Top Arabic Movies


The Top Arabic Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Arabic List". Lists are calculated daily.

1. Band's Visit, The ( Bikur Ha-Tizmoret )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eran Kolirin
Actors: Saleh Bakri, Shlomi Avraham, Uri Gavriel, Ronit Elkabetz
Plot: A police orchestra from Egypt is stranded in a small town in Israel. Despite their differences, the locals and the band realize they have far more in common in this Wes Anderson-esque portrait of laughter, language barriers and loneliness.

2. Ajami

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Actors: Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Plot: Follows the thread of five interconnected stories in the religiously-mixed community of Tel Aviv.

3. Divine Intervention ( Yadon ilaheyya )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Suleiman
Actors: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher

4. Paradise Now

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Actors: Lubna Azabal, Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Mohammad Bustami
Plot: Two young Palestinian men are chosen to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Over the next day, they must decide whether or not to go through with their mission.

5. Clash ( Eshtebak )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mohamed Diab
Actors: Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed, Ahmed Abdelhamid Hefny

6. Omar

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Actors: Essam Abu Aabed, Foad Abed-Eihadi, Adel Abu-Lasheen, Baher Agbariya
Plot: A young Palestinian man walks a deadly line after being found guilty by association following the death of an Israeli soldier. With a girlfriend on the other side of the wall, childhood friends who trust him and a handler who now expects him to work as an informant - he will have to decide where his true loyalty lies.

7. Under the Bombs ( Sous les bombes )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philippe Aractingi
Actors: Zaynab Balhas, Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Hadi Medhi

8. Capernaum ( Capharnaüm )

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nadine Labaki
Actors: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Plot: The life of 12-year-old Zain has been full of hardship and poverty as he survives on the streets, even helping an Ethiopian refugee and her son, while his parents ignore him. After being jailed for a violent crime, he decides to sue his own parents for the crime of bringing him into the world.

9. Salt of This Sea ( Milh Hadha al-Bahr )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Annemarie Jacir
Actors: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Um Hussein Al Malhi

10. Wadjda

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Actors: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Plot: The 10-year-old Wadjda is a headstrong, enterprising Saudi girl who pushes her parents to the limits in a conservative country. After getting in trouble for playing with a local boy, she spies a green bicycle she wants - even though bicycles are frowned upon for women. With her parents unwilling to buy it for her, she comes up with a few ideas to raise the money herself - when this backfires she thinks all is lost... but there is a Koran recitation competition at her school.

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