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1. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
PG | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel
Votes: 45,002 | Gross: $16.06M
2. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,784 | Gross: $0.06M
3. Pierrot the Fool (1965)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Aicha Abadir
Votes: 36,992
4. Grace of Monaco (2014)
Not Rated | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella
Votes: 21,205
5. What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
162 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Nora Arnezeder, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Anne Parillaud, Vincent Perez
Votes: 3,986
6. Far from Men (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, War
Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
Director: David Oelhoffen | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin
Votes: 8,825
7. The Inheritor (1973)
PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A heir of media empire investigates who the enemy of his family is.
Director: Philippe Labro | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort, Charles Denner
Votes: 1,380
8. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
R | 113 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche
Votes: 35,311 | Gross: $0.55M
9. Wild Reeds (1994)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The fates of two partners are divided.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny
Votes: 6,650 | Gross: $0.92M
10. Lost Command (1966)
Approved | 129 min | Action, Drama, War
French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 2,280
11. Lover for a Day (2017)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama
A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte, Paul Toucang
Votes: 2,473
12. The Little Soldier (1963)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, War
During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais
Votes: 8,166 | Gross: $0.02M
13. The Names of Love (2010)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
Director: Michel Leclerc | Stars: Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin, Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck
Votes: 8,230 | Gross: $0.51M
14. Outside the Law (2010)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa
Votes: 4,123
15. The Witnesses (2007)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.08M
16. A View of Love (2010)
107 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours ... See full summary »
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Marie-Josée Croze, Toni Servillo, Sandrine Kiberlain
Votes: 1,782
17. Home Front (2020)
101 min | Drama, History, War
In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yoann Zimmer
Votes: 446
18. Le combat dans l'île (1962)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
After an unsuccessful assassination, a terrorist and his wife hide on a remote island in the house of a friend who doesn't suspect anything.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre, Diane Lepvrier
Votes: 904 | Gross: $0.05M
19. La balance (1982)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Police compel a couple of criminals to become its informants.
Director: Bob Swaim | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet
Votes: 1,326
20. Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
177 min | Drama, History
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Yorgo Voyagis, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Leila Shenna, Cheikh Nourredine
Votes: 624
21. Nada (1974)
110 min | Thriller
A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and takes him to a farm in the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato
Votes: 1,128
22. Terror's Advocate (2007)
Unrated | 135 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bassam Abu Sharif
Votes: 1,700 | Gross: $0.04M
23. The Breitner Commando (2019)
109 min | Drama, War
While 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abdel Raouf Dafri | Stars: Johan Heldenbergh, Linh-Dan Pham, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Tientcheu
Votes: 425
24. A Captain's Honor (1982)
117 min | Drama, War
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson
Votes: 372
25. L'opium et le bâton (1969)
135 min | Action, Drama, War
An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Mustapha Kateb, Rouiched, Mahieddine Bachtarzi, Sid Ali Kouiret
Votes: 123
26. The Undeclared War (1992)
247 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Patrick Rotman, Bertrand Tavernier
Votes: 119
27. Inch'Allah dimanche (2001)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama
Zouina is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her 3 children and her mother-in-law, she rejoins her husband in a foreign, unaccommodating land.
