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1. Monsieur Spade (2024)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The famous detective Sam Spade is now 60 and living as an expat in the south of France in 1963.
Stars: Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin
Votes: 4,977
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: 65,658 | Gross: $0.06M
3. 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: 8,808
4. Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé.
Director: Jalil Lespert | Stars: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet
Votes: 13,019 | Gross: $0.72M
5. 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: 2,277
6. 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: 8,154 | Gross: $0.02M
7. 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: 2,468
8. L'insoumis (1964)
115 min | Drama, Thriller
1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret, Maurice Garrel
Votes: 985
9. 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
10. Muriel (1963)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
Votes: 3,734
11. Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
89 min | Drama, Romance
How the life of Victor Chmara toppled during the course of a single day during the summer of 1958?
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Extercatte, Richard Bohringer
Votes: 1,182
12. Adieu Philippine (1962)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Paris, summer 1960. Michel is about to leave for Algeria for military service. He meets Liliane and Juliette, two inseparable friends. Michel goes on vacation to Corsica, where the two girls decide to join him
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Descamps, Stefania Sabatini, Yveline Céry
Votes: 1,018
13. 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
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: 4,118
15. 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: 8,226 | Gross: $0.51M
16. Deserter (2002)
90 min | Drama, War
Unlikely friends in a melting pot of confusion. Simon Murray fights for the French Foreign Legion. Pascal Dupont fights for himself. War torn men question honour, hope, morality...because you can desert everything...except yourself.
Director: Martin Huberty | Stars: Paul Fox, Tom Hardy, Kate Maberly, Aitor Merino
Votes: 1,393
17. 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: 621
18. Stranded (2010)
103 min | Horror, Mystery
A platoon of French soldiers on a rescue mission in North Africa confront invisible evil creatures.
Directors: Hugues Martin, Sandra Martin | Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Thierry Frémont, Saïd Taghmaoui, Aurélien Wiik
Votes: 999
19. Intimate Enemies (2007)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing, Marc Barbé
Votes: 3,454
20. Murder in Devil's Bridge (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Crime, Drama
André Savignac, mayor of Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert has been found hanged on the Bridge of the Devil. Marina Fazergues comes back to her home village for the criminal investigation.
Director: Sylvie Ayme | Stars: Elodie Frenck, David Kammenos, Patrick d'Assumçao, Myriam Bourguignon
Votes: 91
21. 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
22. 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: 121
23. 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: 118
24. 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: 93
25. 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: 216
26. 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: 60
27. 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
28. Liberté, la nuit (1984)
82 min | Drama, War
In the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson, László Szabó
Votes: 283
29. Castro's Revolution vs. The World (2019)
Documentary, Biography, History
Cuba's revolutionary story is one of much fervor. Fidel Castro had one objective: the liberation of a Communist Cuba. Castro's ability to form key strategic alliances enabled him to stand at the precipice of realizing his dream for Cuba.
Stars: Jose Basulto, Napoleon Vilaboa, Ricardo Alarcón, Fabian Escalante
Votes: 110
30. Cooking History (2009)
88 min | Documentary
Interviews with military cooks from various European armies.
Director: Peter Kerekes | Stars: Vassily Nikolaevich Logunov, Franz Weinhart, Klavdia Matveevna Lobanova, Franz Wienhart
Votes: 278
31. Le paria (1969)
102 min | Action, Crime
Traumatized by the War of Algeria and by the accidental death of his wife and his son, Manu left the right road. His last caper was the attack of the Antwerp-Tangiers Express, carrying a ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Carliez | Stars: Jean Marais, Marie-José Nat, Horst Frank, Jacques Stany
Votes: 75
32. 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
33. 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: 16
34. 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
35. For Djamila (2011 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, History
Djamila 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.
Director: Caroline Huppert | Stars: Marina Hands, Hafsia Herzi, Dominique Reymond, Thomas Jouannet
Votes: 54
36. La belle vie (1963)
105 min | Drama, War
After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Frédéric de Pasquale, Josée Steiner, Odile Geoffroy, Françoise Giret
Votes: 52
37. Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History
A 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.
Director: Alain Tasma | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Florence Thomassin, Vahina Giocante, Ouassini Embarek
Votes: 176
38. Living in Paradise (1998)
105 min | Drama, History, War
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Director: Bourlem Guerdjou | Stars: Roschdy Zem, Fadila Belkebla, Omar Bekhaled, Farida Rahouadj
Votes: 155
39. L'évasion de Hassan Terro (1976)
115 min | Comedy
Hassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he... See full summary »
Director: Mustapha Badie | Stars: Rouiched, Sid Ali Kouiret, Chafia Boudraa, Paul Mercey
Votes: 24
40. 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: 21
41. The Crazy Years of the Twist (1983)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri | Stars: Mustapha El Anka, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Fawzi B. Saichi, Jacques Villeret
Votes: 40
42. Albert Camus: An Icon of Revolt (2020 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A biographical documentary about Albert Camus and his relevance today.
Directors: Fabrice Gardel, Mathieu Weschler | Stars: Albert Camus, Abd Al Malik, Marylin Maeso, Jacques Ferrandez
Votes: 19
43. 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: 35
44. 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: 84
45. Moudjahidate (2008)
75 min | Documentary
Through interviews with former women combatants, this documentary recounts women's involvement and commitment to the struggle for Independence in Algeria.
Director: Alexandra Dols | Stars: Danièle Djamila Amrane Minne, Fatma Chebbah Abdelli, Zohra Drif-Bitat, Louisa Ighilahriz
46. L'adieu (2003– )
180 min | Drama, History, Romance
Stars: Thomas Jouannet, Mélanie Doutey, Catherine Jacob, Gilles Lellouche
Votes: 72
47. La guerre d'Algérie (1972)
155 min | Documentary, War
Directors: Yves Courrière, Philippe Monnier | Stars: Jean Brassat, Jacques Charby, Francis Morane, Bruno Cremer
Votes: 33
48. Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre (1982)
60 min | Documentary
Director: René Vautier | Star: Kateb Yacine
Votes: 11
49. Algeria: Women at War (1992 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Algerian women recall their experiences during the French-Algerian War, reflecting also on how the roles and perceptions of women in Algeria have changed in the decades since.
50. Tes cheveux démêlés cachent une guerre de sept ans (2017)
74 min | Documentary
Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison,... See full summary »
Director: Fatima Sissani