The best Hocine Choutri’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hocine Choutri’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Hocine Choutri.
Chocolat
7/10
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
Counter Investigation
6.7/10
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
The Lookout
5.7/10
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
In and Out
5.4/10
Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications ...
The Trouble with You
6.2/10
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.
The Price of Success
5.8/10
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
Face Down
6.4/10
Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an underage gypsy prostitute. Torn by the pressure from all sides, he almost turns into an unscrupulous pimp. His feelings for the girl will help him keep the last thing he has – his dignity.
Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961
7.4/10
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.
Melody for a Hustler
6.1/10
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Les cendres du paradis
Never Sleeps
8.9/10
A man hands parcels over personally around the world. Berlin, London, Barcelona, Reykjavik, New York City. His life is about hotel rooms, planes, cabs, airports, delivery places. There's a problem with a parcel in New York City. He has to wait.
La Paix Intérieure
Jérôme, Michel and Sylvain are delivery men. When their truck die in the middle of the French countryside on a bank holiday, their only hope to get away lies in an old, derelict bus stop. But Jérôme has a self-help meeting he needs to get to... and he won't wait for that bus forever.
Ink
6.9/10
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
6/10
The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism.
