Hocine Choutri

Six Feet Over (2024)

Sofiane, the son of a former Algerian diplomat, has travelled a lot. Having moved to Lyon for his studies, he is the victim of an administrative decision and lives under constant threat of deportation. In the hope of regularising his situation, he agrees t ...

November (2022)

In November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred face an unprecedented level of pressure. In a race against the clock, they must find the perpetrators of the at ...

Alia (2022)

Ali, a young Moroccan immigrant, is torn between the conservative environment of his family and his passion for the cabaret where he cross-dresses at night to become Alia. ...

La paix intérieure (2019)

Jérôme, Michel and Sylvain are delivery men. When their truck die in the middle of the French countryside on a bank holiday, their only hope to get away lies in an old, derelict bus stop. But Jérôme has a self-help meeting he needs to get to... and he ...

Losing It (2019)

Roman loves Camille as much as he loves his two daughters. But he is hiding from all of them a serious problem of addiction, which could endanger his dearest. Does love have a chance to survive when trust is broken? ...

The Trouble with You (2018)

Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events ...

In and Out (2017)

Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate l ...

The Price of Success (2017)

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off. ...

Chocolat (2016)

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their to ...

Face Down (2015)

Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an undera ...

The Narrow Frame of Midnight (2014)

The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism. ...

The Lookout (2012)

When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves. ...

Ink (2010)

Never Sleeps (2007)

A man hands parcels over personally around the world. Berlin, London, Barcelona, Reykjavik, New York City. His life is about hotel rooms, planes, cabs, airports, delivery places. There's a problem with a parcel in New York City. He has to wait. ...

Délice Paloma (2007)

Atop 17 flights of stairs, Madame Aldjeria rules over a crew of beautiful young women with the help of faithful son Riyad and clever lawyer Djaffar. Madame Aldjeria can set up a lonely old man with companionship or destroy the reputation of whomever the cl ...

Counter Investigation (2007)

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty. ...

Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma's recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the ...

In Praise of Love (2001)

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We d ...

Les cendres du paradis (2000)

Why did Ariane Fisher, a young woman in her thirties, come to the hospital to die without telling anyone? To whom should this disappearance be reported? This is what Alice, the night nurse, and Prudence, the social worker, will try to find in the bag conta ...

Before the Sunset (1999)

A young Moroccan immigrant, living in southern Italy, escapes from his forthcoming wedding to the daughter of a local Mafia member to a hotel where he remains in hiding with his true love. ...

Melody for a Hustler (1998)

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apa ...

Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir (1998)

A female journalist becomes re-acquainted with an Algerian ex- colleague when she visits Beirut, and begins an affair with him. ...