| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 8.3 | |
| The Message (1976) | 8.9 | |
| Kit Kat (1991) | 8.3 | |
| Bittersweet (2010) | 8.0 | |
| The Message (1976) | 8.1 |
Arab movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
New films
| Atlas (2021) | 5.7 | |
| Girls to Buy (2021) | 5.3 | |
| Perfect Strangers (2022) | 5.8 | |
| Top Dog (2020) | 7.3 | |
| Elyas (2024) | 6.1 |
List of arab movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.
Style:
sad, indie film, psychological thriller, comedy drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mind reading, male protagonist, supernatural power, urban, empathy, moral dilemma, spiritual journey, identity crisis, bittersweet, social commentary, kung fu, suicide attempt ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Egypt
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film revolves around three brothers of the same father, "Munir dangerous" . "Samir" (Ahmad Fahmy), is doubler of the artist Ahmed El Shakka in this films and "popular" (Chico) how loves music and is known for its ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, semi serious, light, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
brothers, love, time machine, time travel, father son relationship, save the day, machine, travel, mother son relationship, prom, fish out of water, father figure ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film revolves around a local egyptian wedding, and followed by the popular customs andtraditions and special gifts that are exchanged between people.But everything just goes wrong when a son refuses to stop the wedding and make a proper burial ...
Style:
poignant, comedy drama, islamic
Plot:
wedding, tradition, marriage, conflict, family drama, mother son relationship, customs, funeral, bittersweet, family honor, moral dilemma, small town ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Leba is a music instructor who lives in a small Lebanese town. Social pressure leads him to get married and have children. Lara, his beloved wife, births a girl, later other one and finally Ghadi, a boy with special needs related with Down Syndrome. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
parenthood, disability, down syndrome, tolerance, acceptance, relationship problems, satire, husband wife relationship, family problems, intolerance, community, father son relationship ...
Place:
lebanon
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
"Omar" is back from abroad to divide his fortune to his family of nine members equally, but he tells them that his money is cursed, and the curse haunt who get the money wherever he goes, and has already convinced his cousin ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
curse, family curse, life is a bitch, cursed, family drama, inheritance, supernatural, relatives, wealth, revenge, legacy, investigation ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, Lebanon, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, art house, intercultural, poignant ...
Plot:
biopic, female protagonist, patriarchy, iranian, female artist, gender roles, creative process, exile, resilience, feminism, female empowerment, identity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, waste, junkyard, family drama, ecological disaster, contamination, environmental, village life, problem, couples, changing lives, ecology ...
Time:
near future
Place:
middle east, lebanon
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When Khalil and Zahia discover a deep dark secret about their newly married parents, they find themselves on a rollercoaster of unexpected events.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot:
marriage, revelation, married couple, family secret, family drama, dark past, stalker, betrayal, obsession, paranoia, hidden identity, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, homecoming, culture clash, family relations, parents and children, society, adoption, village, on the road, arab, village life, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
algeria, north africa, maghreb, switzerland
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fayez discovers a code sheet that his grandfather left to him before he was killed, of a treasure map in Jerusalem, drawn by the Jews fleeing to Egypt. He goes on an adventure with his friends, Ismail and Bedair, to search for the map hidden in an ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
treasure hunt, artifact, social issues, treasure hunter, satire, lost treasure, social problems, escapades, archaeology, friendship, danger, national identity ...
