Movies: Maghreb

  • 2023
    The Last Queen

    The Last Queen (2023)

    The Last Queen

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    1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira willing to let...

    The Last Queen
  • 1966
    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers (1966)

    The Battle of Algiers

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    Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 19...

    The Battle of Algiers
  • 2010
    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie (2010)

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

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    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

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    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow proces...

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • 1947
    The Seventh Door

    The Seventh Door (1947)

    The Seventh Door

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    An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key in...

    The Seventh Door
  • 2023
    Mariner of the Mountains

    Mariner of the Mountains (2023)

    Mariner of the Mountains

    6.62023HD

    Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect : The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries...

    Mariner of the Mountains
  • 1974
    The Madwoman of Toujane

    The Madwoman of Toujane (1974)

    The Madwoman of Toujane

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    This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail th...

    The Madwoman of Toujane
  • 1985
    Hell Train

    Hell Train (1985)

    Hell Train

    5.41985HD

    Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-...

    Hell Train
  • 2003
    Woman Is Courage

    Woman Is Courage (2003)

    Woman Is Courage

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    Louisette finally ends her 40-year search for a French military doctor known to her only as Commander Richaud, in order to express her gratitude to him for saving her life, when she was captured in a field in September 1957 and tortured by French for...

    Woman Is Courage
  • 1971
    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)

    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 poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the...

    Tahia Ya Didou !
  • 1972
    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)

    To Be Twenty in the Aures

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    A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the n...

    To Be Twenty in the Aures
  • 2012
    El Gusto

    El Gusto (2012)

    El Gusto

    7.52012HD

    El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional concert. These musicians share a passion they never lost: the soul of Algiers, Chaabi music....

    El Gusto
  • 1967
    A Propos D'Un Crime

    A Propos D'Un Crime (1967)

    A Propos D'Un Crime

    101967HD

    In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Camus, during his lifetime, had always refused to allow one of his novels to be brought to the screen. His family made another decision. The filming o...

    A Propos D'Un Crime
  • 1970
    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick (1970)

    Opium and the Stick

    7.51970HD

    In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged ...

    Opium and the Stick
  • 2019
    L'Orientalisme

    L'Orientalisme (2019)

    L'Orientalisme

    102019HD

    Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the ...

    L'Orientalisme
  • 1989
    Rose Of The Desert

    Rose Of The Desert (1989)

    Rose Of The Desert

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    An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; T...

    Rose Of The Desert
  • 2022
    Final Round

    Final Round (2022)

    Final Round

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    Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends....

    Final Round
  • 1974
    Le Remords

    Le Remords (1974)

    Le Remords

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    A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this....

    Le Remords
  • 2006
    Letter to My Sister

    Letter to My Sister (2006)

    Letter to My Sister

    8.52006HD

    Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The Islamists forced women, on pain of death, to wear the hijab or stop working. It was the first time a femin...

    Letter to My Sister
  • 2008
    Arezki, l'indigène

    Arezki, l'indigène (2008)

    Arezki, l'indigène

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    In 1895, young journalist Albertine Auclair arrives in the Kabylie during a family visit. The beauty of the region seduces her but she soon learns of the struggles of the native Algerians. She hears in particular about Arezki El Bachir, who was recen...

    Arezki, l'indigène