Discover the best of Moroccan cinema, film, and television
Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Morocco. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The cinema of Morocco
Moroccan cinema is a world of dazzling cinematic contrasts, a place where Hollywood epics meet raw, authentic local stories under the North African sun. For decades, its stunning landscapes have been a filmmaker's dream. The desert city of Ouarzazate has become a legendary film hub, its kasbahs and dunes standing in for ancient worlds in Gladiator, fantasy realms in Game of Thrones, and the mind-bending streets of Inception. This has made Morocco a spectacular silent star in some of cinema’s biggest adventures. But Morocco's greatest cinematic story is its own. A bold generation of filmmakers has emerged, telling powerful stories that explore the complexities of modern life. Visionaries like Nabil Ayouch have gained international acclaim for films that look at urban life and social taboos with raw honesty. These directors are crafting a new, confident national cinema. This love for screen stories is a huge part of daily life, with locally produced television series, especially those released during Ramadan, becoming major national events that bring families together. What makes Moroccan cinema so captivating is this very dialogue between the global and the local. It is a film culture that can provide the backdrop for the world’s biggest blockbusters while telling its own intimate, powerful, and essential tales.
Best Moroccan series
Kabour and Lahbib 2016
This comic series tackles the clash between the Bedouin nature of the new residents of the cities and the modern lifestyle in a comic form, as Kabour and Lahbib live a new life in a room on the roof of a building in the city of Casablanca and confront with the modernity of Khadija the landlord and Aziz the concierge.
82L'Couple 2013
The diaries of a couple in their sixties in the Moroccan countryside, showing their arguments and their humorous discussions about the situations they encounter.
76Dar Nsa 2024
Amina tries to provide for her family, just as an old acquaintance returns after serving a prison sentence to reopen old wounds.
80INDIE CROSS 2023
75Ana Bidaoui 2023
Through interviews with historians, architects, archaeologists and local organizations, this documentary series describes the history of Casablanca, from its origins to the present day.
60Bayn Al Qosour 2024
Sakina is a girl from a poor family who lives in a popular neighborhood. Sakina is exposed to a strong shock in her adolescent, which radically changes the course of her life. Years later, life circumstances force her to return to her hometown, "Bayn Al Qosour" Sakina confronts her painful past and seeks to know the truth about what happened to her in her childhood.
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Best Moroccan movies
Kandisha 2022
One summer evening, three childhood friends invoke the spirit of Kandisha, a vengeful creature from a Moroccan legend. The game quickly turns into a nightmare when their loved ones begin to disappear.
56Much Loved 2015
A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
53Horses 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.
76Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 2001
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.
76The Unknown Saint 2020
Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.
64El Alamein 2002
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
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