Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a n...

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

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...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

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

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japane...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil serv...