maghreb movies page 3

Daughter of Keltoum (2001)
7.3 / 10

Drama

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find...

Fadhma N'Soumer (2014)
6.4 / 10

War, History

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...

Mariner of the Mountains (2023)
5.5 / 10

Documentary

Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an...

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,...

The Good Families (1973)
10 / 10

Comedy

Directed by Djafar Damardji.

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...

Barrières (1977)
10 / 10

Drama

Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with...

The Desert Ark (1998)
6.7 / 10

Drama

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when...

Pirates - Les Corsaires Barbaresques (2015)
10 / 10

Documentary, History

In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785 two American ships were brought back to Algiers; in the winter of 1793, eleven...

The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama (1985)
10 / 10

War, Action, History

The 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...

Alger Et Ses Environs (1945)
10 / 10

Documentary

The film, shot in 1938, is part of a series entitled “The true face of Algeria”. The film highlights the proximity of Algiers to Paris and...

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...

Gerboise Bleue (2009)
10 / 10

Documentary, Drama

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

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...

Zinet, Algiers, Happiness (2023)
10 / 10

Documentary

Who remembers Mohamed Zinet? In the eyes of French spectators who reserve his face and his frail silhouette, he is simply the “Arab actor” of...

The Mill of M. Fabre (1983)
10 / 10

Directed by Ahmed Rachedi.

François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie (2010)
10 / 10

Documentary

Viva Didou! (1971)
9.5 / 10

Comedy

Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a...

Cry of Stone (1987)
10 / 10

Directed by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh.

History of Pottery and Ceramics in Algeria (2004)
10 / 10

Documentary

In Algeria, pottery is different from one region to another, the result of the various influences it has undergone throughout history. If the...