'Allied' volgt een Britse geheimagent, Max Vatan genaamd, die in 1942 op een gevaarlijke missie wordt gestuurd in Noord-Afrika. Daar ontmoet hij vervolgens een Franse verzetsstrijdster op vijandelijk gebied.
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Het leven van Veldmaarschalk Rommel na het 'Afrika-korps'; zijn werk in het verdedigen van Europa en zijn aandeel in de (mislukte) aanslag op Hitler en de gevolgen daarvan...
1957. Ali is een dief die zich aansluit bij het Front de libération nationale (FLN). Dit Nationaal Bevrijdingsfront strijdt voor een vrij Algerije, onafhankelijk van het Franse kolonialisme. De Franse overheersers nemen echter steeds drastischer maatregelen tegen het FLN, wat al snel een landelijke revolutie ontketent.
Juni, 1942. Het Britse leger laat na het terugtrekken van een strijd tegen de winnende Duitser Rommel een eenzame soldaat, John Bramble, achter bij de Egyptische grens. Hij vindt bij een hotel onderdak. Al snel komen de Duitsers en is hij geneigd om een geheime identiteit aan te nemen.
Rahatlocum is een Noord-Afrikaanse Romeinse kolonie waar Julius Caesar een dure vakantie komt doorbrengen. De opstand rommelt onder het kleine volk dat een leider vindt in de persoon van Ben-Hur Marcel.
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with historical symbolism, the film tells of the disaggregation of a feudal family when the father died.
June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
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, emotions and distress of their daily lives.
Directed by Rachid Benallal.
Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning.