Best Moroccan comedy movies

In Casablanca, the Angels Don't Fly (2004)

The life and times of a Casablanca cafe waiter.

In The Land Of Wonders (2017)

the story of a young bourgeois woman who lost her husband. Through her quest for redemption, she discovers another world, where the people of the rural parts are suffering in silence.

Nayda (2023)

In a desperate attempt to make their voices heard by the government, two men and a woman, living in difficult circumstances in the Tin Shacks, take a diplomatic meeting with political officials, which turns into a hostage situation. Compelled by circumstances, they unwittingly find themselves cast in the role of terrorists, thereby exposing social inequalities and government indifference.

Youm ou Lila (2013)

In a remote village in the mountains, Yzza is still waiting for the monthly package of medicine that her husband Hossein sends to treat their daughter. Failing to have the medicine being a matter of life and death, Yzza decides to go to Casablanca to fetch it. Without a proper address and with little money in her bag, this inexperienced, religious, naïve woman does not even fathom that Casablanca is an enormous metropolis, very far from her little rural village. Yzza’s bag is stolen and in her misfortune Yzza meets a young woman, a prostitute wanted by the police. From adventure to adventure, Yzza discovers the workings of an absurd society where her sensible codes are pushed and shoved. Director Naoufel Berraoui skillfully knits the portrayal of a city swarming with cars and people with the dramatic lives of his characters. A remarkable cast directed with sensitivity in a poignant drama with documentary-like accents.

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni (2005)

The daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impossible love affair with a Moroccan; and Hamruch the housemaid, who disappears one day without saying a word. The Spanish Civil War, WWII with the arrival of refugees from Europe, and the Moroccan independence finally returns the city to its Arab origins. Juanita's tragedy lies in not realizing that her world is destined to disappear by the destructive and rejuvenating force of History.

Life (2017)

The film counts the return trip of thirty Moroccan immigrants from their country of emigration to their home country in a bus. It tells the several events happening among a group of people forced to coexist in a single, narrow space despite the differences of their worlds and their cultural backgrounds.

دوار العفاريت - dawar al afarit (2022)

Tagodi (1995)

A film in tachelhit about Amalu who is in love with his cousin Tlaytmass. Her father refuses to marry his daughter to his nephew.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cleopatra ya Lalla (2013)

EX-Shamkar (2010)

Rouiiss is a youngster among many homelesses falls in love with Malak a girl from a wealthy family. Rouiiss is convinced that it is insane and downright impossible. But destiny makes Rouiiss realize his best dream .....

The Pilgrims (2017)

Bouchaib the Blessed (2008)

Bochaib, the unemployed old son of the old city of Casablanca, was given the chance to immigrate to the United States legally, Met with the US consulate in Fatiha, who is also dreaming of leaving for America, she agrees with Boushoaib on a white marriage in return for leaving with him while she is charged with the expenses of residence and travel.

Al Farrouj (2015)

Michel, a French national, lives in the Riad adjoining the house of Boujemâa and turns it into a guest house. The noise resulting from the tourist activities and songs of the rooster poisons the relations between the two neighbors.

Two (2023)

The events of the film revolve around Halim and Mounir who accidentally come across a magic notebook. One night, unaware of the powers of this notebook, Halim, on a whim and after being rejected by the physiognomists of a big city club, expresses his anger by writing a wish on the notebook "And if all men disappeared from the earth". The wish is granted and the whole world is devoid of men except for Halim and Mounir. Our two protagonists did not know that they were going to experience the worst moments of their lives, all of which are interspersed with comical and offbeat situations.

The Stand-In (2017)

A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for locations for the remake of an American film in which a man swims his way home, passing through the houses and pools that he finds along the route. Corrado is the stand in used to test the shots, locations and the swimming pools in which the lead will be filmed. While we watch his attempts to get into the part, the real actors and a real crew burst onto the scene, on a set in which no one is in the right place. A film with a crisis of identity, in a surreal search for itself.

Masood Saida and Saadan (2019)

Masood, freshly released from prison, is tasked with finding Saida, a cabaret dancer who has stolen a mafia's safe key, leading to chaos when a monkey named Saadan swallows the key, triggering a series of unexpected adventures.

Moroccan Badass Girl (2023)

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her - especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigrate, but things don’t go as planned.