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.
Umberto D.
Drama
7.9
Cleaner
Action, Thriller
6.6
Q
Horror
6.4
Sayen: The Huntress
Action, Thriller
5.9
Hunting With Tigers
Action, Thriller
6.0
Skin. Like. Sun.
Romance
5.7
Death Before the Wedding
Comedy, Romance
5.0
Q
Animation
6.0
Road of No Return
Action, Drama, Thriller
5.9
Seoul Vibe
Action, Crime, Comedy
6.5
Phenomena
Comedy, Horror, Thriller
5.9
Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Crime, Drama, Thriller
6.3
Irma Vep
Comedy, Drama
6.6
Noryang: Deadly Sea
War, Action, History, Drama
6.3
Brian and Charles
Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
6.3
Overhaul
Action, Thriller, Drama
6.7
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Action, Adventure, War
7.5
The Challenge
Drama
7.3
Qwerty
Comedy
5.6
Killer of Men
Thriller
7.3
Bed and Board
Comedy, Drama, Romance
7.1
Love on the Run
Romance, Drama, Comedy
7.0
Madagascar
Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
6.9
The Safari
Comedy, Adventure
6.2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Adventure, Drama, Comedy
7.2
Spoiled Children
Drama, Comedy
6.3
Popular Music
Comedy, Drama
6.3
Manuel and Clemente
Comedy
4.0
Breakfast on Pluto
Drama, Comedy
7.2
Scream
Documentary, Horror, Comedy
0.0
Together
Drama, Comedy, Romance
7.0
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Comedy
5.4
Forrest Gump
Comedy, Drama, Romance
8.5
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Drama, Romance, Comedy
6.6
Running with Scissors
Drama, Comedy
5.8
The Bucket List
Drama, Comedy
7.2
Sahara
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
5.9
Zwei Bayern im Urwald
Comedy
4.0
Leroy
Comedy, Drama
5.8
Pardon Mon Affaire
Comedy, Romance
7.0