Two Armed Man

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His secon...

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Cast

Sid Ali Kouiret, Marie-José Nat, Mustapha Kateb

A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Cast

Tamara Toumanova, Gregory Peck, Alan Reed

The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swing, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her mountain home when her only son is kidnapped by French soldiers shortly after her husband's death during a raid....

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Cast

Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri), Mohamed Chouikh, Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir

Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Robert Thomas

Cast

Maurice Risch, Jacques Balutin, Marion Game

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her univers...

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Youssef Chahine

Cast

Magda Al Sabahi, Ahmed Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar