Algerian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant algerian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, sincere and touching films and TV shows about / with society, family relations, murder, arab, death, muslim, politics, racism, male female relationship and dancing plots mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres shot in France, Algeria, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as algerian: Baise-moi (2000), Days of Glory (2006), Masquerades (2008), The Battle of Algiers (1966), DNA (2020), Salut cousin ! (1996), Outside the Law (2010), The Names of Love (2010), Inch'Allah Sunday (2001), Inland (2008).

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 4.4
 18K
Baise-moi (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road ...
Style: sexual, erotic, disturbing, bleak, road movie ...
Audience: adult
Plot: strong sexual content, rape and revenge, explicit sex, rape, nudity, sex, femme fatale, misandry, violent sex, violence against women, depravity, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france
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 7.0
 15K
Days of Glory (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style: realistic, emotional, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: war, battles, world war two, politics, justice, military, survival, muslim, brutality, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time: year 1945, year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: france, africa, vichy, algeria, morocco ...
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 6.6
 418
Masquerades (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, brother sister relationship, small town, small town life, couples, love and romance, cons and scams, village, siblings relations, arab, husband wife relationship, lie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: algeria, middle east, north africa
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
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 5.9
 1K
DNA (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, male female friendship, alzheimer's disease, family conflict, estranged father, family crisis, loss of grandfather, grandfather grandson relationship, grief, death of grandfather, woman, photography ...
Time: 2010s
Place: algeria, paris france
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 5.9
 312
Salut cousin ! (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Alilo arrives in Paris, met by his hip cousin Mok. Alilo is to pick up a suitcase of dresses to smuggle back to Algiers for resale. He's lost the dressmaker's address and his boss is gone for five days, so he stays in the Moskova ...
Plot: sociology, arab, migration, immigrant, friendship, rap, culture clash, racism, cousin cousin relationship, fall in love, bookies, suitcase
Place: algeria, paris france, france
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Outside the Law (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Tunisia, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot: french algerian war, algerian war, politics, police brutality, resistance, revenge, war crime, political unrest, family relations, society, military, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, post world war two ...
Place: algeria, france, africa, europe, north africa
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The Names of Love (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, sincere, talky, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, public nudity, sex, bare breasts, culture clash, revolution, love story, fascism, storytelling, political activist, social activist, society ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria
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Inch'Allah Sunday (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, ...
Style: contemplative, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: culture clash, immigrant, abusive husband, estrangement, injustice, human spirit, self discovery, society, dysfunctional family, family problems, gender, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, algeria, europe
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 7.0
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Inland (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Algerian filmmaker Tariq Teguia wrote and directed this impressionistic look at a man whose life takes an unexpected turn far away from home. Malek (Abdelkader Affak) is a surveyor from Algeria who is semi-retired, but at the urging of a friend he ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic
Plot: desert, self discovery, friendship, danger, state affairs, couple relations, unlikely couple, starting over, lovers on the run, disorder, social relations, couples ...
Time: 2000s
Place: algeria, africa
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The Little Soldier (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style: political, black and white, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot: spy, algerian war, assassination, politics, assassin, fighting the system, revolution, death, hotel, torture, lovers, exodus ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: algeria, switzerland, france, europe, geneva switzerland ...
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Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A chamber drama about a widow and her son who live in an antique shop in Boulogne. The widow invites a man whom she loved twenty-two years earlier to visit. Her son is haunted by Muriel, a young woman whose death he may have caused while serving as ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, anthology, thought provoking ...
Plot: colonialism, algerian war, memory, modernism, trauma, filmmaking, voyeurism, mother son relationship, widow, couples, injustice, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, algeria, europe
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 8.2
 31K
Z (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style: political, political thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, military, police, government, right wing, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, political corruption, justice, protest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, africa, europe
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 7.7
 3K
Le Bal (1983)
Genre: History, Musical
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age).
Style: art house, anthology, experimental, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: music, dancing, musician, disco, world war two, music band, photograph, dance, nazi occupation, redheaded woman, musician's life, rebellion ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 1940s, 60s, 1930s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.9
 437
Little Senegal (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: racism, slavery, family relations, immigrant, obsessive quest, society, family tradition, elderly, family history, interracial relations, ancestry, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south carolina, new york, harlem, usa ...
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Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of ...
Plot: algerian war, police brutality, colonialism, capitalism, french colonialism, multiple perspectives, massacre, politics, violence, police, racism, demonstration ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria, paris france
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Inspector Tahar's Holiday (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Algeria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Directed by Moussa Haddad.
Plot: vice squad, hotel, cross dressing, porter, stealing a car, tourism, tourist, magic show, married woman, talking to oneself in a mirror, tourist guide, running out of gas
Time: 70s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, tunisia
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 6.8
 155
Harragas (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, gloomy
Plot: immigrant, against the rules, danger, hopes, corrupt officer, seaport, refugee, lost at sea, migration, exile, cop, ocean ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, algeria, spain, mediterranean sea
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 6.1
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The Repentant (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the ...
Style: serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: haunted by the past, terrorism, starting over, homecoming, society, hopes, parents and children, social relations, family relations, tragic past, village, loss of daughter ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, africa
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Gates of the Sun (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, heroic mission, undercover, heroes, danger, hostage, secret organization, undercover agent, nightclub, master warrior, tough heroes, secret agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: algeria
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 5.3
 113
Madame Courage (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of Mostaganem, Algeria. He is addicted to a famous psychotropic, nicknamed “Madame Courage”: Artane tablets, very popular among young Algerians, for their euphoric effect of ...
Plot: violence against women, teenager, alzheimer's disease, retribution, violence, drug abuse, loner, slum, jewel theft, love at first sight, death threat, pimp ...
Time: 2010s
Place: algeria
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 7.1
 102
Let Them Come (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this remarkable adaptation of Arezki Mellal’s novel, a family must defend itself amidst the onslaught of violence between government forces and radical Islamists in 1980s Algeria.
Plot: chaos, terrorism, father daughter relationship, car breakdown, terrorist, night, fundamentalism, mediterranean
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, north africa, maghreb
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I still hide to smoke (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: bathhouse, women, pregnancy, muslim, female nudity, underage girl, bare breasts, terrorist attack, terrorist bombing, terrorism, life is a bitch, social problems ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: north africa, algeria, maghreb, africa
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Until The Birds Return (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, anthology
Plot: husband wife relationship, family problems, crush, multiple storylines, family relations, society, frustration, forced marriage, male female relationship, social problems, lifestyle, neurologist ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: algeria, middle east
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 6.6
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The Blessed (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, algerian war, generation gap, police arrest, freedom, tattoo, dysfunctional marriage, hashish, dysfunctional couple, loss of mother, gynecologist, husband wife conflict ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008
Place: algeria
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 7.1
 4K
Papicha (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, muslim girl, female protagonist, hijab, sea, attempted rape, friendship, arranged marriage, university, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east
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Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, three brothers, transsexual, lgbt, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, teenage life, family problems, youth ...
Place: alps, paris france
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family in crisis, black lesbian, lesbian, blended family, father daughter relationship, parents and children, husband wife relationship, family relations, cross cultural relations, escapades, multiculturalism, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.2
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Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth, friendship, love triangle, racism, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: lyon, france, europe, new york, algeria ...
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 5.8
 500
Keillers park (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This is a film about the sexual awakening of Peter to feelings of homosexual desire.
Style: tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense, sexual ...
Plot: gender, gay, murder, infidelity, closeted homosexual, investigation, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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