5 Best Movies Set in or About Tunisia

5 Movies Set in or About Tunisia

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Tunisia.

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   1. Cabiria

   1914

   This monumental Italian silent epic sweeps from the eruption of Mount Etna to the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage, following a kidnapped girl and her rescuers across the ancient Mediterranean. A pioneering spectacle of early cinema.

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   2. Les Cinq Gentlemen maudits

   1920

   After five European gentlemen humiliate a merchant in a Tunisian bazaar, he lays a curse on them, foretelling the exact order of their deaths — and one by one, the prophecy begins to come true. An early supernatural mystery.

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   3. Les amants du Nil

   2002

   In 1943 Tunisia, a lonely young artist living with her father discovers the body of a parachuted French soldier and is drawn into wartime intrigue and forbidden passion. A period romantic drama.

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   4. Carthage in Flames

   Cartagine in fiamme · 1960

   Set during the Roman destruction of Carthage, this historical epic follows lovers and warriors caught in the fall of the great ancient city. A sweeping Italian spectacle.

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   5. Salammbo

   Salammbô · 1960

   In the aftermath of the Punic Wars, mercenaries revolt against Carthage, and a rebel leader becomes obsessed with the beautiful priestess Salammbô. A historical epic adapted from Flaubert's novel.