Best Moroccan drama movies

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.

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.

The Bitter Orange (2007)

Souadia's monotonous life changes after an encounter with a police officer (Amin) next to an orange tree

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.

حجاب الحب (2008)

Batoul, a 28-year-old doctor, discovers love. Raised in a conservative environment where there was no question of dating a man before marriage, she met Hamza, and let herself go and transgressed all the principles she had always claimed. This whole story would end well if the wearing of the headscarf did not oppose them.

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.

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.

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, 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.

Zero (2012)

Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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)

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.

Majid (2010)

A coming of age story of a ten years old Moroccan orphan called Majid who discovers that he can't remember his parents faces anymore and he starts looking for a picture of them.

The disease of greed (2017)

The story of a man whose brother dies and tries to steal his inheritance and deprive his brother's wife and daughter from it (tachelhit film)

The Outskirts (2006)

Moroccan TV movie, its events revolve around the situation of a poor family living in one of the marginal neighbourhoods in the old city of Casablanca.

The Big Trip (1981)

A young man drives a truck loaded with dates from southern Morocco into Tangiers.

Neckan (2017)

Mica (2021)

10-year-old Mica, lives with his mother and sick father in a slums near Meknes. He starts apprenticing for his father’s friend, a handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca. After going through humiliation and even being physically abused, Mica starts to understand his situation, and does everything in his power to change it.

Salem and Souilem (2006)

Salem and Souilem are two brothers with a disability who are trying to impose themselves within their community with funny situations through which the viewer discovers the suffering and reality of the disabled person in Moroccan society.

Burned Hearts (2007)

A young architect who lives in Paris, returns to his hometown Fès in Morocco to find answers to his painful childhood. His old Sufi master Ba Jelloul and his friend Aziz try to help him reconstruct himself.

For Bread Alone (2004)

Inspired by the life of the Novel's Author Mohamed Choukri , For Bread Alone or El khoubz El Hafi , is one of the truest manifestations of the dark history that Morocco went through during and after the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, from famine and plagues to the Berber migration .Also, it reveals Morocco's rituals and religious practices at that time

Un amour d'enfant (2004)

Despite the difference in their upbringings and family lives, five young children become friends. Omar is in love with Yacine, a pretty, intelligent girl from a wealthy family. He decides to pen her a love letter, which ends up causing misunderstanding and a rift between him and his childhood love. Meanwhile, Demba falls in love with a beggar and they share 'secret' stares and tender touches in brief meetings each time. All the children seek advice from their mentor, who sells bicycle-rides at the beach-front. The innocence of childhood infatuation is cleverly layered over a troubled Senegal laboring under the strains of strike action and economic upheaval.

Chouk El Ward (2023)

Lawyer Nisrin tries to help the old man Ba Alall, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, after he is assaulted by a powerful businessman named Abdeljabbar, who is trying to take over his house without any legal rights. But Abdeljabbar, on the other hand, will not remain idly by as he tries to use his influence against her, which makes the conflict between them intensify.

Urgent (2018)

Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room of the Casablanca's public hospital. There they meet Driss' brother, Houcine, with whom they have been in conflict for years. The doctor diagnoses a brain problem requiring immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful journey exhausting each one. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub's life?

Pegasus (2010)

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 awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.

Wilaya (2012)

Fatimetu returns to the Wilaya of Smara for the funeral of her mother, after 16 years living in Spain. There she meets her brother Jatri, who is expecting his first child with Aichetu his wife, and her sister Hayat. Jatri tells her that she has inherited the family Khaimah and must care for her sister. Fatimetu reluctantly accepts the last will of her mother, though she is not sure how to take care of her sister as she can barely take care of herself.