Jean Benguigui
Jean Benguigui (born 8 April 1944 in Oran) is a French actor. He is of Jewish-Algerian descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7371 |
| Birthday | 1944-04-08 |
| Place of Birth | Oran, Algérie |
| Also Known As |
2003
I, Cesar
5.556/207
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance...
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I, Cesar
1999
Man's Best Friend
9/1
This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier are...
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Man's Best Friend
2002
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.366/3839
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
1984
The Bitch
5.067/15
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangste...
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The Bitch
1991
My Life Is Hell
5.814/59
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervene...
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My Life Is Hell
1999
El hermano pequeño
8/1
Leo Minués, who used to be a classmate of Carvalho, is found dead the same day he had to testify in a case of corruption and someone asks Carvalho to...
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El hermano pequeño
1999
Padre, patrón
10/1
Mister Joaquim Pelletier and his wife request the services of the private detective Pepe Carvalho to find the murderer of their only son, Mariano. As...
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Padre, patrón
1999
El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
7/1
To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken p...
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El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
1999
La soledad del manager
8/1
Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man's wife has given him. But he cannot imagine that the issue...
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La soledad del manager
1999
Tal como éramos
10/1
Carvalho is hired to investigate the alleged threats to the daughter of the civil governor of Barcelona. Step by step, Carvalho realizes that there is...
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Tal como éramos
1999
Buscando a Sherezade
4.667/3
Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona l...
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Buscando a Sherezade
2003
Cita mortal a l’Up & Down
7/1
Carvalho is investigating the murder of a prison officer. The police suspect a young delinquent who had threatened to kill the officer. But Carvalho a...
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Cita mortal a l’Up & Down
2004
Les mers du sud
7/1
Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard...
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Les mers du sud
2004
La rose d'Alexandrie
7/1
When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña....
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La rose d'Alexandrie
2004
Le prix
7/1
A Pepe Carvalho story.
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Le prix
2004
Turn Left at the End of the World
6.1/24
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a b...
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Turn Left at the End of the World
2001
One Way Ticket
4.167/9
Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (...
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One Way Ticket
1996
Salut cousin !
4.5/14
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the...
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Salut cousin !
1979
Buffet Froid
7.065/352
Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his n...
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Buffet Froid
2010
Fatal
5.985/673
Fatal... short for Fatal Bazooka, a hardcore bling-bling rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tons of hits, 4 Artist Of The Year Music Awards...
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Fatal
1992
The Beautiful Story
7.1/27
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief an...
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The Beautiful Story
2004
Mixed Marriage
5.125/20
A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.
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Mixed Marriage
1995
Son of Gascogne
5.143/7
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
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Son of Gascogne
1984
Souvenirs souvenirs
5.444/9
A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone...
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Souvenirs souvenirs
2002
Dead Weight
5.824/411
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
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Dead Weight
1993
Tango
5.839/31
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to black...
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Tango
2007
Gomez vs. Tavarès
4.3/41
Two crooked lawmen (Stomy Bugsy, Titoff) search for a precious stone to collect an inheritance.
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Gomez vs. Tavarès
2008
Hello Goodbye
5.714/21
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life...
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Hello Goodbye
2009
Coco
4.285/543
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La...
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Coco
1983
Le Jeune Marié
6.333/3
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
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Le Jeune Marié
2009
So Happy Together
6.5/277
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So Happy Together
2010
A Cat in Paris
6.759/295
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
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A Cat in Paris
1983
The African
6.257/76
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conse...
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The African
2011
La Croisière
5.029/138
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La Croisière
2000
Across the Road
5.594/16
Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris wi...
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Across the Road
1996
Still Waters Run Deep
10/1
Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three...
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Still Waters Run Deep
1987
Lorfou
7/1
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Lorfou
2005
La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
5.333/6
A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life.
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La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
2004
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
3.647/374
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...
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Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2002
The Young Casanova
5/7
Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova race...
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The Young Casanova
1989
Plato's Banquet
4.944/9
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervene...
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Plato's Banquet
1997
The Swindle
6.551/98
Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until...
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The Swindle
2022
The Sofa
6/1
In a supermarket, in the sofa section, director Fabien Romains comes to choose the sofa that will be the main feature of the set for his next play. Pr...
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The Sofa
1991
A Day to Remember
7/1
Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long...
