---
name: "Adil El Arbi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adil-el-arbi"
fi1m_id: "adil-el-arbi"
imdb_id: "nm4816401"
tmdb_id: 1399841
wikidata_id: "Q17190262"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "30 June 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T15:22:24.304682+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adil El Arbi

## Identity

Adil El Arbi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adil-el-arbi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adil-el-arbi
- **IMDb ID:** nm4816401
- **TMDB ID:** 1399841
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17190262
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17190262, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4816401/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1399841

Director. Born 30 June 1988 in Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 30 June 1988, Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Adil, Adil & Bilall, Аділь Ель Арбі, アディル＆ビラル
- **Frequently works with:** [Alexander Ludwig](https://film.one/person/alexander-ludwig.md), [Bilall Fallah](https://film.one/person/bilall-fallah.md), [Chris Bremner](https://film.one/person/chris-bremner.md), [Doug Belgrad](https://film.one/person/doug-belgrad.md), [Martin Lawrence](https://film.one/person/martin-lawrence.md), [Vanessa Hudgens](https://film.one/person/vanessa-hudgens.md), [Will Smith](https://film.one/person/will-smith-2888.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17190262, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4816401/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1399841

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Bad Boys for Life*](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-for-life.md) (68)
- **Disney+:** [*Bad Boys: Ride or Die*](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Adil El Arbi is a Belgian film and television director of Moroccan descent. He works in partnership with Bilall Fallah; the pair are billed as Adil & Bilall.

They met while studying film at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Their early feature films include *Image* (2014), *Black* (2015) and *Gangsta* (2018). They directed episodes of the series *Snowfall* (2017) and *Ms. Marvel* (2022), and the feature *Rebel* (2022).

El Arbi and Fallah directed *Bad Boys for Life* (2020) and *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024), the third and fourth films in the *Bad Boys* franchise.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, denofgeek.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024), Fi1m 60, as Manny's Goon #1 (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md)
- *Bad Boys for Life* (2020), Fi1m 68, as Rideshare Driver — [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-for-life.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *7 Dogs* (2026), Director
- *The Best Immigrant* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Gangstas* (2025), Director, Script
- *Shab Rwina 2.0* (2024), Thanks
- *Bad Boys: Ride or Die* (2024), as Manny's Goon #1 (uncredited) · Director, Vocals — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-ride-or-die.md)
- *Rebel* (2022), Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Additional Editor
- *Hazard* (2022), as Basketball Player
- *Ms. Marvel* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Chatroom* (2021), Writer
- *Soil* (2021), series, Director
- *Bad Boys for Life* (2020), as Rideshare Driver · Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/bad-boys-for-life.md)
- *Gangsta* (2018), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Scalped* (2017), Director
- *Snowfall* (2017), series, Director
- *Hashtag* (2017), Director
- *The Blind Spot* (2017), as Cafébaas Marrokaanse bar
- *Black* (2015), Director, Editor, Screenplay
- *Image* (2014), Director
- *Broeders* (2011), Director
- *Astaghfiro* (2010), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Coupe Ghoroto* (2008), Director
- *Smiling Hacker*, Director
- *Riders Republic*, Director
- *The Court of the Greats*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Adil El Arbi](https://film.one/media/person/11436/gallery-c50afbe6b77e.jpg) Adil El Arbi — Joost Pauwels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Adil_El_Arbi_%282021%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adil El Arbi, Film Fest Gent 2024](https://film.one/media/person/11436/gallery-4146c9b0e9c0.png) Adil El Arbi, Film Fest Gent 2024 — Joost Pauwels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Adil_El_Arbi_%282024%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adil El Arbi](https://film.one/media/person/11436/gallery-514f11c81afd.jpg) Adil El Arbi — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Louis Paul Boon Award 2016: Louis Paul Boon Award (won)
- Brusseleir van’t joêr 2015: Brusseleir van’t joêr (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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