Best Emirati movies
A curated collection of popular movies from United Arab Emirates.
Contagion (2011)
Contagion (2011)
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Fair Game (2010)
Fair Game (2010)
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Promised Land (2012)
The Ones Below (2016)
The Ones Below (2016)
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
Benji (2018)
Benji (2018)
Two school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped by robbers who are in over their heads, Benji and his scruffy sidekick come to the rescue.
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway (2024)
UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway (2024)
UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 26th 2024, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between current champion Ilia Topuria and former champion Max Holloway headlined the event.
He Named Me Malala (2015)
He Named Me Malala (2015)
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Djinn (2013)
Djinn (2013)
Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emirates. Unknown to the couple, their new luxury apartment block, Al Hamra, was built on the site of an old abandoned fishing village of the same name. Legend has it the village was abandoned after malevolent beings haunted its inhabitants. Unsettled by her new surroundings and the eerie hallways of Al Hamra, Khalid worries his wife is failing to battle her personal demons – but could it be something far more sinister?
Luxor (2021)
Luxor (2021)
When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
Mr. Indifferent (2018)
Mr. Indifferent (2018)
A man spends his life determinedly indifferent to the easily solvable problems of others.
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert (2025)
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert (2025)
Conversations with collaborators and friends, alongside special live performances from Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena and beyond, from the dunes of the Arabian Desert, to the heights of the Burj Al Arab.
Om Jai Jagadish (2002)
Om Jai Jagadish (2002)
Widowed Mrs. Saraswati Batra (Waheeda Rehman) has brought up three sons with a lot of care and love. Her eldest son Om (Anil Kapoor) is very honest and diligent; her two other sons Jai (Fardeen Khan), and Jagdish (Abhishek Bachchan) also live in the same house. this is their story
UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje (2020)
UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje (2020)
UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 24, 2020 at the du Forum on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A UFC Lightweight Championship unification bout between current champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champion Justin Gaethje (also former WSOF Lightweight Champion) served as the event headliner.
Beneath a Sea of Lights (2020)
Beneath a Sea of Lights (2020)
A Somali billboard repairman working in Dubai decides he wants to experience some of the products advertised on his billboards. It’s an experience that begins innocently enough, but quickly spins out of control, especially when a con man enters the picture.
When I Saw You (2014)
When I Saw You (2014)
Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.
UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira (2021)
UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira (2021)
UFC 267: Błachowicz vs. Teixeira was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 30, 2021, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Khorfakkan (2020)
Khorfakkan (2020)
In the beginning of 1500's, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom.
Alfiya & Ahmed (2024)
Alfiya & Ahmed (2024)
It's the summer of 2010, 14-year-old Alfiya and her 17-year-old brother Ahmed are home alone, bored out of their minds, they decide to do things to keep themselves entertained.
Sabeel (2010)
Sabeel (2010)
In a small farm, away from city and deep in the mountains lives two young boys and their grandmother. They spend their mornings farming vegetables, and then heading to a road where they sit and wait to sell to travellers passing by. Only to return home, to tend to their sick grandmother with the medicine they had to buy from the little money they make. This film takes a look into their lives in their surroundings, while the road as their main source of making a living, it is the road that will determine their destiny.
Fine Lines (2019)
Fine Lines (2019)
For nearly three years, director Dina Khreino interviewed world-class mountain climbing athletes, listening to what compels them to leave behind families, friends, and everyday comforts to risk everything for a fleeting glimpse into the unknown. What she found was a tribe, a diverse group of professional adventurers and amateur philosophers forged by the ultimate test of body, mind, and spirit. In the face of shifting winds, sheer granite cliffs, and impossible odds, they climb. Each for their own reason, but every one connected by the vertical world. In this rarefied air, these athletes are fundamentally changed, not just as climbers, but as human beings.
The Devil's Machine (2019)
The Devil's Machine (2019)
Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess. In the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered, Brendon soon finds himself the victim of the automaton’s legendary curse as the malevolent forces surrounding it are terrifyingly awakened.
City of Life (2009)
City of Life (2009)
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. "City of Life" is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.
UFC Fight Night 179: Moraes vs. Sandhagen (2020)
UFC Fight Night 179: Moraes vs. Sandhagen (2020)
UFC Fight Night 179: Moraes vs. Sandhagen was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 11, 2020 at the du Forum on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A bantamweight bout between former WSOF Bantamweight Champion and UFC Bantamweight Championship challenger Marlon Moraes and Cory Sandhagen served as the event headliner.
Outsource (2022)
Outsource (2022)
A police chief hires an old friend, who is an international spy, to help him search for a wanted suspect in the Philippines. When the chief dies, all evidence points towards the spy, and he must go to extremes to defend himself.
UFC Fight Night 179: Moraes vs. Sandhagen - Prelims (2020)
UFC Fight Night 179: Moraes vs. Sandhagen - Prelims (2020)
Tom Breese vs. KB Bhullar Chris Daukaus vs. Rodrigo Nascimento Ferreira Impa Kasanganay vs. Joaquin Buckley Ali Al-Qaisi vs. Toney Kelley Giga Chikadze vs. Omar Antonio Morales Ferrer Tracy Cortez vs. Stephanie Egger Bruno Silva vs. Tagir Ulanbekov