Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hijab"

51. I Still Hide to Smoke (2016)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for ... See full summary »

Director: Rayhana Obermeyer | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Fadila Belkebla, Nadia Kaci, Nassima Benchicou

Votes: 1,196

52. Clash (2016)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller, War

Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.

Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Hany Adel, Muhammad El-Sebai, Muhammad El-Suwisi

Votes: 6,203 | Gross: $0.02M

53. A Regular Woman (2019)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.

Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Rauand Taleb, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami

Votes: 2,452

54. Orca (2021)

107 min | Drama

A young Iranian woman, having reached the lowest point in her life, fights back against an abusive spouse and religious and governmental obstacles to set the Guinness world record in endurance swimming with both her hands and feet tied.

Director: Sahar Mosayebi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mahtab Keramati, Ayoub Afshar, Arash Aghabeik

Votes: 577

55. In Between (2016)

R | 103 min | Drama

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

Director: Maysaloun Hamoud | Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura, Mahmud Shalaby

Votes: 3,104 | Gross: $0.11M

56. The String (2009)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have ... See full summary »

Director: Mehdi Ben Attia | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche, Driss Ramdi

Votes: 2,226

57. Mama Weed (2020)

104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yann Sundberg, Michaël Louchart, Raphaël Quenard

Votes: 3,574

58. Turkse chick (2006)

10 min | Short, Comedy

A young skater boy get seduced by a Turkish Chick after he bumped his head.

Director: Lodewijk Crijns | Stars: Julian Wolf, Yolanthe Cabau, Luigi Jansen, Urvin Elshot

Votes: 337

59. Adoration (2008)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Louca Tassone, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 3,484 | Gross: $0.29M

60. My Brother the Devil (2012)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Director: Sally El Hosaini | Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed, Saïd Taghmaoui

Votes: 3,365 | Gross: $0.01M

61. The Perfect Candidate (2019)

104 min | Comedy, Drama

A determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad, Khalid Abdulraheem

Votes: 2,127

62. Sand Storm (2016)

87 min | Drama

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.

Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel

Votes: 3,979 | Gross: $0.08M

63. 122 (2019)

95 min | Horror, Thriller

On a bloody night in a place where we are supposed to feel safe, a young man and his beloved are struggling not to reach the hospital, but to run away from it. They are trying to survive the night.

Director: Yasir Alyasiri | Stars: Ahmed Dawood, Tarek Lotfy, Amina Khalil, Ahmad El-Fishawi

Votes: 5,806

64. Hamoun (1990)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar, Bita Farahi

Votes: 7,266

65. Outside the Law (2010)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa

Votes: 4,125

66. The River Girl (1954)

94 min | Drama

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin, Enrico Olivieri

Votes: 275

67. The Treasure (2017)

157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The events revolve around four eras, namely the Pharaonic and Abbasid era and the Kingdom era. The events revolve around corruption and the level of some clerics through the ages on power ... See full summary »

Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Hind Sabri, Mohamad Ramadan, Khaled El-Sawi, Amina Khalil

Votes: 2,131

68. Our Uniform (2023)

7 min | Animation, Short

An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories on the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform.

Director: Yegane Moghaddam

Votes: 1,069

69. The Glass Agency (1998)

114 min | Action, Drama, Romance

The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the ... See full summary »

Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei, Ghasem Zare

Votes: 7,282

70. Becoming Burlesque (2017)

96 min | Drama

Despite her uncle encouraging her to adopt a more traditional lifestyle, a young Muslim college student secretly joins a Toronto burlesque troupe.

Director: Jackie English | Stars: Shiva Negar, Elise Bauman, Moe Jeudy-Lamour, Araya Mengesha

Votes: 406

71. Made in Bangladesh (2019)

95 min | Drama

Shimu fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works grueling hours for paltry sums at a textile factory while her husband searches for work.

Director: Rubaiyat Hossain | Stars: Shahana Goswami, Rikita Nandini Shimu, Shatabdi Wadud, Mita Chowdhury

Votes: 479

72. Hostages (1992 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Drama

This is the story of Peggy Say and her battle to free the hostages in Beirut. Witness the cruel abduction of innocent citizens thrown into the dark, insect infested cells and abandoned by their homelands.

Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciarán Hinds, Natasha Richardson

Votes: 295

73. La Luna (2023)

TV-14 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story revolves around a small village, Kampong Bras Basah, and the unexpected opening of a women's lingerie store, La Luna.

Director: Raihan Halim | Stars: Shaheizy Sam, Sharifah Amani, Wan Hanafi Su, Nadiya Nissa

Votes: 269

74. Fighter (I) (2007)

100 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Aicha attends Kung Fu at her high school in Copenhagen. Her Muslim, Turkish father wants her to study hard and become a doctor but instead she starts training at a Kung Fu club where Emil helps with her training. They become friends.

Director: Natasha Arthy | Stars: Semra Turan, Nima Nabipour, Cyron Melville, Molly Blixt Egelind

Votes: 1,614

75. Na putu (2010)

100 min | Drama

From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Zrinka Cvitesic, Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic

Votes: 2,082

76. The Algerian (2014)

99 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

A sleeper cell terrorist travels to America and hides in plain sight as an engineering student. As he waits for the rest of his terrorist cell to join him for a deadly mission, he falls in love which jeopardizes his beliefs and the mission

Director: Giovanni Zelko | Stars: Ben Youcef, Candice Coke, Harry Lennix, Tara Holt

Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.07M

77. Syrian Bride (2004)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the... See full summary »

Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhom

Votes: 3,482 | Gross: $0.38M

78. Amira & Sam (2014)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An army veteran's unlikely romance with an Iraqi immigrant is put to the test when she is faced with the prospect of deportation.

