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- DirectorCaroline HuppertStarsMarina HandsHafsia HerziDominique ReymondDjamila Boupacha ,who lives in Algiers in her parents house, has been arrested for act of terrorism and has been tortured by the soldiers in charge of her interrogatory.Gisèle Halimi will defend her.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsCatherine JacobSolal ForteAnthony SonigoThe writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algerie.In 1955 Louis is 15 years old and he lives with his grandmother Zoe.Zoe is friend with the president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab.One night looking at the Bay of Algiers Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear.The first events of the war of independence have began.The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside:swimming, dancing, flirting.But little by little the war becomes part of their daily life.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsVincent MartinezAhmed BerrhamaCyril TroleyDuring the Algerian War of Independence, mistrust abounds between the drafted local Algerians and metropolitan French forming a French army platoon.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsMohamed Faouzi Ali CherifThomas MilletTolga CayirA pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
- DirectorAugustin BurgerStarsSami BouajilaNieve de MedinaFrédéric PierrotJeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she worked in a soap factory leading a peaceful life until the day she was asked to pass out leaflets in her factory. to Algerian workers.
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsImad BenchenniKhaled BenaïssaAbdelkader DjeriouAlgeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsYoucef SehairiAhmed RezzakHassan KechacheThe film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsSamir BoitardNicolas BridetMarwan Faresset in the Algerian War. A determined French commander, who believes Algeria belongs to France, must deal with a soldier who rebels when asked to execute an Algerian freedom fighter, The finale is set in the blistering desert as the soldier seeks to escape.
- DirectorAbdel Raouf DafriStarsJohan HeldenberghLinh-Dan PhamLyna KhoudriWhile he is only the shadow of the warrior he was in Indochina, Colonel Paul Andreas Breitner is forced to cross a Algeria at war, in search of his former senior officer: Colonel Simon Delignières, missing in the Aurès Nemencha, a real powder keg in the hands of the rebels.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsGérard DepardieuCatherine FrotJean-Pierre DarroussinIn a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsThéo CholbiMohamed El Amine MouffokPierre LottinSalah, Kaddour and other Algerians join the French army as harkis at their head, Lieutenant Pascal. The fate of the harkis seems very uncertain. Pascal opposes his hierarchy to obtain the repatriation to France of all the men of his unit.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsLéo CampionMarie GillainFrançoise FabianFollows the childhood of the filmmaker Antoine Lisner. He travels to Algiers to present a feature-length film while being accompanied by his son, who was the same age as him when he left Algeria in 1962.
- DirectorAlain TasmaStarsClotilde CourauFlorence ThomassinVahina GiocanteA string of events lead up to the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.
- DirectorHélier CisterneStarsVincent LacosteVicky KriepsJules LangladeAlgiers, 1956. Fernand Iveton is arrested in his factory, accused of having planted a bomb. His wife Hélène is now married to a "traitor", but she refuses to abandon Fernand to his fate.
- DirectorAlain TasmaStarsSmaïnLeïla BekhtiFrédéric PierrotThe story of the so-called Harkis or Algerians who served in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence, only to be abandoned by France when the country withdrew.
- DirectorHenry ColomerStarsSarah GrappinMiquel García BordaQuentin TestasCôte Vermeille, France, 1958. The life of a young boy changes as the colonial war breaks out in Algeria and his father is called up to go to war. The barracks become his new home and playground.
- DirectorOkacha TouitaStarsPascal AubierJean BenguiguiRoland Blanche1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.
- DirectorRachida KrimStarsEric AtlanMohammad BakriAssia Barge
- DirectorSerge MoatiStarsManuel BlancMaria de MedeirosHélène Vincent1962, in Algeria. The journalist Jérome Cartier is called into the ranks of the French army, where he meets his friend François. The latter is the victim of an attack by the OAS. Jérome tracks the culprits.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsÉlodie BouchezGaël MorelStéphane RideauThe fates of two partners are divided.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsSaïd AmadisMagid BoualiMarianne CaronVanished during the Algerian war, a young man returns to his village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution did not forget you".
- DirectorGilles BéhatStarsEtienne ChicotMichel AlbertiniLydia AndreiA veteran of the Indochina war, a doctor emigrated to Kabylia. He is torn between his love for the sister of a rebel group and his duty as a patriot.
- DirectorGérard MordillatStarsLuc ThuillierMarius ColucciJulie JézéquelA reluctant conscript discovers the horrors of Algeria war.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsMustapha El AnkaMalik Lakhdar-HaminaFawzi B. SaichiA small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
- DirectorOkacha TouitaStarsMiloud KhetibSid Ali KouiretDjamel AllamIn 1955, Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities. At the age of 27, he landed in the Algerian shantytown of Nanterre in France.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsEmmanuelle RivaMaurice GarrelChristine BoissonIn the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJean RochefortClaude RichJacques PerrinA dying mariner, full of regret, is looking for his longtime colleague somewhere on the high seas.
