Muslim woman movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant muslim woman movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful and realistic films and TV shows about / with muslim woman, muslim, muslim girl, hijab, arab, women, female nudity, female protagonist, family relations and feminist plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in France, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as muslim woman: Of Skin and Men (2017), Hala (2019), The Source (2011), Halal Love (2015), Fatima (2015), I still hide to smoke (2016), The State (2017), Animal (2023), A Gingerbread Christmas (2022), Amira & Sam (2014).

List of muslim woman movies

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Of Skin and Men (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sexy
Plot: female photographer, father in law, muslim woman, seductive man, male female relationship, relationships, seduction, beefcake, muscleman, photography, voyeur, art gallery ...
Time: 2010s
Place: tunisia, north africa
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 6.3
 3K
Hala (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, inspirational
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, muslim girl, muslim woman, muslim, religious conflict, teenage sexuality, religion, family relations, teenager, secret, girl, social problems ...
Time: year 2019
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 7.2
 4K
The Source (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, feel good, political ...
Plot: village life, sexism, rebellion, battle of the sexes, muslim woman, marital rape, desert, ultimatum, power relations, social relations, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, north africa
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 6.3
 552
Halal Love (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Lebanon
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
Style: sex comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic ...
Plot: muslim woman, religion, muslim, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, street life, romantic relationship, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, arab, marriage ...
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 6.5
 1K
Fatima (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fatima, a Moroccan-born woman who now lives in France with her two teenage daughters, with whom she is barely able to communicate.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot: studying, racism, separated parents, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, maid, working class, language barrier, cleaning lady, school, single mother, teenager ...
Time: 2010s
Place: algeria, middle east, france
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I still hide to smoke (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: bathhouse, women, pregnancy, muslim, female nudity, underage girl, bare breasts, terrorist attack, terrorist bombing, terrorism, life is a bitch, social problems ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: north africa, algeria, maghreb, africa
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 7.1
 2K
The State (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The experiences of four British men and women who leave their lives behind to join ISIS in Syria.
Style: tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: isis, jihad, recruitment, islamic terrorism, terrorism, terrorist, graphic violence, slavery, islam, mother son relationship, mother and son, terrorist group ...
Time: 21st century
Place: syria, iraq
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 6.3
 84K
Animal (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 204 min.
Story: A son undergoes a remarkable transformation as the bond with his father begins to fracture, and he becomes consumed by a quest for vengeance.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, powerful, tragic ending
Plot: sex scene, gangster, relationships, father son conflict, fistfight, shootout, machine gun, smoking, hand to hand combat, toxic relationship, badass, self destructing ...
Place: india, delhi, scotland
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A Gingerbread Christmas (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows Hazel, who goes to spend the holidays in her home town, where a romance begins to bloom with a local contractor who has been helping her father with their family bakery, but some misunderstandings threaten to tear them apart.
Style: entertaining, captivating, dramatic, feel good
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, male female relationship, holiday, couple relations, love, couples, relationships, love and romance, love story, interracial relations, bare chested male ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 6.2
 3K
Amira & Sam (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, veteran, interracial relations, culture clash, opposites attract, life is a bitch, unlikely couple, fall in love, love affair, couple relations, misfit, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, iraq, manhattan new york city
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Mektoub, My Love (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin, a young screenwriter returning home for the holidays, pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. But when it comes to love, only destiny, only ...
Style: sexy, light, captivating, humorous, disturbing ...
Plot: beach, sex scene, group of friends, naked woman, summer vacation, bisexual girl, unrequited love, restaurant, small town, in love, sex, teenager ...
Time: year 1994, year 2017, 2020s, 90s
Place: south of france
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 5.6
 6K
An Easy Girl (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her ...
Style: erotic, realistic, melancholic, controversial, scenic ...
Plot: seaside, sex scene, 16 year old, coming of age, sea, summer vacation, female protagonist, muslim girl, older man younger woman sex, seductress, teenage girl, bare breasts ...
