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Hiam Abbass has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Blade Runner 2049.
2008
Drama
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.
Dir. Patrick Wilson · With Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson
Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie.
Dir. Michel Ocelot · With Cyril Mourali, Rayan Mahjoub, Karim M'Ribah
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Dir. Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec · With Simon Abkarian, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Dir. Tom McCarthy · With Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
Dir. Éric Besnard · With Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe, Lucie Fagedet
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
Dir. David Bruckner · With Odessa A'zion, Drew Starkey, Jamie Clayton
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Dir. Hany Abu-Assad · With Qais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
Dir. Catherine Hardwicke · With Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
Dir. Eran Riklis · With Hiam Abbass, Tarik Kopty, Ali Suliman
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Biyouna
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Dir. Jean Becker · With Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon
Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities, and a God who's always watching.
Dir. Ari Katcher, Ramy Youssef, Ryan Welch · With Ramy Youssef, May Calamawy, Hiam Abbass
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
Dir. Julien Abraham · With MHD, Darren Muselet, Aïssa Maïga
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley
