Movies: Tunisia

To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer....

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life....

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he b...

Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, Amel seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal. During her journey, Amel has to face Tunisian society in ruins....

Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle. In reality he is unemployed, overwhelmed by an obsessive mother who continually called to see if he wo...

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it....

The Girl from Carthage (also known as La fille de Carthage) is a 1924 Tunisian film directed by Albert Samama Chikly....

The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservativ...

A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief....

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats....

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This rippl...

During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in...

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life in Tunisia. The film speaks about her final moments at home with their family before her passing due to Alzheimer's disease....

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and...

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy,...

The Spanish fishing team is one of the best in the world and the rest of the teams know it. In the last three years they have not been off the podium and in the last World Championship they hope to achieve the same. This documentary reviews the adven...

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Nadine finally wants to be deflowered, but she has no success in Germany. Consequently, she visits her mother in Tunisia....

In a neighbourhood in Bhar Lazrak, Tunis, residents live under the imminent threat of the state, which plans to demolish the area. Built spontaneously during the 2011 revolution by a group of people without state authorisation, the neighbourhood now ...

N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N em...