Amidou
Nacimiento : 1935-08-02, Rabat, Morocco
Muerte : 2013-09-19
Historia
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Hamidou Benmessaoud (Arabic: حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television and stage actor.
Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he made his debut on stage, in Jean Genet's Les paravents.
Amidou is probably best known for his association with director Claude Lelouch, with whom he has shot eleven films, including the Lelouch's film debut Le propre de l'homme (1960). He made his debut in a Maroccan film in 1969, starring in Soleil de printemps directed by Latif Lahlou. His career includes roles in Spaghetti Westerns like Buddy Goes West and several American productions, including William Friedkin's Sorcerer, John Frankenheimer's Ronin and John Huston's Escape to Victory.
In 1969 Amidou was awarded best actor at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival for his role in Life Love Death by Claude Lelouch, later he won best actor awards at the Cairo Film Festival (for Pursuit by Leila Triquie) and at the Tangier Film Festival (for Rachid Boutounes' Here and There). In 2005, he received at the hands of Martin Scorsese a Lifetime Career Award at the International Film Festival of Marrakech. He was also the first Moroccan actor to have won an acting award at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
Amidou died on 19 September 2013 in Paris, France. He was 78.
Mr. Bouamaza
M. Bouamaza
M. Bouamaza
Rid of her rival Gloria, Aïcha will do everything to make her boss proud, with Ginette's help. Patrick presents her with a love ultimatum: their mothers must meet. And to top it off, things are getting worse in the neighborhood.
Lakdar
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...
M. Bouamaza
Le Caliphe
Alí Babá, un pobre leñador de Arabia, oye por casualidad a una gran banda de ladrones (cuarenta en total) visitando el escondite de su tesoro en el bosque en el que cortaba madera. El tesoro de los ladrones está en una cueva cuya boca queda sellada mágicamente: se abre con las palabras "ábrete, sésamo" y se cierra con "ciérrate, sésamo". Cuando los ladrones se marchan, Alí Babá entra en la cueva y se lleva parte del tesoro a casa. El hermano rico de Alí Babá, Casim, descubre la repentina riqueza de su hermano, quien le cuenta su descubrimiento de la cueva. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hamou
After the death of her husband Amghar, killed by the settlers, Tamghart resists the maneuvers of the traitor Hammou who quietly negotiates, despite the villagers, the elimination of the argan tree to pass a road. But Rachid’s bitter struggle, back in the village after long years of study abroad, puts an end to Hammou’s evil schemes.
As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an episodic narrative, with three related substories presented sequentially. The Nourys shoot the episodes in distinct cinematographic styles (and with distinct overtones) suited to each tale, recalling Humberto Solas's masterpiece Lucia (1969).
“Rahal” immigrated to Europe forty years ago. Scandalized by the behavior of his eldest son who participated in a heist, he decides to return to Morocco for good. In his native country, “Rahal” intends to take matters into his own hands. Events take another detour.
l'inspecteur de police
Valentín (Jeremy Irons) es un ladrón de joyas inglés, un escurridizo maestro que ha atracado las joyerías más importantes de Europa, usando como arma principal su irresistible encanto. Jane Lester (Patricia Kaas) es una bella cantante de jazz, que se recupera de un fracaso amoroso. Ambos se conocen en un momento en el que padecen preocupantes lagunas de memoria y sólo buscan paz y descanso.
Aziz meets Wafaa, a young prostitute and tries to get out of his condition. His task won't be easy.
Dr. Ahmed
Corre el año 1991, y al veterano agente de la CIA Nathan Muir tan sólo le queda un día para retirarse, cuando recibe la noticia de que aquel que fuera su discípulo, Tom Bishop, está en un buen lío. Hecho preso en una cárcel extranjera bajo la acusación de espionaje, Bishop ha sido hallado culpable y se prevé ejecutarlo en 24 horas. Temiendo un incidente de alcance internacional, la CIA decide que es muy arriesgado tratar de salvarlo. Así las cosas, todo depende de Muir. Habiendo toda una nueva generación al cargo de la Agencia, Muir, partidario de los antiguos métodos, está a punto de dejar de pertenecer a la organización a la que ha servido durante tantos años, y deberá hallar el modo de burlarla mientras batalla por conseguir más detalles acerca de la situación de Bishop.
Dr. Ahmar
El coronel Terry Childer (Jackson), un condecorado oficial veterano de Vietnam y Líbano, es acusado de asesinato por el ejército. Como abogado defensor elige al Coronel Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), un camarada que le debe la vida.
Sufi Sheikh
Primeros años setenta. Desencantada de los convencionalismos de la vida inglesa, la joven Julia viaja a Marruecos con sus hijos, Lucy, de seis años, y la precoz Bea de ocho. Alojados en un destartalado hotel de Marrakesh, el trio sobrevive vendiendo muñecas fabricadas por ellos mismos y con los pocos cheques que les envía su padre.
