Biography
Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch. Of Algerian origins, he was married to actress Hiam Abbass. They have two daughters, Lina and Mouna. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Colours of Time
2025
as Abdelkrim
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. ...

September 5
2024
as Jacques Lesgards
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

Sur un fil
2024
as Zinedine
Jo, a young woman and street circus artist, discovers the work of the professional clowns of “Nez pour Rire”. Quickly - perhaps too quickly - entering...

Bye Bye Tiberias
2024
Archival Footage Coordinator
In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother...

L'enfant du paradis
2023
as Sami
Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family lif...

You Promised Me the Sea
2023
as Mahmoud
Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged ma...

La Grande Ourse
2023
as Charles

Over The Cracks
2023
as Docteur Jiveau
Odile is getting ready to celebrate her birthday. As her kids and grandkids are on their way to visit her, Jean, her husband, unexpectedly passes awa...

Umami
2023
as Mohamad
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defea...

Divertimento
2023
as Abdel Ziouali
Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a professional cellist. They want to make classical musi...

Thank God We Have Each Other
2022
as Colinet
Vincent is 13 years old and has a boundless admiration for his father. His father is unemployed and is mainly involved in football, pretending to beco...

You Resemble Me
2022
as Army Officer
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

Citoyen d'honneur
2022
as Hamid Mezouar
Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all t...

Je t'aime, filme-moi !
2022
as Mime
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads ...

Rise
2022
as L'administrateur
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheat...

Their Algeria
2021
as Self
After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.

C'était quand la dernière fois ?
2019

Someone, Somewhere
2019
as Pharmacien
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never ...

Marry Me, Dude
2017
as Père Yacine
Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...

Everyone's Life
2017
as Zinedine
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secre...

J'ai tué ma femme
2017
as Le garagiste
Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. Wh...

Heaven Will Wait
2016
as Samir Bouzaria
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when s...

Two Birds, One Stone
2016
as Lyess

I'm All Yours
2015
as Omar - le patron du Cash'Halal
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resource...

The Lies of the Victors
2014
as Dan
Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he lo...

Murder in Pacot
2014
as Leonetti
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when t...

Patchwork Family
2014
as Patrick Fellous
Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decide...

Chinese Puzzle
2013
as M. Boubaker
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them gro...

Max
2013
as Mario
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the stree...

Mood Indigo
2013
as Le vieil homme de l'usine d'armement
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Pirate TV
2012
as Jimmy
It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and t...

State Conspiracy
2012
as Commissaire Brindier
French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, progra...

Operation Casablanca
2011
as Hassan
Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life....

The Prey
2011
as Lucciani
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him....

My Piece of the Pie
2011
as Ahmed
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workm...

Nothing to Declare
2010
as Lucas Pozzi
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

The Names of Love
2010
as Mohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who do...

What War May Bring
2010
as L'accordéonniste
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passi...

Pas si simple
2010
as Mostepha
Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vaca...

Divorces
2009
as Marc
Valentine and Alex are married, both lawyers, specializing in family matters. In the exercise of their profession, they defend the divorce of the XXI...

Moloch Tropical
2009
as Jean de Dieu Théogène, the President
In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president...

So Woman!
2009
as Farid
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.

J'ai pensé à vous tous les jours
2008
as Joseph Souhad
Cedric alias "The Quick" was abandoned at birth by his mother and grew up somehow in the homes of the DDASS. One day his teacher Bernard tells him he ...

JCVD
2008
as Man wearing Beret
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 ...

Minor Revelations
2008
"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is ab...

Welcome to the Sticks
2008
as Momo
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To plea...

Paris
2008
as Mourad
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has...

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Crossed Tracks
2007
as le commissaire
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes fro...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
as Joubert
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his...

That Day
2007
as Inspecteur Haddid
Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believ...

The Nativity Story
2006
as Girl's Father
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua...

A House of Your Dreams
2006
as Mouloud Mami
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.

Olé !
2005
as Le chauffeur CL500
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of ret...

Vive la vie
2005
as Rachid
A businessman gets depressed when his wife leaves him and he learns that his IQ is very low. A friend, a clown in hospitals, wants to cheer him up.

Emmenez-moi
2005
as Boris
A lifelong fan of Charles Aznavour, a drifting 50-year-old man one day sets out to meet his idol.

The Demon Stirs
2005
as Samir
Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find poten...

