Smaïn

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. ...

Fernandel, l'homme au sourire (2023)

The Imaginary Doctor (2022)

Alex, aka DJ Wethu, is a star of the night world. On the verge of burnout, he plays concerts all over the world... Until the day when, in the middle of a festival in Morocco, Alex takes a bad fall and falls off the stage. Immobilized on the spot during his ...

Placés (2022)

Because he forgot his identity card, Elias cannot take the entrance exam to Sciences Po. In search of a job while waiting to be able to take the exam again, he becomes an educator in a children's home. Confronted with an environment he doesn't know how to ...

Les 60 ans du one-man-show (2020)

Certifiée Halal (2015)

In the Maghreb, Hajj Achour's plans for his daughter Sultana's marriage unravel when a defective dowry takes center stage. Meanwhile, in France, activism meets family tradition as Kenza confronts gender norms, leading to a chaotic wedding where secrets col ...

Gates of the Sun (2015)

An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people. ...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui (2014)

Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant (2013)

A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules... ...

Poor Richard! (2013)

It is in a small popular district that the pot of the Eurogagnant, 124 million euros, is won - But who is the lucky winner? ...

The Bag of Flour (2012)

Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. ...

Le Carnaval des animaux (2010)

Every night, a father tells his son a bedtime story. As if by challenge, the child always chooses the same book, with scores, orchestra photos and images of animals. It's about Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals". Under the impetus of the gentl ...

Tomboy (2008)

One morning Noureddine, who always considered himself a little boy, discovers that his mother Fatima lied to him for 11 years and, in fact, he is a girl. ...

Harkis (2008)

1972, in the south of France, deep in the forest, a family with meager luggage discovers the new camp where they will live. Despite the camp leader's overt paternalism, the Harkis lead a difficult life without real freedom. A life of poverty and guardiansh ...

Smaïn - Mon dernier avant le prochain (2007)

For the Love of God (2006)

Kévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. ...

Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés (2005)

Smaïn: Rebelote (2005)

From a tour of Paris in a tourist bus, to a father who has decided to become a "stay-at-home dad", to a manager who believes in his rap group, Smaïn underlines with his words and humor the flaws of our society that are, in the end, so familiar to us. ...

La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia (2004)

The Car Keys (2003)

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner... ...

Don't Worry, Be Happy (2003)

With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds ref ...

Old School (2000)

In this mock documentary, television journalist Christie and her camera crew trace the history and nefarious exploits of the new terrors of the French criminal underworld. The "Old School" Gang are four young men who grew up in the same orphanage; led by L ...

Le Schpountz (1999)

Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditi ...

Recto/Verso (1999)

Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to suc ...

Charité biz'ness (1998)

Two friends organize a fake solidarity concert in order to seize the recipe. But their amateurism leads to many misunderstandings. ...

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur (1998)

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés (1997)

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before. ...

Two Dads and One Mom (1996)

Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother... ...

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique (1995)

Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur. ...

Tom est tout seul (1995)

After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons. ...

Wacko (1994)

An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. ...

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania (1993)

Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur. ...

Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra (1992)

Show recorded on January 9, 1992 at the Opéra Garnier in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur. ...

One Can Always Dream (1991)

A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket. ...

J'aurais jamais dû croiser son regard... (1989)

In this romantic thriller, Zoe (Nathalie Cardone), a girl who has gotten into serious trouble, finds an ally and protector in Bambi (Smain), a juvenile delinquent who has fallen in love with her. ...

L'Œil au beur(re) noir (1987)

Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian. ...

Le Passager du Tassili (1987)

Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry "Le Tassili" and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood t ...

The Joint Brothers (1986)

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy ...

The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)

Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord. ...

La Smala (1984)

When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the r ...

Dorothée : Le Show (1983)

The Big Brother (1982)

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippo ...

Les Chômeurs en folie (1982)

André and Lucien, two unemployed men with a taste for petty thefts, get embarked on a film project involving Anatole, a young count who lends his castle and his antique camera. But soon problems arise... ...

Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! (1982)

A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors. ...

Mosaïque (1976)

Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who live in ...

Sandrine Alexi - Prise de têtes (2006)

Smaïn: Rebelote (2005)

From a tour of Paris in a tourist bus, to a father who has decided to become a "stay-at-home dad", to a manager who believes in his rap group, Smaïn underlines with his words and humor the flaws of our society that are, in the end, so familiar to us. ...

Two Dads and One Mom (1996)

Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother... ...