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The Good Families

Jan 2, 1973

★ 10.0

Overview

The film dialectically explores the phenomena of family alliances in urban and rural areas, technocracy, and the Algerian landed bourgeoisie. The film was completed but apparently never distributed by the ONCIC.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)

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Cast

Djafar Damardji

Hassan El-Hassani

Khaled Safer

Rabah Chouider

Séghir Bencheikh

Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.

8.6

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5.6

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8.7

Inspector Tahar's Holiday

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6.3

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5.5

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6.9

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7.3

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7.0

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7.0

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6.0

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6.0

Le grand show des humoristes - Spécial femmes

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No overview available.

10.0

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4.5

Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les autres

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3.9

Bay of Algiers

Jun 26, 2012

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3.8

Just Me

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6.4

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7.3

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4.8

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6.3

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

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In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among the works parodied are "Night Gallery", "The Twilight Zone", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "Frankenstein" and the "Abbott and Costello Meet..." films.

The Good Families

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