
Acting
France
Ali Marhyar
Acting
Biography
Ali Marhyar is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He is known for As Above, So Below (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Casting(s) (2013), Candice Renoir (2015–2022), and Family Business (2019–2020).
Feature Films (17)

Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.
Top Dogs

A married man in his fifties who has lost all interest in his wife suddenly meets Juliette, a young woman. She reignites love in his life but triggers violent arguments with his wife. Their indifference soon turns into chaos. (French with English subtitles)
Do Me Love

Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
18 Years Old and Rising

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Elles

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.
Black Heaven

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
As Above, So Below

The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one.
Quelques Secondes

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Five

Paris, June 1994, for hundreds of young people, the tag is a real religion, a way of life. At 17, Rost is at the head of one of the most respected groups of taggers in the capital, the CMP. Clashes with rival gangs are legion, and a few minutes from a new confusion, Rost is far from suspecting that his life will soon take a decisive turn...
La Rue Des Anges

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
The Price of Success

3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money.
Porn in the Hood
Television & Series (3)

Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced by Hugo Gélin for Zazi Films and broadcast on Canal+ from 2013 to 2015. The episodes revolved around actors rehearsing for different film projects for a casting director. The show also had famous guests such as Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rappers Orelsan and Nekfeu.
Casting(s)

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!
Candice Renoir

After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.

