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Films from the country "algerie", sorted by production date
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El Gusto (2012)
, 1h28Directed by Safinez Bousbia
Origin Algerie
Genres Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Castel
El Gusto chronicles the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim Chaabi musicians torn apart by war for 50 years, and reunited for an exceptional concert.
How Big Is Your Love? (2011)
, 1h38Directed by Fatma Zohra Zamoum
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Adel, 8 ans, a été emmené chez ses grands-parents parce que ses parents se querellent. Adel devait rester avec ses grands-parents pour un week-end, puis une autre semaine commence et il manque l'école, alors il sent qu'il a vécu là pour toujours. Sa grand mère, une femme au foyer tentera de présenter Adel à sa vie quotidienne dans son appartement et son grand père, un retraité, lui présentera le grand monde des animaux. De jour en jour, l'enfant et sa grand-mère s'accrochent à la question « Quelle est votre amour? » Pour les aider à traverser cette période difficile et se rapprocher les uns des autres.
Outside the Law (2010)
, 2h20Directed by Rachid Bouchareb
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan, Samir Guesmi
À l'issue de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur le front de l'Ouest, les manifestations pour l'indépendance de l'Algérie deviennent de plus en plus fréquentes en Algérie jusqu'aux massacres de Sétif, Guelma et Kherrata, dans le Constantinois, à partir du 8 mai 1945. Les scènes finales évoquent le massacre du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris.
, 52minutesOrigin Algerie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
In 1939, the end of the Spanish Civil War forced thousands of men, women and children to flee Francoist Spain. The French administration in Algeria opened refugee camps to take them in. Seventy years later, a young Algerian investigates the past. Despite the absence of archives and files, the traces of these camps have survived the collective oblivion and still appear in current Algeria.
(Un)Lucky (2009)
, 1h18Directed by Fatma Zohra Zamoum
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Actors Fadila Belkebla
1997: Alia is a Parisian photographer, travelling from Tunis to Constantine (Algiers) to see her sick father. Cherif is a writer and has just read, according to the newspapers, that he’s dead. Their driver is a cab driver used to doing the Tunis-Constantine route. 2007: Fatma Zohra asks her brother to go with her on a location scout. The film is dear to her heart because it portrays the violence that swept Algiers during the nineties. The crew starts out on a two thousand kilometre journey that leads to a hypothetical fiction or the dream of one during which the main characters get to know one another. But the project can’t find financing.
Gerboise bleue (2009)
, 1h30Origin Algerie
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology
Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out four atmospheric nuclear tests and another thirteen underground ones to the south of Reggane (Algerian Sahara). The first was called Blue Jerboa and was four times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. For the first time, French and Tuareg survivors speak of their fight to have their illnesses recognized as such, and reveal in what the conditions the tests were carried out. Fifty years later, the French Army still refuses to acknowledge its responsibility towards the populations exposed to the radiation.
Arezki, l'insoumis (2008)
, 1h31Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Actors Céline Mauge, Brigitte Aubry
Kabylie, 1895. La jeune journaliste Albertine Auclair, arrive dans la région à l'occasion d'une visite familiale. Le pittoresque de la région la séduit mais elle ne tarde pas à apprendre, notamment par l'entremise de Mademoiselle Faure, une institutrice établie là depuis longtemps, que la situation dans laquelle se trouvent les autochtones est loin d'être rose. Elle entend parler notamment d'Arezki El Bachir, qui a récemment été condamné à mort par la justice coloniale. Bûcheron devenu chef d'une insurrection qui aura duré deux décennies, la figure de ce Robin des Bois moderne (il vole les riches colons et les caïds à leur botte et redistribue l'argent aux miséreux). La jeune femme aux idées libérales décide d'en savoir plus sur cet homme hors normes.
Mostefa Ben Boulaid (2008)
, 2h50Directed by Ahmed Rachedi
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Ce film retrace le parcours de Mustapha Ben Boulaïd, grande figure historique du mouvement national et de l'organisation spéciale et son rôle pendant la Guerre de libération, notamment dans la région des Aurès.
Mascarades (2008)
, 1h32Directed by Lyes Salem
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Mohamed Bouchaïb, Lyes Salem, Mourad Khen
A village in Algiers. Proud and a bluffer, Mounir wishes to be admired by all, but he has a weakness: His sister, Rym, who falls asleep anywhere. One night on the way back from the city, and quite inebriated, he shouts out to all and sunder that a rich businessman has asked for his sister’s hand. By the next morning, he’s the envy of all. Trapped by his own lie, Mounir changes his family’s destiny.
Inland (2008)
, 2h20Directed by Tariq Teguia
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Despite practically living as a recluse far from the maddening world, Malek, a forty-year-old topographer, accepts a job to the West of Algeria. A company in Oran entrusts him with the layout of the new electrical line that will bring power to the hamlets in the Ouarsenis Massif, an area that lived under the whip of radical Islamism until barely ten years ago. After several hours on the road, Malek reaches the base camp. While he starts putting things in order, he discovers a young woman hidden in a corner.
The Yellow House (2007)
, 1h24Directed by Amor Hakkar
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Actors Amor Hakkar
In Algeria, in the arid mountainous landscapes of the Aurès, a family learns from the police that their eldest son Belkacem has died in an accident, while doing his military service. On hearing the news, Mouloud immediately sets off to the city on his old tractor to retrieve his son’s body, wishing to give him a decent burial. Mouloud’s journey is plagued by suffering and loneliness. On his return, he realizes that his wife Fatima is grieving deeply. Fearing that she will never feel happy again, Mouloud tries everything to make her smile, refusing to give up because, like all the peasants in the hostile lands of the Aurès, he knows that «to give up is to die a little...».
Rendez-vous avec le destin (2007)
Origin Algerie
Genres Action
Actors Malika Belbey, Larbi Zekkal, Samira Sahraoui, Biyouna
, 2h35Origin Algerie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
When independence is declared in 1962, the minority communities of Jewish and European origin flee Algeria. Four people of Muslim ascendency searching for the truth about their own lives evoke the last decades of French colonization, the years of war, from 1955 to 1962. Hatred and friendship lead us through a hidden memory: their relationships with their Jewish and Christian neighbours. The foundational myths of the new Algeria are revisited, but will they succeed in getting to the bottom of their own legends?
Enough! (2006)
, 1h35Directed by Djamila Sahraoui
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Actors Rachida Brakni, Malika Belbey, Mohamed Bouamari
Situé au milieu de la guerre civile algérienne dans les années 90, Barakat ! est l'histoire de deux femmes. Amel est un occidental dont le mari, un journaliste a disparu peut-être kidnappé ou même tué pour des articles qu'il a écrits.
Rome Rather Than You (2006)
, 1h51Directed by Tariq Teguia
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama
Après la guerre civile qui opposa le pouvoir militaire aux islamistes qui fit quelques 200 000 morts dans les années 1990, un groupe de jeunes Algériens veut quitter l'Algérie à tout prix. L'inertie mortifère du pays telle que représenté dans le film dit tout de cette volonté.