Movies: Massoud Hattou

  • 1997
    Genealogies of a Crime

    Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

    Genealogies of a Crime

    6.61997HD

    An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies....

    Genealogies of a Crime
  • 2007
    Michou d'Auber

    Michou d'Auber (2007)

    Michou d'Auber

    6.42007HD

    Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent t...

    Michou d'Auber
  • 1984
    City of Pirates

    City of Pirates (1984)

    City of Pirates

    7.21984HD

    A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities....

    City of Pirates
  • 1999
    The City

    The City (1999)

    The City

    7.41999HD

    Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experien...

    The City
  • 1996
    Salut cousin !

    Salut cousin ! (1996)

    Salut cousin !

    4.21996HD

    The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important s...

    Salut cousin !
  • 1995
    Rai

    Rai (1995)

    Rai

    5.51995HD

    Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence ...

    Rai
  • 1984
    Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies (1984)

    Manoel’s Destinies

    6.91984HD

    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in th...

    Manoel’s Destinies
  • 1995
    Douce France

    Douce France (1995)

    Douce France

    4.71995HD

    In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live accor...

    Douce France
  • 1994
    Bab El Oued City

    Bab El Oued City (1994)

    Bab El Oued City

    5.91994HD

    Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from slee...

    Bab El Oued City
  • 1998
    Wedding of the Moon

    Wedding of the Moon (1998)

    Wedding of the Moon

    01998HD

    Five young men aged about twenty form a tight group of friends. So there is a major panic when one of them, Nabil, dies during a quarrel that gets out of hand. The friends clear away the body and decide to keep silent to the outside world about what ...

    Wedding of the Moon