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Based on a sociological analysis of films, this article treats the post-colonial recomposition of the Maghrebian’s image in France. The comparison between the ex-colonisers and the ex-colonised vision in the cinematographic production enable us to describe a competition for the representation of Maghrebian’s body. In the 60’s and 70’s, French film-makers still film the bodies that only illustrate the picturesque aspect of the site without coming within the scenario or the story. Maghrebian film-makers (or those who have a Maghrebian origin) expose physical stereotypes formed by the colonial relationship and the economic exploitation of natives that became « immigrants ». In the 80’s and 90’s, this space of struggle reconstructs itself with the return to an analysis of the French-Maghrebian relationship by non-Maghrebian film-makers, and also with a new perspective on violence that is not described anymore as the typical feature of an invented Maghrebian character.