HOME
NEW
MOVIES REVIEW
WATCHLIST
Mohamed Ourdache

Mohamed Ourdache

Acting
1966-02-16
Paris - France

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Divines

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.7 / 10
Drama

In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as (voice)

7.7 / 10
AnimationFamily

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.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Carlos

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Belaid Abdessalam

7.0 / 10
CrimeDramaHistory

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4Life Kills Me

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
Drama

Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5The Ideal Man

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10

A volleyball professional has a hard time choosing between three different men in her life.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Beur Blanc Rouge

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Le policier de l'aéroport

4.3 / 10
Comedy

Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Beur Blanc Rouge

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Le policier algérien

4.3 / 10
Comedy

Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8Viva Algeria

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
Drama

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Viva Algeria

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as L'homme de la morgue

5.8 / 10
Drama

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10Salut cousin !

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

4.5 / 10
Comedy

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Bab El Oued City

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Said

6.2 / 10
DramaComedy

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12Douce France

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • as Imam

5.8 / 10
Comedy

In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13Gates of Silence

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
DramaWar

In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French army inexorably transformed into a soldiery accustomed to colonial humiliation and massacres. Amar is a young deaf and mute man who wants to join the resistance, but he is rejected because of his disability, despite all the training he received from his father, who was an expert in hunting and horses. The raid on his village, which he watches helplessly, drives him to seek revenge, he who had until then been locked away in "The Gates of Silence."

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14La Pelote de Laine

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Mohammed

4.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details