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A Day to Remember
1992
Loulou graffiti
7.75/4
A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he...
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Loulou graffiti
1977
No Trifling with Love
8/1
Perdican, his studies completed, returns to his family castle at the same time as Camille, returning from the convent where she was raised. The two yo...
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No Trifling with Love
1998
Bingo !
9/1
Vincent, a great connoisseur of racing and poker, and therefore in debt, lives in a hotel, as does André who is writing his first novel. Vincent's len...
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Bingo !
1984
The Judge
7.083/6
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
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The Judge
2023
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
5.3/23
The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son...
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The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2015
Les Gorilles
4.4/150
Alfonso, brutal agent of the Department of Protection of High Personalities, is forced to team up with young inexperienced recruit Walter, fascinated...
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Les Gorilles
1975
The Story of Paul
4.333/6
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
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The Story of Paul
1977
The Question
5.714/7
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belong...
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The Question
1979
The Red Sweater
5.441/17
A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with...
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The Red Sweater
1991
Le Cri des hommes
9/2
1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height....
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Le Cri des hommes
1972
The French Calvinists
6.2/10
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed...
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The French Calvinists
1991
The Jackpot!
5.9/120
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent...
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The Jackpot!
1990
My New Partner II
6/166
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always...
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My New Partner II
1984
The Flight of the Phoenix
5.4/8
Staubli is happy. He has just concluded a considerable deal with El Farik, one of his biggest successes as an arms dealer. To sign his final contract,...
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The Flight of the Phoenix
2018
Brillantissime
4.837/141
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best...
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Brillantissime
1979
Memoirs of a French Whore
6.1/32
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoratio...
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Memoirs of a French Whore
1987
Control
5.6/13
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long...
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Control
2019
Conviction
6.842/285
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering h...
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Conviction
2004
Grosse chaleur
6/1
On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in...
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Grosse chaleur
1976
Little Marcel
10/1
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Beli...
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Little Marcel
2009
Chat en Poche
6/1
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Chat en Poche
1987
Milan noir
9/1
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.
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Milan noir
1997
Over the Rainbow
5.8/5
An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants.
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Over the Rainbow
2016
Un homme d'État
4/3
Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the polls, leader o...
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Un homme d'État
2018
Lili Within the Clouds
8/1
While on vacation with Meï at her grandfather's place, Lili decides to build a plane to go and visit the person she misses.
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Lili Within the Clouds
2004
Qui mange quand ?
7/2
Two young parents are desperate to regain more defined roles when they realize that their son does not know his father from his mother.
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Qui mange quand ?
1979
The Bit Between the Teeth
5.875/8
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math w...
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The Bit Between the Teeth
1988
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
4.286/7
The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
1983
Le Grand Carnaval
5.6/38
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
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Le Grand Carnaval
1987
La Culotte
0/0
At Théobald, it’s not Louise who wears the pants. And for good reason: she just lost hers in public! The court official already feels shamed and does...
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La Culotte
2007
Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
5.391/78
The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
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Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
1982
The Big Pardon
6.2/85
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's frie...
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The Big Pardon
1992
The Big Pardon 2
5.9/25
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he...
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The Big Pardon 2
2012
Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
6.2/6
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in...
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Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
1986
The Fugitives
6.801/449
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained ro...
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The Fugitives
2012
Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître
0/0
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Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître
2006
Those Happy Days
7.345/1130
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, v...
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Those Happy Days
2020
La Moustache
0/0
Today is a big day for Sylvain Sabourdin: he has to meet his future father-in-law, go through a job interview and make big decisions. But while he is...
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La Moustache
2001
La Juge Beaulieu
9/3
Sophie Beaulieu, examining magistrate, cannot manage to find the limits between her work and her family life. The boundaries are further blurred when,...
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La Juge Beaulieu
1982
Maman Que Man
4.5/6
While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer.
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Maman Que Man
2012
Bay of Algiers
3.417/6
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with presid...
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Bay of Algiers
2018
Like Me : La Fête Interdite
0/0
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Like Me : La Fête Interdite
2008
Listen from the Nay: Separations
3.7/3
The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the...
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Listen from the Nay: Separations
2002
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.421/19
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.
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How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2009
Aïcha
6.3/11
A few miles from Paris, on the other side of the northern ring road, stands a ghetto neighborhood with countless rows of dilapidated apartment buildin...
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