The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Action | Thriller
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui, Roschdy Zem, Joseph Mawle
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Outside the Law / Hors la loi (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | History
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan, Sabrina Seyvecou
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Department 36 / 36th Precinct / 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Roschdy Zem, Valeria Golino
Director: Olivier Marchal
Nothing to Hide / Le jeu (2018)
Comedy
The time of a diner, couples of friends decide to play a "game": each must place his mobile phone in the middle of the table and each Sms, phone call, mail, Facebook message, etc. must be shared with the other. It will not wait long for that this "game" turns into a nightmare.
Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Suzanne Clément, Stéphane De Groodt, Vincent Elbaz, Grégory Gadebois, Doria Tillier, Roschdy Zem, Fleur Fitoussi
Director: Fred Cavayé
Tichye VeTihiye / Va, vis et deviens / Live and Become (2005)
Drama
A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
Starring: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Chocolat (2015)
Drama
The life story of Rafael Padilla, a former slave in Cuba, who unexpectedly became a star clown in the Paris of the Belle Epoque. Discovered in a small country circus in the North of France by George Footit, a British clown and acrobat, he formed a successful duo with him, 'Footit and Chocolat'. For two decades, and despite conflicts between the two artists, Footit as the authoritarian white clown and Chocolat as the Auguste Black drudge filled crowds with enthusiasm. But nothing lasts forever and the glory of Chocolat, despite his high ambitions, started to decline until his premature death in 1917.
Starring: Omar Sy, James Thierrée, Clotilde Hesme, Olivier Gourmet, Frédéric Pierrot, Noémie Lvovsky
Director: Roschdy Zem
Une nuit / Paris by Night (2012)
Crime | Drama
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris's demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don't bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he's between a rock and hard place: it's obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they're protected by higher-ups in the department.
Starring: Roschdy Zem, Sara Forestier, Samuel Le Bihan, Grégory Fitoussi, Jean-Pierre Martins, Jean-Paul Muel
Director: Philippe Lefebvre
On a failli être amies / Almost Friends (2014)
Comedy
Two Frenchwomen in early middle age are in need of a change that the other might be able to facilitate.
Starring: Karin Viard, Emmanuelle Devos, Roschdy Zem, Philippe Rebbot, Anne Le Ny
Director: Anne Le Ny
Bird People (2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
An American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew.
Starring: Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem, Taklyt Vongdara, Geoffrey Cantor, Camélia Jordana, Radha Mitchell
Director: Pascale Ferran
Just Like a Woman (2012)
Drama
The tale of two women, barely more than casual acquaintances, who, upon escaping the prisons of their unhappy marriages, embark on a revealing journey of self discovery which leads them to the importance – and true meaning – of friendship.
Starring: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee, Roschdy Zem, Chafia Boudraa, Jesse Bob Harper, Sayed Badreya
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Days of Glory / Indigènes (2006)
Action | Drama | War
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Point Blank / À bout portant (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A couple's lives are turned upside down when the woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend must negotiate her realease.
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier
Director: Fred Fred Cavayé
À bout portant / Point Blank (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A couple's lives are turned upside down when the woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend must negotiate her realease.
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Roschdy Zem
Director: Fred Cavayé
