Roschdy Zem

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Moshe Abebe, Moshe Agazai, Sirak M. Sabahat

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 toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.

Dir. Roschdy Zem · With Omar Sy, James Thierrée, Clotilde Hesme

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 Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?

Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.

Dir. Louis Garrel · With Louis Garrel, Roschdy Zem, Noémie Merlant

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.

Dir. Rachid Bouchareb · With Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier

Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.

Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Elio Germano, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Valerio Binasco

Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are marching on the capital to seize power. Amid the chaos, Commander Mohamed Bida and his men are in charge of security at the French embassy, the last Western mission to remain open. Trapped along with 500 people, left to their own devices, the team must reach the airport at all costs. A perilous mission with no guarantee of success to flee the hell of Kabul and rescue what remains of humanity.

Dir. Martin Bourboulon · With Roschdy Zem, Lyna Khoudri, Sidse Babett Knudsen

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?

Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski · With Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni

Elyas, a former Special Forces soldier who has become paranoid since a mission in Afghanistan, is recruited to ensure the safety of Amina and her daughter Nour, 13 years old, both of whom came from the Middle East for the holidays. As he takes office, Elyas senses something is up.

Dir. Florent-Emilio Siri · With Roschdy Zem, Laëtitia Eïdo, Nabil Elouahabi

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

Dir. Roschdy Zem · With Sami Bouajila, Maurice Bénichou, Denis Podalydès

Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.

Dir. Pierre Jolivet · With Roschdy Zem, Émilie Dequenne, Michaël Abiteboul

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…

Dir. Rachid Bouchareb · With Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem

To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.

Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Bérénice Bejo, Stéphane De Groodt, Suzanne Clément

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect.

Dir. Arnaud Desplechin · With Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Roschdy Zem

Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.

Dir. Stéphane Demoustier · With Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Melissa Guers

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

Dir. David Marconi · With Roschdy Zem, Jaimie Alexander, Frank Grillo

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.

Dir. Gérard Lauzier · With Gérard Depardieu, Ticky Holgado, Michèle Laroque

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Dir. Pascale Ferran · With Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem

Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.

Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt · With Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet, David Saracino

A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?

Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.

Dir. Sylvie Verheyde · With Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier, Roschdy Zem

Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.

Dir. Merzak Allouache · With Gad Elmaleh, Alain Chabat, Claude Brasseur

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

Dir. Mabrouk El Mechri · With Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver

October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.

Dir. Thierry de Peretti · With Roschdy Zem, Pio Marmaï, Vincent Lindon

Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...

Dir. Djamel Bensalah · With Lorànt Deutsch, Roschdy Zem, Atmen Kelif