Directing
Abdellatif Kechiche
Born December 7, 1960 · Tunis, Tunisia (age 65)
Abdellatif Kechiche is a Franco-Tunisian actor, screenwriter, and director born on December 7, 1960, in Tunis, Tunisia. He moved to France as a child and began his career as an actor before turning to directing. He gained recognition with films praised for their realism, dialogue, and direction of actors, notably L'Esquive and La Graine et le Mulet, for which he won four César Awards each, and La…
Known For
Blue Is the Warmest Color · 2013Blue Is the Warmest Color
★ 7.12013
MovieRomanceDrama
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Sorry, Haters · 2005Sorry, Haters
★ 5.62005
MovieDrama
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due · 2025Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
★ 6.62025
MovieRomanceDrama
Amin returns to Sète after studying in Paris, still dreaming of cinema. By chance, an American producer on vacation takes an interest in his project and wants his wife, Jess, to play the lead role. But fate, whimsical as ever, has its own rules.
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno · 2018Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
★ 6.72018
MovieRomanceDrama
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
Poetical Refugee · 2001Poetical Refugee
★ 6.62001
MovieDrama
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute.
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo · 2019Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
★ 4.42019
MovieComedyDrama
Summer is coming to an end, Amin and his friends meet Marie, a young parisian student.
Marteau Rouge · 1996Marteau Rouge
1996
Movie
An old rocker starts a tour in the south of France, hitting the road in his old truck with two young men who are his opening act. Along the way, he stops to pick up hitchhikers...
Black Venus · 2010Black Venus
★ 6.62010
MovieHistoryDrama
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Movies
Blue Is the Warmest Color · 2013Blue Is the Warmest Color
★ 7.12013
MovieRomanceDrama
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Sorry, Haters · 2005Sorry, Haters
★ 5.62005
MovieDrama
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due · 2025Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
★ 6.62025
MovieRomanceDrama
Amin returns to Sète after studying in Paris, still dreaming of cinema. By chance, an American producer on vacation takes an interest in his project and wants his wife, Jess, to play the lead role. But fate, whimsical as ever, has its own rules.
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno · 2018Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
★ 6.72018
MovieRomanceDrama
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
Poetical Refugee · 2001Poetical Refugee
★ 6.62001
MovieDrama
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute.
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo · 2019Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
★ 4.42019
MovieComedyDrama
Summer is coming to an end, Amin and his friends meet Marie, a young parisian student.
Marteau Rouge · 1996Marteau Rouge
1996
Movie
An old rocker starts a tour in the south of France, hitting the road in his old truck with two young men who are his opening act. Along the way, he stops to pick up hitchhikers...
Black Venus · 2010Black Venus
★ 6.62010
MovieHistoryDrama
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
The Secret of the Grain · 2007The Secret of the Grain
★ 7.02007
MovieDrama
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Sueur · 2008Sueur
★ 7.32008
MovieDramaMusic
Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax.
Games of Love and Chance · 2003Games of Love and Chance
★ 6.62003
MovieRomanceDrama
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.
Bezness · 1992Bezness
★ 4.31992
MovieDrama
Fred, a photographer, is in Tunisia to report on the « Bezness » (male prostitutes). Thanks to Roufa, Fred will discover this surprising environment where young men are confronted with the contradictions between tradition and modernity.
Mint Tea · 1984Mint Tea
★ 5.71984
Movie
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.
The Innocents · 1987The Innocents
★ 5.11987
MovieDrama
A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.
A Vampire in Paradise · 1992A Vampire in Paradise
★ 5.51992
MovieComedy
Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange behavior began with the appearance of a caped and cadaverous man outside her window. Mr. & Mrs. Belfond have their hands full trying to sort this mess out, in this extremely unusual and award-winning comedy which puts a new wrinkle on the vampire mythos.
The Magic Box · 2003The Magic Box
★ 3.72003
MovieDrama
Over forty and in a bit of a midlife crisis, Tunisian film director Raouf is prone to excessive drinking when not engaged in an argument with his French-born wife Lou (Marianne Basler). One respite to Raouf's dreary life is a recent film assignment -- to shoot an autobiographical film about his childhood. While working on the script, Raouf recalls his childhood home life under the strictures instituted by his devoutly religious father. The polar opposite of Raouf's father was his uncle Mansour, a jolly, life-loving soul who introduced Raouf to cinema through his work as a wandering film projectionist, which angered and shocked his father to no end but proved to be the most pivotal development in the youngster's life. Through cinema, Raouf found his place in this world and came-of-age -- something he may have to revisit in his adult life if he wishes to salvage his marriage.
The Secret of Polichinelle · 1997The Secret of Polichinelle
★ 8.01997
MovieComedy
After a New Year's Eve party, 30-year-old fashion designer Rebecca (Nathalie Schmidt) awakens alone in a strange automobile. Later, during a routine visit to her gynecologist, she learns that she's pregnant. Unable to recall anyone responsible, she attempts to find the father as she treks through Paris streets, quizzes her girlfriends, and visits a Belgian detective. With few leads, her search drags on for months.