Stories Set in Algiers

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…

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…

Pépé le Moko one of France's most wanted criminals hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby a gorgeous woman from Paris who…

December 1994. On Saturday 24th four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus bound for Paris with 227 passengers on board at the Algiers airport.

After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons any of whom may…

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief who escaped from France. Since his escape Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with…

In Algiers in 1993 while the civil war is starting Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during…

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism self-determination and dependence. Goucem a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich…