Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a nasty surprise is waiting for him at his parents' home: he finds Haoua, his bride-to-be, waiting for him. The wedding is celebrated shortly afterwards and the two begin living together under the same roof. They are strangers but cannot stand each other. Haoua is the classic traditional woman who has just arrived from the village, God-fearing and faithful to the laws of tradition. Ali's friends advise him to look for a second wife. He meets Henriette, an uninhibited and provocative city girl, the woman of his dreams. To meet Henriette's constant requests, Ali 'borrows' some money from the coffers of commander Soleymane, but he is discovered and ends up in prison. Henriette is furious and leaves him, whilst Haoua cries for him in despair.

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Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign ...
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who i...

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. Th...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Par...

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...