History of Algeria
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- DirectorCaroline HuppertStarsMarina HandsHafsia HerziDominique ReymondDjamila Boupacha ,who lives in Algiers in her parents house, has been arrested for act of terrorism and has been tortured by the soldiers in charge of her interrogatory.Gisèle Halimi will defend her.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsCatherine JacobSolal ForteAnthony SonigoThe writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algerie.In 1955 Louis is 15 years old and he lives with his grandmother Zoe.Zoe is friend with the president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab.One night looking at the Bay of Algiers Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear.The first events of the war of independence have began.The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside:swimming, dancing, flirting.But little by little the war becomes part of their daily life.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsVincent MartinezAhmed BerrhamaCyril TroleyDuring the Algerian War of Independence, mistrust abounds between the drafted local Algerians and metropolitan French forming a French army platoon.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsMohamed Faouzi Ali CherifThomas MilletTolga CayirA pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
- DirectorAugustin BurgerStarsSami BouajilaNieve de MedinaFrédéric PierrotJeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she worked in a soap factory leading a peaceful life until the day she was asked to pass out leaflets in her factory. to Algerian workers.
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsImad BenchenniKhaled BenaïssaAbdelkader DjeriouAlgeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsYoucef SehairiAhmed RezzakHassan KechacheThe film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsSamir BoitardNicolas BridetMarwan Faresset in the Algerian War. A determined French commander, who believes Algeria belongs to France, must deal with a soldier who rebels when asked to execute an Algerian freedom fighter, The finale is set in the blistering desert as the soldier seeks to escape.
- DirectorAbdel Raouf DafriStarsJohan HeldenberghLinh-Dan PhamLyna KhoudriWhile he is only the shadow of the warrior he was in Indochina, Colonel Paul Andreas Breitner is forced to cross a Algeria at war, in search of his former senior officer: Colonel Simon Delignières, missing in the Aurès Nemencha, a real powder keg in the hands of the rebels.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsGérard DepardieuCatherine FrotJean-Pierre DarroussinIn a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsThéo CholbiMohamed El Amine MouffokPierre LottinSalah, Kaddour and other Algerians join the French army as harkis at their head, Lieutenant Pascal. The fate of the harkis seems very uncertain. Pascal opposes his hierarchy to obtain the repatriation to France of all the men of his unit.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsLéo CampionMarie GillainFrançoise FabianFollows the childhood of the filmmaker Antoine Lisner. He travels to Algiers to present a feature-length film while being accompanied by his son, who was the same age as him when he left Algeria in 1962.
- DirectorAlain TasmaStarsClotilde CourauFlorence ThomassinVahina GiocanteA string of events lead up to the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.
- DirectorHélier CisterneStarsVincent LacosteVicky KriepsJules LangladeAlgiers, 1956. Fernand Iveton is arrested in his factory, accused of having planted a bomb. His wife Hélène is now married to a "traitor", but she refuses to abandon Fernand to his fate.
- DirectorAlain TasmaStarsSmaïnLeïla BekhtiFrédéric PierrotThe story of the so-called Harkis or Algerians who served in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence, only to be abandoned by France when the country withdrew.
- DirectorHenry ColomerStarsSarah GrappinMiquel García BordaQuentin TestasCôte Vermeille, France, 1958. The life of a young boy changes as the colonial war breaks out in Algeria and his father is called up to go to war. The barracks become his new home and playground.
- DirectorOkacha TouitaStarsPascal AubierJean BenguiguiRoland Blanche1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.
- DirectorRachida KrimStarsEric AtlanMohammad BakriAssia Barge
- DirectorSerge MoatiStarsManuel BlancMaria de MedeirosHélène Vincent1962, in Algeria. The journalist Jérome Cartier is called into the ranks of the French army, where he meets his friend François. The latter is the victim of an attack by the OAS. Jérome tracks the culprits.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsÉlodie BouchezGaël MorelStéphane RideauThe fates of two partners are divided.