Known for Acting
Pierre Mustapha "Mouss" Diouf (28 October 1964 – 7 July 2012) was a French-Senegalese actor, comedian and humorist. Born in Dakar, Diouf was known for his lead role in The Beast (La bête) and as Baba in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. Source: Article "Mouss Diouf" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born
October 28, 1964
Died
July 7, 2012 (age 47)
Birthplace
Dakar, Senegal
Filmography
28 films, 8 shows


The Absence
2013 · 1h 22m
country: France
After brilliant studies in France and a 15-year absence from his homeland, Adama, a young graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, rushes back to Senegal. He is alarmed by a message informing him of the sudden decline in his grandmother's health. Upon arriving in Dakar, Adama discovers that his grandmother is in perfect shape... Was this a deliberate ploy to get him back home, and if so, why?


Zapping Family
2005 · 1h 36m
country: France
A French family comments on what's on TV tonight.


L'homme qui voulait passer à la télé
2005 · 1h 39m
country: France
Fascinated by the dazzling small screen, Bernard leaves home sweet home, daddy and mummy and his native city (Toulouse) to try his luck in Paris.


The Car Keys
2003 · 1h 30m
country: France
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...


Mouss Diouf - Avant quand j'étais noir
2003
country: France


Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public
2003
country: France
Frank Dubosc is launching a new concept that is set to take the world by storm: “Les POUR TOI PUBLIC” (For You, Audience), a series of short programs (between 2 and 5 minutes long) in which he shares his vision of the seducer, the romantic, the stuntman, the bourgeois, the adventurer... and even the idiot! In short, the “star” according to Dubosc.


How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · 1h 55m
country: France
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.


The Race
2002 · 1h 34m
country: France
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...


Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · 1h 48m
country: France
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.


L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
1998 · 2h 18m
country: France


A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experienced by males in his family. If Zak does not impregnate a woman before his 33rd birthday, the joys of sex evaporate forever. However, Zak's interest in married women creates a roadblock. Even his current girlfriend, art auctioneer Florence (Cristiana Reali) is a married mother of triplets. So Zak's rabbi cousin Joseph (Thomas Langmann) fixes him up with an attractive supermodel (Joanna Rhodes). It's a race against time before permanent impotence strikes.


Tortilla y Cinema
1997
country: France
Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few years to getting to the point of filming an independent movie. He has been encouraged by Carmen Maura (playing herself), an established star, who has agreed to appear in his first film, and it is her level-headedness, calmness, and general good sense that keeps the project moving along, despite Benjamin's inexperience and a very temperamental male lead. On one occasion when the male lead is hours late for a shoot, her calm is the only thing which keeps the crew from walking out. The title comes from Maura's habit of bringing homemade tortillas to meetings, and using them to get her way.


The Best Job in the World
1996 · 1h 45m
country: France
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.


L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates
1996 · 1h 33m
country: France


L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !
1996 · 1h 34m
country: France


L'Année des Guignols - La Combine à Nanard
1994 · 1h 51m
country: France


L'Année des Guignols - Putain, deux ans !
1994 · 1h 50m
country: France


Toxic Affair
1993 · 1h 29m
country: France
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.


Loulou graffiti
1992 · 1h 30m
country: France
A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he steals.


Does This Mean We're Married?
1992 · 1h 34m
country: United States
It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration investigation, and then a series of financial disasters push Deena and Nick into spending time together, and they fall in love. But can their in-name-only marriage become real?


Toubab Bi
1992 · 1h 36m
country: France
Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.


The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991 · 1h 35m
country: France
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.


One Can Always Dream
1991 · 1h 33m
country: France
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.


Brothers in Arms
1989 · 2h 2m
country: France
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.


My True Love, My Wound
1987 · 1h 36m
country: France
An intensive, eager adore tie together two very separate individuals. Catherine, a young celebrity, is very severe about her aspiring career. But she is overloaded by Patrick's aggressive sexuality. This idol of the slums gambles his lifetime not even close to the theater community of Catherine. They each maintain going furthering their love, not able to manage the circumstance.


Levy & Goliath
1987 · 1h 45m
country: France
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.


The Phoney
1975 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a very loose tongue. All they have to do is send him false information, hoping that it will fall into the ears of their enemies...


Mandabi
1968 · 1h 32m
country: Senegal
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.