Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, market, streets and cafés, capturing everyday people, some of whom recur frequently enough to seem like protagonists. The nominal plotline follows a French tourist couple’s leisurely visit to the city, the man having previously served in the army during the Algerian war. As they walk around, his comments betray his mindset’s racist colonial prejudices, while his wife reiterates asinine clichés. Their unhurried wandering is interrupted when he comes across a blind man and realises that he tortured him during his army service. The film is punctuated with punchy sequences that show a poet named Momo delivering verse as an elegy for Algiers.
Ugetsu
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
8.0
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.0
Ex Machina
Drama, Science Fiction
7.6
Titanic
Drama, Romance
7.9
12 Angry Men
Drama
8.5
PK
Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
7.7
Shutter Island
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
8.2
Inception
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
8.4
American Beauty
Drama
8.0
Pulp Fiction
Thriller, Crime, Comedy
8.5
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Batman Begins
Drama, Crime, Action
7.7
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Animation, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
8.4
Green Book
Drama, Comedy, History
8.2
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
7.4
Gone Girl
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
7.9
Fight Club
Drama, Thriller
8.4
Dune
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.8
Veganize It!
Comedy
0.0
Hitting a New High
Comedy, Music, Romance
5.2
Voodoo Apocalypse
Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
4.5
The Antifascist
Comedy
7.0
The Bromley Boys
Comedy
6.0
The Golden Glove
Crime, Thriller, Horror, Comedy
6.9
Little Jole
Comedy
0.0
Hunky Dory
Music, Comedy
6.0
Good News
Thriller, Comedy, History
7.0
The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle: Tale 1 - The Trip to Africa
Animation, Comedy, Adventure
6.0
The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle: Tale 2 - Cannibal Land
Comedy, Animation, Adventure
3.0
The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle: Tale 3 - The Lion's Den
Comedy, Animation, Adventure
6.0
Saturday Night
Comedy, Drama
6.7
Sidonie Panache
Comedy
10.0
Ommi Traki
Comedy
10.0
The Honour of the Tribe
Drama, Comedy, War
10.0
Wild Women
Adventure, Comedy
2.3
Eitr
Comedy, Drama, Romance
0.0
Inspector Tahar's Holiday
Comedy, Crime, Family
8.7
The Curtain Closes
Drama, Romance, Comedy
0.0