arab culture movies

Yallah! Underground (2015)
6 / 10

Music, Documentary

Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and documents...

El Jaïda (2017)
0 / 10

History

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the...

Omar Gatlato (1976)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely...

The Citadel (1988)
5 / 10

Drama

In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father,...

The Valley (2014)
6.3 / 10

Drama

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles...

Pegasus (2010)
5.5 / 10

Drama

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story...

The Ornament of the World (2019)
7.8 / 10

Documentary, History

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews...

L'Obstacle (1965)
10 / 10

Comedy, Romance

Algerian youth of the 1960s, straddling traditional South Mediterranean and Western culture and the desire for emancipation of younger generations to...

Linda & Ali: Two Worlds Within Four Walls (2006)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

Irritated by Catholicism, Linda, an American-based, Blonde Caucasian, falls in love with Qater-based Ali Al-Saigel, adopts the Islamic faith, and...

Viva Didou! (1971)
9.5 / 10

Comedy

Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a...

L'Algérie de Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887) (2018)
10 / 10

Documentary

Born on March 25, 1840, Gustave Guillaumet discovered Algeria by chance when he was about to embark for Italy. Over the course of his ten or eleven...

143 Sahara Street (2021)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of...

Khawla's Goal (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

عائلة كي الناس (1990)
8 / 10

Comedy, Family

Arab Movie (2015)
1 / 10

Documentary

So many Israelis still wax nostalgic about that old Friday afternoon ritual, back in the times when television had just one channel. Everyone would...

لحن الأمل (Lahn El-Almel) (1993)
8.5 / 10

Drama, Music, Comedy, Romance

Abderrahim is a mechanic and singer in his spare time. One day, he receives a car to repair, driven by a very beautiful girl. It's love at first...

Les Enfants de l’ovale... Un essai qui transforme ! (2012)
10 / 10

Documentary

The Perfumed Garden (2000)
0 / 10

Documentary

THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society, a world of taboos and of erotic...