Amidou
Nascimento : 1935-08-02, Rabat, Morocco
Morte : 2013-09-19
História
From Wikipedia
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
Um dos cinco irmãos que havia se afastado da família retorna, agora perseguido por um bando de traficantes. Ele revela um segredo, selando a união dos irmãos que juntos buscam vingança pelo assassinato do pai.
M. Bouamaza
Le Caliphe
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.
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
Um mestre no roubo de jóias, Valentin (Jeremy Irons), ganhou muito dinheiro. Isto não lhe deu satisfação pessoal, assim na esperança de encontrar significado para a sua existência ele compra o Ladies and Gentlemen, um barco, esperando sozinho navegar ao redor do mundo. Paralelamente Jane Lester (Patricia Kaas), uma cantora que se apresenta em casas noturnas e que está tentando esquecer um fracassado caso de amor, aceita um contrato para cantar no Marrocos. Porém antes de partir ele estava tendo "brancos", o que faz com que Valentin pare sua nau no Marrocos para ver o que aconteceu com ele, pois "apagou" em alto mar.
Aziz meets Wafaa, a young prostitute and tries to get out of his condition. His task won't be easy.
Dr. Ahmed
Quando Tom Bishop, um agente da CIA, é preso em solo chinês e acusado de espionagem, o governo norte-americano, a braços com uma negociação comercial com a China, prefere não se envolver. A única esperança de Bishop é o o seu antigo tutor, Nathan Muir, que lhe ensinou tudo mas que está à beira da reforma.
Dr. Ahmar
Quando a embaixada americana no Iêmen é cercada por uma multidão de manifestantes, o Coronel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) recebe a ordem de levar um esquadrão de soldados para o local, a fim de garantir a segurança. Ele tem ordens para evacuar o embaixador e sua família, caso a situação torne-se violenta. Algumas horas após o início da missão de Childers, o embaixador está a salvo, mas três de seus homens morreram, além de mais de 80 homens, mulheres e crianças, que foram mortas por disparos vindos de seu esquadrão. Childers enfrenta então uma corte marcial sob a acusação de ter desrespeitado as regras militares por matar civis desarmados. Ele contesta a acusação, alegando que os civis estavam armados e abriram fogo contra a embaixada americana. Mas parece que o governo americano quer que Childers seja o bode expiatório de uma das mais graves crises diplomáticas dos Estados Unidos
Sufi Sheikh
Uma mulher britânica viaja com suas duas filhas pequenas de Londres para o Marrocos. Neste novo lugar, elas tentam se adaptar à nova cultura, enquanto a mãe busca uma vida de liberdade e amor.
Man at Exchange
Vários espiões são convocados para encontrar uma maleta de conteúdo desconhecido. Mas a situação se complica quando os agentes descobrem que estão enredados numa trama de mentiras, traições e assassinatos.
Mokzar
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Det. Brahms
An American woman uses herself as bait to help a CIA agent trap an alleged serial killer in Morroco.
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
Em um campo alemão de prisioneiros de guerra, o major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), que já tinha pertencido à seleção alemã de futebol, tem a idéia de fazer um jogo entre uma seleção dos prisioneiros aliados, liderados pelo capitão John Colby (Michael Caine), um inglês que era um conhecido jogador de futebol. Colby também teria a tarefa de selecionar e treinar o time, para enfrentar o time alemão no Estádio Colombes, em Paris. Enquanto os nazistas, com exceção de Steiner, planejam fazer de tudo para vencer o jogo e assim usar ao máximo a propaganda de guerra nazista, os jogadores aliados planejam uma arriscada fuga durante a partida.
Girolamo / Eagle Eye
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
Kassem / 'Martinez'
Na selva costariquenha, um grupo de voluntários trabalha em uma companhia de petróleo. No entanto, uma torre de perfuração é incendiada, ameaçando incinerar toda a região. A solução é mandar um grupo de homens para o local com um carregamento de explosivos para conter o fogo. Liderados por Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), o grupo terá de transportar os explosivos por mais de 200 milhas, em território selvagem, utilizando dois caminhões velhos. Refilmagem do filme francês "Salário do Medo (1953)".
Kirkbane
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
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, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
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
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
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
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
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
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.
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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