Malik Zidi

Malik Zidi

Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion. Zidi made his first film appearance in the 1998 Sébastien Lifshitz-directed Les Corps ouverts. In 2000, Zidi was chosen by director François Ozon to appear as the troubled, lovelorn, bisexual youth Franz in the Teddy Award-winning film Water Drops on Burning Rocks (French:Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes). The film was based on the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is a four-part comedy-drama shot entirely on one set and featuring only four actors: Zidi, Bernard Giraudeau, Ludivine Sagnier and American actress Anna Levine. Zidi's role in Water Drops on Burning Rocks garnered him his first of four César Award nominations. Malik Zidi followed up with roles in the 2002 Antoine Santana-directed Un moment de bonheur (English: One Moment of Happiness) opposite Isild Le Besco, earning his second César Award nomination for Most Promising Actor. In 2004, he appeared in the André Téchiné-directed romantic drama Les Temps qui changent (English release title: Changing Times) as Sami, the bisexual son of Cécile (portrayed by Catherine Deneuve), who visits his parents in Tangiers so that he may visit his Moroccan boyfriend. The film also starred actor Gérard Depardieu and was nominated for a Satellite Award. Zidi received his third César Award nomination. In 2006, Zidi appeared in the Emmanuel Bourdieu-drama Les Amitiés maléfiques (English release title: Poison Friends). The film was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival and Bourdieu received the Critics Week Grand Prize and the Grand Golden Rail. The film also won the SACD Screenwriting Award and Zidi was once again nominated for a César Award, winning the Award for Most Promising Actor 2007. In addition to film, Zidi has appeared in numerous television roles. In 2020, Zidi penned his first novel L'ombre du soir, which was published by Éditions Anne Carrière.

  • Popularity : 1.901
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1975-02-14
  • Place of Birth : Saint Maur des Fossés, France
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Malik Zidi Movies

  • 2005
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    Looking for Cheyenne

    Looking for Cheyenne

    4.7 2005 HD

    Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. The...

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  • 2000
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    Water Drops on Burning Rocks

    Water Drops on Burning Rocks

    6.5 2000 HD

    In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The...

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  • 2024
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    The Soul Eater

    The Soul Eater

    6.2 2024 HD

    When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander...

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  • 2008
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    Le baiser

    Le baiser

    1 2008 HD

    A man speaks to a woman who only wants one thing: to kiss him.

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  • 2009
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    Pardon My French

    Pardon My French

    7.2 2009 HD

    Nathalie is being stalked. By an interesting, intelligent young woman called Anaïs, who makes quite an impression on Nathalie, whose real name...

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  • 2002
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    Almost Peaceful

    Almost Peaceful

    5.7 2002 HD

    Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to...

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  • 2004
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    Changing Times

    Changing Times

    5.4 2004 HD

    In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years...

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  • 2007
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    Jacquou the Rebel

    Jacquou the Rebel

    6.6 2007 HD

    In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness...

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  • 2006
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    The Great Meaulnes

    The Great Meaulnes

    5.4 2006 HD

    A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural...

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  • 2002
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    Un moment de bonheur

    Un moment de bonheur

    4.9 2002 HD

    Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on...

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  • 2022
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    What's Wrong with My Family?

    What's Wrong with My Family?

    6.3 2022 HD

    Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file....

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  • 2010
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    The Queen of Clubs

    The Queen of Clubs

    5.5 2010 HD

    Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly...

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  • 2003
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    My Children Are Different

    My Children Are Different

    6.2 2003 HD

    A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

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  • 2011
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    Rebellion

    Rebellion

    6.745 2011 HD

    April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from...

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  • 2010
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    Mysteries of Lisbon

    Mysteries of Lisbon

    7 2010 HD

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

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  • 2006
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    Poison Friends

    Poison Friends

    5.5 2006 HD

    A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.

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  • 1998
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    Open Bodies

    Open Bodies

    5.2 1998 HD

    Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store...

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  • 2023
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    Sons of Ramses

    Sons of Ramses

    6.2 2023 HD

    Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a...

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  • 2013
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    Amaro amore

    Amaro amore

    4.8 2013 HD

    Love is a bitter history of formation and growth. The discovery of the world. The self-discovery. The restless overcoming fragile shadow line of the...

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  • 2012
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    The Gordji Affair

    The Gordji Affair

    6.5 2012 HD

    Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are...

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  • 2020
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    The Color of Kings

    The Color of Kings

    7 2020 HD

    Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.

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  • 2012
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    Berthe Morisot

    Berthe Morisot

    6 2012 HD

    At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things...

