Lyes Salem

Actor

July 7, 1973 (52 years)

Alger, Algeria

Biography

Lyès Salem (Algiers, 1973) is an Algerian actor and film director. His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France. Source: Article "Lyes Salem" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

7.4

Highlander: The Series

Aram

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

6.2

Rodrigue in Love

Serge

A struggling actor, Stéphane arrives with his troupe at the Avignon Festival to perform a boulevard play. There, he meets Fanny, a renowned actress, and falls under her spell. Taking advantage of a misunderstanding to get closer to her, Stéphane sinks into a lie that he will have to keep going for the duration of the festival... but which will quickly overwhelm him!

6.8

District B13

Samy

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

7.1

Munich

Arab Guard

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

6.5

Maria

Waiter

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

6.7

Final Cut

Mounir

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

5.5

Le Grand Bazar

Mohamed

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7.0

My Afternoons with Margueritte

Youssef

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

7.5

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Le type saoul qui veut du Abba

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

6.2

Meet the Leroys

Claude

A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.

6.2

What is Love?

Sofiane

Marguerite has no reason to refuse the church’s annulment of her marriage to Fred. She also has a new partner with whom she has a child. However, to convince the church that their previous marriage was doomed from the start, Marguerite and Fred must examine their shared past.

4.8

American Cuisine

Karim

Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...

6.2

For My Country

Colonel Mohamedi

Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.

4.8

In Your Image

Antoine

Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.

6.4

Just to Be Sure

Madjid

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.

3.0

Alex

Karim

Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has no trouble matching up to the men. She works on renovating an old dilapidated house, high up and lonely in the mountains of the Ardèche, in the hope that her teenage son Xavier, who was not brought up by her, will move in. The walls she is restoring are like her life, which she wants to build up bit by bit. Because it's clear that she has just lived through some difficult years - in her own defensive words, she says to her son: 'I was unstable.' She is still easily upset and can become angry and aggressive.

6.4

In the Game

Hicham Soualem

A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.

5.9

DNA

The Man from the Consulate

A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algerian grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home life as a child; his death triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate, revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.

5.9

Sparring

Omar

Steve Landry, an aging boxer with more losses than wins, accepts to become a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay relevant.

6.3

Nobody Else But You

Gus

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.