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
Dune
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.8
WALL·E
Animation, Family, Science Fiction
8.1
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Inglourious Basterds
Drama, Thriller, War
8.2
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.5
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Spider-Man 2
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.3
Mystic River
Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
7.7
Dunkirk
War, Action, Drama
7.5
Whiplash
Drama, Music
8.4
1917
War, History, Thriller, Drama
8.0
They Live
Science Fiction, Action
7.3
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Horror
5.8
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Comedy, Mystery
6.6
Taxi Driver
Crime, Drama
8.1
The Princess Bride
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
7.7
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Adventure, Action
7.3
The Terminator
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
7.7
Twelve Monkeys
Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
7.6
Breakfast on Pluto
Drama, Comedy
7.2
My Uncle Paco
Comedy
4.2
My Girl
Comedy, Drama
7.4
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Adventure, Action, Comedy, Mystery
4.7
Dazed and Confused
Comedy, Drama
7.3
Now and Then
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.9
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Crime, Comedy, Adventure
6.3
The Safari
Comedy, Adventure
6.2
The Hoax
Comedy, Drama
6.3
Curious George
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
6.4
Detroit Rock City
Comedy, Music
6.7
My Brother Is an Only Child
Comedy, Drama, History
6.7
King Solomon's Mines
Action, Adventure, Comedy
5.4
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Comedy
5.4
Gourbi Palace
Comedy
10.0
The Bucket List
Drama, Comedy
7.2
Sahara
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
5.9
Running with Scissors
Drama, Comedy
5.8
Zebra Stripes
Comedy
4.7
Om Shanti Om
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
7.1