Movies: Maghreb

  • 1966
    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers (1966)

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.91966HD

    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
  • 2023
    The Last Queen

    The Last Queen (2023)

    The Last Queen

    72023HD

    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
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.31975HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1972
    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)

    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    7.61972HD

    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
  • 1997
    The Other Shore

    The Other Shore (1997)

    The Other Shore

    6.61997HD

    This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend an...

    The Other Shore
  • 1990
    عائلة كي الناس

    عائلة كي الناس (1990)

    عائلة كي الناس

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    عائلة كي الناس
  • 2015
    Algeria from Above

    Algeria from Above (2015)

    Algeria from Above

    7.92015HD

    Algeria from above is the first documentary made entirely from the sky on Algeria. Through the eye of the famous Yann Arthus-Bertrand this documentary vividly depicts this great country, and its vibrant cultural and natural treasures. From North to S...

    Algeria from Above
  • 1958
    Algeria in Flames

    Algeria in Flames (1958)

    Algeria in Flames

    8.51958HD

    These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between French and Algerians for peace in Algeria, by demonst...

    Algeria in Flames
  • 2020
    Lost Mountain

    Lost Mountain (2020)

    Lost Mountain

    102020HD

    On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened to reinforce its military contingent in the four corners of the country and to prevent the advance ...

    Lost Mountain
  • 1989
    Rose Of The Desert

    Rose Of The Desert (1989)

    Rose Of The Desert

    101989HD

    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
  • 1963
    A People on the March

    A People on the March (1963)

    A People on the March

    6.51963HD

    In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the A...

    A People on the March
  • 1981
    Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out

    Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out (1981)

    Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out

    101981HD

    Two young Algerians born in France leave the Paris region to return with their parents to the village of their origins. They speak neither Arabic nor Berber. First barrier which isolates them from their new environment and which is further accentuate...

    Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out
  • 2014
    Abd El-Kader

    Abd El-Kader (2014)

    Abd El-Kader

    102014HD

    Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history and historical and spiritual heritage of Emir Abd El-Kader. Algerian leader of the 19th century, was admired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrated to this d...

    Abd El-Kader
  • 2015
    Let Them Come

    Let Them Come (2015)

    Let Them Come

    9.72015HD

    At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the interrupted legislative elections of 1991, a prelude to a decade of particularly barbaric violence, the Algeria...

    Let Them Come
  • 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
  • 1972
    Inspector Tahar's Holiday

    Inspector Tahar's Holiday (1972)

    Inspector Tahar's Holiday

    8.81972HD

    Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers, they stop at a tourist complex where a murder has just been committed. The investigation full of surpr...

    Inspector Tahar's Holiday
  • 2010
    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN (2010)

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

    102010HD

    The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until today, no Algerian or even European report or documentary had given voice to one of these French prisoners of the war of Algeria. In the interest of trut...

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN
  • 2014
    Fadhma N'Soumer

    Fadhma N'Soumer (2014)

    Fadhma N'Soumer

    6.42014HD

    This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur"as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation....

    Fadhma N'Soumer