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- DirectorSergio GriecoStarsJeanne ValérieJacques SernasEdmund PurdomDuring the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsAnnibale NinchiCamillo PilottoFosco GiachettiA story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsPierre BrasseurDaniel GélinAnne HeywoodHistorical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsItalia Almirante-ManziniLidia QuarantaBartolomeo PaganoCabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
- DirectorWissem TliliA biography about the Reformist Kheireddine Ettounsi, who is considered as one of the most important pillars of reform in Tunisia and in the Arab and Islamic world during the 19th century.
- DirectorKhaled Walid BarsaouiStarsNadia BoussettaAhmed HafieneMoez GdiriIt tells the story of a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage on the eve of her wedding to be with her sweetheart.
- DirectorHichem Ben AmmarStarsHabib BourguibaHabib Bourguiba's return from exile on 1 June 1955 was marked by an unprecedented popular welcome. His horse race between the port of La Goulette and Tunis was a memorable event. The equestrian statue, made in 1978, came to immortalize this triumphant image. By erecting this historic moment into myth, Habib Bourguiba wanted to legitimize the presidency for life.
- DirectorRidha TliliA forgotten and marginalized region of Tunisia, the spark of the Tunisian Revolution, a region that rebelled against the Beys, the French Colonization, the Bourguiba system and then that of Ben Ali. The natives of this region still have a Bedouin heritage of resistance, Nomadism and rebellion.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsLee MarvinMark HamillRobert CarradineA hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- DirectorOmar KhlifiStarsHabib ChaariLewis DidzelBrahim EzzidiThe story spans ten years, from 1951 to 1961, during the process of resistance against the French and conquest of independence. Jarbou, in love with his cousin Rebh, sees himself supplanted by his cousin Ali, gummier of the French army, supported by his chiefs. He is imprisoned for insurgency against this injustice. The anti-French resistance is organized and Jarbou becomes leader of a group of "fellagas" which gives a lot of concern to the enemy. Ali is taken prisoner but Jarbou releases him and continues his action.
- DirectorOmar KhlifiStarsHabib ChaariMohamed DarragiBchira HahIn the last months of the French colonization of Tunisia, around 1954, three young people of different conditions, Mustapha, from a traditionalist and hardworking middle class, Hedi, a young bourgeois who embraced the revolutionary cause by idealism, and Hassen a dedicated primary and attached to the cause are part of an occupant resistance cell. They release prisoners, attack a weapons depot, execute a collaborator. Hassen and Hedi lose their lives. Mustapha who becomes "fellaga" is captured and executed.
- DirectorMohamed ZranDecember 17 was the day on which Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself in front of the Governor's seat in Sidi Bouzid, the epicentre of middle Tunisia. Those flames of youth and ideals spread to the Arab countries and so dictatorships, unassailable walls until then, started to crumble down one after the other, like houses of cards. Then, very rapidly, the Islamists will take hold of and confiscate the revolution from the young and the proletarians who have achieved it and invented it on the streets, in public places and even on roofs. Today, the Islamists in power are threatening to shatter the dreams and hopes of a whole generation. They put at risk the achievement of the objectives of this revolution, namely individual liberties, social justice and simply the right to be happy here below... GET OUT shows the genius of simple people who have achieved the first revolution in the Arab world without any support from the Islamists and their kinds among whom Islamic fundamentalists, veiled women adjusting to the spirit of the times and preachers from the Dark Ages are only the tip of the iceberg...
- DirectorAbdallah YahyaIn a Tunisian village El Omrane in Sidi Bouzid (283 km from Tunis), massive arrests against young people who demonstrated their right to work. The elders of the town decide to start a hunger strike. Hamza 12, helps us discover the village, between resistance and memory.
- DirectorGhassan AmamiStarsZied TouatiA reading of historical events which tends to "rehabilitate the 93 imprisoned victims by collecting their testimonies on the acts of torture and persecution to which they have been subjected for more than two decades"
- DirectorMohamed Amine BoukhrisJanuary 2011. Events in Tunisia triggered massive uprisings throughout the Arab world. It was a historical moment that could not be missed by the journalists on the ground. They were the soldiers in the shadows, constantly on a quest for information and the truth. They operated as our eyes and our ears, even in the midst of the most violent conflicts, sometimes at the expense of their own lives. Lucas, Nicolas, Rémi, Nassim, Eyad and Ahmad are the reporters in WAR REPORTER, as the film follows them on their perilous journey starting from Tunisia through Egypt, Libya and Syria.
- DirectorJoseph MaxwellStarsRichard MilesWhen Rome was still in its infancy, Carthage was the dominant power of the Mediterranean. As Rome grew, Carthage remained its only great rival. It was that rivalry that drove Rome to utterly destroy Carthage, and massacre its people.
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsBaya MedhaffarGhalia BenaliMontassar AyariA few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- DirectorAbed Aziz HafadaouiTraces the life of one of the most important symbols of armed resistance in Tunisia. A story that began in the mines of El Mdhilla, where he became aware of the suffering of workers and the discrimination they suffer from the French.
- CreatorYosri BouassidaStarsZouhour MediouniHichem RostomJamila ChihiBased on the heroic stories of the "Eagle 27" elite commandos unit and its patriotic stand against terrorism and contraband activities, during the past 10 years that witnessed an escalation in terrorist operations that targeted the homeland security and the military forces.
- DirectorMoncef BarbouchStarsSalah JdayHoucine MahnouchLamia AmeriThe movie is about the subject of arrests and different forms of repression, physical and moral torture, that were faced by the Islamist opponents of Ben Ali's Regime and their families.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsGeorges MarchalAndré ValmyDominique NohainSomewhere in Tunisia, commandos of the First French Army are training, in preparation for the August 1945 landings on the southern coast of France. Lt. Claude Legrand (Georges Marchal), who leads the commando, finds among his men a former resistance fighter, Serge Duhamel (André Valmy), who feels nothing but contempt for the lieutenant. Some years earlier, Lt. Legrand and Duhamel had quarreled over Legrand's wife Simone, who had an affair with Duhamel. The commando training goes on but the grudge between the two men still festers. However, after a dangerous mission in which Lt. Legrand behaves heroically, a mutual esteem is born between the two men and grows with time. The long-awaited day of the landing in Provence arrives. The lieutenant and his former rival are now partners in combat.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJames MasonCarla LehmannRaymond LovellAn American sculptress in wartime Algiers gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--and that the British agent has a camera that has photographs of the meeting place.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanGodfrey TearleThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.
- DirectorJacques PoitrenaudStarsGeorges MoustakiGabriele FerzettiGérard FalconettiThe story of Hadjis, a former professor of philosophy, who came to live in the midst of a poor community in the Tunisian suburbs, far from Western civilization.
- DirectorMehdi HmiliStarsNajla Ben AbdallahGhanem ZrelliMohamed DahechLove in time of revolution in Tunisia, where a political prisoner escapes from jail and returns to his native town "Thala" and look for his beloved fiancee, only he finds chaos in the middle of an uprising.
- DirectorKays MejriStarsMohamed GrayaâOussama KochkarJamel MadaniTunisia 1987, Ben Ali comes to power, it is the dawn of a new era, detective Ayed begins to investigate the murder of a little boy, a case that will trigger a series of events that no one was prepared for .
- DirectorOmar KhlifiStarsHassiba RochdiAnissa LotfiZohra FaïzaThe film tells the story of two girls. Saadia was raped after fierce resistance, which allowed her to take revenge by killing her attacker, but the village men's council felt she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. She is shot and the women of the village, transgressing the tradition, follow her funeral procession. As for Selma, who loved Hedi, she sees her father forcing her to marry another man. His lover comes back hastily but drowns. Became crazy, she succumbs in turn.
- CreatorTaher FazaaStarsFethi HaddaouiMariem Ben ChaâbaneDalila MeftahiThe story unfolds in an unstable post-revolutionary Tunisian society that faces religious extremism, corruption and inequality.