Director: Yamina Benguigui | Stars: Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi, Anass Behri
Votes: 581
28. Rih al awras (1966)
95 min | Drama, War
A story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of... See full summary »
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Keltoum, Mohamed Chouikh, Hassan El-Hassani, Thania Timgad
Votes: 119
29. R.A.S. (1973)
110 min | Drama, War
Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Weber, Claude Brosset
Votes: 217
30. Commando (1962)
101 min | Action, War
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, Leo Anchóriz, Rafael Luis Calvo
Votes: 95
31. Buamama (1985)
178 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern... See full summary »
Director: Benamar Bakhti | Stars: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Athmane Ariouet, Mahmoud Aziz, Robert Bazil
Votes: 94
32. Fadhma N'Soumer (2014)
110 min | Drama, History, War
This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
Director: Belkacem Hadjadj | Stars: Laëtitia Eïdo, Assaad Bouab, Melha Mammeri, Dahmane Aidrous
Votes: 22
33. Mon colonel (2006)
110 min | Crime, Drama, History
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Herbiet | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile de France, Charles Aznavour
Votes: 553
35. Lotfi (2015)
170 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Youcef Sehairi, Ahmed Rezzak, Hassan Kechache, Boulem Zeblah
Votes: 17
36. Le coup de sirocco (1979)
102 min | Drama
Paul Narboni remembers his happy childhood in Algeria before leaving the country in 1954. With his family, he then arrives in Marseille before reaching Paris. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Roger Hanin, Marthe Villalonga, Michel Auclair, Jacques Duby
Votes: 297
37. Zabana! (2012)
107 min | Drama, History, War
Algeria'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 ... See full summary »
Director: Saïd Ould Khelifa | Stars: Imad Benchenni, Khaled Benaïssa, Abdelkader Djeriou, Nicolas Pignon
Votes: 61
38. Mostefa Ben Boulaid (2008)
163 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Djamel Allam, Sami Allem, Fares Ben Hachani, Ahmed Benaïssa
Votes: 37
39. La question (1977)
112 min | Drama, War
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Françoise Thuries
Votes: 95
40. La baie d'Alger (2012 TV Movie)
Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Catherine Jacob, Solal Forte, Anthony Sonigo, Margaux Chatelier
Votes: 52
41. L'honneur de la tribu (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Vanished during the Algerian war, a young man returns to his village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution did not forget you".
Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri | Stars: Saïd Amadis, Magid Bouali, Marianne Caron, Djamel Dekkar
Votes: 35
42. Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (1972)
100 min | Drama, War
In 1961, Noël is a French soldier in the Algerian war. His comrades, formerly opposed to the war, now oppress civilians, kill and torture. To stay faithful to his pacifist values, he will do something radical.
Director: René Vautier | Stars: Alexandre Arcady, Hamid Djellouli, Philippe Léotard, Jacques Canselier
Votes: 219
43. The Betrayal (2005)
80 min | Drama, War
During the Algerian War of Independence, mistrust abounds between the drafted local Algerians and metropolitan French forming a French army platoon.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Vincent Martinez, Ahmed Berrhama, Cyril Troley, Walid Bouzham
Votes: 214
44. Plot 35 (2017)
67 min | Documentary
French actor Éric Caravaca confronts a mystery what happened to his parents' first child, Christine, who died at age three in Algeria before the director was born?
Director: Éric Caravaca | Stars: Angela Caravaca, Gilberto Caravaca, Olivier Caravaca, Baltasar Caravaca
Votes: 225
45. Patrouille à l'Est (1971)
115 min | Action, Drama, History
A patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
Director: Amar Laskri | Stars: Hacène Benzerari, Mohamed Hadj Smaïn, Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Hamdi
Votes: 85
46. Peuple en marche (1963)
55 min | Documentary
Directors: Mustapha Bellil, Mohamed Bouamari, Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane, André Dumaître, Nasreddine Guenefi, Mohamed Guenez, Ahmed Rachedi, Héléna Sanchez, Nedjma Scialom, Taïbi, René Vautier, Allel Yahiaoui
Votes: 14
47. Woman Is Courage (2003)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, War
This fascinating and emotionally gripping documentary by director Amine Rachedi narrates the story of Louisette Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman who joined the national liberation ... See full summary »
Director: Amine Rachedi | Star: Louisa Ighilahriz
48. Krim Belkacem (2014)
180 min | Action, Biography, Drama
the story of the heroic path of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian revolution.
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Sami Allem, Mustafa Laribi, Ahmed Rezzak, Bahia Rachedi
Votes: 14
49. Le rossignol de Kabylie (1962)
21 min | Short, Drama
Director: Georges Régnier | Stars: Djelloul Bachdjarah, Philippe Camus, Jeanne Sartre, Amezziane
50. Une nation, l'Algérie (1954)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A short subject made by a militant political collective, about the French war in Algeria.
Directors: Jean Lods, René Vautier
Votes: 8