- DirectorNikos PapatakisStarsOlga KarlatosRoland BertinPhilippe AdrienAn actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsEdward FoxTerence AlexanderMichel AuclairIn the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsJacques SpiesserJacques VilleretJacques WeberThree French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.
- DirectorBachir DeraïsStarsLakhder BoukhersSid Ahmed AgoumiFatima HellilouA poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious hotel. The poor family's life turns upside down in their new home.
- DirectorNaguel BelouadStarsDoudja AchachiTounes Ait AliAbdallah BouzidaIn the 1920s, the Aurassienne country is one of the poorest regions of Algeria, often ravaged by long winters, famine and disease. Brahim a master craftsman, is one of the richest men in the country. Married to Nakhla, then Gamra, he takes a third wife, Fadah, a young beautiful girl, hoping that she will give him an heir before he is too old. Forced to marry Brahim, the young Fadah joined the other two women in a closed world, cut off from the outside. One day, Brahim hires a tramp to work on his property. A few months later, Fadah shows the first signs of pregnancy.
- DirectorDaniel MoosmannStarsBruno CremerGeorges GéretPierre VaneckInfantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
- DirectorLaurent HeynemannStarsJacques DenisNicole GarciaJean-Pierre Sentier1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsTarek Hadj AbdelhafidKhaled BenaïssaFarouk BoutadjineEl- Manara, is a brutally direct depiction of Algerian society during the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which was to give rise to civil war following the annulment of the 1991 elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won. It follows the life of Asma who now lives with her daughter in France, having, like many Algerians, fled the war.The film flashes back to Algiers where Asma, a university lecturer shares an apartment with her friends Ramadan, a doctor and Fawzi, a newspaper journalist. They attend the Manara festivities, celebrating Prophet Mohamed's anniversary. The event, a peaceful carnival with music and fireworks, is used as a backdrop to subsequent social transformations, and acts to give the viewer an idea of Muslim traditions in Algeria, which are placed in confrontation with the Wahabite ideology of the FIS. The three young people face obstacles to their friendship and carefree life as the traumas of the 1988 Algerian uprising and ensuing repression brings them face-to- face with their values. Beyond Algeria, the film provides keys to understand the fragility of democratic cultures in the region along with the mechanisms of disseminating fundamentalist Islamist ideas.
- DirectorOkacha TouitaStarsMiloud KhetibAzzedine BouraghdaBoualem BenaniIn the civil war that tears apart Algeria in the 1990s, police chief Brahim Llob hunts down Islamists extremists on a daily basis. Having become the favorite target for them, it is with fear that he goes every morning to his office at the Central Commissariat of Algiers. Annoying for the power in place, preparing to publish a whistle-blower book, Morituri, Llob is obliged to take early retirement.
- DirectorVilli HermannStarsNils AnderssonJacques BaynacAnita BernardDuring the Algerian War between 1954-1962 few young Frenchmen defaulted on military service. These draft dodgers believed in non-violence. Some fled to Switzerland where they received help from Swiss citizens.
- DirectorSid Ali MazifStarsNadia SamirAidaChafia Boudraathe story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsFrank MayoMildred HarrisNorman KerryBarry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
- DirectorMustapha BadieStarsRouichedSid Ali KouiretChafia BoudraaHassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he is able to reach rebel leaders but he is a naive man who fails many tasks entrusted to him by the rebels.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsYves NeffFatiha FawziHubert DeschampsA family or Algerian origin comes back to Algeria after having lived in France for a long time. The children, born in France, have a hard time adapting to Algerian society, and the contrast between traditionalist mentalities and youth wanting to have fun clash, reaching havoc in the village.
- DirectorAriel ZeitounStarsChristophe MalavoyGabrielle LazurePierre-Loup RajotA former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved in very bad things. Arrested, he is released thanks to the teacher's evidence who provides him with an alibi before leaving him for good.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadia KaciMohamed OurdacheHassan AbidouFollows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- StarsSalah AougroutAdel CheikhSid Ahmed AgoumiThe rise of Ottoman sailor Hasan Qorso in Ottoman-Algeria. He started his life as a slave and rose from piracy to commander to the highest rank in the Ottoman-Algerian navy.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsFrank McCormickRalph ForbesLester VailAn American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsRonald ColmanNeil HamiltonRalph ForbesMichael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsSami AllemMustafa LaribiAhmed Rezzakthe story of the heroic path of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian revolution.
