Moussa Maaskri

Unsubmissives (2025)

Early 1990's, south of France. Katy, Hélène, Laurence and Carole have been best friends since childhood. Now in their twenties, they find themselves struggling with hardship and limited opportunities in their sunny small hometown. Despite their challengi ...

Sous écrous (2024)

The daily lives of Sami and Nada. While Nada is the self-proclaimed "biggest hoodlum on the boardwalk", Sami is discovering the prison world for the first time. ...

Challenger (2024)

An amateur boxer gets his shot at a professional career. ...

The Infallibles (2024)

When a gang of robbers provokes chaos in Paris and humiliates the police, the Minister of the Interior wants new blood at the helm of the investigation: Alia is from Marseille, fiery-tempered and unmanageable, Hugo is Parisian, valedictorian and meticulous ...

Smile, c'était écrit (2024)

Jérémy Duval, a young writer whose popularity is only growing, begins to become overwhelmed by this great fame. When he visits friends on weekends, he will witness very worrying situations. ...

Les SEGPA au ski (2023)

SEGPAs are in their last year in high school. They have to get their diploma, and to win the inter-high schools' Olympic Winter Games. ...

À jamais les premiers (2023)

The story of the 1992-1993 season, when the Olympique de Marseille became the first french soccer team to win a European Cup. ...

The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023)

The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son. ...

Final Round (2022)

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends. ...

Country Cabaret (2022)

David, a young farmer from Cantal, has just had an idea: to save his farm from bankruptcy, he is going to set up a cabaret on the farm. The show will be on stage and on the plate, with good local products. He is sure, it can only work. His relatives, his m ...

Les SEGPA (2022)

SEGPAs are fired from their establishment. To their surprise, they joined the prestigious Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Principal, reluctant to see his school's reputation deteriorate, imagines a ploy to fire SEGPA while retaining aid. ...

Meurtres sur les îles du Frioul (2022)

Stillwater (2021)

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated ...

Mon fils Malik (2021)

Rogue City (2020)

Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille's warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands. ...

Achoura (2020)

Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend. ...

Jungle Jihad (2020)

A cab driver takes a customer to the destination he indicates. During this journey, we discover through their conversation that the driver is an undercover policeman who lost his wife and daughter to a bombing, and that the customer is an extremist who is ...

Vaurien (2018)

After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the Agency ...

Taxi 5 (2018)

A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi. ...

Brillantissime (2018)

After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist. ...

Carbone (2017)

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling. ...

Overdrive (2017)

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line. ...

The Climb (2017)

A true story of Samy, native of La Courneuve, who is out of love for Nadia, decides to climb Mount Everest. ...

Corniche Kennedy (2017)

Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life ...

The Fabulous Patars (2016)

Denis struggles to raise his boisterous daughters Janine and Mercredi on his own while holding down two jobs. Everything goes sour when Denis forgets Mercredi one too many times at the school gates. Séverine, a cheerful social worker, is appointed to scr ...

The Boss's Daughter (2016)

40-year-old foreman Vital is chosen by Alix (25) as a guinea pig in the anonymous study she is carrying out in her father's factory. The boss's daughter soon finds herself falling under the spell of this reserved, enigmatic worker as he begins to open up ...

The Connection (2014)

Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious m ...

The Kid (2014)

Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate the contraband. ...

The Family (2013)

After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a sleepy town in France. Despite the best efforts of their handler to keep them in line, Giovanni (now called Fred Blake), his wife an ...

Nemesis (2013)

Four garbage collectors discover a disoriented young woman, hidden behind a heap of boxes. Charitable, they collect her and provide her with hospitality. One of them has an artist's studio where they usually meet. Secretly falling in love with this prett ...

La dernière recrue (2013)

Vive la France (2013)

Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country's existence, the son of Taboulistan's president decides to instigate a program of publicity ...

Collision (2013)

Deceit and betrayal rise to the surface after newlyweds survive a deadly car accident in the Moroccan desert. ...

A Prince (almost) Charming (2013)

A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony... ...

What the Day Owes the Night (2012)

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story de ...

Chercher le garçon (2012)

On New Year's Eve, accompanied by a bottle of champagne, Emile, 35 years old, signs up to Meet Me, a famous Internet dating site, with a good resolution for the new year: to find love. There are many men on Meet Me: cynics, comics, a few oddballs, and even ...

Blood from a Stone (2012)

The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees. ...

Les Mauvais Jours (2011)

Bruc: The Manhunt (2010)

Spain, 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. ...

Point Blank (2010)

Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samu ...

Comme les 5 doigts de la main (2010)

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 f ...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions. ...

Turk's Head (2010)

A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all wi ...

22 Bullets (2010)

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend. ...

District 13: Ultimatum (2009)

Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem. ...

Secrets of State (2008)

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow t ...

Anything for Her (2008)

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocenc ...

Crossfire (2008)

A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else e ...

The Last Deadly Mission (2008)

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison. ...

Scorpion (2007)

Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of hi ...

Nos amis les flics (2004)

Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au caïd du coin, qui, pour le rembourser, leur propose le cambriolage d'une fondation d'art moderne. Ma ...

Two Brothers (2004)

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other. ...

Lost Seamen (2003)

Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz ...

Payoff (2003)

Two very different cops are forced to work together... ...

Break of Dawn (2002)

An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more p ...

Vidocq (2001)

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investig ...

Philosophale (2001)

Mondialito (2000)

Abdou, a young runaway, stops at a service station on the motorway Paris-Marseille where he meets Georges, the attendant. Georges decides to quit his job and take the boy to Marseille to watch the World Cup. Their heads stuffed with dreams, their pockets e ...

The Slammer (2000)

This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute, who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden and the Chief Guard try to get him to tell w ...

Clandestins (1997)

A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada fro ...

Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer (1997)

In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageously ed ...

Mohamed Bertrand-Duval (1991)

In this comedy, the requirements of living a respectable life grow too great for Maurice, as do the burdens of his well-paid executive position. After getting fired when a business proposal he has worked on is translated very badly to his English boss, he ...