Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Acting

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Born October 5, 1940 · Algiers, Bologhine, Algeria

Died September 20, 2026 · aged 85

Sid Ahmed Agoumi (Arabic: سيد أحمد أقومي)—born Sid Ahmed Méziane on October 5, 1940, in Bologhine (Algiers) and deceased on September 20, 2026, at the age of 86—was an Algerian actor and playwright. A major figure in Algerian theater, cinema, and television, he left his mark on over sixty years of artistic life through his intense presence and understated acting style, becoming one of the most rec…

Known For

ZZ · 1969
Z
★ 7.81969
MovieThrillerCrime
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
RamdamRamdam · 2020
Ramdam
★ 5.42020
MovieComedyDrama
The WayThe Way · 1967
The Way
★ 10.01967
Movie
The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes propaganda and brainwashing attempts by the French and scenes of torture. In what is possibly the most horrible torture of all, the inmates are forced to listen to broadcast speeches by General Charles de Gaulle -- speeches which illustrate the changing relations between the French and the Algerians.
Once Upon a Time in the OuedOnce Upon a Time in the Oued · 2005
Once Upon a Time in the Oued
★ 5.52005
MovieComedy
In 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a Muslim, observes Ramadan and wears a djelaba. He's even convinced that his name is Abdelbachir and that he was born in a small village in the bled. When his friend Yacine gets into trouble with a local kaid and decides to return to Algeria for the vacations, he smuggles himself into the Sabri family's luggage to fulfill his dream and finally get to know his "roots". As soon as he arrived on the Algerian coast, Johnny felt right at home. But Yacine is opposed to his father, who wants to arrange his marriage.
Forbidden ZoneForbidden Zone · 1974
Forbidden Zone
★ 10.01974
MovieDrama
In an Algerian village, just before the war of independence, the inhabitants are under the thumb of a local strongman and a wealthy merchant. Among them is El Faïza, an old woman searching for her son who has escaped from prison. The gendarmes arrest El Faïza and seize the property of the villagers who haven't paid their taxes. The situation is ripe for a revolt…
Dawn of the DamnedDawn of the Damned · 1965
Dawn of the Damned
★ 7.41965
MovieDocumentaryHistory
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
TaxiphoneTaxiphone · 2010
Taxiphone
★ 7.02010
MovieDrama
This is not how the young Swiss couple imagined their desert trip: on their way to Timbuktu, they break down and are stranded in the Algerian desert of Tar. Oliver is more concerned with the broken truck than with Elena, so she explores the oasis alone. There she meets two women: a mysterious fortune teller and the young Aya. And then there is Saïd's small public telephone exchange, which connects Tar with the outside world. While Elena discovers a new world, Oliver wants to end the trip as soon as possible.
The Other ShoreThe Other Shore · 1997
The Other Shore
★ 6.21997
MovieDrama
This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.

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Black Really Suits YouBlack Really Suits You · 2012
Black Really Suits You
★ 5.32012
MovieDrama
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.

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