Best Moroccan movies
A curated collection of popular movies from Morocco.
Horses of God (2013)
Horses of God (2013)
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
Casanegra (2008)
Casanegra (2008)
A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.
Shining (2017)
Shining (2017)
A short fiction about a man who fights against the seizure of his land by powerful developers.
Trances (1982)
Trances (1982)
A portrait of the groundbreaking Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane, documenting a series of electrifying live performances in Tunisia, Morocco, and France; on the streets of Casablanca; and in intimate conversations. Storytellers through song and traditional instruments, and with connections to political theatre, the band became a local phenomenon and an international sensation, thanks to their rebellious lyrics and sublime, fully acoustic sound, which draws on Berber rhythms, Malhun sung poetry, and Gnawa dances.
Road to Kabul (2012)
Road to Kabul (2012)
In Casablanca, Ali, Hmida, Mbarek and Messoud are four unemployed youths who spend their time dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands. One day, Hmida falls on a specialist of illegal immigration, Ouchen. The four friends manage to collect enough money only for the departure of one of them, Hmida. Several months later, it still has not given any sign of life. Ali, Mbarek and Messoud discovering that he is not in Holland but in Afghanistan, they decide to go looking for him on the road to Kabul.
Class 8 (2004)
Class 8 (2004)
After transferring to a high school near her home, Leila was initially pleased with her new position. However, she soon found herself facing significant challenges in Class 8, known for its difficulties. Two particularly troublesome students began causing her problems, which not only disrupted her professional life but also impacted her personal well-being.
the clandestine (2010)
the clandestine (2010)
The film's events revolve around Khaled, who supports a family of three after his father's death and works as a taxi driver. His life is turned upside down when he tries to help Mrs Souad, whom he met at the airport, as she discovers that her husband is connected to the Italian mafia. He helps her smuggle her father out of a psychiatric hospital where he was thrown by the gang that convinced her that he is not alive.
Starve your dog (2015)
Starve your dog (2015)
On the last day of Ramadan, a hastily assembled crew of technicians waits in a shabby Morocco television studio for the arrival of an important personality, expecting to film what their director Rita promises will be the interview of their lifetime.
The Moroccan Symphony (2006)
The Moroccan Symphony (2006)
Hamid is a former volunteer who participated in the 1982 Lebanon War and returns from there with disappointment. He becomes homeless in the city of Casablanca. He resorts to theft and addiction to combat his homelessness and physical disability. His only dream in life is to bring his symphony into existence, so he asks the help from his homeless friends for that.
Nocturnal Sonata (2024)
Nocturnal Sonata (2024)
A solitary young poet finds solace in wandering the city streets at dusk, gazing at the houses and the lives of passersby. One evening, he saves a young woman from suicide. Drawn together by this chance encounter, the two get to know each other and share their life stories with heartfelt sincerity. For the past year, she has been waiting for her lover, who has promised to marry her. Despite this, the poet falls in love with her. However, fate has different plans.
In Search of My Wife's Husband (1993)
In Search of My Wife's Husband (1993)
Lhadj Benmoussa, a rich jeweler, is married to several wives and appear to be a good manager of the three concubines, except when Houda, his third wife, who is young and gracious, is repudiated for the third time.
The Gospel of Mark (2015)
The Gospel of Mark (2015)
The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.
About Some Meaningless Events (1974)
About Some Meaningless Events (1974)
In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.
The Soul that Brays (1984)
The Soul that Brays (1984)
Through the tragic fate of a former resistance fighter, a donkey narrates the story of the citizens who participated in the struggle against the authorities of the French protectorate during the exile of King Mohammed V, and of the traitors who collaborated with the colonizers to become rich.
Malak (2012)
Malak (2012)
Malak, a teen girl, discovers she's pregnant. Rejected by the baby's dad, she faces a world that rejects her for being a single mum.
Goodbye Carmen (2013)
Goodbye Carmen (2013)
In 1975, 10-year-old Amar lives in a village in northern Morocco with his violent uncle, waiting for the unlikely return of his mother, who has left for Belgium. He finds a friend in Carmen, his neighbor, who is a Spanish exile and who works as an usher at the village cinema. Carmen helps him discover a world previously unknown to him.
The Bitter Orange (2007)
The Bitter Orange (2007)
Souadia's monotonous life changes after an encounter with a police officer (Amin) next to an orange tree
Marock (2005)
Marock (2005)
Casablanca, the year of the baccalaureate. The carefree life of Morocco's golden youth and all its excesses: car races, friendships, music, alcohol, but also first loves and the anxiety of transitioning to adulthood... Marock presents a side of Morocco that is often unknown, seen through the eyes of Rita, 17, who is determined to live life on her own terms.
Untitled (2017)
Untitled (2017)
More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
Satan's Angels (2007)
Satan's Angels (2007)
Casablanca, 2003. 14 young hard-rockers are arrested and condemned for sentences from 3 months to 1 year. What are the accusations? Satanism and shaking the foundations of Islam. Based on actual events.
Sweat Rain (2017)
Sweat Rain (2017)
A both empathic and poetic drama set in the Moroccan countryside. Family, poverty, work and pride are the most important motivations of M’Barek, a poor farmer who fights to pay off his debts so that he can keep his land.
El Kabch (2007)
El Kabch (2007)
In one of the Moroccan villages, the competition is for those who are elected to run the village affairs, and then agree on the establishment of a football team as a criterion for competition.
The Mother of All Lies (2024)
Lost in the Middle (2017)
Lost in the Middle (2017)
Steven and Abdel, two young Belgians, leave for Syria. One as a journalist, the other as a fighter. Yet they have more in common than you might think.
She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die 2 (2005)
She's Hypertensive and Diabetic But Refuses to Die 2 (2005)
Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.
Cambodia (2018)
Cambodia (2018)
A classic car belonging to the boss of the local mafia goes missing from the garage of a mechanic called Kwika who had taken it in to do some repairs. kwika thus finds himself in a dangerous predicament with the boss who asks him to pay for the full value of the car within the month. kwika has no choice, he has to find the money but unfortunately has no way of doing so and has already suffered several threats and beatings by Kiama.With time passing quickly, he decides on the spur of the moment to sell one of his kidneys to a family with a sick child called Ismail, on one condition, that he has the operation in Singapore. kwika and Ismail leave for Singapore but first of all they touch down in Cambodia where they leave the airport and have all their belongings stolen. They are thus in a tragi-comic situation in Cambodia where they have to find a way of organising the operation as well as getting back home to Morocco.
Headbang Lullaby (2017)
Headbang Lullaby (2017)
On 11 June 1986, one day after Morocco wrote football world cup history by scoring a surprising victory over Portugal, government official Daoud is ordered to secure a bridge outside Casablanca that sits between two hostile communities over an empty highway. Here, he is to await the expected but by no means certain visit of King Hassan II. Encounters with government supporters and the families of political prisoners; the mysterious appearance of a foreign woman and a Berber, as well as the story of a football crazy boy all prove to be a bit much for Daoud. Ever since the bloody ‘bread riots’ five years earlier, he has felt paralysed. But the euphoria and the hope he encounters here help to lift his mood. The Moroccan team’s success unleashes a new self-confidence and lust for life that transcends the surreal shadow of the monarchy.