Russian Dolls
2005
as M. Boubaker
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

La vie de chantier
2004
as Pedro Pinto
Charles Boulin decides to sell his small apartment on Avenue Foch to purchase a little hotel in the western suburbs of Paris. But the hotel happens to...

L'incruste
2004
as Mickey
A small crook manages to crash at a musician's apartment and turns his life upside down.

Tar Angel
2003
as Ahmed Kasmi
Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.

Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public
2003
as Self

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
2003
as Mouss
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic l...

The Legend of Princess Parva
2003
as Gangster (voice)
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived ...
Concours de circonstance
2003
as Le grand frère
Short movie

If I Were a Rich Man
2002
as Monsieur Benhassine
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambiti...

Ma caméra et moi
2002
as Max
Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The secon...

The Spanish Apartment
2002
as Barman
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the ...

Satin Rouge
2002
as Cabaret Patron (uncredited)
After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbl...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Tiler
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Teacher in a Bikini
2002
as Alain, l'employé municipal
Old buddies Eric, Jean and Karim have never really grown up. Spending their listless days and nights in the same Lyon suburb where they were raised, t...

La vie en gros
2002
as Le professeur de français

Inch'Allah dimanche
2001
as Ahmed
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in Fra...

Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
2001
as Roland
Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a gove...

J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
2001
as Jimmy, grocer
A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.

Bread
2001
A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.

Mademoiselle
2001
as Karim Coutard
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not,...
Ligne 208
2001
Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point...

Deuxième quinzaine de juillet
2000
as Félix
Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the s...

Banqueroute
2000
Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flee...
The Apple, the Fig and the Almond
2000
as The man
A man and a woman whose first names will never be known and who should never meet. He is an immigrant, worker of the vine, she is a fleeing bourgeois ...
Génération cutter
2000
Short movie

Peut-être
1999
as Kader
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...

Sitcom, A Movie
1999
as Areski
In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of th...

Influence Peddling
1999
as Gilles
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer...

Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
1999
as Le coiffeur
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years...

Lila Lili
1999
as Alain
Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home ...

Let There Be Light!
1998
as Dieu l'éboueur
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Le Clone
1998
as Elias
Thomas is a computer whiz working on a program aimed at curing timidity. The program's host, Leo, is Thomas' alter ego. One night, he decides to see t...

Serial Lover
1998
as Prince Hakim
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house...

Le Jour de Noël
1998
Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, his...

La voie est libre
1998
as Karim
This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired. Whe...

Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
1997
as Farid
24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence

Gentlemen Children
1997
as Nourdine / Ismaël
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be...

The Forbidden Woman
1997
as L'homme à la contravention
François is 39, Muriel is 22... He is married, with a child, and lives comfortably. She is single and unattached. They meet by chance... He wants her....

The Silence of Rak
1997
as Customer
The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

Mauvais Genre
1997
as Momo
The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok ...

Hikers
1997
as L'animateur
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

Didier
1997
as Camel Mimouni
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him...

I Am Your Punishment
1996
as Pursuer #2
An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a differenc...

Chameleon
1996
as Gas station attendant
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Franci...

Family Resemblances
1996
as Consumer
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective an...

The Rock of Acapulco
1996
as Ahmed
Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the care...

When the Cat's Away
1996
as Djamel
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, inc...

L'Échappée belle
1996
as l'avocat
An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's...

The Voyage of Penelope
1996
as le vendeur de voiture
Maxime and Paulo are two young men in their very early twenties. Maxime is spending his summer holidays with his parents in a camping resort, which he...
René Vautier, l'indomptable
1996
as himself

The Apprentices
1995
as Serveur Café
Antoine is a failed and depressed writer. Fred doesn't do much in his life and seems to be happy about it. The two of them share an apartment and live...

La Haine
1995
as Paris Plainclothes Police Officer #1
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 ...

Good Old Daze
1995
as Un hippie
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited ba...

Daisy and Mona
1994
The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical y...

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
1993
as Man in Front of Vidal's Hospital
Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she c...

A Soul Split in Two
1993
as Abid
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights...

Little Nothings
1992
as Aziz
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He dec...

Hanna K.
1983
as Villiage Sergeant
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta...

La Bête noire
1983
as Santiago
In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the d...
Pour le pire et le meilleur
N/A
Philippe Croizon, a 26-year-old metal worker at Fonderies du Poitou, had no idea that his life would be turned upside down on March 5, 1994. On that d...