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Moussa Haddad
Born January 1, 1937 · Alger, Algérie
Died September 17, 2019 · aged 82
Moussa Haddad (in Arabic: موسى حداد), born in 1937 in Algiers and died on September 17, 2019 in the same city, is an Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer. Moussa Haddad made his television debut at RTF. He was then assistant director to Italian director Gilo Pontecorvo on the film The Battle of Algiers released in 1966, and The Stranger by Luchino Visconti (1966), two films produced …
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The Battle of Algiers · 1966The Battle of Algiers
★ 7.91966
MovieDramaWar
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Les Enfants de Novembre · 1975Les Enfants de Novembre
★ 10.01975
MovieDramaWar
In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child shouting newspapers who must at all costs pass them on to the resistance. But the police are on their trail and will do anything to get them back.
L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête · 1967L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête
★ 10.01967
Movie
Mad In · 1999Mad In
1999
MovieActionRomance
At the end of the 1990s, in an Algerian society torn between conservatism and changing customs, Nadir, a member of a gang, is ordered to recruit a girl, but he refuses to do so because he is in love with her.
Inspector Tahar's Holiday · 1972Inspector Tahar's Holiday
★ 8.71972
MovieComedyCrime
Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers, they stop at a tourist complex where a murder has just been committed. The investigation full of surprises and twists and turns will take them to Tunis where they will find Ommi Traki and his family...
Harraga Blues · 2013Harraga Blues
★ 10.02013
Movie
Zine and Rayanne plan to flee to a dreamland, a fantasy haven on the north shore of the Mediterranean. The crossing is commonly made in fishing boats and other small craft; hundreds of harragas die each year. Zine embarks for Spain with a group of others, while Rayyane decides to stay back to raise more money for the crossing - which involves tricking his uncle into lending him money under the pretense of running a local business. But, like so many other working poor around the world, Rayanne refuses to weigh the danger against the prospect of a better world.
Death Walks in Laredo · 1967Death Walks in Laredo
★ 7.21967
MovieWestern
Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.
El Fidayoune · 1971El Fidayoune
★ 10.01971
MovieDramaWar
In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.
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