Biography
Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion. Zidi made his first film appearance in the 1998 Sébastien...
Known For
Complete Filmography

When Fall Is Coming
2024
as Laurent
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops ...

Flavors of Iraq
2024
The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used for the ceremony to pay tribute to the deceased. Today, it's ...

The Soul Eater
2024
as Fabrice Gonnet
When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander G...

Sons of Ramses
2023
as Michaël
Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built ...

What's Wrong with My Family?
2022
as Mathieu
Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file. One day...

Oxygen
2021
as Léo Ferguson
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

The Color of Kings
2020
as Nadji
Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.

Towards the Battle
2019
as Louis
The story unfolds around the year 1860. Louis, a photographer, convinces the general of the French Army to send him to Mexico to photograph the coloni...

Play
2019
as Mathias
In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the f...

Whatever Happened to My Revolution
2019
as Saïd
Angela was 8 years old when the first McDonald's opened in East Berlin - Since then, she has been fighting against the curse of her generation: to be ...

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
2017
as Henri Vallin
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventiona...

The Sky of the Centaur
2017
A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then m...

Marie Curie
2016
as André-Louis Debierne
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the No...

Daguerrotype
2016
as Thomas
An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Made in France
2015
as Sam
Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of fo...

The Assistant
2015
as Thomas
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2014
as Bertilak / Le Chevalier Vert
A mysterious Green Knight rides into a court celebration and challenges the young knights present to strike him with his own axe - on the condition th...

Wolfy: The Incredible Secret
2013
as Loulou
Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they li...

The Marchers
2013
as Philippe, le RG
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Amaro amore
2013
as Andrè
Love is a bitter history of formation and growth. The discovery of the world. The self-discovery. The restless overcoming fragile shadow line of the f...

You, Me and Us
2012
as Victor
Aya and Louis separated a long time ago. Their little girl, Lina, is now 7 years old. Today, Aya lives with Victor, with whom she’d like to have a bab...

Lines of Wellington
2012
as Octave Ségur
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Berthe Morisot
2012
as Edouard Manet
At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things from...

The Gordji Affair
2012
as Luc Delair
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are rel...

Rebellion
2011
as JP Perrot
April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-...

Mysteries of Lisbon
2010
as Visconde de Armagnac
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinis...

Après moi
2010
as Hugo
Jeanne and Hugo are tango dancers. When Jeanne conceals the reality of her coming death, she decides to find a new partner for her lover, and maybe a ...

The Queen of Clubs
2010
as Aurélien
Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet f...

La mort n'oublie personne
2009
as Jean Ricouart

Pardon My French
2009
as Antoine
Nathalie is being stalked. By an interesting, intelligent young woman called Anaïs, who makes quite an impression on Nathalie, whose real name is Céli...

Ex
2009
as Marc
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings...

Clara
2008
as Johannes Brahms
A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Le baiser
2008
as Boy
A man speaks to a woman who only wants one thing: to kiss him.

Miroir, mon beau miroir
2008
as Lepic
Marie-Line, 60 years old, continuously strives to fend off the effects of aging and lives with the obsession of recovering the missing panel of a pain...

Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus
2007
as Jean / Béjean
On an island, clones are secretly raised.

Jacquou the Rebel
2007
as Touffu
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruel...

The Great Meaulnes
2006
as Franz
A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural se...

Poison Friends
2006
as Eloi Duhaut
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.

Beyond the Ocean
2006
as Bruno
Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

Looking for Cheyenne
2005
as Pierre
Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. The t...

Changing Times
2004
as Sami
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier...

Old Goriot
2004
as Eugène de Rastignac
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victori...

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
2004
as Rodolphe
The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.

My Children Are Different
2003
as Thomas
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

Almost Peaceful
2002
as Joseph
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restar...

A Moment of Happiness
2002
as Philippe
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seas...

Her Mother, the Whore
2001
as Bimbo
After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks
2000
as Franz
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic betwee...

Place Vendôme
1998
as Sam's Son
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...
L'Onzième Commandement
1998
The perpetrator of a murder refuses to denounce himself, which results in the conviction of one of his friends. On leaving prison, 20 years later, he ...

Open Bodies
1998
as Classmate
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...
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Que demande le peuple
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Incarnation
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Lou has a deformity that appears to delay puberty. Between her parents, her friends, and the eruption of "pirates of the flesh", Lou is determined to ...
Le Refuge
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