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.

Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's f...

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill....

France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orp...

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I...

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised...

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker a...

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

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...
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...

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...