
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.016 |
Birthday | 1944-04-08 |
Place of Birth | Oran, Algérie |
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2003

I, Cesar
5.51/197
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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1999

Man's Best Friend
0/0
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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2002

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.377/3555
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has lon...
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1984

The Bitch
4.5/10
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
5.8/52
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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1999

Padre, patrón
0/0
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 hermano pequeño
0/0
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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1999

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
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2003

Cita mortal a l’Up & Down
0/0
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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1999

La soledad del manager
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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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1999

Tal como éramos
0/0
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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1999

Buscando a Sherezade
2/1
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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2004

Les mers du sud
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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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2004

La rose d'Alexandrie
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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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2004

Le prix
0/0
A Pepe Carvalho story.
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2004

Turn Left at the End of the World
5.9/18
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2001

One Way Ticket
3.9/7
Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (...
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1996

Salut cousin !
4.2/13
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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1979

Buffet Froid
7/302
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contempo...
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2010

Fatal
6/625
Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of the year...
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1992

The Beautiful Story
7/25
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
4.8/18
A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.
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1995

Son of Gascogne
4.8/5
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
5.3/7
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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2002

Dead Weight
5.9/378
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.
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1993

Tango
5.821/28
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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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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2008

Hello Goodbye
6/19
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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2009

Coco
4.298/526
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1983

Le Jeune Marié
5.5/2
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
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Le Jeune Marié

2009

So Happy Together
6.516/256
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie,...
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2010

A Cat in Paris
6.8/254
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
6.3/64
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
5/132
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2000

Across the Road
5.7/12
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
0/0
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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1987

Lorfou
0/0
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2005

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
4.6/5
A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life.
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2004

Lucky Luke and the Daltons
3.7/347
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
4.8/5
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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1989

Plato's Banquet
5.2/7
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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1997

The Swindle
6.5/88
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 mil...
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2022

The canapé
6/1
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1991

A Day to Remember
0/0
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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1992

Loulou Graffiti
8/2
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
0/0
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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1998

Bingo!
0/0
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
6.5/5
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
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2023

Once Upon a Time in Algeria
5.588/17
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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2015

Les Gorilles
4.412/147
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
4.2/4
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
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The Story of Paul

1977

The Question
5.5/6
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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1979

The Red Sweater
5.464/14
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
10/1
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
6.3/6
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!
5.842/101
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
6/151
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
4.8/6
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
4.9/136
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
6.3/26
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
5.5/11
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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2019

Conviction
6.9/271
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
4.8/4
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
0/0
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 ?
5/1
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
5.6/7
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
3.6/5
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
5.6/33
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
5.5/70
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

1992

The Big Pardon 2
6.1/21
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

1982

The Big Pardon
6.2/74
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

2012

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
6.1/4
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
6.8/392
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
7.363/1042
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
9/2
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
4/4
Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.
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Maman que man

2012

Bay of Algiers
3.9/5
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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2008

Listen from the Nay: Separations
3.7/3
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