- DirectorBenamar BakhtiStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiAthmane AriouetMahmoud AzizThe story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGary CooperRay MillandRobert PrestonThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsBiyounaCarmen MauraDjemel BarekIn Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsDjamel AllamSami AllemFares Ben HachaniThe film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954. The film depicts how Ben Bouleid traveled to a number of Arab countries Disguised to bring arms to Algeria for the revolution and how the French colonial forces arrested him in the Tunisian-Libyan border, and from there to Algeria to be sentenced to death.
- DirectorSalem BrahimiStarsAmazigh KatebRachida BrakniFarida SaboundjiAlgeria, the late 80s. Idols of the past, such as socialism, are staggering. New idols rush in: capitalism made in IMF, islamism made in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. For Nouredine there is only one idol: his mother. And her decision is final: Nouredine will marry Yasmina who is supposed to teach him happiness. Together they will discover the horror of a country staggering into kafka-like absurdity and is falling into barbarity and fanaticism.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMagdaAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarEgyptian historical film about one of the most important figures in the history of Algeria, Djamila Bouhired. This film is regarded as not only highlighting the story of an important female revolutionary but also showing the struggle of the Algerian people against the French occupation.
- DirectorJohn MiliusStarsSean ConneryCandice BergenBrian KeithA Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.
- DirectorSalem BrahimiStarsAbdelkader ibn MuhieddineAbd-El-Kader, a 19th Century Algerian leader, was admired in his time by Abraham Lincoln and is celebrated to this day by the Red Cross as a great humanitarian. Mixing animation and live action this film explores his story and legacy.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaMichel SuborHenri-Jacques HuetDuring the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsStewart GrangerDorian GrayLeo AnchórizA French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsHildegard KnefBernhard WickiHannes MessemerDeserters from French Foreign Legion and a teacher escaping from war in the Sahara...
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsGuy StockwellDoug McClureLeslie NielsenIn 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsLamia BoussekineNabil AsliSamir El HakimSet in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who pay a smuggler, Hassan, to take them to Spain in his rickety boat. Along with a group of African and Arab migrants, they are risking all they have to cross the stormy Straits.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJacques PerrinNicole GarciaCharles DennerDuring a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
- DirectorGilles PerezGilles RofStarsEric CantonaDidier DrogbaCarlos CaszelyFive stories that tell how a handful of football stars took the risk of losing everything and put their fate in the balance to make a difference by becoming the symbol of a fight.
- DirectorAmin Sidi-BoumédièneStarsSlimane BenouariLyès SalemAzouz AbdelkaderAlgeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWalter MillerNora LaneTom SantschiAmerican adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsAntoine de CaunesNozha KhouadraSamy NaceriFamous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France. Leïla has been unwillingly married to a terrorist chieftain, now dead, and Amina has been pledged to marry guerrilla leader Samir... Mansour escorts Pierre on a visit to see his former apartment. Pierre slips away and goes to find Leïla... Amina proves to be the very image of her mother 30 years before; Leïla refuses to accompany the two back to the hotel's relative safety. Getting exit documents for Amina is going to be a problem, and Mansour has relocated Pierre. Samir kidnaps Leïla to force the return of her daughter...
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRoger HaninMarthe VillalongaMichel AuclairPaul Narboni remembers his happy childhood in Algeria before leaving the country in 1954. With his family, he then arrives in Marseille before reaching Paris. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsAnthony QuinnAlain DelonGeorge SegalFrench Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- DirectorLaurent HerbietStarsOlivier GourmetRobinson StéveninCécile de FranceA "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
- DirectorFlorent-Emilio SiriStarsBenoît MagimelAlbert DupontelAurélien RecoingA drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsAlain DelonLea MassariGeorges Géret1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he could do more for the French working for an underground organization. However, Thomas readily admits that he no longer has any political motivations or affiliations, and thus is hiding out from the authorities in Algiers. Fraser offers him a proposition: help him kidnap Lyonais lawyer, Dominique Servet, who is in Algiers to defend two Algerian nationalists. Fraser will mastermind the job, but Thomas is required to help him both carry out the kidnapping, as well as stand guard over Dominique for one week. She is only one of two kidnap victims that will be held, each victim with a guard apiece, the other victim's guard being Amerio, a fellow member of Fraser's organization. Unlike Fraser and Amerio, Thomas does the job as a mercenary for pay: the F60,000 he needs to be able to get back home to Luxembourg. His want to go to Luxembourg is despite he not knowing if there is any future for him there, beyond going back to his childhood home, where his mother is taking care of his infant daughter. After the successful kidnapping and as the week progresses, Thomas feels compelled not only to assist Dominique, but also help her escape as he has fallen in love with her. He has to accomplish this task against the threat of Fraser and Amerio's watchful eyes. He is able to do so, but sustains a serious abdominal wound in the process. As a wounded Thomas tries to make his way back to Luxembourg, he has to elude Fraser and his colleagues. But Thomas may feel further compelled to reconnect with Dominique in Lyon. If he does, the question becomes what she will think in him doing so.