Algeria Movies

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

Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the...

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

A journey through Algerian music, past and present, alongside a political look at Algerian society today. This documentary shows how music and...

Delve into the story of the Algerian footballers who traded European pitches to join the fight for independence. In 1958, in the midst of the War of...

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...

Mounya doesn't like the desert, and she doesn't like Majid either, but she agreed to go with him for the weekend to southern Algeria. Rabah Bouberras...

Depicts the life of Sidi Lakhdar Ben Khlouf, an eminent symbolic figure who is part of the memory of Algerian poetry and popular fight. Sidi Lakhdar...

A widowed single mother with a small fortune finds love again with a much younger man who she comes to learn is operating with a hidden agenda.

Suburb of Algiers, 1994. Anya, 7 years old, lives her life as a little girl, largely unaware of the tensions of the civil war tearing the country...

Mehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is...

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian...

In 1964, Algeria, just two years after the end of the war of independence, found itself catapulted into new contradictions, a still rural territory...

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the...

In 1926 Algiers, amidst political and cultural upheaval, Ghazala battles against French colonial justice to pursue her acting career and secure a...

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

For more than ten years, Algeria has been living a slow war, a war without a front line but having caused more than 100,000 deaths. It is this desert...

This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October...