Malik Zidi

Malik Zidi

1975-02-14 Saint Maur des Fossés, France 55 Credits

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...

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When Fall Is Coming

When Fall Is Coming

2024

as Laurent

6.6
Acting

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

Flavors of Iraq

2024

9.0
Acting

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

The Soul Eater

2024

as Fabrice Gonnet

6.1
Acting

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

Sons of Ramses

2023

as Michaël

6.1
Acting

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?

What's Wrong with My Family?

2022

as Mathieu

6.3
Acting

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

Oxygen

2021

as Léo Ferguson

6.6
Acting

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

The Color of Kings

2020

as Nadji

7.0
Acting

Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.

Towards the Battle

Towards the Battle

2019

as Louis

5.2
Acting

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

Play

2019

as Mathias

7.3
Acting

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

Whatever Happened to My Revolution

2019

as Saïd

6.3
Acting

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

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017

as Henri Vallin

5.7
Acting

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

The Sky of the Centaur

2017

7.0
Acting

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

Marie Curie

2016

as André-Louis Debierne

5.1
Acting

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

Daguerrotype

2016

as Thomas

5.8
Acting

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

Made in France

Made in France

2015

as Sam

6.2
Acting

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

The Assistant

The Assistant

2015

as Thomas

5.1
Acting

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

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2014

as Bertilak / Le Chevalier Vert

Acting

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

Wolfy: The Incredible Secret

2013

as Loulou

6.2
Acting

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

The Marchers

2013

as Philippe, le RG

6.4
Acting

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

Amaro amore

2013

as Andrè

4.8
Acting

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

You, Me and Us

2012

as Victor

5.8
Acting

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

Lines of Wellington

2012

as Octave Ségur

5.8
Acting

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot

2012

as Edouard Manet

6.0
Acting

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

The Gordji Affair

2012

as Luc Delair

6.5
Acting

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

Rebellion

2011

as JP Perrot

6.7
Acting

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

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

as Visconde de Armagnac

7.0
Acting

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

Après moi

2010

as Hugo

5.0
Acting

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

The Queen of Clubs

2010

as Aurélien

5.6
Acting

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

La mort n'oublie personne

2009

as Jean Ricouart

6.7
Acting
Pardon My French

Pardon My French

2009

as Antoine

7.3
Acting

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

Ex

2009

as Marc

5.7
Acting

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

Clara

Clara

2008

as Johannes Brahms

5.2
Acting

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

Le baiser

Le baiser

2008

as Boy

Acting

A man speaks to a woman who only wants one thing: to kiss him.

Miroir, mon beau miroir

Miroir, mon beau miroir

2008

as Lepic

Acting

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

Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus

2007

as Jean / Béjean

Acting

On an island, clones are secretly raised.

Jacquou the Rebel

Jacquou the Rebel

2007

as Touffu

6.6
Acting

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

The Great Meaulnes

2006

as Franz

5.4
Acting

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

Poison Friends

2006

as Eloi Duhaut

5.5
Acting

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.

Beyond the Ocean

Beyond the Ocean

2006

as Bruno

Acting

Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

Looking for Cheyenne

Looking for Cheyenne

2005

as Pierre

4.7
Acting

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

Changing Times

2004

as Sami

5.5
Acting

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

Old Goriot

2004

as Eugène de Rastignac

4.4
Acting

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

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress

2004

as Rodolphe

6.0
Acting

The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.

My Children Are Different

My Children Are Different

2003

as Thomas

6.2
Acting

A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

Almost Peaceful

Almost Peaceful

2002

as Joseph

5.7
Acting

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

A Moment of Happiness

2002

as Philippe

4.9
Acting

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

Her Mother, the Whore

2001

as Bimbo

10.0
Acting

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

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

2000

as Franz

6.5
Acting

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

Place Vendôme

1998

as Sam's Son

6.3
Acting

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

Acting

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

Open Bodies

1998

as Classmate

5.2
Acting

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...

Quartier libre

N/A

Acting

Que demande le peuple

N/A

Acting

Incarnation

N/A

Acting

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

N/A

Acting