Simon Abkarian films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 13 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Casino Royale, De Gaulle: Liberté and Persepolis.

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Starring Simon Abkarian

De Gaulle: Liberté
2026 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
Persepolis
2007 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses...
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The Swallows of Kabul
2019 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
De Gaulle: Tilting Iron
2026 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
Cyrano, My Love
2019 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform...
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Casino Royale
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden...
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The 4th Wall
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace...
Vanished
2026 · TV
6.9/10 · TMDB
When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom aboard a train to the south of France, Alice is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she...
Overdose
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find...
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Rendition
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside...
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Someone, Somewhere
2019 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start...
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Overdrive
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
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Restless
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
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Permis de construire
2022 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When his father passes away, a dentist in Paris inherits a plot and the will to build a house on it. The situation becomes tricky when he learns the plot is located in Corsica.
Notre-Dame
2022 · TV
5.8/10 · TMDB
As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer - they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each...

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