Tarak Ben Ammar

Tarak Ben Ammar

Tarak Ben Ammar (born June 12, 1949) is an Tunisian-French film producer and distributor; the owner of French production and distribution company Quinta Communications. He is famous for his interest in artistic movies, especially when they are related to Mediterranean culture or require North African locations. His producing credits include the Franco Zeffirelli film adaptation of La Traviata and Claude Chabrol's Death Rite. On 19 May 2010, he announced a "strategic relationship" with the Weinstein Company. Ben Ammar became well known in France at the beginning of 2004 when he decided to distribute The Passion of The Christ after everybody else declined. He appeared on television talk shows, defending the movie. He is also known as the advisor of international investor Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, and French businessman Vincent Bolloré. He was formerly a manager of Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour. Ben Ammar was born in Tunis, Tunisia; to a French Catholic mother of Corsican descent who converted to Islam, and to a Tunisian Muslim father. He was raised Muslim. He is the brother of writer Hélé Béji. His aunt Wassila Ben Ammar was the wife of the first President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba. Ben Ammar resides in France, with two of his three sons, Neil and Tarak Jr., and his model-singer daughter Sonia Ben Ammar, from his marriage to actress Beata (née Sonczuk) who is of Polish descent. Source: Article "Tarak Ben Ammar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Tarak Ben Ammar
  • Popularity: 1.64
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1949-06-12
  • Place of Birth: Tunis, Tunisia
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Tarak Ben Ammar Movies

  • 2003
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    Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

    Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

    8.7 2003 HD

    A documentary about Brian de Palma's "Femme Fatale."

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  • 2014
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    Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel

    Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2007
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    Hannibal Rising

    Hannibal Rising

    6.253 2007 HD

    The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he...

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  • 2002
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    Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

    Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

    4.358 2002 HD

    Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in...

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  • 1986
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    Pirates

    Pirates

    6.2 1986 HD

    The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

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  • 2002
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    Femme Fatale

    Femme Fatale

    6.163 2002 HD

    A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug...

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  • 2007
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    The Last Legion

    The Last Legion

    5.6 2007 HD

    As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

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  • 1997
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    Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich

    Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich

    8.01 1997 HD

    The King of Pop rocks the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany during his concerts on June 4th and 6th, 1997, as part of the HIStory World Tour.

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  • 1994
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    Foreign Student

    Foreign Student

    4.5 1994 HD

    A French football playing exchange student falls in love.

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  • 1993
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    Voyage

    Voyage

    5 1993 HD

    Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and...

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  • 1987
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    A Boy from Calabria

    A Boy from Calabria

    6.478 1987 HD

    Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who...

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  • 1988
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    Young Toscanini

    Young Toscanini

    5.9 1988 HD

    A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

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  • 2022
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    Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

    Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

    7.012 2022 HD

    When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he...

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  • 2002
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    Avenging Angelo

    Avenging Angelo

    5.447 2002 HD

    A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman....

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  • 1980
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    Catherine and I

    Catherine and I

    5.4 1980 HD

    Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America,...

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  • 2007
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    Virgin Territory

    Virgin Territory

    4.782 2007 HD

    In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty...

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  • 1981
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    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    7.928 1981 HD

    When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to...

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  • 2009
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    Baaria

    Baaria

    7.229 2009 HD

    Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian...

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  • 1984
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    Misunderstood

    Misunderstood

    6.7 1984 HD

    A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.

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  • 1979
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    Life of Brian

    Life of Brian

    7.763 1979 HD

    Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging...

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  • 2003
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    Boys on the Run

    Boys on the Run

    5.5 2003 HD

    When Jessy burns down his adoptive parents garage he is put into a youth prison. There he meets Roark another troublemake with whom he escapes and...

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  • 1979
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    The Adolescent

    The Adolescent

    5.4 1979 HD

    In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity...

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  • 1994
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    Nobody's Children

    Nobody's Children

    6 1994 HD

    An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

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  • 2008
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    A Matador's Mistress

    A Matador's Mistress

    5.8 2008 HD

    Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

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  • 2010
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    Outside the Law

    Outside the Law

    6.6 2010 HD

    After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French...

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  • 1991
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    Mother

    Mother

    8.2 1991 HD

    Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in...

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  • 2011
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    Black Gold

    Black Gold

    6.514 2011 HD

    On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to...

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  • 1982
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    Quando la coppia scoppia

    Quando la coppia scoppia

    4.2 1982 HD

    A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.

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  • 1977
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    Sahara Cross

    Sahara Cross

    1 1977 HD

    Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian...

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  • 2006
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    Chromophobia

    Chromophobia

    5.3 2006 HD

    Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

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  • 1989
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    Headstrong

    Headstrong

    4 1989 HD

    Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little drama tells the story of Virgile (Thomas...

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  • 2023
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    The Equalizer 3

    The Equalizer 3

    7.33 2023 HD

    Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn...

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  • 1982
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    Plus beau que moi tu meurs

    Plus beau que moi tu meurs

    5.429 1982 HD

    Aldo and Marco are twins. Marco, a priest by trade, has always been an object of pride for his mother, while Aldo has already spent six periods in...

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  • 2019
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    American Skin

    American Skin

    7.178 2019 HD

    A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer...

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  • 1982
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    La traviata

    La traviata

    7.1 1982 HD

    This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisian cinemagoers flocked to...

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  • 1980
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    Rodriguez au pays des merguez

    Rodriguez au pays des merguez

    1.2 1980 HD

    In Bab El Oued, during the French colonization, the action takes place against the backdrop of elections. The unemployed Roro, son of skewer merchant...

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  • 2010
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    Miral

    Miral

    5.8 2010 HD

    A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

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  • 1989
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    On a Moonlit Night

    On a Moonlit Night

    7.2 1989 HD

    An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is...

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  • 1982
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    Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

    Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

    6.128 1982 HD

    In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar...

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  • 1970
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    7.742 1970 HD

    Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

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  • 1970
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    4.9 1970 HD

    A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

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  • 1970
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    5.1 1970 HD

    The life of the remarkable man who passed away after an extraordinary 26 year reign, and whose papal odyssey encompassed more than 120 countries and...

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