Spices and Lies (2025)

Name: Spices and Lies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2025
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Younès Boucif, Clara Bretheau, Hiam Abbass, Gustave Kervern, Laurent Stocker

1h 44m France

Comedy Drama

Plot

Mehdi lives precariously, caught between two worlds. To his mother Fatima, he is the ideal Algerian son—yet he conceals both his love for Léa and his devotion to French cooking and wine, which he practices as a chef at the bistro where he works. When Léa grows tired of being kept hidden and insists on meeting Fatima, Mehdi finds himself trapped. Desperate, he settles on the most disastrous plan imaginable...

Cast

Younès Boucif Clara Bretheau Hiam Abbass Gustave Kervern Laurent Stocker Lou-Adriana Bouziouane Malika Zerrouki Birane Ba Agathe Dronne Inès Boukhelifa Horya Benabet Kenza Lagnaoui Nina Zem Heidi Becker-Babel