Movies: Algerian war 1954 62

  • 1962
    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

    Cléo from 5 to 7

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    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid v...

    Cléo from 5 to 7
  • 1966
    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers (1966)

    The Battle of Algiers

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    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 19...

    The Battle of Algiers
  • 2008
    Mesrine: Killer Instinct

    Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

    Mesrine: Killer Instinct

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    Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns h...

    Mesrine: Killer Instinct
  • 1994
    Wild Reeds

    Wild Reeds (1994)

    Wild Reeds

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    As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual....

    Wild Reeds
  • 2015
    Far from Men

    Far from Men (2015)

    Far from Men

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    A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities....

    Far from Men
  • 2007
    Intimate Enemies

    Intimate Enemies (2007)

    Intimate Enemies

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    A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence....

    Intimate Enemies
  • 2017
    Lover for a Day

    Lover for a Day (2017)

    Lover for a Day

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    After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age....

    Lover for a Day
  • 1963
    Le Petit Soldat

    Le Petit Soldat (1963)

    Le Petit Soldat

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    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 ...

    Le Petit Soldat
  • 2010
    A View of Love

    A View of Love (2010)

    A View of Love

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    Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl...

    A View of Love
  • 1963
    A People on the March

    A People on the March (1963)

    A People on the March

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    In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the A...

    A People on the March
  • 1982
    A Captain's Honor

    A Captain's Honor (1982)

    A Captain's Honor

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    During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit....

    A Captain's Honor
  • 2018
    L'Histoire Du Film

    L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger" (2018)

    L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"

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    More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966, director Salim Aggar found, after a search which lasted more than a year and a half, the actors, extras and technicians who worked on the film direc...

    L'Histoire Du Film
  • 2004
    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers (2004)

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

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    This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, St...

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
  • 1958
    Jamila, the Algerian

    Jamila, the Algerian (1958)

    Jamila, the Algerian

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    Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers....

    Jamila, the Algerian
  • 2005
    Dark Night, October 17, 1961

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961

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    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 Paris...

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961
  • 2017
    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

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    Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality t...

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France
  • 2020
    Lost Mountain

    Lost Mountain (2020)

    Lost Mountain

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    On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened to reinforce its military contingent in the four corners of the country and to prevent the advance ...

    Lost Mountain
  • 1985
    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama (1985)

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

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    The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the r...

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama
  • 1972
    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)

    To Be Twenty in the Aures

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    A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the n...

    To Be Twenty in the Aures
  • 2012
    Bay of Algiers

    Bay of Algiers (2012)

    Bay of Algiers

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    The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at...

    Bay of Algiers