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1. 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: 65,649 | Gross: $0.06M

2. Papicha (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama

In 1997 Algiers, terrorists wanting an archaic Islamic state are everywhere. They oppress women, determined to control their bodies, clothing, and public space. Young student Nedjma is passionate about creating a fashion show.

Director: Mounia Meddour | Stars: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda Amira Douaouda, Yasin Houicha

Votes: 3,638

3. Sunshine (1999)

R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 15,795 | Gross: $5.10M

4. 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: 3,975

5. 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: 6,642 | Gross: $0.92M

6. Algiers (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 3,248

7. I Still Hide to Smoke (2016)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for ... See full summary »

Director: Rayhana Obermeyer | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Fadila Belkebla, Nadia Kaci, Nassima Benchicou

Votes: 1,189

8. The King of Algiers (2023)

92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Omar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.

Director: Elias Belkeddar | Stars: Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar, Haroun Attalah

Votes: 668

9. Pépé le Moko (1937)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin

Votes: 8,071 | Gross: $0.15M

10. 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

11. Carry on Spying (1964)

87 min | Comedy

Agent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey

Votes: 3,110

12. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan

Votes: 4,089

13. The Last Queen (2022)

110 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.

Directors: Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri | Stars: Adila Bendimerad, Dali Benssalah, Mohamed Tahar Zaoui, Imen Nouel

Votes: 1,166

14. The Assault (2010)

R | 91 min | Action, History, Thriller

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.

Director: Julien Leclercq | Stars: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas

Votes: 4,145

15. Candlelight in Algeria (1943)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, War

An American sculptress in wartime Algiers gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--... See full summary »

Director: George King | Stars: James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Enid Stamp-Taylor

Votes: 475

16. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)

Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.

Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Votes: 3,764 | Gross: $0.02M

17. The Cats Bah (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Penelope, an American tourist cat who's gotten a white stripe of paint down her back, is pursued through the Casbah by the amorous skunk Pepe Le Pew, who woos her with his rendition of "As Time Goes By."

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

Votes: 391

18. The Sea Hawk (1924)

Passed | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery

Votes: 641 | Gross: $0.78M

19. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Indiana Jones must fight the nazis again in search for Atlantis and a newly discovered mineral of unbelievable power, the Orichalcum.

Director: Hal Barwood | Stars: Denny Delk, David Gitin, Jane Jacobs, Nick Jameson

Votes: 1,722

20. Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak

Votes: 3,119

21. A Woman's Secret (1949)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams

Votes: 1,935

22. Casbah (1948)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Musical

The life, loves and adventures of a classic Casbah thief.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Märta Torén

Votes: 574

23. The Man from Cairo (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.

Directors: Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton | Stars: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano

Votes: 199

24. The Blessed (2017)

102 min | Drama

Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.

Director: Sofia Djama | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Nadia Kaci, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Amine Lansari

Votes: 235

25. Rachida (2002)

100 min | Drama

A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.

Director: Yamina Bachir | Stars: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messaoudène, Zaki Boulenafed

Votes: 403

26. Fort Algiers (1953)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr, Leif Erickson

Votes: 250

27. Les invincibles (2013)

98 min | Comedy, Sport

Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams.

Director: Frédéric Berthe | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Atmen Kelif, Virginie Efira, Daniel Prévost

Votes: 612

28. Shattered (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mila is a cop and she's back in Marseille after a few years away. She's a loner, damaged and always on her guard. She's looking for her father, whom she hasn't seen for fifteen years.

Director: Isabelle Czajka | Stars: Nacima Bekhtaoui, Samir Boitard, Olivia Côte, Hedi Zada

Votes: 86

29. Soleil (1997)

104 min | Drama

Algiers, 1940. MAMAN TITINE has lived alone with her five children ever since her husband JOSEPH, a Jewish post office employee, set off for Paris with forged papers to find work. Maman ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Hanin | Stars: Sophia Loren, Philippe Noiret, Marianne Sägebrecht, Roger Hanin

Votes: 188

30. The Algerian (2014)

99 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

A sleeper cell terrorist travels to America and hides in plain sight as an engineering student. As he waits for the rest of his terrorist cell to join him for a deadly mission, he falls in love which jeopardizes his beliefs and the mission