Man at Exchange
Cuando un equipo internacional de ex-agentes de inteligencia y ex-guerreros de la guerra fría se reunen en una bodega, su aventura de amor, amistad y traición apenas comienza. Al igual que el honorable e independiente samurai de hace cientos de años, estos ronin modernos se embarcan en su más peligrosa misión secreta: recobrar una misteriosa maleta y entregársela a su desconocido jefe y a la vez conservar sus vidas. Un criminal que se vende al mejor postor lidera un grupo de profesionales del crimen que busca un misterioso maletín, cuyo contenido es desconocido incluso para el espectador.
Mokzar
Argelia, 1940. Maman Titine (Sophia Loren) vive sola con sus cinco hijos desde que su marido Joseph (Phillippe Noiret), un judío empleado de la oficina de correos, se fue a París con papeles falsos a buscar trabajo. Maman Titine vive preocupada especialmente por su hijo Meyer, en plena infancia, que le ama de una manera celosa. Cuando los problemas financieros y la soledad ahogan a Maman, ella decide ir a París a buscar a Joseph, pero éste no quiere volver porque ha comenzado la Guerra de Argelia. Mientras tanto, Meyer crece, tiene sus primeras relaciones sexuales y trata de ganar dinero para su familia.
Det. Brahms
Una mujer norteamericana es utilizada como cebo en una trampa para ayudar a un agente de la CIA a descubrir a un presunto asesino en serie en Marruecos.
Si Ali
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
Le berger
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
Beauregard
B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...
Le Kabyle
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Slim
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.
Poupée
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
André
Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1943. El comandante del campo de concentración de Gensdorff (Max von Sydow), que antes de la guerra había formado parte de la selección alemana de fútbol, se interesa por un un grupo de prisioneros que practican este deporte. Se le ocurre entonces la idea de organizar un partido en el que se enfrenten una selección alemana y una selección formada por prisioneros de guerra. Aunque al principio los aliados rechazan la propuesta, al final aceptan el desafío.
Girolamo / Eagle Eye
Buddy es un aventurero que llega a la ciudad de Yucca en compañía de Gerónimo, un indio que le acompaña a todas partes. Nada más entrar en la ciudad, Buddy es confundido con un médico por culpa de una maleta que Gerónimo ha robado. Al aventurero no le queda más remedio que fingir que domina la medicina y sorprendentemente, consigue curar a un paciente...
Kassem / 'Martinez'
Cuatro hombres de diferente nacionalidad, escondidos de su pasado en una remota ciudad sudamericana, se unen para transportar una peligrosa carga de dinamita a través de la selva. Remake de "El salario del miedo", de Clouzot (1953).
Kirkbane
El lujoso yate de recreo Rosebud es secuestrado por unos terroristas palestinos. A bordo se encuentran cinco herederas multimillonarias que organizan una acción de rescate con la ayuda del agente británico Larry Martin y del espía israelí Hamlekh.
Abdul
A beautiful and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Libya. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be smuggled out of the country in a trunk ("valise"). Francoise and the agent get through a lot of turbulent adventures, in the process of which the thoroughly liberated young woman also seduces a Libyan agent and an Egyptian officer, who also fall wildly in love with here.
Raymond
Britt es una prostituta de lujo. Ella trabaja para Manuel, un proxeneta hiper sádico. Debido a que no ha soportado uno de sus clientes, Manuel decidió imponer un "castigo". Se la llevará a Lyon donde es secuestrada con otras prostitutas en la gran propiedad reservada para aquellos que se niegan a obedecer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Robert 'Smoc'
Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income Moreover, they are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim?
Ali
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Bill
Simon, un abogado condenado por un crimen, se escapa de la cárcel y se refugia provisionalmente en casa de una desconocida. Poco después, se pone en contacto con su ex mujer y con su amigo Charles, sus cómplices en el secuestro del hijo de un empleado de un banco, por el que recibieron un rescate de un millón de dólares. Simon escondió el dinero de ser detenido y ahora se propone recuperarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Macias
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
François Toledo
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
The story of a young man of peasant origin, a minor official in Casablanca, which can not adapt to life in the big city.
Etienne
París. Lucille, una mujer joven y guapa, vive, rodeada de lujo y placeres, con Charles, un viejo millonario que le proporciona todo lo que desea. Pero Lucille no corresponde a los sentimientos de Charles, que está profundamente enamorado de ella. Un día se tropieza con Antoine, un atractivo e impulsivo estudiante que no tiene donde caerse muerto. En su primer encuentro se muestran muy interesados el uno por el otro, en el segundo aumenta la atracción mutua y en el tercero se convierten en amantes.
Francis
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
photographe
Robert Coster, un importante periodista de la televisión francesa, vive feliz con su mujer hasta que una noche, en un hotel, conoce a una joven modelo de la que se enamora y con la que mantiene un romance a espaldas de su mujer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.
Nez Cassé
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers - Raymond Pellegrin - and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
Amidou
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work.
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