Place: french riviera, south of france
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 6.2
 3K
Much Loved (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, shemale, orgy, real sex, teenage daughter, debauchery, mother daughter relationship, prostitution, feminist, child prostitution, art ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: middle east, africa, maghreb, morocco, north africa
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 6.1
 247
Lipstikka (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot: forced sex, lesbian interest, introspection, haunted by the past, society, starting over, hopes, youth, friendship, immigrant, political unrest, lesbian ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, europe, england ...
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 8.4
 104K
Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
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 7.1
 4K
Papicha (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, muslim girl, female protagonist, hijab, sea, attempted rape, friendship, arranged marriage, university, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east
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What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, teenage love, friendship, french algerian war, political unrest, revolution, friends, youth, love and romance, love story, love, fall in love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1953, year 2010 ...
Place: algeria
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, suspense, bloody, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: women in prison, muslim girl, slave auction, kidnapping, female domination, captive woman, exploitation, sexual abuse, femdom, sexploitation, prison, captivity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: middle east, arabia
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 5.6
 6K
122 (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling, not to get to the hospital, but to escape and survive.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: hospital, escape, muslim, couples, doctor, trapped, locked in, runaway, survival, night, struggle for survival, couple relations ...
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 6.5
 2K
Cold Hell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Özge Dogruol, a young Vienna based taxi driver of Turkish origin. She witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The offender seems to be a crazed serial killer and he is convinced that Özge has seen him. A life-and-death struggle ensues.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: female vigilante, serial killer, anti heroine, religious intolerance, police detective, religious fundamentalist, murder witness, psycho killer, psychopath, heroine, male female partnership, assassination attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vienna, germany
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 6.7
 64K
Quantico (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Style: tense, realistic, surprise ending, detective, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: investigation, fbi, terrorist attack, secret, terrorism, terrorist, female fbi agent, recruit, female agent, woman, bonding, twists and turns ...
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The Treasure: Truth & Imagination (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Music
Country: Egypt
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, touching ...
Plot: ancient egypt, arab, treasure hunt, queen, strong female lead, king, rebellion, marriage, arrest, revenge, strong female character, pharaoh ...
Place: egypt, ottoman empire
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Damascus Time (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: isis, pow, terrorist, torture, husband wife relationship, hijacking, jihad, airplane, terrorism, syrian war, war crime, female soldier ...
Place: syria, iran, turkey, israel, kurdistan
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We Are Lady Parts (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: An anarchic, laugh-out-loud music comedy following a Muslim female punk band called Lady Parts, tracking the highs and lows of the band members as seen through the eyes of Amina Hussein — a geeky doctorate student who is recruited to be their ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom ...
Plot: satire, punk music, punk rock, female protagonist, punk band, woman, muslim woman, music, rock music, youth, women, feminist ...
Is relevant ?
 8.5
 29K
Ethos (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meeting in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, - some by chance and some by force of will.
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: muslim, city, confrontation, social differences, cultural difference, social problems, culture clash, social relations, chance meeting, cross cultural relations, society, visceral ...
Time: 2020s
Place: istanbul turkey
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, grim, neo noir ...
Plot: immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, nigeria, england, britain, europe ...
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 8.9
 10K
The Message (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 207 min.
Story: The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah".
Style: islamic, cult classic, epic, crying, independent film
Plot: camel, arabic history, prophet, muslim, islam, muslim woman, medieval, religion, ancient, arab, historical event, historical character ...
Time: middle ages, 7th century, 6th century
Place: middle east, sahara, syria, saudi arabia, arabia
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 639
Lies We Tell (2017)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, neo noir
Plot: driver, mistress, muslim woman, gangster, dark past, bandit, brother sister relationship, gang, criminal underworld, criminal gang, struggle for survival, fight ...
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 4.4
 5K
The Maus (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, dark secret, bomb threat, forest, family relations, family problems, death threat, threat, male female relationship, nightmare, travel ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 933
Gloria Mundi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, talky, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: taxi driver, childbirth, ex convict, poverty, working class, egoism, ex husband, horny woman, drug, police, prison, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: marseille, france, europe
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