- StarsAziz JebaliJihed CherniSaif OmraneOnce upon a time, like 3000 years ago, a beloved King named Satour falls to illness, where his bastard son Bourghel finds himself in charge of the kingdom.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsParviz ShahinkhouMaryam HamidGolshifteh FarahaniThe story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsDjamel AllamSami AllemFares Ben HachaniThe 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.
- CreatorYosra BouassidaRiadh EnafoussiStarsLotfi AbdelliDalila MeftahiLeila Ben KhalifaA historical fiction story based on the true folk character "Ali Chouerreb", the infamous Halfaouin street bandit who ran the North-Side of La Medina El-Arbi in the Tunisian capital during the 1950s and the 1960s.
- CreatorBassem HamraouiStarsBassem HamraouiFethi HaddaouiJihed CherniA historical fiction story that takes place during the French colonization era, from 1948 to 1952, at the beginning of the political clash between Habib Bourguiba and Salah Ben Youssef.
- DirectorYoussef ChebbiIsmaëlAlaeddine SlimAfter the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence. When a massive refugee camp was hastily constructed near the Ras Jdir border checkpoint in Tunisia, a trio of filmmakers carried their cameras in and began filming with no agenda. This on-the-fly chronicle of the camp's installation, operation, and dismantling captures a postmodern Babel complete with a multinational population of displaced folk, a regime of humanitarian aid workers, and international media that broadcasts its "image" to the world. Visually stunning and refreshingly undramatic, Babylon reveals a rarely seen aspect of the Arab Spring.
- DirectorFadhel JaziriStarsSarra HannachiAli JaziriEmna JaziriRetraces the life of "Abu Yazid Ibn Khouadway Kadadadi", better known as "Bouzid Sahib El-Himar" ("Bouzid, Master of the Donkey"), who begins his journey by rebelling against injustice, to become over the course of his "revolution" a bloodthirsty tyrant.
- StarsBassem HamraouiKarim GharbiJaafar GuesmiThe history of Tunisia - Ibn Khaldoun - is depending on three city workers when a mafia is threatening their lives and everyone's that stand in their way.
- DirectorKarim BerrhoumaStarsAhmed LandolsiHedi MejriBilel SlatniaThe story of Tunisia's most infamous serial killer - the man behind the murder of 13 children in the 1980s and the last convict to be executed in the country.
- DirectorMoslah KraiemStarsAli BennorDorra ZarroukFethi HaddaouiGianni, a former Italian owner of a movie theater in Bab El Fella, disappears leaving a manuscript that recounts important events to the local police that took place twenty years ago.
- DirectorJilani SaâdiStarsMohamed GrayaâRamzi SlimAmina BdiriA night of insurrection in Tunis, the streets and the suburbs have gone mad, nothing works anymore, the Capital have become a battlefield between the police and the protesters.
- DirectorKamel Ben OuanesStarsHamdi HaddaMariem ChakrounMajed Ben AissaTells the childhood memories of little Claude, son of a guardian in the terrible prison of Porto Farina. The child discovers a world shared between the downfall of the convicts and the beauty of a village bathed in a warm light.
- DirectorHabib MselmaniStarsAli KhemiriWahida DridiSara HelaouiThree officers sent by the Bey, arrives to a farming village to collect taxes. The villagers initiate the payoff sharing their goods but the bey's messengers persist in humiliating them, infringing their dignity and honor, which triggered contestations.
- DirectorSelma BaccarStarsSouad AmidouFéodor AtkineNéjib BelkadhiFollows the last years of Tunisian singer Habiba M'sikar's life between 1927 and 1930 when she was at the peak of her glory and performed in the "soirées" of Tunis.
- DirectorHabib MestiriStarsAhmed HafieneFatma NasserIvana PantaleoHassouna, an officer in the french army, is committed to the cause of independence of his country. In disregard of the risks, he transmits information to the independence activists' networks. Once he discovered a list of Tunisian betrayers, he faces rejection and persecution.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsTrevor HowardAnouk AiméeHerbert LomA man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.
