Ali au pays des merveilles

1975

French

6.7

♡ 1

Djouhra Abouda Director

Ali in Wonderland unveils the condition of immigrant workers in Paris in the 1970s. It is a cry of anger against exploitation and racism, uncompromisingly raising the role of the French state, the media, capitalism, and colonization in this system of domination that crushes those who suffer it. In this experimental essay on the condition of Algerian migrants in Giscard's France in the mid-1970s, every aesthetic choice has a precise and legible political motivation and gives body and voice to a figure completely absent from the experimental cinema of the time: that of the immigrant worker. Abouda is one of the children of immigrants seen in the film, and not a simple activist serving a cause, which is why the emotion of her experimental gesture, which she throws in the viewer's face, springs from a ferocity inscribed in her body, from an insatiable anger that inhabits her gaze.

The Little Soldier

1963

French

7.1

♡ 15

81%

73%

Action

algerian war (1954-62)

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Georges de Beauregard as Activist Leader

Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier

Jean-Luc Godard as Man at Railway Station

Anna Karina as Veronica Dreyer

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

The Olive Trees of Justice

1962

French

6.9

♡ 2

100%

algeria

algerian war

algerian war (1954-62)

James Blue Director

Huguette Poggi as Cousin Louise

Pierre Prothon as Jean / Narrator

Jean Pélégri as Jean's Father

Marie Decaître as Jean's Mother

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must deal with some problems involving the Algerian fight for independence.

Faithful

2020

French

5.8

♡ 1

Action

algeria

algerian war (1954-62)

Hélier Cisterne Director

Vincent Lacoste as Fernand Iveton

Rémy Roubakha as Georges Carrio, le deuxième contremaître

Vicky Krieps as Hélène Iveton

Raphaël Thiéry as Maître Charles Lainné

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians. Helene is fighting for Fernand’s life. History will irrevocably change the course of their destiny.

The Rabbi's Cat

2011

French

7.1

♡ 7

94%

parent child relationship

rabbi

racism

Joann Sfar Director

Alice Houri as Knidelette

Jacky Ido as Le Chef de la Tribu

Mathieu Amalric as Le prince

François Damiens as Le reporter

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.

Chronicle of a Summer

1961

French

7.4

♡ 4

Jean Rouch Director

Nadine Ballot as Self

Jacques Gabillon as Self - un employé Raymond

Raymond as Self - un étudiant africain

Modeste Landry as Self - un étudiant africain

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Red Island

2023

French

5.9

♡ 1

81%

Robin Campillo Director

Loïc Molla as Hibou 9

David Serero as M. Guedj

Vincent Schmitt as Père Bertin

Quim Gutiérrez as Robert Lopez

Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.

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