Maka Kotto
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1961-12-07
Locus Natus:
Et ut:
A Silent Love
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions,...
release : 2004.10.15popularis : 5.531
Zim and Co
Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets...
release : 2005.08.17popularis : 2.435
Looking for Alexander
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
release : 2004.10.29popularis : 2.813
The Middle Passage
A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
release : 2000.09.09popularis : 2.78
How to Conquer America in One Night
A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.
release : 2004.09.10popularis : 0.717
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
release : 1995.05.28popularis : 3.133
Le Ciel sur la tête
Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with...
release : 2001.10.19popularis : 1.717
Blanc d'ébène
The year is 1943 and the place is Balandou, a small village in Guinea. The plot revolves around Adjutant Mariani, some kind of a misfit. Despised by...
release : 1991.01.02popularis : 1.432
Marche à l'ombre
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here...
release : 1984.10.17popularis : 5.458
Which Way Africa?
Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.
release : 2024.02.16popularis : 0.987
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 0.987
Journey to Ouaga
Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 2.808
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy...
release : 1989.02.24popularis : 4.429
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...
release : 2000.05.13popularis : 2.87
A Sunday in Kigali
In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the...
release : 2006.03.03popularis : 4.626
Love on the Quiet
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live...
release : 1985.07.07popularis : 3.756
Make It Mine
Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses....
release : 1986.09.10popularis : 2.021
The Haven
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 1.36
Monsieur Naphtali
Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he...
release : 1999.08.04popularis : 2.591
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his...
release : 1996.03.20popularis : 6.724
Night Taxi
It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and...
release : 1993.12.01popularis : 1.197
Sucre amer
Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are...
release : 1998.01.02popularis : 2.138
One 4 All
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the...
release : 1999.12.29popularis : 2.223
Arrêt sur image
Drama about a white young woman who finds a wounded black man in her house.
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 0.89
Trapped by a Dream
Elle (Isabelle Gélinas) wants to make a film about African wildlife. Adrien (Eric Métayer) is obsessed with the idea of making love to...
release : 1993.01.13popularis : 1.274
La Goutte d'or
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and...
release : 1990.09.11popularis : 1.292
Lulu, roi de France
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the...
release : 1995.12.21popularis : 1.904
Périgord noir
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the...
release : 1989.06.21popularis : 2.554
Wanted: Strong Woman
Nadege lacks the confidence to get what she wants from life... until the day she discovers a new passion that awakens the beast inside her.
release : 2019.08.06popularis : 0.837