01 A conservative widow secretly discovers a passion for belly dancing.
10 Best Tunisian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 17, 2026
Tunisia Drama thought provoking
Tunisian cinema has produced some of North Africa’s sharpest political filmmaking, especially since the 2011 revolution reopened space for stories the old regime wouldn’t have allowed.
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02 A young craftsman's upcoming wedding forces him to confront a buried childhood trauma.
03 A family's road trip turns into a medical emergency exposing years of hidden secrets.
04 A boy on the edge of adolescence loses access to the women-only bathhouse he's grown up in.
05 A young woman raised as a servant in a royal palace confronts the truth about her own parentage.
06 A young singer's political lyrics put her at odds with her mother and Tunisia's pre-revolution surveillance state.
07 A father searches for his teenage son after he secretly leaves to join a militant group abroad.
08 A Syrian refugee agrees to have his back tattooed as a living art piece in exchange for freedom of travel.
09 A young woman assaulted by police officers spends one nightmarish night trying to file a report against them.
10 A Tunisian-French psychoanalyst returning home to open a practice collides with a society unused to therapy.
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