Best Saudi drama movies
A curated collection of popular drama movies from Saudi Arabia.
Tora Bora (2011)
Tora Bora (2011)
Tora Bora is a story of the journey of Abou Tareq and Om Tareq in their search for their youngest son Ahmed, who after being brainwashed by extremists, decides to leave Kuwait to join the the terrorist forces in Afghanistan. The elderly couple are not prepared for the suffering and darkness they encounter on their journey through the war-torn country. Their elder son, Tareq, with the aid of Pakistani intelligence, attempts to find his parents and his brainwashed brother. Tora Bora is a film about how the mistakes of one son can lead to hardships for an entire family in Arab/Muslim society.
Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975)
Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975)
In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war that would engulf the country while the film was being edited.
From the Ashes (2024)
From the Ashes (2024)
At a strict girls’ school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
Before We Forget (2021)
Before We Forget (2021)
Three men from three generations go on a road trip to find a treasure, and themselves.
Saify (2024)
Saify (2024)
At 40 years old, Saify Muhammed is a washed-up confidence trickster who owes money to everyone, including his ex-wife. Now he is trying his hand at blackmail. The year is 2000; Saify has a dilapidated music shop selling cassette tapes, including recordings of banned Islamic sermons he mistakenly thinks will turn an illicit profit. His sermon supplier is Al-Mahdi, shady religious advisor to the local bigwig Sheikh Asaad Aman, who has a name as a philanthropist. When Saify finds one tape containing a scandalous recording of the influential Sheikh Asaad, he thinks he’s finally in the money.
Lak Youm Ya Beh (1984)
Lak Youm Ya Beh (1984)
Mamdouh is married to Wafa, and Morsy is married to Zizi, and they work together in one of the advertising companies. They are famous for their many affairs. Wafaa discovers her husband Mamdouh's betrayal with Nana, an advertising girl and asks for a divorce, as Nafisa tries to get closer to Mamdouh.
Everyday's Lie (2016)
Everyday's Lie (2016)
Hisham and Hadia, who work at the same advertising agency, an invitation to spend a vacation in Marsa Alam, in a resort owned by Sherihan. Hisham takes his wife, Aida, and Hadia takes her husband, Adel, and the four of them go on a vacation that will put their marriages to the test.
On A Day Like Today (2008)
On A Day Like Today (2008)
Zay el naharda is a movie starring Basma, Rania Chahine, and Mahmoud El-Bezzawy. History literally repeats itself when May meets and falls in love with a passionate young actor, only months after the tragic death of her first fiancée. All the 'signs' suggest her new lover will meet the same fate.
Feelings (2010)
Feelings (2010)
Yearning to get back with Ehab, Salma finds her loveless marriage, his devastating secret, and society’s opinions stand in their way.
Habibati (1974)
Habibati (1974)
A lonely Egyptian immigrant young man lives in a room in a building in Lebanon, barely keeps up with his daily expenses by selling of his fine art paintings, led by chance he gets to meet another Egyptian immigrant lady in a park. He then tries to exploit her physically as a means to break his loneliness, and when she refuses he suspects that she is pretending to keep her chastity and virtuosity, he then begins a long journey of doubting many of her actions and her words in an attempt to expose her true self.
A Tale in Two Word (1985)
A Tale in Two Word (1985)
After finishing her studies abroad , Hanan (Laila Alawi) returns to the home of her wealthy father Salem (Ahmed Mazhar), who's married to Inayat (Souad Hussein). She meets Ahmed (Iman El Bahr Darwish) who works for her father and her stepmother tries to get rid of him so that Hanan marries her son.
I am Al Ittihad (2024)
I am Al Ittihad (2024)
In a seaside city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia an old man tells the story of first soccer club Al Ittihad to a young man, taking him from the late 20's when the club established and how they shape up a team against all the odds and the story continues till the early 70's where the team faced major issues and how the club and its men dealt with it.
The Savior (2014)
The Savior (2014)
It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The province of Roman Palestine is a bubbling cauldron of rebellion and control. And on this greater canvas Luke, narrates a story of wonder, amazement and impact... The world is anticipating this moment in history but no one can imagine God touching His creation in the form of a little baby named Jesus. Much is recorded in the Gospels about Jesus' miraculous birth, to a young virgin named Mary, in Bethlehem, but little is known about his quiet growing up in Nazareth. Joseph, his adopted father, seems to have died well before Jesus turns 30 and begins his ministry.
Brotherhood (2020)
Brotherhood (2020)
Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.
Inch'Allah dimanche (2001)
Inch'Allah dimanche (2001)
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
The Present (2020)
The Present (2020)
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
In Between (2016)
In Between (2016)
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, have sex, and choose.
I Still Hide to Smoke (2017)
I Still Hide to Smoke (2017)
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Layla M. (2016)
Layla M. (2016)
18-year-old Layla, a Dutch girl with Moroccan roots, joins a group of radical Muslims. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
The Tambour of Retribution (2021)
The Tambour of Retribution (2021)
In an impoverished neighborhood, the son of a swordsman falls in love with the daughter of a wedding singer — a taboo match in a traditional society.
Mimosas (2016)
Mimosas (2016)
A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his close ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Saïd and Ahmed, two rogues travelling with the caravan, say they know the way and promise to take the corpse to its destiny. In another world, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains with a mission: to help the improvised caravaneers.
Little Bird (2021)
Little Bird (2021)
In a world where Malik lives alone, he faces fateful challenges in his life.
The Wedding (2009)
The Wedding (2009)
The film revolves around a local egyptian wedding, and followed by the popular customs andtraditions and special gifts that are exchanged between people.But everything just goes wrong when a son refuses to stop the wedding and make a proper burial for his mother who died in the middle of the wedding.
Hobal (2025)
Hobal (2025)
The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
Burnout (2017)
Burnout (2017)
BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.
The Place (2021)
The Place (2021)
The Place is short film about Palestine that calls out the Palestinian suffering and what the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood are going through right now.