Place:
egypt, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on a What if? dialectic, women are taking the role and position of men in the society. We see the stories of some couples with the woman being patriarchal and in control. Under the new fictional situation, a lot is revealed about relationships.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, romantic, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, switching roles, love interest, love and romance, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, grownups, love story, love affair, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hiyam, a young factory worker, lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, along with her co-workers. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor. Believing that love can transcend their class differences, Hiyam ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, class conflict, social realism, gender roles, patriarchy, factory, working class, social injustice, unwed pregnancy, coworker, pregnancy ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
'Zinzana' is a psychological thriller set in a prison. Our hero finds himself locked in a cell with no I.D and no memory of what happened the night before. But being unable to make bail is the least of his problems when he's forced to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot:
murder, jail, violence, clue, murderer, police investigation, interrogation, death, mysterious man, vengeance, youth, evidence ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Tunisia, Belgium, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Young Tunisian Hedi lives an ordered life in which he believes there can be no more surprises. His future will play out as other people have planned, until he meets a young woman named Rim at a hotel in Mahdia Hediand. An ostensibly personal story ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, melancholic
Plot:
arranged marriage, coming of age, self discovery, love affair, couples, male female relationship, couple relations, social issues, love story, relationships, love and romance, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tunisia, north africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A passive mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. Stuck in daily, repetitive, mundane chores, she has made herself as little as she possibly could. When a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son's birthday party, an ...
Style:
absurd, feel good, semi serious, offbeat, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
body transformation, family relations, magic realism, gender roles, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, parents and children, transformation, family life, parent child relationship, human becomes animal, kids and family ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family in crisis, hopes, deaf child, family problems, family life, unemployment, parents and children, self discovery, human spirit, life is a bitch, new job, dignity ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Abu Raed is an old airport janitor who has always yearned to travel the world but has never been able to afford it. One day, he finds an old discarded pilot's hat, and discovers a calling: a group of children in his poor neighborhood assume ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
longing, hopes, mistaken identity, human spirit, friendship, working class, wedding planning, elderly, life is a bitch, dishonesty, escape from reality, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jordan, middle east
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Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named "Kandisha".
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
abuse, ghost, lawyer, investigation, supernatural, loss of child, murder, nobody believes, supernatural power, genie, arab, black ...
Time:
14th century, 21st century
Place:
middle east, morocco, africa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.[Synopsis from the director, courtesy of Cannes Film Festival] : "The Time That Remains" is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a ...
Style:
thought provoking, humorous, psychological, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, political unrest, unfulfillment, family life, state affairs, life is a bitch, parents and children, wartime life, family relations, intrigue, world war two, arab ...
Time:
2000s, 1940s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, erotic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay bashing, gay student, judaism, homosexuality, infatuation ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
homeless, brother brother relationship, hopes, kurd, survival, coming of age, siblings relations, follow your dream, family relations, life is a bitch, dictatorship, child ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
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276K
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, crying, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
divorce, muslim, poverty, alzheimer's disease, marriage, court, marital problem, hospital, religion, islam, justice, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iran, persia, nebraska, maghreb, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Plot:
woman, arab, letter, childbirth, blood, teacher, baby, female protagonist, strike, photograph, prison, lawyer ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
palestine, lebanon
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou (Zied Ayadi), travels from his Saharan village to the big city of Tunis in search of a job. From television aerial installation to political intrigue, this ...
Style:
political, romantic, independent film
Plot:
protest, love story, social change, coming of age, corruption, class conflict, hopes, city life, gang, working class, fundamentalism, cultural conflict ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
tunisia
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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, entertaining, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
marriage, romantic relationship, street life, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, religion, muslim, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, social commentary, sexuality ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police Detective Noredin is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the power elite, close to ...
Style:
suspense, noir, crime thriller, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
police corruption, hotel, murder investigation, murder, police, cd, riot, witness, police detective, member of parliament, twists and turns, revolution ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2017
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt, africa, maghreb, middle east
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Cyprus, Belgium, Lebanon, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Style:
political, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, trial, attorney, prejudice, racial tension, insult, court case, idealism, media coverage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, maghreb, palestine, beirut lebanon
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122K
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:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
Style:
inspirational, touching, heartfelt, beautiful, extraordinary
Plot:
boat, biopic, swimming, survival, hardcore, olympics, motivation, journey, boy, career, city, swimmer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, year 2016, year 2011
Place:
syria, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Qatar, Cyprus, Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
Style:
existential, twist ending, surprise ending
Plot:
syrian refugee, forbidden love, artist, tattoo, social satire, foreigner, existentialism, arab, muslim, world war, bare chested male, visa ...
Place:
lebanon, syria, middle east, maghreb, brussels ...
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