Algeria Movies

  • 1970
    Elise, or Real Life

    Elise, or Real Life

    Elise, or Real Life

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    In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory....

    Elise, or Real Life
  • 2017
    Nous n'étions pas des héros

    Nous n'étions pas des héros

    Nous n'étions pas des héros

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    The city of Lambèse is the scene of torture, both physical and moral, for the resistance fighters of the Algerian War. In the form of a...

    Nous n'étions pas des héros
  • 2008
    Vivantes!

    Vivantes!

    Vivantes!

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    Selma has left her small Algerian port town in search of work further south—in the Sahara. There, she meets Noune, a young French woman who has...

    Vivantes!
  • 2024
    Via Annaba

    Via Annaba

    Via Annaba

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    Via Annaba takes us to the 2023 Annaba Mountain Week in Algeria, an event organized by the French Institute of Annaba and produced by CSPS Aïn...

    Via Annaba
  • 1971
    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

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    In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a...

    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique
  • 2010
    Memory in the Flesh

    Memory in the Flesh

    Memory in the Flesh

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    The story, spanning more than four decades of Algerian history, from the 1940s to the 1980s, revolves around a love affair between Khaled, the...

    Memory in the Flesh
  • 1987
    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence

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    In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French army inexorably transformed into a soldiery...

    Gates of Silence
  • 1982
    A Wife for My Son

    A Wife for My Son

    A Wife for My Son

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    An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.

    A Wife for My Son
  • 1982
    Serkadji

    Serkadji

    Serkadji

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    In 1982, Hadj Rahim directed "Serkadji", a fiction film about the men's quarters of the Barberousse military prison in Algiers, where hundreds of FLN...

    Serkadji
  • 1982
    Hassan Taxi

    Hassan Taxi

    Hassan Taxi

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    Hassan, tired and worn out by the long years of post-independence, obtains a taxi license as a veteran and will crisscross the streets of Algiers,...

    Hassan Taxi
  • 1977
    The Uprooted

    The Uprooted

    The Uprooted

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    In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor of...

    The Uprooted
  • 2018
    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

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    Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
  • 2008
    Mascarades

    Mascarades

    Mascarades

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    Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one...

    Mascarades
  • 2004
    Viva Algeria

    Viva Algeria

    Viva Algeria

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    This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence....

    Viva Algeria
  • 1980
    First Step

    First Step

    First Step

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    A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female...

    First Step
  • 1994
    Carnaval fi Dachra

    Carnaval fi Dachra

    Carnaval fi Dachra

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    Makhlouf Bombardier, unusual, decides to be elected mayor of a dechra (village). So he surrounds himself with trusted partners to organize a great...

    Carnaval fi Dachra
  • 1971
    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

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    Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a...

    Tahia Ya Didou !
  • 2011
    Les Palmiers Blessés

    Les Palmiers Blessés

    Les Palmiers Blessés

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    Bizerte, winter of 1991. The first Gulf War is brewing amid international tension. A Tunisian writer entrusts the typing of an autobiographical...

    Les Palmiers Blessés
  • 1968
    Hell is Ten Years Old

    Hell is Ten Years Old

    Hell is Ten Years Old

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    This film was considered a testing ground for young O.N.C.I.C. directors. Today there is no longer a copy and the negative was accidentally...

    Hell is Ten Years Old
  • 1986
    Last Image

    Last Image

    Last Image

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    Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical...

    Last Image