Simon Abkarian Movies

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sophie Marceau

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Chiara Mastroianni

A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yvan Attal

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant...

Genre: War

Cast: Simon Abkarian

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Garance Clavel

"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Gillain

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Allen

The Ohaion family is mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, they gather together in the home of the deceased and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

When his father passes away, a dentist in Paris inherits a plot and the will to build a house on it. The situation becomes tricky when he learns the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Didier Bourdon

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sofia Essaïdi

A seaside resort in the middle of winter, with its abandoned beach bars and rain-battered alleys, can easily flank the drone. Refugees on the top...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Emmanuelle Devos

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Daniel Craig

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Simon Abkarian

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roschdy Zem

With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Abkarian

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gérard Lanvin

The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewess who are both preparing for their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olympe Borval

After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious...

Genre: Action

Cast: Franck Gastambide

This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Paris, the Sentier district. Christmas is approaching and Vahé Krikorian's life is falling apart. The shop he runs with his father is about to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone...

Genre: Family

Cast: Max Renaudin

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michèle Bernier

Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robinson Stévenin

June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown...

Genre: History

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his...

Genre: History

Cast: Simon Abkarian

The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Cluzet

The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nora Arnezeder

Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexia Monduit

The young years of Michel Drucker.

Genre: History

Cast: Simon Abkarian

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is looking for her lost son. They meet, fall in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurent Lafitte

Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most prestigious of all races : the Agdal. Along she'll...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Aziza Nadir

After a long journey through the circuit of international Islamism that took him from France to London via Bosnia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Hamid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Assaad Bouab

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin...

Genre: History

Cast: Tahar Rahim

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Lanvin

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Berling

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leila Shahid

Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.

Genre: History

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Genre: Drama

Cast: Slim El Hedli

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tchéky Karyo

Take a Bollywood film--a good Bolllywood film--with action, emotion, suspense, and laughter. With Indian actors who act, dance, sing and smother...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pascal Légitimus

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: André Dussollier

Noé comes into sixth grade at the same time he discovers a new city and a new house where he has just moved with his father, Marc. Coached by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Édouard Baer

The final part of a family trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. It follows Viviane Amsalem's grueling legal marathon to obtain a divorce.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

Genre: Crime

Cast: Simon Abkarian

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marilyne Canto

In this French gangster drama, a young hoodlum, new to his famed father's dubious profession, successfully completes his first hit but then finds...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arnaud Giovaninetti

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Scott Eastwood

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fiona Saigre

Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daphné Patakia

Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Disiz

Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sofian Khammes

After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Freya Tingley

Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing...

Genre: Action

Cast: François Cluzet

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thomas Solivérès

Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cécile de France

Violin teacher Anna Bronsky detects remarkable talent in a student, Alexander. Anna becomes obsessed with mentoring him, neglecting her family and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Hoss

Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections...

Genre: Drama

Cast: François Civil

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Abkarian

On the night of November 13, 2015, a woman who lives behind the Bataclan and a man who happens to pass by help the injured as they flee the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Thandiwe Newton

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Simon Abkarian

Genre: History

Cast: Atmen Kelif

American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Berroyer

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reese Witherspoon

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olivier Gourmet

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yolande Moreau

A woman with her hands full finds navigating the city streets nearly disastrous for her aquatic pal but for the clever use of a common prophylactic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

On 15 March 1921, Talat Pasha, a high-ranking Turkish dignitary, was shot dead in a Berlin street by a young Armenian. A few months later, Soghomon...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Abkarian

After fleeing from his foster family, 11-years-old Khamsa returns to the gypsy camp where he was born. With his cousin, Tony "The Midget", Khamsa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marco Cortes

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Blanc

One morning, a worn-out field cop, nicknamed Ping-Pong by everyone, burns his police ID and disappears. During one night and one day, his colleagues...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick d'Assumçao

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Cast: Simon Abkarian

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dali Benssalah

A lonely teenage girl joins a school for promising killers and trains hard to become an professional assassin as she uncovers the mysteries of her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Amalia Holm Bjelke

To celebrate the bicentennial of the French revolution, an exposition of mannequins representing the deputies brought together in 1789 to discuss the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiam Abbass