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsVan HeflinWanda HendrixEric PortmanA British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsHafsia HerziSmaïnMourade ZeguendiIn a remote farm in the Maghreb, Hajj Achour is about to give his daughter Sultana of the cadet Laroubi. Everything goes wonderful, except for one detail: the carburetor R12 family, part of trousseau, is defective. After much procrastination, dowry exchange hands promise to deliver the room before consummation of marriage. In France, Kenza young scandal in his city. Activist of the association "Ni Ni Hens Subject ", it testifies to JT on TF1 gender inequality and the upsurge in virginity certificates. His brother Cherif, humiliated, calls his cousin Aziz arrange the marriage of his sister back home. Atallah, a rich poulterer, fond of Youth Blank is a ready party ... Chérif Kenza drug GHB diluted in water bottle holy water to deceive the pious Mabrouka which will be responsible for its oversight. This is without relying on the unpredictable effects of drugs. Kenza, veiled from head to feet found embedded in a Mercedes Bridal and crosses the wedding route Sultana. This is where the trouble begins.
- DirectorLou JeunetStarsNoémie MerlantNiels SchneiderBenjamin LavernheA passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
- DirectorRené VautierStarsAlexandre ArcadyHamid DjellouliPhilippe LéotardIn 1961, Noël is a French soldier in the Algerian war. His comrades, formerly opposed to the war, now oppress civilians, kill and torture. To stay faithful to his pacifist values, he will do something radical.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsKeltoumMohamed ChouikhHassan El-HassaniA story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of her son. The mother did not give up for the search of her son despite the difficulties and obstacles, and she went from one prison to another just to see her son one more time.
- DirectorWilly RozierStarsLang JeffriesPhilippe ClayJacques DufilhoIn Libya, a group of international "misfits" are hired to take a convoy of truck from Tripoli to the a base in the desert. Soldiers are sent to intercept them as one of the trucks carries a large bomb.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsBruno CremerMarisa MellJean-Claude RollandReichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS(Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...
- DirectorJacques CharbyStarsTayeb Abou El HassanMustapha BelaïdJacques CharbyThe children of two orphanages face each other in a football match which, the result not being accepted by the protagonists, continues in the form of a game representing the war between the OAS and the FLN . This is the first fiction feature film from independent Algeria. Jacques Charby, who had been sentenced in absentia in 1961 to ten years in prison for helping the FLN, tells the story of his adopted son Mustapha (the child plays his own role), tortured and mutilated at the age of eight years by the French paratroopers. The film was selected in official competition in 1965 at the Cannes Film Festival, the same year it won the Young Cinema Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsFrédéric de PasqualeJosée SteinerOdile GeoffroyAfter twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsPierre ProthonJean PélégriMarie DecaîtreA man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.
- DirectorYamina BachirStarsIbtissem DjouadiBahia RachediRachida MessaoudèneA look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- DirectorTewfik FaresStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiCheikh NourredineMohamed ChouikhVery very very very good movie. Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».
- DirectorAmar LaskriStarsHacène BenzerariMohamed Hadj SmaïnBrahim HadjadjA patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
- DirectorJean-Marc MinéoStarsZakaria RamdaneSmaïnLorie PesterAn Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDelphine SeyrigJean-Pierre KérienNita KleinIn the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsRomy SchneiderJean-Louis TrintignantHenri SerreAfter an unsuccessful assassination, a terrorist and his wife hide on a remote island in the house of a friend who doesn't suspect anything.
- DirectorLotfi BouchouchiStarsNadia KaciLaurent MaurelLayla MetssitaneSet during the Algerian War of Independence. In the film, the French army surrounds a southern Algerian village where they believe an enemy is being hidden and force the inhabitants to either confront the issue or die of thirst.
- DirectorDavid OelhoffenStarsViggo MortensenReda KatebDjemel BarekAlgeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsNora ArnezederFu'ad Aït AattouAnne ParillaudAlgeria in the 1930s. Nine-year-old Jonas was placed in the care of his uncle in Oran. He befriends the youth of Rio Salado. Emily is loved by all. The love that grows between Jonas and Emily is influenced by the country's conflicts.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsConrad VeidtBarbara BedfordIan KeithA brilliant surgeon who is unjustly condemned to 10 years imprisonment.