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.

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

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...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

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

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...

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...

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

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...