- DirectorEdward BazalgetteStarsAlexander SiddigEmilio DoorgasinghBashar RahalIt is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible. Hannibal combines drama, the latest historical research and state-of-the-art CGI to bring this spectacular story to life.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaEdgar G. UlmerStarsVictor MatureGabriele FerzettiRita GamDuring the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMaureen O'HaraJeff ChandlerMaxwell ReedAn Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJacques VilleretMichel ConstantinIn 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars.
- DirectorMoufida TlatliStarsHind SabriGhalya LacroixNejia OuerghiAs she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSonia MankaïAva Cohen-JonathanSarah ParienteSummer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsVan HeflinWanda HendrixEric PortmanA British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsJosephine BakerAlbert PréjeanRobert ArnouxA French novelist passes off a African shepherdess as a princess.
- StarsJeremy SistoRichard HarrisChristopher WalkenTwenty-year-old Julius Caeser flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla, but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
- DirectorMohamed Jamel NefziA tribute to the history of the educational institution in Tunisia, true stories, memories, unpublished photos and documents from the national archive of Tunisia telling the journey of former teachers and students...AL ALAOUIA duty and obligation.
- DirectorJilani SaâdiStarsMajd MastouraSarra HannachiJilani SaâdiTunisia 2013, a society in turmoil during the drafting of its new constitution by the newly elected Parliament, two young wanderers, Aïda and Abdou, meet one night by chance, their roads will cross and uncross to share their misery.
- DirectorSami TliliStarsBéji Caïd EssebsiHabib BourguibaA throwback to Habib Bourguiba's presidency era in 1978, focusing on the failed strike insurrection by the Union in parallel with a very memorable sport event, the qualification of the Tunisian National Team to the World Cup in Argentina.
- DirectorClaire BelhassineStarsFerid BelhassineNaoufel BelhassineLotfi BouchnakAn amazing story of love and family, celebrity and music. A portrait of Hedi Jouini, the godfather of Tunisian music.
- DirectorBurt TopperStarsWally CampoBrandon CarrollFred GavlinWWII drama set in Tunisia. Five American soldiers become separated from their unit without radio communication
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoLivia RossiLuca FilippiThe last year of Bettino Craxi's life, one of the most important and controversial Italian leaders of the 1980s.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsRaymond FrancisJohn PaulKieron MooreA small band of British soldiers is sent on a mission to hold up a German advance.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsPaul NewmanSylva KoscinaAndrew DugganIn 1943, a group of captured Allied brigadier generals cannot agree on an escape plan. Allied headquarters develops a plan to send in an escape artist to be captured himself so he can coordinate the generals escape.
- DirectorKarin AlbouStarsLizzie BrocheréOlympe BorvalNajib OudghiriThe Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarlene DietrichCharles BoyerTilly LoschThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
- DirectorBruno PaolinelliStarsElsa MartinelliGiorgia MollRaf MattioliAn Italian orphan countess, Katy, wants to be a journalist, but is dismissed from her work because she does not bring in hot news; she hears that young Prince Scedid is about to inherit the throne of his father, and that he lives an irreproachable life - actually so secluded that almost no one knows him. With her friends Simona and Barbara, she goes to Monastir in Tunisia, to set-up the Prince of Scedad and to take photos of him in some compromising situation that will give Barbara headlines in the scandal press. The English government is aware of a death menace against the future ruler of Scedad and sends three secret agents to protect him: Major Knicherbocker, Mr. George and Baron Philippe. The political enemies of Prince Scedid have paid two thugs, Pedro and Paulo, and a belly dancer, Sherazad, to approach the Prince and kill him. Neither of these nine persons possess a photo of the Prince, as he lives such a secluded life, and their conflicting enterprises and various disguises will lead to plenty of confusion, and daring situations. In the end, the three freelance reporters will not achieve their end, but they will find love in the arms of a Tunisian doctor and two English agents.