War in Algeria

Reconstitution de la vraie bataille d'Alger en 1957, lorsque se soulève a population algérienne musulmane contre le pouvoir colonial français, et la tentative du détachement parachutiste de l'armée française de « pacifier » le secteur.

Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women.

February 1962 in Douai, a town located in the north of France. A police squad burts at dawn into the Ducateaus house to search around. François Ducateau, the father, is suspected of a bombing pro-SAO (Secret Army Organization), a movement of French activists refusing that Algeria, a French colony, becomes a free country. The action takes place during the civil war opposing activists pro and against the independence of Algeria. At that time, the French government runned by General De Gaulle has began secret political bargaining with the NLF (National French Liberation), movement of algerian activists fighting in Algeria and in France for the liberation of their country. The whole family : her wife Mary, pregnant, and the three children of the couple witness powerless the arrest of François Ducateau. He is going to be interviewed at the police station

the story of the heroic path of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian revolution.

Pendant la guerre d'Algérie, un commando d'élite français dirigé par le capitaine Le Blanc reçoit l'ordre d'enlever un chef algérien.

Un écrivain fauché trouve un raccourci vers la gloire, mais un maître chanteur menace de ruiner sa vie parfaite.

A string of events lead up to the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS(Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...

Mahfoud is a young professor at a technical school in Algiers. With his technical and computer knowledge, he renovates an old weaving loom which he plans to show at an international inventor's convention in Germany. His travel plans though are frustrated by administrative obstacles. Meanwhile his neighbors have their eye on him - especially old M'nouar who has been scarred by terrible memories from the Algerian War. He views everything and everyone with suspicion. As far as he's concerned, Mahfoud is up to no good, maybe he's even involved in subversive activities! Of course it doesn't help that Mahfoud is having a love affair with Samia, a young psychiatrist who has returned to the country after her studies to Belgium. She fights against conforming to the local norms and breaks taboos which don't please the people. Finally Mahfoud succeeds in obtaining his visa to go to the international Fair. His invention wins an award there and when he returns home there is a very different welcome for him!

Paul Narboni se souvient de son enfance heureuse en Algérie avant de quitter le pays en 1954. Avec sa famille, il arrive ensuite à Marseille avant de rejoindre Paris. Son père Albert, épicier, va devoir s'adapter à ce nouveau pays.

Deux amis d'enfance passent le printemps ensemble juste avant l'été de la guerre d'indépendance de l'Algérie.

The story of the so-called Harkis or Algerians who served in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence, only to be abandoned by France when the country withdrew.

Après un déploiement à l'étranger, deux anciens membres de la Légion étrangère française projettent de s'introduire dans le coffre-fort d'une société française.

Engagé durant la guerre d'Algérie et passé dans l'OAS, Thomas participe à la séquestration d'une avocate chargée de défendre des Algériens. Elle s'échappe en soudoyant le jeune homme, et l'aide à s'échapper de son univers.

Clément et Serge, membre d'un groupuscule d'extrême droite, préparent un attentat contre un député. Anne, la femme de Clément, n'est pas au courant. Après l'attentat, Anne et Clément se réfugient chez un ami qui vit dans une maison isolée.

By the early 1960s, the OAS is desperate to stop de Gaulle's freeing of Algeria. A small group, mostly from the military, steal weapons and rob a bank to prepare for a raid on Tulle prison to set General Challe free and spark civil war. OAS members within the police try to help their cause. The government appoints a mission director, Paraux, to track them down; he must work with the police, led by Lelong. The head of the secret OAS operation is Clavet, a decorated general. For him, it's a cause of honor, but he cannot control all OAS activities, and terrorist acts do occur. The police put the screws on informers and close in. Is there any honor in this losing cause?

Cleo, chanteuse et hypocondriaque, craint de plus en plus avoir un cancer alors qu'elle attend les résultats des tests.

Paris, été 1960. Michel s'apprête à partir en Algérie pour son service militaire. Il rencontre Liliane et Juliette, deux amies inséparables. Michel part en vacances en Corse, où les deux filles décident de le rejoindre

L'histoire d'un marin qui a une brève liaison avec une jeune secrétaire.

Hassan, un habitant de la Casbah d'Alger est pris sur un malentendu pour un dangereux "chef terroriste". Il est arrêté mais l'armée d'occupation française organise à son insu son évasion pour remonter jusqu'aux chefs de la résistance

Durant la guerre d'indépendance en Algérie, Djamila Bouhired est membre du FLN et assistante du chef de zone Yacef Saadi. Arrêtée pour sa participation à 2 attentats à la bombe, elle est condamnée à la peine de mort le 15 juillet 1957.

Pamphlet à l'Algérie libérée du colonialisme, et aux peuples qui luttent contre le colonialisme et l'oppression. Dans la grande tradition des films de montage ce film est soutenu par un commentaire admirable dit par Mouloud Mammeri.

Dans un village d'Algérie, un charbonnier voit son activité menacée par l'apparition du gaz. Il lui faut désormais chercher du travail en ville. Durant son absence, son épouse est, de son côté, embauchée dans une usine proche.

Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».