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Plot Summary:
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: Algeria, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min
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Red Soil (2020)
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Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
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Madame Courage (2015)
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Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of Mostaganem, Algeria. He is addicted to a famous psychotropic, nicknamed “Madame Courage”: Artane tablets, very popular among young Algerians, for their euphoric effect of invincibility. Omar is an expert thief. One morning, he goes downtown to commit his usual crimes. His first prey is a young girl called Selma, walking with her friends, prominently wearing a gold necklace. As he commits his larceny, their eyes meet.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 90 min
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The Milk of Human Kindness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
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A Son (2019)
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Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: social
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Still Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
There are victims that arrive by night. They intuit, unaware of the danger that awaits them. They may attempt to resist, but a young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. A dog is the only witness of this terrifying world that seems certain never to end.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful
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Chimney No. 4 (1966)
Plot Summary:
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
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After Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, touching, captivating, visually appealing, social, crying, tragic
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Farewell to the Night (2019)
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Muriel breeds horses in France and runs an almond plantation with her business partner from the Maghreb. A confident woman who spent her childhood and youth in Algeria, Muriel seems to enjoy a life that is both harmonious and fulfilled. She receives a visit from her beloved grandson Alex, whom she raised after his mother died in an accident. He is on his way to Canada, where he allegedly has a job. However, Muriel discovers that Alex has other plans – and a much more dangerous destination. Moreover, his childhood sweetheart Lila also seems to be more deeply involved than Muriel initially suspects. The young man becomes more and more of a stranger to her; the complete change that has come over him is incomprehensible to his grandmother. She senses that her words and any amount of discussion will not help. Finding herself caught in a dilemma between her love for her grandson and her deep concern, she decides to take a drastic step.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, light, touching, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Takiaispallo (1970)
Plot Summary:
Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 79 min
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Bye-Bye (1995)
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In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Swaying Waterlily (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Swaying Waterlily.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Once More (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man sick of his life, decides to leave his wife and find his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. The film covers a decade of his life, each scene taking place roughly during his daughter's birthday.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer cinema
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Our Struggles (2018)
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While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown, Olivier is going to have to come to terms with his new status as a single father raising his children alone. Because Laura’s not coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Harragas (2009)
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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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Poetical Refugee (2000)
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Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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Life Kills Me (2002)
Plot Summary:
Paul (Sami Bouajila of The Adventures of Felix and The Siege) is a smart, well-educated Frenchman of Arab ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he impresses his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His brother, Daniel (Jalil Lespert of Human Resources) also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job at a sex club.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Therese (2012)
Plot Summary:
The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sad, melancholic, period piece, costume drama, gloomy
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I still hide to smoke (2016)
Plot Summary:
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Papicha (2019)
Plot Summary:
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 and control their passage through the public space. While a frenzied hunt for women unveiled is launched, Nedjma, a young student passionate about fashion, is determined to federate the girls of her campus to organize a fashion show braving all the forbidden.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, independent film, psychological, captivating, suspense, political, social, crying, cult film
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Inland (2008)
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Algerian filmmaker Tariq Teguia wrote and directed this impressionistic look at a man whose life takes an unexpected turn far away from home. Malek (Abdelkader Affak) is a surveyor from Algeria who is semi-retired, but at the urging of a friend he takes an assignment in Oran. The region in question was the site of frequent battles during Oran's civil war, and an earlier survey that would make it possible to bring electrical utilities to the area was cut short by the fighting. While the zone is still unstable, Malek sets out to complete charting the area, and finds the locals regard him with suspicion and hostility. However, not everyone is disrespectful, and he discovers a young woman (Ines Rose Djakou) who is attracted to him, which leads him to consider abandoning his old life to run away with her. Inland was an official selection at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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In My Father's Garden (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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Jealousy (2013)
Plot Summary:
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, intellectual, art house, black and white, gloomy
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DNA (2020)
Plot Summary:
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, semi autobiographical
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We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
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Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ephemeral nature of their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, talky, adaptation directed by original author
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Tar Angel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, road movie
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Golden Youth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rose, a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and taken in by social services, and her fiancé, 22-year-old Michel, are enjoying their first great and innocent love affair in Paris in 1979, at the height of the popularity of the Le Palace nightclub. They are part of the trendy bunch who only live for partying and exuberance. At a party one evening, they meet Lucille and Hubert, a couple of fifty-something middle-class bohemians, who will take them under their wing and turn their lives upside down.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, disturbing, unusual plot structure
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It All Starts Today (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role in Capitaine Conan, plays Daniel, the head teacher of a nursery school in a town demoralized by unemployment. Daniel is determined against all odds to bring life to the community. When a parent who has come to pick up her children collapses at the school grounds due to alcohol abuse, and social services turns a deaf ear to all pleas for help, Daniel decides to take the law into his own hands. Despite resistance from the townspeople, in the long run his efforts are not fruitless.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: social, sincere, thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Still Walking (2008)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, sincere, touching, realistic, philosophical, thought provoking, disturbing, poignant, art house
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. Young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: depressing, realistic, intense, visually appealing, existential, cerebral, visual, bleak, emotional, gloomy