Merzak Allouache

Yasmine and Rachid, two young Parisians children of Algerian immigrants, are in love and live a quiet life in France. One day, Rachid disappears and Yasmine learns that he is in Algeria. She decides to follow him, in that country that she does not know, that is filled with violence. (ArtMattan Productions)

A North African immigrant to Paris gets work and finds romance despite his scatty character. (imdb)

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

Following terrorist Rachid from his long escape down the snowy mountains to civilised society. Claiming to have no blood on his hands, he is shunned and threatened by the people of his home town who lost family members in terrorist attacks. Fleeing to the city, Rachid is helped out by a policeman who gets him a job in a café, in return for the promise of information. When Rachid recognises the local pharmacist secrets that should have been left up in the mountains also come flooding down. (cine-vue)

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

On the structure of the five daily prayers of the Muslim rite, the film tells us a day like any other in Algiers lived from various terraces of the buildings. (imdb)

Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris. (imdb)

A police office in Algiers sometime after independence of Algeria. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema annex library. Mr. Rachid, disappointed and exasperated by his sad life, faced with an inspector who questions him, tries to explain: why did he kill his former department head after a long night of wandering? (imdb)

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

Kamel and his younger brother live in Bab el Oued, a popular district of Algiers. Kamel is embittered and rather taciturn while jollier Bouzid escapes the drab reality of his life chatting on the Internet with girls from all over the world. Certain that none of them will ever accept he invites them all to visit him. To his amazement, a French woman called Laurence accepts his invitation... (imdb)