01 A young boy is told his imprisoned father has simply gone on a pilgrimage, in 1980s rural Morocco.
13 Best Moroccan Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 5, 2026
Morocco Drama thought provoking
Moroccan cinema has grown into one of North Africa’s most active industries, willing to tackle sex work, radicalization, and single motherhood far more directly than its neighbors, often drawing real government pushback in the process.
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02 A married tailor's attraction to his own male apprentice tests his quiet, decades-long marriage.
03 A wealthy Muslim teenager's romance with a Jewish classmate collides with her family's expectations.
04 Homeless Casablanca children try to give their dead friend the burial he dreamed of.
05 An unmarried pregnant woman's labor forces her family into a frantic scramble to avoid a criminal charge.
06 Five loosely connected Moroccan lives, across decades, all chafe against the same social restrictions.
07 Two brothers from a Casablanca slum are gradually recruited toward the 2003 suicide bombings.
08 A pregnant, unmarried woman is taken in by a widowed baker who's sworn off ever helping anyone again.
09 A group of Marrakech sex workers navigate clients, danger, and each other's fragile friendships.
10 A former rapper teaches hip-hop to teenagers at a Casablanca cultural center, giving them a real outlet.
11 A filmmaker confronts her family's buried secrets and a forgotten photograph tied to a 1981 uprising.
12 A thief buries his stolen cash under a fake grave, only to return years later and find a shrine built on top of it.
13 A mall security guard and his laundress wife's marriage frays under the weight of Casablanca's class divides.
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