Algerian
see all genres ›Though the largest African nation in terms of land-mass, Algeria boasts a relatively small film industry. It has frequently drawn foreign producers (and international co-productions), however, with the fight for independence from its French colonists a frequent topic for drama.
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his...Watch Movie
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Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work
Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist originally from Martinique, became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of...Watch Movie
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Daughter of Keltoum
A young woman, Rallia, raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated and barren Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria. Rallia's journey is one of multi-tiered discovery in terms of her relationship to her extended family, traditional Berber culture...Watch Movie
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The Desert Ark
Amin and Myriam are secretly in love. Their families are rivals and when their relationship is discovered, conflict is inevitable. In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves, the two communities have long nurtured the seeds of discord and hatred. The persecution is the first signal of inevitable...Watch Movie
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Masquerades
After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of respect by marrying off his narcoleptic sister, Rym, to a “real gentleman.” However, Rym has other plans; she dreams of marrying Mounir’s best...Watch Movie
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Enough!
Set in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s, ENOUGH! follows two women on the dangerous search for the younger woman's husband, a journalist whose writings resulted in his disappearance. Both women represent anachronisms in Islamist Algeria: the younger woman is a doctor, the older a nurse with vivid...Watch Movie
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Rachida
The first feature-length film by Yamina Bachir evokes memories of the worst atrocities of the terror in Algeria. The young teacher Rachida is teaching at a school in Algiers when she is stopped in the street by a group of youths who demand she take a bomb and place it in the school. She...Watch Movie
