Sami Bouajila
Birthday: 1966-05-12
Place of Birth: La Tronche, Isère, France
Biography: Sami Bouajila (born in Grenoble, France on 12 May 1966) is a French award-winning actor of Tunisian origin. Bouajila's grandfather was a Berber born in Tripoli, Libya and immigrated to Tunisia. Bouajila's father decided to immigrate to France in 1956. Sami was born and grew up in Échirolles, a suburb south of Grenoble. He studied theater.
Movies
Days of Glory
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
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Adventures of Félix
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak no...
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The Stone Council
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation di...
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Nés quelques part
Sarcelles. The TGV, broken down, takes a break at the city's RER station. A young passenger, music m...
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Summer Things
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a s...
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Pretend I'm Not Here
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within b...
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The Siege
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of te...
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Desert Warrior
An honorable and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, makes himself an enemy of the Emperor Kisra aft...
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The Whistler
Cannes, the French Riviera. Armand Teillard is happy with life; a busy store downtown, a delightful ...
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Ultimate Heist
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At it...
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The Witnesses
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic....
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Replay
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes ho...
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Outside the Law
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattere...
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Masked Mobsters
From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian ...
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Omar Killed Me
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her ho...
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Le Déménagement
Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, ...
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24 Bars
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier...
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Love Affairs Usually End Badly
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a la...
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Life Kills Me
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but ...
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Bitter Victory
Xavier Alvarez est un petit architecte d'Aix-en-Provence en recherche perpétuelle de reconnaissance ...
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Poetical Refugee
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter ...
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Carré Blanc
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become h...
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Our Happy Lives
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and pain...
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Change My Life
Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, ...
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant fa...
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Bye-Bye
In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mou...
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Our Ties
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his br...
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The Crow
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them....
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Abyss
11 years ago, inspector Malik couldn’t solve a kidnapping case and a little girl died. Now with only...
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Avant l'oubli
Jeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she work...
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Inséparables
Twenty years ago, Robert left his home in the provincial northern town of Boulogne to make it as an ...
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Patchwork Family
Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. Wh...
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Divin enfant
A large house surrounded by vineyards. A Christmas Eve in a very blended family turns into an absolu...
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Zaina: Rider of the Atlas
Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most pre...
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Anna Oz
This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose drea...
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The Legend of Princess Parva
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villai...
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A Stormy Summer Night
Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a viol...
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Good Luck Sam
Samir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. ...
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The Crew
One of the members of a gang of thieves commits a serious mistake that force them to work for a ruth...
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Vultures
Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern and daughter, cover the murder of a young girl for their m...
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London River
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks ...
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The Blessed
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...
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Scribe
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is ...
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The Silences of the Palace
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The...
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Through the Fire
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is abo...
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Artemisia
The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, includi...
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Don't Leave Me!
A French women lives her worst nightmare when she discovers that her daughter has been radicalised, ...
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La thune
Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose ...
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The Bouncer
A tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover aft...
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Paradise Beach
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy...
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A Son
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and...
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The Nest
Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhe...
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Earth and Blood
A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes ...
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Red Soil
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist b...
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The Hour of the Pig
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. ...
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Une voix en or
Marion Courbet young ardéchoise meets Louise Dawson, large international singer recovering in the re...
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Trompe la mort
Centers on three French “camoufleurs,” civilian artists turned battlefield illusionists, who find th...
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