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During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past.

Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.

Two feuding matriarchs engage in chaos and dysfunction during a family beach vacation in prolific Algerian director Merzak Allouache's chaotic family dramedy.

Down in a dark well, an amnesiac little boy called Adi regains consciousness. Accompanied by two strange creatures, he tries to get his memory back and realises that his quest is more complicated than it seems.

Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.

In region of Guelma, a small village called Heliopolis , the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.

An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerrilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals.

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830

Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.

One summer in the late '80s, an Algerian family takes to the road to reach Marseille from the Paris suburbs. On the horizon, a ferry, the port of Algiers, a vacation "back home" in a mixture of joy and excitement, freedom and nostalgia.

Before he died, the "Sultan Boualem" decided to elect his successor among his two children: the "El amir Kamel" and the "El amir Ashour". Finally, he chooses "Ashour", which provokes the anger of "Kamel" who decides to leave the kingdom, and after several years of governance by "Sultan Ashour", the kingdom takes its name and becomes "Kingdom ashouriya"

A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.

Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.

Karima, a Parisian photographer, visits Algiers after her patriarch falls ill. Her return unveils buried memories and conflicts. She navigates her roots and unresolved matters in the city she once cherished.

During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die.

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 his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.

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 pay a smuggler, Hassan, to take them to Spain in his rickety boat. Along with a group of African and Arab migrants, they are risking all they have to cross the stormy Straits.

In January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war in Lebanon. He witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population.

Nass Mlah City (Nice People City) consists of several Algerian actors considered among the best in the country whose personages change according to roles in each episode. It is considered as the most popular sitcom of Algeria in 2000s. The main and most present character in the series is the famous actress, singer and comedian Biyouna, and one of the best Algerian actors ever Salah Aougrout.

Lehlou Fechouch is 30 years old and works in a popular restaurant called La Gargotte. One day, he is contacted by a lawyer who informs him that his uncle, Mahieddine Fechouch, is looking for him. Mahieddine finds himself in a dilemma. Under his father's orders, he must welcome Lehlou, whose father, Mahieddine's brother, has passed away, and let him live with him, or let his nephew go with half of his deceased father's inheritance.

The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954. The film depicts how Ben Bouleid traveled to a number of Arab countries Disguised to bring arms to Algeria for the revolution and how the French colonial forces arrested him in the Tunisian-Libyan border, and from there to Algeria to be sentenced to death.

During the first years of Algeria's independence, Djaffar and Hamid embrace a bright and promising future. After several decades, secrets and betrayals drive them apart.

The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.