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  • 1970
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    Quartier libre

    Quartier libre

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2013
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    Wolfy: The Incredible Secret

    Wolfy: The Incredible Secret

    6.2 2013 HD

    Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they...

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  • 1970
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    Que demande le peuple

    Que demande le peuple

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2008
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    Clara

    Clara

    5.222 2008 HD

    A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

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  • 1998
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    Place Vendôme

    Place Vendôme

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love...

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  • 2012
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    Lines of Wellington

    Lines of Wellington

    5.8 2012 HD

    Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

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  • 2009
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    La mort n'oublie personne

    La mort n'oublie personne

    7.2 2009 HD

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  • 2004
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    Old Goriot

    Old Goriot

    4.1 2004 HD

    A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests:...

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  • 1970
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    Incarnation

    Incarnation

    1 1970 HD

    Lou has a deformity that appears to delay puberty. Between her parents, her friends, and the eruption of "pirates of the flesh", Lou is determined to...

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  • 2015
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    The Assistant

    The Assistant

    5.1 2015 HD

    With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That...

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  • 2015
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    Made in France

    Made in France

    6.227 2015 HD

    Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of...

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  • 2016
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    Daguerrotype

    Daguerrotype

    5.7 2016 HD

    An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

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  • 2008
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    Miroir, mon beau miroir

    Miroir, mon beau miroir

    1 2008 HD

    Marie-Line, 60 years old, continuously strives to fend off the effects of aging and lives with the obsession of recovering the missing panel of a...

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  • 2015
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    The Sky of the Centaur

    The Sky of the Centaur

    1 2015 HD

    A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then...

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  • 2017
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    Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

    Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

    5.7 2017 HD

    In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic...

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  • 2009
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    Ex

    Ex

    5.7 2009 HD

    Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor...

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  • 2016
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    Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    5.1 2016 HD

    The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the...

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  • 1998
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    L'Onzième Commandement

    L'Onzième Commandement

    1 1998 HD

    The perpetrator of a murder refuses to denounce himself, which results in the conviction of one of his friends. On leaving prison, 20 years later, he...

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  • 2001
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    Her Mother, the Whore

    Her Mother, the Whore

    10 2001 HD

    After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.

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  • 2019
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    Whatever Happened to My Revolution

    Whatever Happened to My Revolution

    6.3 2019 HD

    Angela was 8 years old when the first McDonald's opened in East Berlin - Since then, she has been fighting against the curse of her generation: to be...

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  • 2004
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    Sissi, the Rebellious Empress

    Sissi, the Rebellious Empress

    6 2004 HD

    The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.

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  • 2019
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    Towards the Battle

    Towards the Battle

    5.2 2019 HD

    The story unfolds around the year 1860. Louis, a photographer, convinces the general of the French Army to send him to Mexico to photograph the...

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  • 2006
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    Beyond the Ocean

    Beyond the Ocean

    1 2006 HD

    Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

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  • 2019
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    Play

    Play

    7.3 2019 HD

    In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the...

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  • 2021
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    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    6.614 2021 HD

    A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

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  • 2013
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    The Marchers

    The Marchers

    6.4 2013 HD

    In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for...

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  • 2012
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    You, Me and Us

    You, Me and Us

    5.8 2012 HD

    Aya and Louis separated a long time ago. Their little girl, Lina, is now 7 years old. Today, Aya lives with Victor, with whom she’d like to...

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  • 2010
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    Après moi

    Après moi

    5 2010 HD

    Jeanne and Hugo are tango dancers. When Jeanne conceals the reality of her coming death, she decides to find a new partner for her lover, and maybe a...

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  • 2024
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    When Fall Is Coming

    When Fall Is Coming

    6.463 2024 HD

    The film tells the story of Michelle, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a charming Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. She...

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  • 2003
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    Les Thibault

    Les Thibault

    6.7 2003 HD

    Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.

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  • 2021
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    Gloria

    Gloria

    6.7 2021 HD

    In a small Breton town, by the water, in a close-knit community where everyone knows each other, Gloria, a lawyer and mother of three on maternity...

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  • 2005
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    The Accursed Kings

    The Accursed Kings

    4 2005 HD

    A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.

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  • 2018
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    Nox

    Nox

    6.7 2018 HD

    A mother, herself retired from the police, embarks on an underground exploration of Paris to find her daughter, a missing investigator on a mission.

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  • 2019
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    Disturbing Disappearances

    Disturbing Disappearances

    6.2 2019 HD

    A school excursion to Strasbourg Cathedral turns into a tragedy when a teacher is murdered in the cathedral square and nine children disappear.

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  • 2023
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    Enquête Parallèle

    Enquête Parallèle

    1 2023 HD

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