
Reda Kateb
Actor · Born January 15, 1977 (49) · Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
Cannes award nominee
Reda Kateb (born 27 July 1977) is a French actor. Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, where he lived until 2011 before moving to Montreuil. His short film Pitchoune was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Reda Kateb" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 15, 1977 (49)
- Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
- Actor
- 25 on MovieCove · 57 credits in all
What are Reda Kateb's films like?
Across their 22 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 22
A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 8 · Dark 10
Grounded 19 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 3 · Charged 14 · Intense 5
A split, not a type: Steady 11 · Shifting 10 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 18 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 0
Slow burn 13 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 17 · Full focus 4
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 13 · Heavy 8
Resolved 8 · Open-ended 9 · Ambiguous 5
Roles they play
Usually the Ally: 6 of 15 analyzed roles.
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- Allyas Karim in Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
- Allyas Mohamed in Far from Men (2014)
- Shadowas Victor in Fishing Without Nets (2014)
- Heroas Chérif Arezki in Insecure (2014)
- Allyas Abdel in Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014)
- Allyas Julien in Astragal (2015)
- Heroas Vincent Cavelle in Through the Air (2015)
- Heroas L'homme in The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
- Heroas Django Reinhardt in Django (2017)
- Shapeshifteras Driss in Close Enemies (2018)
- Allyas Malik in The Specials (2019)
- Shadowas Grandchamp in The Wolf's Call (2019)
- Allyas Yazid Jabbi in Promises (2021)
- Heroas Omar Zerrouki in The King of Algiers (2023)
- Heraldas Slimani in The Quiet Ones (2024)
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic3
- Ambiguous8
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Reda Kateb's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 13 of their 25 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).
Subscription and free streaming for Reda Kateb's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
57 credits, 25 with a MovieCove page; 10 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Jupiter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

The Money Maker(2025)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Ticaret (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

Black to the Future (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

The Quiet Ones(2024)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Sur un fil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

The King of Algiers(2023)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
Our Brothers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

Promises(2021)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
L'Amour flou (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

In Treatment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

Possessions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

The Specials(2019)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
The Wolf's Call(2019)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
The Great Darkened Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

L'Amour flou (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

Close Enemies(2018)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Konbini Vidéo Club (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

Submergence(2017)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Django(2017)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Paris Prestige (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

Stop Me Here (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

The White Knights (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Through the Air(2015)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Pitchoune (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Astragal(2015)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Lost River(2014)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Far from Men(2014)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Insecure(2014)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Ghosts in the Factory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

Fishing Without Nets(2014)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Kairos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

Me, Myself and Mum(2013)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Gare du Nord (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Paris Countdown (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Les Petits Princes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Tied(2013)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
Zero Dark Thirty(2012)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Three Worlds(2012)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
The World Belongs to Us (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Ce chemin devant moi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Coming Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Treasure Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Chase (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

Ink (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

Lily Sometimes(2010)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Silent Voice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

A Prophet(2009)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Mafiosa(2006)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
Spiral(2005)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all showsTrouble-fête (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Check Me in Another Place (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Il registro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Si je tombe, tu tombes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 58 titles, 54 of them dated from 1964 to 2026; peak year 2014.

Biggest box office
Me, Myself and Mum (2013)

Highest rated
A Prophet (2009)

Most popular right now
The Money Maker (2025)
Film career
Peak 2014 · steadily prominent in film for years. Top draw in 7 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
Awards
Nominated for a Cannes award in 2015.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Reda Kateb's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 55th percentile, the median of all 23; across their 21 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 55th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th8
- 25th to 49th7
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
10 of their 25 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser10
- Broadly Agreed4
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the acting 77/100 in their films, across 17 reviewed titles; fans 83, detractors 55. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Reda Kateb's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity runs heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Reda Kateb work with?
People who share at least 2 of Reda Kateb's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Thomas Bidegain shares the most, 3.
Directors
- David OelhoffenShared titles: Close Enemies (2018), Far from Men (2014)See all 2 shared titles with David Oelhoffen

Writers
- Thomas BidegainShared titles: The King of Algiers (2023), Through the Air (2015), A Prophet (2009)See all 3 shared titles with Thomas Bidegain

Actors
- Damien BonnardShared titles: The Wolf's Call (2019), Astragal (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Damien Bonnard

- Adel BencherifShared titles: Close Enemies (2018), A Prophet (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Adel Bencherif

- Nicolas GiraudShared titles: Close Enemies (2018), Far from Men (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Nicolas Giraud

- Yann GovenShared titles: Close Enemies (2018), Far from Men (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Yann Goven

Composers and cinematographers
- Guillaume DeffontainesShared titles: Close Enemies (2018), Far from Men (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Guillaume Deffontaines

- Christophe BeaucarneShared titles: Django (2017), Tied (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Christophe Beaucarne
- Warren EllisShared titles: Django (2017), Far from Men (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Warren Ellis

- Benoît DebieShared titles: The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016), Lost River (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Benoît Debie

Producers
- Bertrand FaivreShared titles: The Money Maker (2025), Lily Sometimes (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Bertrand Faivre

- Hugo SélignacShared titles: The King of Algiers (2023), The Wolf's Call (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Hugo Sélignac

- Mourad BelkeddarShared titles: The King of Algiers (2023), Through the Air (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Mourad Belkeddar
- Nicolas LhermitteShared titles: The King of Algiers (2023), Through the Air (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Nicolas Lhermitte

