Djazair Movies

  • 1960
    Fadila

    Fadila

    Fadila

    101960HD

    Fadila is a short film shot in the Casbah of Algiers during the Algerian War by a young French army conscript with the young Fadila Tizraoui and...

    Fadila
  • 2002
    Algeria's Bloody Years

    Algeria's Bloody Years

    Algeria's Bloody Years

    8.52002HD

    Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the...

    Algeria's Bloody Years
  • 2009
    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    102009HD

    "Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

    Gerboise Bleue
  • 1924
    A Son of the Sahara

    A Son of the Sahara

    A Son of the Sahara

    7.51924HD

    As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanized gentleman, he falls in love with Barbara, an...

    A Son of the Sahara
  • 2004
    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    102004HD

    This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
  • 1965
    L'Obstacle

    L'Obstacle

    L'Obstacle

    101965HD

    Algerian youth of the 1960s, straddling traditional South Mediterranean and Western culture and the desire for emancipation of younger generations to...

    L'Obstacle
  • 1971
    Ettarfa

    Ettarfa

    Ettarfa

    101971HD

    “Ettarfa” is a film by El-Hachemi Chérif produced by RTA, released in 1971.

    Ettarfa
  • 2005
    Once Upon a Time in the Oued

    Once Upon a Time in the Oued

    Once Upon a Time in the Oued

    5.52005HD

    In 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a...

    Once Upon a Time in the Oued
  • 2011
    Here We Drown Algerians

    Here We Drown Algerians

    Here We Drown Algerians

    6.82011HD

    In response to the call of the Front de libération nationale (F.L.N., the National Liberation Front), thousands of Algerians from Paris and...

    Here We Drown Algerians
  • 1982
    I Exist

    I Exist

    I Exist

    01982HD

    Composed of three parts, this montage film addresses all aspects relating to the role of women in Algerian society: their ambitions, the role of the...

    I Exist
  • 2001
    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    102001HD

    In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth...

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï
  • 2011
    The Forgotten Night - October 17, 1961

    The Forgotten Night - October 17, 1961

    The Forgotten Night - October 17, 1961

    102011HD

    On October 17, 1961, in response to the curfew imposed on Muslim Algerians by Paris police prefect Maurice Papon, the FLN Federation of France...

    The Forgotten Night - October 17, 1961
  • 1980
    First Step

    First Step

    First Step

    9.51980HD

    A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female...

    First Step
  • 1998
    Algeria, Life Goes On

    Algeria, Life Goes On

    Algeria, Life Goes On

    101998HD

    In a small town in northern Algeria during the 1990s, at the height of the dark decade that tore the country apart, three unemployed young men...

    Algeria, Life Goes On
  • 1970
    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick

    7.81970HD

    In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to...

    Opium and the Stick
  • 2025
    True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

    True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

    True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

    62025HD

    1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of...

    True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
  • 2022
    Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control

    Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control

    Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control

    7.52022HD

    World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa,...

    Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control
  • 1989
    Rose Of The Desert

    Rose Of The Desert

    Rose Of The Desert

    101989HD

    An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the...

    Rose Of The Desert
  • 1985
    The Man Who Watched Windows

    The Man Who Watched Windows

    The Man Who Watched Windows

    9.51985HD

    A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema...

    The Man Who Watched Windows
  • 1959
    Our Algeria

    Our Algeria

    Our Algeria

    5.51959HD

    "Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to...

    Our Algeria