FrameThrower · Actors · Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui
6 films · 383 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1995–2024
Born 19 July 1973 · Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter of Moroccan background. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. However, Saïd has also appeared in a number of more recent English Language films, with roles such as the U.S.-trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain 'My Main Man' Saïd in Three Kings, and as "Omar", the close radical Islamic associate of Don Cheadle (Samir), in the 2008 thriller Traitor.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 383 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Saïd takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Saïd takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 383 frames from Saïd Taghmaoui's 6 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.