algerian cinema movies

Under The Ashes (1990)
9 / 10

Drama, War

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...

The Death Knell (1964)
10 / 10

Documentary

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black...

Nahla (1979)
7 / 10

Drama, War, Music

After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding...

Le Silence Du Sphinx (2010)
9 / 10

Drama

As usual, Slim goes to the Point Ephémère bar in Paris to have a last drink. As is often the case, he finds Lily there, an eccentric and intriguing...

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...

Ettarfa (1971)
10 / 10

“Ettarfa” is a film by El-Hachemi Chérif produced by RTA, released in 1971.

The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows (1985)
10 / 10

Drama

A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema...

Rose Of The Desert (1989)
10 / 10

Drama

An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the...

Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma (2019)
10 / 10

Documentary

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema....

La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte (2018)
10 / 10

Documentary

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from...