Ali Marhyar

Like a Prince

Souleyman, 27, a boxing champion in full preparation for the Olympic Games with the French team, sees his future crumble when he cracks the bones of his hand, following a fight in a bar. Souleyman is excluded from the team and is sent to the Château de Chambord, where he must perform his 400 hours of community service (TIG) collecting waste in the gardens.

Release Date:2024-01-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:37

Top Dogs

Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.

Release Date:2023-01-11

Character:Policeman

Vote Count:45

Family Business

After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.

Release Date:2019-06-28

Character:Ali Benkikir

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:127

Harbor

A tense night of raised pulses on a ferry to England: Adèle, an English teacher, is hiding a 15 year old migrant among her students on board.

Release Date:2018-11-08

Character:Romain

Vote Count:4

Budapest

Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.

Release Date:2018-06-27

Character:Rémi

Vote Count:442

The Price of Success

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.

Release Date:2017-08-30

Character:Lenny

Vote Count:64

Five

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Release Date:2016-03-30

Character:Willy

Vote Count:1282

On the Bench

Samir is a fan of PSG and Zlatan Ibrahimović, but his girlfriend Anna is beginning to get a little tired of his obsession. This all changes when one day, she finally relents and accompanies him to watch a match.

Release Date:2015-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Samir

Quelques Secondes

The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one.

Release Date:2015-05-22

Character:Flirty at the bar

Wild Life

The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in the shadow, hunted by the police but always free and on the move.

Release Date:2014-10-29

Vote Count:51

As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and terror.

Release Date:2014-08-14

Character:Zed

Vote Count:3519

Casting(s)

Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced by Hugo Gélin for Zazi Films and broadcast on Canal+ from 2013 to 2015. The episodes revolved around actors rehearsing for different film projects for a casting director. The show also had famous guests such as Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rappers Orelsan and Nekfeu.

Release Date:2013-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Ali

Episode Count:15

Vote Count:10

Candice Renoir

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

Release Date:2013-04-19

Character:Mehdi Badhou

Episode Count:69

Vote Count:62

Porn in the Hood

3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money.

Release Date:2012-07-11

Character:Mer relou centre commercial

Vote Count:350

Elles

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.

Release Date:2011-09-09

Character:Saïd

Vote Count:176

18 Years Old and Rising

Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.

Release Date:2011-07-20

Character:Malik

Vote Count:103

Amsterdam

Release Date:2010-11-23

Character:Bacar

Vote Count:1

Black Heaven

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.

Release Date:2010-07-14

Character:Ludo

Vote Count:74

Do Me Love

A married man in his fifties who has lost all interest in his wife suddenly meets Juliette, a young woman. She reignites love in his life but triggers violent arguments with his wife. Their indifference soon turns into chaos. (French with English subtitles)

Release Date:2009-06-14

Character:Medhi

Vote Count:1

La Rue Des Anges

Paris, June 1994, for hundreds of young people, the tag is a real religion, a way of life. At 17, Rost is at the head of one of the most respected groups of taggers in the capital, the CMP. Clashes with rival gangs are legion, and a few minutes from a new confusion, Rost is far from suspecting that his life will soon take a decisive turn...

Release Date:2008-12-01

Vote Count:4