12 Apr 2021
Synonymous With
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Lumières
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.
Top Billed Cast
Mohamed Fellag Aziz
Mustapha El Anka Le Vieux Projectionniste
Yahia Benmabrouk L'acteur vendeur de fruits
Kaci Tizi Ouzou 
Doudja Achachi La Mère
Mustapha Preure Inspecteur des cinémas
Anne Turolla Marylin Monroe
Hamou Saadaoui L'Aveugle
Fawzi B. Saichi Patron Pressing
Farouk Mezouane Patron Cinéma La Perle
Merzoug Hamiane Serveur Café Malakoff
Djamel Touidjine Syndicaliste
Abderrahmane Cheriti Chef des Truands
Saïda Nacera Bouzeliffa L'Andalouse
Similar movies
Synonymous With Synonymous With Douar De Femmes 
Douar De Femmes 17 Nov 2005
Douar De Femmes
At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mountains. While the men work, the women learn how to handle machine guns and explore the area. “Fear has armed us,” says the young woman Sabrina. But despite that fear, people get married, children come and keep watch.
Slacker 
Slacker 05 Jul 1991
Slacker
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
Save the Last Bullet 
Save the Last Bullet Save the Last Bullet
Based on events from the Balkan Wars. 1991: Amidst the cruel battle of Vukovar, a brave squad of Croatian soldiers fights its way through the besieged country to deliver a truck full of weapons to the Serbian border.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days 
The Place Promised in Our Early Days 20 Nov 2004
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.
Battle in Seattle 
Battle in Seattle 07 Sep 2007
Battle in Seattle
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.
Disco Disco 01 Jan 2010
Disco
July 1997. The height of summer. England. Oasis reach number one with 'D'you Know What I Mean'. Tony Blair has moved his stuff in to Downing Street. Meanwhile Danny is trying to tell a girl named Pippa that he likes her. On this Friday we follow Danny through miscommunication, gossip, Chinese whispers and a love triangle between Danny, Pippa and his best friend Greg.
Halim El Raâd 
Halim El Raâd 12 May 2022
Halim El Raâd
Halim, a young man with intellectual disability, who's living with his single mother that struggles to take care of him
Swan Song 
Swan Song 06 Aug 2021
Swan Song
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
The XYZ Boyz 
The XYZ Boyz 17 Aug 2024
The XYZ Boyz
X and Z make a tape.
Los Frikis 
Los Frikis 20 Dec 2024
Los Frikis
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Purple Bells 
Purple Bells 26 May 2022
Purple Bells
30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.
Heart and Souls 
Heart and Souls 13 Aug 1993
Heart and Souls
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on to the afterlife, they decide to make an appearance once more.
My Year of Dicks 
My Year of Dicks 17 Feb 2023
My Year of Dicks
An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early '90s.
La Mission 
La Mission 02 Jan 1971
La Mission
An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, also enlisted in the Algerian resistance to flee the atrocities of harsh colonial persecution.
Bethie's Really Silly Clubhouse 
Bethie's Really Silly Clubhouse 01 Jan 1993
Bethie's Really Silly Clubhouse
Three children visit their friend Bethie's clubhouse where they are encouraged to be as silly as possible as long as they learn and do well in school. Everything is silly at Bethie's clubhouse, the door tells knock-knock jokes, the books jockey to be read first, and the TV reminds Bethie when her favorite show "Ivana the Iguanna's Beauty Tips" is on. Add to that an assortment of silly visitors like Kitty Kat Man, Captain Schnorer the Worldwide Explorer and various talking animals who all break into wonderful musical numbers while educating the kids.
Disco, Ibiza, Locomía 
Disco, Ibiza, Locomía 08 Mar 2024
Disco, Ibiza, Locomía
In the effervescent Spain of the 80s, Xavi Font, an artistic misfit, together with his friend Lurdes Iribar and her lover Manolo Arjona, founds Locomía. Although he achieves success, he also experiences the dark reality of the industry at the hands of powerful producer José Luís Gil.
Mr. Holland's Opus 
Mr. Holland's Opus 29 Dec 1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
The Woman in Me The Woman in Me The Woman in Me
The story of the highs and lows in the career of Britney Spears. Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir.
Gook 
Gook 18 Aug 2017
Gook
Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots, the trio must defend their store—and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.