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Publisher
Bandits Longs/ARP
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In 1974, the French government relaxed its immigration policy with the enaction of the "family reunion" law, a euphemism which allowed families of Algerian men to join them. Zouina is a woman who parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; she finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns...
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
Publisher
Metrodome
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
"Set during the Algerian War, [the film] follow Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although he does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torture when captured. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with a woman who he does not know is fighting for the other side."--Container.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
When four heavily armed Islamic terrorists hijack an Paris-bound Air France flight on the runway, intent on flying into the Eiffel Tower, 227 innocent lives hang in the balance. Their only chance of rescue is a determined SWAT team, called on to break the standoff and storm the plane. Based on true events, The Assault captures the violent and claustrophobic tension onboard events as it builds to the film's thrilling climax.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
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, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A cat belonging to a widowed Rabbi and his beautiful daughter eats the family parrot and miraculously gains the ability to speak. Along with the power of speech comes unparalleled sardonic wit, and the cat spares no group or individual as he skewers faith, tradition and authority. The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The past of an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France's recently ended war in Algeria.
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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
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. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion: Bud and Lou head to Algeria on business and are tricked into joining the Foreign Legion. Abbott and Costello meet the Invisible Man: As novice private detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man. Comin' Round the Mountain: Lou discovers he is heir to a secret gold fortune and the boys head to Kentucky to claim it. Lost in Alaska: Bud and Lou save an ex-sheriff, then discovers he is the...
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