as Abdel
Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director ...
Murphy's Law
2009
as Nino Ortega
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will m...
Pour ma fille
2009
as Brahim
Louise returns home from a humanitarian aid mission having been cut off from the world for weeks and is met with a shock: her daughter Safa is dead - ...
Neuilly Yo Mama!
2009
as Forain
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
JCVD
2008
as Watchman
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds ...
Big City
2007
as le chef indien
Set in the American Wild West, this French-language film quickly overcomes its dire beginning--the Native American ambush of a group of immigrants--an...
Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
2007
as Youssef
The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
Beur Blanc Rouge
2006
as Mouloud
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identit...
Once Upon a Time in the Oued
2005
as Le parrain
In 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a Mus...
Virgil
2005
as Sid
Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting...
Kings & Queen
2004
as L'interne psy
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her ag...
Le Biz des Nôtres
2004
as The commissioner
Short film by French rapper "Rohff" (Housni Mkouboi).
The Accidental Hero
2002
as Malik
A 16 year old son and his single mother are forced to reckon their true identities. What and who is an accidental hero? The answers are forthcoming as...
Room to Rent
2001
as Ahmed
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the co...
Made in France
2001
as Zoubida
Patrick Morel has his limits tested when he's thrown in jail after a misunderstanding with the lovely Sonia and the brash Youssef, all three of them b...
The Crimson Rivers
2000
as Captain Dahmane
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by ...
Open Bodies
1998
as Grocer
Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studyi...
Assassin(s)
1997
as Watchman
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to...
La Haine
1995
as Samir
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news ...