Nadia Samir

Summer of '62 (2007)

A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence. ...

Gourbi Palace (2006)

A poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious hotel. The poor family's life turns upside down in their new home. ...

The Courage to Love (2005)

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers. ...

Return to Algiers (2000)

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, ...

Bab El Oued City (1994)

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 was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. ...

Le Cri des hommes (1991)

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions. ...

Wandering Heart (1990)

Directed by Fitouri Belhiba. ...

Un coupable (1988)

The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty. ...

Certaines nouvelles (1980)

Madame Rosa (1977)

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks ...

Leila and the Others (1977)

The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria. ...

Versailles, peut-être (1977)

Evocation of the Algerian War based on a poem by Franck Venaille recited by Laurent Terzieff. ...

Creezy (1974)

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat tarnished by his adulterous relationship with Creezy, a fashion model seen ...

Beggars and Proud Ones (1972)

Hadjis, a philosophy professor in his thirties, put his spiritual concepts into practice when he left Europe to settle in a working-class district of Tunis, where he lived in destitution. Together with two followers of his philosophy, a medical student and ...

Pervertissima (1972)

Bold and sultry Françoise gets hired by a magazine to lead investigations in the mysterious world of sex. Until she gets caught in the web of sadistic Dr. Vilard, who runs a very strange mental institution. ...