Simon Abkarian Movies

Ararat

66/100

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Gett: Der Prozess der Viviane Amsalem

77/100

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

The Cut

63/100

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

1915

48/100

Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.

Yes

68/100

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ... See full summary »

Army of Crime

67/100

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for ... See full summary »

The Serpent

65/100

Fashion photographer Vincent Mandel, in the midst of a difficult divorce, is suddenly being accused of rape and extorted. What does his former classmate Joseph Plender want from him?

Ihr letzter Coup

65/100

"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives ... See full summary »

Scribe

62/100

The unemployed Duval is contacted by a mysterious organization to transcribe intercepted calls. He accepts the job with no suspicions, since it restores stability to his life, but it will soon result in political shenanigans of all kinds.

Die Abenteuer der kleinen Giraffe Zarafa

70/100

After escaping the clutches of a slave trader, a bold ten-year-old Sudanese boy befriends a young giraffe and a kind Bedouin, who takes them on a splendid journey via a hot-air balloon as far as the palace of King Charles X of France.

Rage

48/100

A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone.

The Wedding Song

67/100

The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.

Trivial

49/100

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?

Djam

72/100

Djam, a Greek girl, is sent to Istanbul on a mission to find a motor-boat part of her uncle, a former sailor and great fan of the Greek musical style rebetiko. In the city, she meets Avril,... See full summary »

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

68/100

In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously... See full summary »

Musée haut, musée bas

53/100

A curator terrified of green plants, a ballet of Virgin Saints, a minister of Culture lost in an exhibition of sex organs, a car that has disappeared in the Rembrandt car park, visitors in ... See full summary »

To Take a Wife

69/100

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children...

Almost Peaceful

68/100

Jewish tailor Albert (Abkarian) and his wife Lea (Breitman) are reestablishing their business in 1946 Paris...

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

60/100

My name is Georges Figon. Okay I'm dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn't going to stop me from speaking...

Zaïna - Königin der Pferde

57/100

Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most prestigious of all races : the Agdal. Along she'll have to face powerful Omar and learn to trust her newly discovered father Mustapha.

De force

43/100

Following a series of unresolved robberies, the authorities decide to give Carte Blanche to the Commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang.

Gamblers

55/100

Vahé, Sahak, and Toros run a bonneteau game on the streets of Paris. They're Lebanese French of Armenian descent. Vahé also works with his father, a cloth merchant, and is in love with Lu ... See full summary »

Les amants naufragés

64/100

Too much in love, overly possessive, there's no doubt in Stan Mirkine's mind: his wife is cheating on him...

Gris blanc

57/100

A man hurts his leg hiking on the snow and is rescued by a young hermit with healing powers. He befriends the guy and tries to con him into selling his land.

L'affaire Ben Barka

68/100