Director: Giovanni Zelko | Stars: Ben Youcef, Candice Coke, Harry Lennix, Tara Holt

Votes: 242 | Gross: $0.07M

31. 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

32. The Rooftops (2013)

92 min | Drama

On the structure of the five daily prayers of the Muslim rite, the film tells us a day like any other in Algiers lived from various terraces of the buildings.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Adila Bendimerad, Nassima Belmihoub, Ahcène Benzerrari, Aïssa Chouat

Votes: 82

33. Omar Gatlato (1977)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche, Rabah Leghaa

Votes: 191

34. Flesh and the Woman (1954)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck

Votes: 155

35. Consolation Marriage (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Drama

In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost his childhood sweetheart ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Myrna Loy

Votes: 511

36. Wages of Virtue (1924)

70 min | Drama, Romance

Luigi, a traveling-show strongman, saves Carmelita from drowning and persuades her to join him. When Luigi kills his assistant, Giuseppe, in a jealous rage, they flee to Algiers, where ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Norman Trevor, Ivan Linow

Votes: 22 | Gross: $0.24M

37. 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: 50

38. Là-bas... mon pays (2000)

114 min | Drama

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Antoine de Caunes, Nozha Khouadra, Samy Naceri, Saïd Amadis

Votes: 125

39. The Algerian War, 1954-1962 (1984)

280 min | Documentary, History, War

The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers... See full summary »

Star: Jim Norton

Votes: 17

40. Bab El Oued City (1994)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara

Votes: 220

41. Blackbirds (1915)

50 min | Drama

Hawke, Jr., son of a famous New York detective, is challenged by his father to capture "The Blackbirds," a gang of smugglers, finds himself stranded in Algiers. Aware of Hawke's presence, ... See full summary »

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Laura Hope Crews, Thomas Meighan, George Gebhardt, Raymond Hatton

42. 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

43. Kiss Me Again (1931)

TV-G | 75 min | Musical, Romance

A Legionnaire in love with an aspiring opera singer is expected to marry the general's daughter, who in turn is in love with another soldier.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bernice Claire, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Pidgeon, June Collyer

Votes: 213

44. Festival panafricain d'Alger (1969)

110 min | Documentary, Musical

This is a documentary film which explores both the politics and music of the First PanAfrican Cultural Festival. Third World solidarity was much in fashion in 1969, when the festival was ... See full summary »

Director: William Klein | Stars: Nina Simone, Archie Shepp, Miriam Makeba, Marion Williams

Votes: 55

45. 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: 94

46. Under Two Flags (1922)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama

An English nobleman, known only as Victor, arrives in Algiers and joins the French Foreign Legion as a private without revealing his true identity. He attracts and is loved by Cigarette, a ... See full summary »

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood, John Davidson, Stuart Holmes

Votes: 35 | Gross: $0.12M

47. L'ange de goudron (2001)

100 min | Drama

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the Canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.

Director: Denis Chouinard | Stars: Zinedine Soualem, Hiam Abbass, Rabah Aït Ouyahia, Catherine Trudeau

Votes: 279

48. Pirate Submarine (1951)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, War

In November of 1942, the French submarine, the "Casabianca,", escapes from German-held Toulon, and, upon joining the Free French forces at Algiers, is sent on a secret mission to Corsica to... See full summary »

Director: Georges Péclet | Stars: Pierre Dudan, Gérard Landry, Jean Vilar, Paulette Andrieux

Votes: 34

49. L'autre monde (2001)

95 min | Crime, Drama, War

A young French-Algerian woman travels to Algeria in search for her fiance. Determined to find his whereabouts, she is facing political and religious obstacles in a country that is struggling with the aftermath of a civil war.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Marie Brahimi, Karim Bouaiche, Nazim Boudjenah, Michèle Moretti

Votes: 69

50. Paris la blanche (2017)

83 min | Drama, Romance

At the age of 70, Rekia decides to leave her village in Kabylie to go to Paris. All by herself, she travels across the Mediterranean sea to bring Nour, her husband, back home. But her hero,... See full summary »

Director: Lidia Terki | Stars: Tassadit Mandi, Zahir Bouzerar, Karole Rocher, Marie Denarnaud

Votes: 65