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- In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
- The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
- A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
- In 1997 Algiers, terrorists wanting an archaic Islamic state are everywhere. They oppress women, determined to control their bodies, clothing, and public space. Young student Nedjma is passionate about creating a fashion show.
- A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.
- Omar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
- A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
- After the loss of her grandfather, Maïwenn explores her heritage and her Algerian roots.
- A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
- Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order. All the more as Meriem, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl comes to take shelter at the hammam. And as irate brother, Mohamed, is after her to cleanse his honor in blood.
- Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
- A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
- Follows 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.
- Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.
- Rip Reardon, ex-Army flier, returns to his home in French Morocco and finds his wife dead, and he suspects she has been murdered. Police Colonel Moussac insists she committed suicide. Rip begins to suspect not only his friends but also a mysterious brunette, Ynez, a Casbah night-club singer with whom he begins to fall in love. Repeated efforts to kill Rip are made but he ultimately finds the evidence which sends him gunning against the killer...but is he mistaken?
- Eberhardt converted to Islam in her teens. After her father's death, the wife of a Marquis summons her to Paris; her husband has gone missing in North Africa.
- A sleeper cell terrorist travels to America and hides in plain sight as an engineering student. As he waits for the rest of his terrorist cell to join him for a deadly mission, he falls in love which jeopardizes his beliefs and the mission
- Lehlou Fechouch is 30 years old and works in a popular restaurant called La Gargotte. One day, he is contacted by a lawyer who informs him that his uncle, Mahieddine Fechouch, is looking for him. Mahieddine finds himself in a dilemma. Under his father's orders, he must welcome Lehlou, whose father, Mahieddine's brother, has passed away, and let him live with him, or let his nephew go with half of his deceased father's inheritance.
- A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
- Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get laid with the men she lays off! One day, not wanting to upset someone as she is wont to, she finds herself in a very embarrassing situation: she is mistaken for a former school-friend of a hospital doctor mourning his mother. She of course goes to bed with him. As a result, Dr. Paul Martin falls in love with her while mistaking her once again... for a prostitute this time!
- An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
- A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- Before he died, the "Sultan Boualem" decided to elect his successor among his two children: the "El amir Kamel" and the "El amir Ashour". Finally, he chooses "Ashour", which provokes the anger of "Kamel" who decides to leave the kingdom, and after several years of governance by "Sultan Ashour", the kingdom takes its name and becomes "Kingdom ashouriya"
- Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.
- El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Muslim and Jewish 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, Chaâbi music.
- Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble...
- Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings.
- A policeman invents a Machiavellian plan to force a criminal to confess his misdeeds.
- Flying around Algeria, the north African country.
- In a drought-ridden village, Tislit's forbidden love for Yure clashes with her duty to save her people. As tensions escalate, she navigates love, loyalty, and self-discovery to bring rain to her parched land.
- The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past.
- After the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
- Nass Mlah City (Nice People City) consists of several Algerian actors considered among the best in the country whose personages change according to roles in each episode. It is considered as the most popular sitcom of Algeria in 2000s. The main and most present character in the series is the famous actress, singer and comedian Biyouna, and one of the best Algerian actors ever Salah Aougrout.
- A 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.
- A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
- In 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien, a revolutionary who has decided to become a worker instead of a notable. Lucien has secured a position for her and Elise in turn works on the assembly line of a car factory. There she meets and falls in love with Arezki, a young Algerian immigrant. The conflict between France and Algeria makes their life together very difficult, despite the deep love that binds them.
- Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- In six episodes of 45 minutes, Terror investigates the questions that are raised with every new terrorist attack, but have always remained unanswered. Terror investigates the ways people deal with political violence. Both victims and terrorists speak candidly about the mark terrorism has left on their lives. Has their perception changed through the passage of time, or do they hold on to their own ideals?
- Cleaver, on film as in life, is a complex mixture of profound political insight, socially crystallized ghetto cultural patterns and a multifaceted human personality.
- 1957. 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.
- A young French-Algerian woman travels to Algeria in search for her fiance. Determined to find his whereabouts, she is facing political and religious obstacles in a country that is struggling with the aftermath of a civil war.
- Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
- When it comes to surviving in today's Algeria, no scam is too daunting for the woman who has adopted her country's name. If they're pretty and lacking in principles, her recruits can make a career for themselves. The latest of these, Paloma, is quite a hit, especially with Riyad, Madame Aldjeria's son. But the purchase of Caracalla Springs, the dream that should allow Aldjeria's clan to start a new life, proves to be one scam too many.
- Samy (Nicolas Cazalé), a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather (Mohamed Majd) in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia (Amira Casar) his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam (Kheireddine Defdaf) another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything French. Samy's grandfather lives in the memory of a piece of land that no longer produces any wealth. Samy will never give the reason for his presence, but the chaotic climate of the country will revive the chaos that is in him.
- Two old scammers embark on various foolish ventures that never end well.
- Who was Franz Fanon and what is his legacy today? Of yesterday and today, documentary maker Hassane Mezine gives voice to men and women who knew and shared with the flint warrior, according to Aimé Césaire's beautiful formula, privileged moments during the struggle but also in a family and friendly context. Fanon died in December 1961 but his reflection irrigated numerous revolutionary fields throughout the world. What view of this thinker and action man, have those who continue the fight today on different fronts against injustice and arbitrariness. The Director takes the viewer on a journey, from the homeland to the hubs of political and social struggles passing through the land where he rests. North and South of the world, activists talk of their struggle and reflect on their rapports with Frantz Fanon. The transmission is thus established between the historical dimension and the diverse contemporary spaces swept by the Fanonian breath. 2021, sixtieth anniversary of the death of frantz fanon 2021, sixtieth anniversary of the release of « the wretched of the earth » A pivotal year of many crises, 2021 is the sixtieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon's passing and of the publication of The Wretched of the Earth, his final work. Much more than a political testament, this ultimate book remains one of the fundamental works for the emancipation of the peoples of the South. The conditions prevailing in the early 1960s have certainly changed. But the contradictions between exploiting North and dominated South remain the norm of international relations; as unambiguously demonstrated by the situations in Africa and in Latin America. Liberal globalization and the use of a work force from the South have transposed, in new ways, into Europe and North America, the conflicts inherited from colonialism. Racism and xenophobia, islamophobia and negrophobia disfigure the wealthy societies of the North, eaten away by social injustice, the misery of many facing the boundless enrichment of predatory elites. Liberation, according to Fanon, occurs through the struggle against all forms of alienation, whether political or psychological. Colonialism and its new forms are the vectors of psychic suffering which is an integral part of the apparatus of imperialist domination. Fanon's diagnostic of these psychopathological dimensions as well as of the nature of politico-economic and cultural antagonisms has not lost its validity and its relevance, far from it. Contrary to what his detractors have hoped, the sharp gaze of the flint-Warrior, as Césaire called him, enlightens the debate on an unfinished process of decolonization.
- A former navy officer is tied up in a smuggling operation between Marseille and Tangier concentrating particularly in lucrative American cigarettes. However, his position is threatened by the arrival of a thuggish American gangster who wants to take over the whole market.
- Hassan 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.