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Black Gold

Black Gold

Jean-Jacques Annaud 2011 2h 10m 5.7

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.

Pirates

Pirates

Roman Polanski 1986 2h 4m 7.4

Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?

The Last Legion

The Last Legion

Doug Lefler 2007 1h 42m 5.0

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

L'éden et après

L'éden et après

Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 1h 33m 5.0

A sado-machochistic interpretation of Alice in Wonderland.

Un homme qui dort

Un homme qui dort

Bernard Queysanne 1974 1h 18m 8.8

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Asfour Stah

Asfour Stah

Férid Boughedir 1990 1h 38m

Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.

Aala Kaf Ifrit

Aala Kaf Ifrit

Kaouther Ben Hania 2017 1h 40m

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

Un été à La Goulette

Un été à La Goulette

Férid Boughedir 1996 1h 29m

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families.

Le Challat de Tunis

Le Challat de Tunis

Kaouther Ben Hania 2013 1h 30m

Mockumentary about the search for the "Challat,” an infamous slasher of women's behinds.

El-haimoune

El-haimoune

Nacer Khemir 1986 1h 35m 7.0

A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.

La graine et le mulet

La graine et le mulet

Abdellatif Kechiche 2007 2h 35m 7.3

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

La promesse

La promesse

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne 1996 1h 34m 7.6

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad.

La mort trouble

La mort trouble

Férid Boughedir, Claude d'Anna 1970 1h 16m 3.0

Three sisters visiting their uncle in his island home, find themselves alone with the late uncle's manservant. Their relations reveal a dark side in all of them, and gender, racial, and class tensions that lead to situations of humiliation, domination and sex, and death.

Ali Zaoua

Ali Zaoua

Nabil Ayouch 2000 1h 39m

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge.

R.A.S.

R.A.S.

Yves Boisset 1973 1h 50m 8.0

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front.

Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Alexandre Arcady 2012 2h 42m

Algeria in the 1930s. Nine-year-old Jonas was placed in the care of his uncle in Oran. He befriends the youth of Rio Salado. Emily is loved by all. The love that grows between Jonas and Emily is influenced by the country's conflicts.

Hors la loi

Hors la loi

Rachid Bouchareb 2010 2h 17m 7.5

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Les filles d'Olfa

Les filles d'Olfa

Kaouther Ben Hania 2023 1h 48m

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories.

Viva la muerte

Viva la muerte

Fernando Arrabal 1971 1h 30m

During Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.

Weldi

Weldi

Mohamed Ben Attia 2018 1h 40m

Extremism slices through a Tunisian family with the realization that their teenage son has become an ISIS fighter.

Anonymes

Anonymes

Raja Amari 2009 1h 31m

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

Camp de Thiaroye

Camp de Thiaroye

Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow 1988 2h 34m

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

Dil Dhadakne Do

Dil Dhadakne Do

Zoya Akhtar 2015 2h 50m

On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.

Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly

Frédéric Mitterrand 1995 2h 15m 5.0

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

Moolaadé

Moolaadé

Ousmane Sembène 2004 2h 4m

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Rodriguez au pays des merguez

Rodriguez au pays des merguez

Philippe Clair 1980 1h 27m

In Bab El Oued, during the French colonization, the action takes place against the backdrop of elections. The unemployed Roro, son of skewer merchant Dodièze likes Chipette, daughter of hairdresser Gongormatz.

The Man Who Sold His Skin

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Kaouther Ben Hania 2020 1h 44m 4.0

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.

Un divan à Tunis

Un divan à Tunis

Manele Labidi 2019 1h 28m 6.0

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

Beyroutou el lika

Beyroutou el lika

Borhane Alaouié 1981 1h 37m

Zeina is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar, a Muslim, has always been particularly close. After a futile attempt to get together (he gets caught in traffic), they each decide to make an audio tape trying to explain, based on their own ideas, why there continues to be fighting in Lebanon now, in 1977, and why they are against it.

Le collier perdu de la colombe

Le collier perdu de la colombe

Nacer Khemir 1992 1h 26m

The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a manuscript fragment, Hassan searches for the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, he will learn the secrets of love.

Rih essed

Rih essed

Nouri Bouzid 1986 1h 49m

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question.

Safa'ih min dhahab

Safa'ih min dhahab

Nouri Bouzid 1989 1h 44m

Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble.

Samt el qusur

Samt el qusur

Moufida Tlatli 1994 2h 4m

The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.

Sawt Hind Rajab

Sawt Hind Rajab

Kaouther Ben Hania 2025 1h 29m 8.0

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Sejnane

Sejnane

Abdellatif Ben Ammar 1974

Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts about the political situation of Tunisia.

Soleil des hyènes

Soleil des hyènes

Ridha Behi 1977 1h 44m

In a small, self-sufficient Tunisian fishing village, German developers set up a hotel infrastructure, with the complicity of local councillors. The lives of the villagers are turned upside down.