Best Kuwaiti movies

Honeymoonish (2024)

Two newlyweds on their honeymoon discover that they are different in almost every way — but can these opposites attract?

Fires of Kuwait (1992)

After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.

Bye Bye London (1982)

A comedy about an old married man that travels to London with his nephew who does his to save him from exposure to fraud, and being mugged in London, the play also covers some political aspects and projections in addition to social criticism of some of the Arab situations.

Al Maht (2021)

Based on the successful social series, “Al Maht” revolves around a struggling high school graduate in choosing his destiny.

Akh (2022)

Feeling drained of life and purpose, Shihab plans a desert camping trip to rid himself of his dependent, wheelchair-bound brother Suhail. Upon arrival, a chain of events is set in motion where ugly truths come to light, exposing the dark side of the brotherly bond that has plagued humanity since Caine and Abel.

Bint Werdan (J'ai le Cafard) (2020)

A woman with depression struggles to connect with her chirpy and driven office colleagues but an encounter with a dying cockroach in the office toilet develops into an absurd friendship.

The Bachelor of Salmiya (2021)

In this Kuwaiti comedy play, Hilal Hajji, a carefree young man buried in debt and dodging relentless creditors, unexpectedly crosses paths with the beautiful and affluent Amira at Salmiya market. Captivated, he falls head over heels, unaware that Amira is actually engaged to his close friend, the shrewd and opportunistic Dr. Fayez. As romantic entanglements and financial troubles collide, Hilal finds himself caught in a web of comedic misunderstandings and rivalries.

Go Ahead (1979)

Laylat Zafta (2019)

The play revolves around a comedy about a man and a woman who are preparing to hold their wedding ceremony in one of the banquet halls, but they are haunted, especially after their wedding takes place in a hall haunted by jinn.

How I Got There (2022)

Two best friends from childhood stumble on a shipment of guns, they seize a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich quick. Way over their heads, their wild ride takes a dangerous turn onto an underground world of gun-running mercenaries and local gangs, challenging their friendship and threatening their lives. The film is an explosive journey into the social fabric of the Arabian Gulf and an unexpected window into the dark inner workings of its crime networks.

Khobz Khabzteh (2020)

A story revolves between a very rich man and a very poor man, each of whom feels that his life is boring and wishes to live life The other, which causes them to go to a magician who performs a talisman that makes each one take a lifetime for the other for a week.

Qahfiya, Ghutra, and Aqal (2022)

The events take place in the house of its owner seeks to maintain the family bonding among his children, so he writes them a will to be read after his death, and the will includes selling him to the house and hiding the money inside it, to make them sit inside the house for the longest time to become interconnected again.

The Bachelor Of Al Salmiya (1979)

Hilal Haji Ramadan is a single person in Salmiya who is a reckless and wasteful person, which leads not to multiply debts on him and chasing his debtors, and he has a friend who is a doctor close to him, but on the contrary, he is a human being, a messenger and a shark lover. A day will come and meet Hilal his princess while she falls in the Salmiya market, and her princess is the beautiful rich girl. He falls in love with her, and the irony lies in that she herself is his fiancée, his close friend, and the events continue until the princess admires Hilal and his opposite personality of his friend and falls in love with Hilal.

The Great Seven (2018)

In a very large prison , 7 of the most important and largest personalities in society. They have an important social character and influence in the society in which their imprisonments affects the ruin of the society abroad

The Sword Of The Arabs (1992)

The play deals in a social comic framework, the period of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and what was experienced by Kuwaitis and Iraqis alike during the aggression period, through the social changes that occurred in both societies in that period.

TO BE DELETE (2021)

The events revolve around a group of people inside a supermarket who went to buy their necessities, and suddenly a catastrophic event occurred in the city center that prevents them from leaving

Attaly Battaly (2017)

It highlights an issue that concerns the Kuwaiti society, and has its negative effects on all social segments, which is the issue of unemployment and tries to search for its causes, and also discusses other social and family issues in a comedic format, with light political touches.

Mabrook Ma Yakom (2017)

It is a story that starts from the womb of mothers, where the presence of fetuses that are affected by hearing everything that is going on around them while they are inside the mothers' stomachs, and this is what they have these black ideas, hatred and discrimination, and this reflects the instinct that a person is born

Wanted (2019)

A man resolves to carry out a terrorist operation inside an embassy, ​​but unexpected comedic situations threaten his plan.

Kombars (2020)

The play revolves around (Mahboub) who works as silent actor in television dramas, and comes the opportunity to become a lead actor in his work, but he causes disasters.

Matouk in Bangkok (2009)

When Ma'touq goes through an unsuccessful love story, he decides to leave his painful memories behind and travel to Bangkok, where fate brings him in contact with Quenawy who hails from Upper Egypt. Both Ma'touq and Quenawy soon find themselves entangled with Nowa, who is employed by a drug lord.

Back to Q82 (2017)

Eager to rejoin her divorced parents, an inventor's daughter drives his time-traveling car back to 1982. But a secret crush accidentally follows.

Al Yakhour (2014)

In a comedic setting, Noah, Laith's father, leaves the city and goes to live in the countryside, because he is not satisfied with life in the city, and marries Nawund in the shock of his young children, and there he discovers that the defect is not in the place, but it may be in ourselves.

Judgment is yours (2016)

A ruler from the rulers of those ancient countries in that late era, this ruler puts his four sons on a test to choose who is the right to be his heir after discovering that each of them has his own agendas that only serve one class of the community

The Haunted House 3 (2016)

Mur Ya Helo (2015)

The events of the play revolve around New Year's Eve 2050

Kashta (2015)

The play begins through the story of a trip to the land, and during the road the bus stops due to a malfunction in one of the tires, and a quarrel occurs between the children of the trip, and escalates in the presence of their parents, and each of them begins to charge the other, and forget the main problem, which is the disruption of the bus.

Qannas Khaitan (2002)

Qannas Khaitan is a Kuwaiti comedy play highlighting the challenges faced by expatriates and locals in Khaitan district. Residents unite to form a council to stand against exploitative landlords, sparking humorous clashes and character-driven moments.

Awdat Al Tajneed (2014)

A Kuwaiti Comedy Play Starring Hassan Al Ballam.

The Cruel Sea (1971)

The first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bas Ya Bahar is the story of a crippled pearl diver who forbids his son Mussaid to go to sea to dive for pearls.