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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.