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1. Munich (2005)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 238,492 | Gross: $47.40M
2. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 85,339 | Gross: $3.63M
3. The Recruit (2003)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Thriller
A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht
Votes: 142,352 | Gross: $52.80M
4. Athena (2022)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
Director: Romain Gavras | Stars: Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek
Votes: 22,400
5. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,466 | Gross: $3.77M
6. The Business (2005)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Frankie is sent from London to Spain to make a delivery to Charlie, who likes the kid and shows him the ropes including the use of guns and drugs. Frankie likes the sun, pools and the cute, bikini clad girls and stays in Spain.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell, Georgina Chapman
Votes: 15,357
7. Carlos (2010)
Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Karam Ghossein
Votes: 14,421 | Gross: $0.15M
8. Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis: their four daughters' spouses--David, Rachid, Chao, and Charles--have decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they imagine their lives elsewhere.
Director: Philippe de Chauveron | Stars: Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Ary Abittan, Medi Sadoun
Votes: 9,657
9. A Very Secret Service (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy
Andre Merlaux, a young officer, under the leadership of his three seniors, needs to protect and defend the interests of France and participate in dangerous operations.
Stars: Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine, Karim Barras
Votes: 3,912
10. Samba (2014)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Senegalese Samba has worked 10 years in France. He's arrested and befriends the woman helping him with legal matters as volunteer after a burnout at work. He's released after being told to leave France. Chemistry?
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin
Votes: 17,333 | Gross: $0.15M
11. Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Votes: 21,194 | Gross: $2.01M
12. 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: 8,075 | Gross: $0.15M
13. 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: 4,149
14. Flying Blind (2012)
93 min | Drama
A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller. Helen McCrory stars as a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student while ... See full summary »
Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz | Stars: Helen McCrory, Najib Oudghiri, Kenneth Cranham, Tristan Gemmill
Votes: 687
15. Poetical Refugee (2000)
130 min | Drama
A young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika
Votes: 925
16. Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Three Algerian brothers struggle with violence, temptations, and finding purpose after their mother's death, as one seeks revenge, another tries keeping a job, and the youngest may be falling for a capoeira dancer. Can they be a family?
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Stéphane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez, Salim Kechiouche
Votes: 1,810 | Gross: $0.02M
17. 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
18. 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
19. Chaos (2001)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into the lives of a bourgeois, modern-but-conventional couple. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the ... See full summary »
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni, Line Renaud
Votes: 2,489 | Gross: $0.21M
20. Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama
A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker
Votes: 717
21. Le joli mai (1963)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.02M
22. Exils (2004)
Unrated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Their road trip gradually becomes a spiritual quest.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem, Lila Makhlouf
Votes: 3,191
23. 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
24. 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
25. Pleasure Palace (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
Dashing Omar Sharif stars as a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help Hope Lange, as a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner, from losing its controlling ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Omar Sharif, Victoria Principal, J.D. Cannon, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Votes: 71
26. Six pieds sur Terre (2023)
96 min | Drama
Son of a former Algerian diplomat Sofiane lived his entire life to this point abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and is living under the threat of... See full summary »
Director: Karim Bensalah | Stars: Kader Affak, Souad Arsane, Mostefa Djadjam, Magdalena Laubisch
Votes: 7
27. Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex? (1993)
99 min | Comedy
A woman who performs live sex shows goes into business with a gambling junkie.
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Verónica Forqué, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà, Fernando Guillén
Votes: 542
28. Port Afrique (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Rip Reardon, ex-Army flier, returns to his home in French Morocco and finds his wife dead, and he suspects she has been murdered. Police Colonel Moussac insists she committed suicide. Rip ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Pier Angeli, Philip Carey, Dennis Price, Eugene Deckers
Votes: 223
29. 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: 243 | Gross: $0.07M
30. Free Men (2011)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.05M
31. Argu (2021)
97 min | Drama
Koukou is called crazy for his different behavior. The village elders committee and his father decide to put him in a mental asylum.
Director: Omar Belkacemi | Stars: Latifa Aissat, Ali Damiche, Mohamed Lefkir, Koukou Mahfoud
32. 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: 404
33. Les équilibristes (1991)
119 min | Drama, Romance
Marcel Spandice, a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris, is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world.
Director: Nikos Papatakis | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Lilah Dadi, Polly Walker, Doris Kunstmann
Votes: 133
34. 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: 1,003
35. Keillers park (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married man and a free spirit find love - and tragedy - in this powerful, bittersweet gay love story that was inspired by a real-life 1997 hate crime.
Director: Susanna Edwards | Stars: Mårten Klingberg, Pjotr Giro, Robert Jelinek, Gösta Bredefeldt
Votes: 500
36. 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
37. Mascarades (2008)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his ... See full summary »
Director: Lyès Salem | Stars: Lyès Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Rym Takoucht, Merouane Zmirli
Votes: 422
38. 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
39. Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront (2009)
120 min | Drama
A tale of crossed destinies in a prison visiting room.
Director: Léa Fehner | Stars: Farida Rahouadj, Reda Kateb, Pauline Etienne, Marc Barbé
Votes: 319
40. La petite Jérusalem (2005)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A beautiful Jewish young woman still living with her orthodox family in a Parisian suburb, falls in love with a Muslim co-worker.
Director: Karin Albou | Stars: Fanny Valette, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Hédi Tillette de Clermont-Tonerre
Votes: 909 | Gross: $0.05M
41. Alger la blanche (1986)
28 min | Short
Farid, a teenager of Algerian descent, provokes violent reactions within his family environment and his friends, among whom his friend Jean, with whom Farid had a homosexual relationship. ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Collard | Stars: Frédéric Deban, Ali Baouche, Farida Chrouki, Aïssa Djabri
Votes: 145
42. Michou d'Auber (2007)
124 min | Drama
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Gilou | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric, Samy Seghir
Votes: 835
43. The Citadel (1988)
96 min | Drama
In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father, who guarantees that his son will be ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Chouikh | Stars: Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Yamina Bachir, Mohamed Baki, Khaled Barkat
Votes: 83
44. Yasmine Nayar: Twahachtek (2020 Music Video)
5 min | Music, Romance
Music clip by Yasmina Nayar talk about love and missing a loved one.
Director: Yasmine Nayar | Star: Yasmine Nayar
45. Nahla (1979)
111 min | Drama
In January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war in Lebanon. He witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population.
Director: Farouk Beloufa | Stars: Yasmine Khlat, Youssef Saiah, Lina Tebbara, Nabila Zeitouni
Votes: 49
46. 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: 84
47. Le choix de Myriam (2009 TV Movie)
195 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Malik Chibane | Stars: Mehdi Nebbou, Leïla Bekhti, Carole Richert, Anémone
Votes: 19
48. Enemies Within (2016)
PG | 27 min | Short, Drama
During the 90s, Algerian terrorism reaches France. Two men. Two identities. One battle.
Director: Selim Azzazi | Stars: Hassam Ghancy, Najib Oudghiri, Stéphane Perrichon, Nasser Azazi
Votes: 815
49. 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
50. 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: 280