maghreb movies

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
7.9 / 10

Drama, War, History

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...

Hell Train (1985)
5.417 / 10

Crime, Drama

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....

Final Round (2021)
10 / 10

Drama

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...

Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
6.3 / 10

Drama, War, History

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

December (1973)
10 / 10

Drama, War

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most...

La Mission (1971)
10 / 10

Drama

An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself,...

La Renégate (1948)
10 / 10

Drama, Romance

In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In...

El Gusto (2012)
7.5 / 10

Music, Documentary

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...

A French Youth (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

In the heart of the Camargue region, in the south of France, Jawad and Belka find freedom in their love of Camargue races. For these young Maghrebi...

L'Orientalisme (2019)
10 / 10

Documentary

Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th...

The Charcoal Maker (1973)
10 / 10

Drama

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he...

Opium and the Stick (1970)
7.5 / 10

Action, Drama, War

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to...

The Winds of the Aures (1967)
6.6 / 10

Drama, War

Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the...

Forbidden Zone (1974)
10 / 10

Drama

A revolutionary militant is killed during the repression of May 1945. His son, who is unaware of the real circumstances of the murder, ends up being...

Echebka (1978)
10 / 10

Drama

To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)
7.4 / 10

Documentary, Drama, War

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One...

Yasmina (1961)
10 / 10

Drama

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...

Dawn of the Damned (1965)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History, Drama

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Amal (1960)
10 / 10

Documentary, Drama

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

Inspector Tahar's Holiday (1972)
9 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Family

Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers,...