The Battle of Algiers (1966), Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Four Days in September (1997), Des hommes et des dieux (2010), The Names of Love (2010), Far From Men (2014), Days of Glory (2006), Beyond the Rocks (1922) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Algeria movies.
Storyline: A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.
Plot Keywords: underground fighting, resistance, algeria, poverty, murder of a police officer, hiding place, guerilla ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Florence Carala and her lover, Julien Tavernier, want to murder her husband - Julien's boss - by faking his suicide. But after Julien's killed him, and had left, he remembers he's forgotten the rope outside the window which could implicate him, and he returns to the building to remove it
Plot Keywords: gloves, grappling hook, gun, husband wife relationship, infidelity, interrogation, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.—Salvatore Santangelo <pappagone2@libero.it>
Plot Keywords: hypocrisy, military police, humiliation, recording, record player, interpreter, riot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1996, in Algeria, eight French monks of The Monastery Notre-Dame de l'Atlas of Tibhirine have a simple life serving the poor community that was raised around the monastery. During the Algerian Civil War, they are threatened by terrorists but they decide to stay in the country and not return to France.
Plot Keywords: monk, algeria, catholic church, heroism, based on true story, stubbornness, martyr ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving...—Happy_Evil_Dude
Plot Keywords: public nudity, female rear nudity, female frontal nudity, female full frontal nudity, female nudity, bare breasts, nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: teacher, journey, rifle, children, school teacher, classroom, school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a coda years later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with a keen sense of injustice. The men fight with courage against a backdrop of small and large indignities: French soldiers get better food, time for leave, and promotions. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow?
Plot Keywords: year 1944, battle, firearm, cigarette smoking, reference to allah, 1940s, world war two ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters can live comfortably. Soon after the wedding, she finds herself falling in love with Hector, the Tenth Earl of Bracondale, a playboy she encounters on the social circuit of the very rich -- in the Swiss Alps, Paris, London, and the English countryside. Hector is attracted to her as well. Theodora must choose between love and duty, and then Josiah and Hector must make choices of their own.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, father daughter relationship, financial crisis, gun battle, gunfire, half sister, infidelity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction action film freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two children Rachel and Robbie (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin), of whom he has custody on weekends. On one such visitation, looking after the kids becomes a little more difficult when, after a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood, Ray discovers that a fleet of death-ray robotic spaceships have emerged nearby, part of the first wave of an all-out alien invasion of the Earth. Transporting his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at Mary Ann's parents' house, Ray must learn to become the protector and provider he never was in marriage.
Plot Keywords: alien, survival, ex husband ex wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, outer space, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
Plot Keywords: male female relationship, applause, clapping, song, singing, singer, microphone ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, burial, murder, romantic rivalry, attack, race, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: gym, cemetery, beach, bar, beer drinking, arabic, north africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.—Peter Davis <pdavis@macollamh.ucd.ie>
Plot Keywords: 1950s, year 1940, year 1944, wedding, year 1939, 1940s, f rated ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rebuffed in love and uncertain of life, Simon is the story of a young Englishman's physical and spiritual journey during Algeria's battle for independence from France. Driven by romantic illusion to join the French Foreign Legion, Simon learns what it truly means to be a hero. A timeless, coming of age story set against the epic, sweeping landscape of North Africa.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: bare chested male, bazaar, tea, algeria, gunfire, uniform, year 1960 ...
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