Merzak Allouache Movies

  • 2003
    Chouchou

    Chouchou

    Chouchou

    5.2982003HD

    Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a...

    Chouchou
  • 1995
    Lumière & Company

    Lumière & Company

    Lumière & Company

    6.21995HD

    40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

    Lumière & Company
  • 1976
    Omar Gatlato

    Omar Gatlato

    Omar Gatlato

    6.31976HD

    Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely...

    Omar Gatlato
  • 2012
    Bay of Algiers

    Bay of Algiers

    Bay of Algiers

    3.92012HD

    The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is...

    Bay of Algiers
  • 1985
    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    101985HD

    A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema...

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows
  • 2021
    Le Passeur immobile

    Le Passeur immobile

    Le Passeur immobile

    02021HD

    Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

    Le Passeur immobile
  • 1996
    Salut cousin !

    Salut cousin !

    Salut cousin !

    4.21996HD

    The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to...

    Salut cousin !
  • 1997
    Love Reinvented

    Love Reinvented

    Love Reinvented

    51997HD

    Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the...

    Love Reinvented
  • 2001
    The Other World

    The Other World

    The Other World

    42001HD

    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...

    The Other World
  • 2005
    Bab El Web

    Bab El Web

    Bab El Web

    5.32005HD

    Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, more...

    Bab El Web
  • 2024
    Front Row

    Front Row

    Front Row

    02024HD

    Up bright and early with their pet in tow, Zohra Bouderbala and her five children are heading to the beach. This is not a drill! In Algiers, the...

    Front Row
  • 1987
    A Parisian Love Story

    A Parisian Love Story

    A Parisian Love Story

    101987HD

    A very unusual love story indeed the one that unites for a while Marie, a young French woman born in Algier, whose dream is becoming a top model and...

    A Parisian Love Story
  • 2010
    Harragas

    Harragas

    Harragas

    72010HD

    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...

    Harragas
  • 2013
    The Repentant

    The Repentant

    The Repentant

    6.42013HD

    Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his...

    The Repentant
  • 2017
    My Story Is Not Yet Written

    My Story Is Not Yet Written

    My Story Is Not Yet Written

    102017HD

    Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history of the Algiers Cinematheque, inseparable from that...

    My Story Is Not Yet Written
  • 1994
    Bab El Oued City

    Bab El Oued City

    Bab El Oued City

    5.91994HD

    Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that...

    Bab El Oued City
  • 1998
    Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir

    Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir

    Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir

    01998HD

    A female journalist becomes re-acquainted with an Algerian ex- colleague when she visits Beirut, and begins an affair with him.

    Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir
  • 1979
    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero

    101979HD

    In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to...

    The Adventures of a Hero
  • 1967
    The Thief

    The Thief

    The Thief

    01967HD

    One of Merzak Allouache's graduation films.

    The Thief
  • 2012
    Tata Bakhta

    Tata Bakhta

    Tata Bakhta

    6.52012HD

    Tata Bakhta