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1) The forgiven
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Examines a random accident which takes place in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and the impact that it has on the lives of local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
2) Trances
Series
Criterion collection volume 689
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Language
Arabic
Description
Looks at Moroccan band Nass el Ghiwane through performances and conversations.
3) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
5) Morocco
Pub. Date
[between 1970 and 1979]
Language
English
Description
Travel in Tangier, Fes, Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech.
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Dual-format edition.
Language
Wolof
Formats
Description
Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Redes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ben and Jo McKenna, are an innocent American couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son. But their simple plans turn into a nightmare after a French spy dies in Ben's arms at a Marrakesh market, and their son is kidnapped and taken to another country. A thrilling tale of international espionage, assassinations and terror.
9) Babel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
10) Horses of God
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Arabic
Description
Ten year-old Yachine and his thirteen-year-old brother Hamid live in the slums. Hamid works hard to support his family, but eventually gets in with the wrong crowd and goes to prison. After years in jail, Hamid returns home an Islamic fundamentalist. He persuades Yachine and his pals to join him. Their spiritual leader trains them and one day he tells them they have been chosen to become martyrs. On May 16th 2003, they commit the deadliest act of...
11) Traitors
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Arabic
Description
To keep her parents from being evicted and fund her Clash-inspired punk band, Malika takes a job smuggling drugs over the mountains. Her partner in the run is a world-weary veteran drug mule, who unexpectedly wins Malika's sympathy.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months...
13) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
14) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
15) Morocco
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Students will learn about Morocco's unique contribution to our global village called Earth! The program includes information on the geography, history, political system, currency, language, religion and climate. A young tour guide will also show a few of the most famous sites and sample the delicious food.
16) Ali Zaoua
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Arabic
Description
"Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are a group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca. Their everyday lives are filled with violence, begging, and indifference. In order to survive, they create a bond of friendship and family between them. The bond is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film; his life taken by a single act of a rival gang. Ali's friends decide not to report his death to the police, but rather...
17) King of the wind
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion--known as the Godolphin Arabian--brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed-- and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
18) The blue caftan
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Arabic
Description
When a married couple who run a traditional caftan store in a medina in Salé, Morocco, hire a young man as an apprentice, they find their relationship affected by his presence and his impact on the husband.
19) Casablanca beats
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Arabic
Description
When a former rapper takes a job teaching at a community center in an underprivileged neighborhood in Casablanca, he encourages his young students to express themselves through hip-hop in spite of the restrictive traditions of their culture.
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