Lilia, a Tunisian Girl

The Girl from Carthage

1924 · ★ 7

The daughter of a local authority is in love with a poor minaret crier and resists a rich man from Tunisia.

Streams

2023 · ★ 5.2

Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, Amel seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal. During her journey, Amel has to face Tunisian society in ruins.

Zohra

1922 · ★ 4.5

Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".

Moors

In 827 A.D., eager young warrior Tariq and a tight-knit band of Black soldiers are lured into war by a beguiling, exiled general looking to settle a score against the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. To defeat the Romans, Tariq and his friends must sacrifice themselves to change the face of Europe, forevermore bringing a new culture to the continent and beginning two centuries of Moorish rule in Sicily.

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

1999 · ★ 5.6

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

The Sultan of the Medina

1993 · ★ 7.2

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal running the residence's prostitution circle, returns from prison on his wedding day. Fraj, his brother and the town warlock, falls in love with Ramla, his brother's future wife: He is the only man of the residence who has seen her face, as she is kept prisoner in one of the rooms until the wedding night.

Tunisian Tales

2011

The film tells the stories of several people living in the same city, Tunis: Shams, who is experiencing heartbreak; Sabrine, torn between pressure from her family and her vision of her Prince Charming; Inès, who is enjoying her single life and open relationships after her divorce; Hassan, who decides to abandon his professional success and return to Tunisia after the death of his wife; Sami, the taxi driver who suddenly finds himself unemployed; and Mo, the owner of a pub who lives in a world of total corruption.

Love Times Three

1973 · ★ 3.8

Nadine finally wants to be deflowered, but she has no success in Germany. Consequently, she visits her mother in Tunisia.

A Summer in La Goulette

1996 · ★ 6.1

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

Misunderstood

1983 · ★ 6.5

A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.

Somewhere I Belong

2025

After years of absence, a man comes back to a hometown that no longer feels like his, pushing him to question identity, memory, and the meaning of home.

Rukis erster Sommer

Nine-year-old Sarah spends her summer holidays alone with her dad in Tunisia for the first time and saves a soup chicken from the pot. Together they embark on an adventure in the desert, and in the midst of an impenetrable sandstorm, Sarah begins to see clearly for the first time.