Gad Elmaleh

Gad Elmaleh

Acting

April 19, 1971
Casablanca, Morocco
93 movies

Biography

Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971) is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, and La Doublure. He is known for his stand-up comedy specials Décalages (1997), La Vie normale (2000), L'autre c'est moi (2005), Papa est en haut (2007), Sans tambour (2013), 20 ans de scène (2015), Oh My Gad (2015), Gad Elmaleh part en live (2016), American Dream (2017), D’Ailleurs (2022).

🎬 Gad Elmaleh's Filmography

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Les soeurs Hamlet
4.0

At long last, the two Hamlet sisters are allowed to go to Paris by themselves, and the discotheque they have heard about beckons. When the driver for their ride home becomes too drunk to drive, they cannot reach their mother by phone, and it is too late to take the last train back to where they live, they are stranded in town. The girls, who are themselves partly of Algerian descent, are accosted by a disreputable looking older Algerian immigrant, who tries to give them cash so that they can take a taxi back to their homes. They are afraid of him and try to get away from him. He apparently accepts this, but trails them without calling attention to himself. It is good that he does, for they soon run into real trouble, and then they find out that despite his frightening appearance, he means them well.

Les soeurs Hamlet

1998
Salut cousin !
4.5

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 joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Salut cousin !

1996
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