FrameThrower · Actors · Malik Zidi
Malik Zidi
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2021
Born 14 February 1975 · Saint Maur des Fossés, France
Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2021
- César Award for Best Male Revelation
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Malik takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Malik takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Malik Zidi's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.