Director: Sean Mullin | Stars: Martin Starr, Dina Shihabi, Paul Wesley, Laith Nakli

Votes: 2,712 | Gross: $0.03M

79. Féminin plurielles (2018)

82 min | Romance

Hafsia, Douce, Delphine and Charlotte are four young women who seek to overcome the limits that one would like to impose on them.

Director: Sébastien Bailly | Stars: Lise Bellynck, Hafsia Herzi, Anne Steffens, Friedelise Stutte

Votes: 50

80. Brick and Mirror (1966)

126 min | Drama

Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), ... See full summary »

Director: Ebrahim Golestan | Stars: Taji Ahmadi, Zackaria Hashemi, Goli Bozorgmehr, Masoud Faghih

Votes: 896

81. Masameer: The Movie (2020)

110 min | Animation

A child with a knack for AI decided to change the world by creating crime-fighting heroes out of her unlikely friends.

Director: Malik Nejer | Stars: Shahad Alahmari, Yousef Aldakheel, Lama Alfard, Ibraheem Alkhairallah

Votes: 2,529

82. Killing Mad Dogs (2001)

135 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own.

Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian, Mitra Hajjar

Votes: 2,956

83. Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda (2008)

105 min | Comedy, Family

A teacher left his poor village's governmental school and went to Cairo where he teaches in a private school where most of the students are sons of ministers and businessmen.

Director: Wael Ihsan | Stars: Mohamed Henedi, Cyrine AbdelNour, Ezzat Abu Ouf, Laila Taher

Votes: 2,289

84. A Jihad for Love (2007)

Unrated | 81 min | Documentary

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Director: Parvez Sharma | Stars: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen, Abdellah Taïa

Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.11M

85. Meteorites (2018)

85 min | Drama, Romance

Nina, a 16-year-old girl, dreams of adventure. Just before meeting Morad, a teenage from an Algerian family living in the nearby projects, Nina sees a meteorite falling in the sky that seems only visible to her as an omen.

Director: Romain Laguna | Stars: Zéa Duprez, Billal Agab, Oumaima Lyamouri, Nathan Le Graciet

Votes: 260

86. Koran by Heart (2011)

TV-G | 90 min | Documentary, News

A global contest reading of the Quran by young Muslim children that takes place in Cairo, Egypt annually during Ramadan. A coming of age story about Muslim kids in modern times.

Director: Greg Barker

Votes: 382

87. Break Me (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama

A young cage fighter must choose between his head and his heart after his father discovers the truth.

Director: Irasj Asanti | Stars: Ravdeep Singh Bajwa, Fredrik Skogsrud, Irasj Asanti, Hamid Karimi

Votes: 67

88. 14 Numara (1985)

83 min | Drama

Yaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak... See full summary »

Director: Sinan Çetin | Stars: Hakan Balamir, Serpil Çakmakli, Bülent Bilgiç, Keriman Ulusoy

Votes: 457

89. Habibi Rasak Kharban (2011)

85 min | Drama, Romance, War

'Habibi Rasak Kharban' (Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head) is a dramatic feature that tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza. The film is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable 'Majnun Layla'.

Director: Susan Youssef | Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Kais Nashif, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Amer Khalil

Votes: 173

90. Xsunami (2019)

96 min | Documentary

A US Pornstar talks about her sexual life story and sexual revolution in 1960 U.S.A

Director: Mohsen Aghaei | Stars: Susan Brownmiller, Anita Bryant, Ted Bundy, Sheila Burkert

Votes: 218

91. Omar Gatlato (1977)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Mestoul, Rabah Leghaa

Votes: 193

92. Çakal (2010)

86 min | Crime, Drama

Akin's life changes after his mother dies. He wants to escape the tough life in the slums of Istanbul. When his girlfriend Deniz leaves him, he chooses to go on a path that will change his life forever...

Director: Erhan Kozan | Stars: Ismail Hacioglu, Ugur Polat, Erkan Can, Çetin Altay

Votes: 1,748

93. You Won't See Winter (2022)

70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The director of the Iranian internet censorship is trying to contain the scandal of viral sex footage on social media depicting his sister-in-law's alleged lesbian affair with an Iranian-Canadian girl.

Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Ghazal Partou, Nazanin Arabani, Sadaf Shakori, Ali Aryana

Votes: 8

94. Bab El Oued City (1994)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara

Votes: 222

95. Italians (2009)

116 min | Comedy

Fortunato is a trucker who specializes in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferraris, in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Tired of a life away from home and in the process ... See full summary »

Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Remo Girone, Makram Khoury

Votes: 1,215

96. The Vigilante (II) (2019)

45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The Vigilante" is a story about one woman who puts her life on the line to save other women from abuse and battery at any cost, even while she deals with her own demons from the past.

Director: Michela Lansing | Stars: Louis Allen, Katana Roya Azhakh, Lora Bofill, David Carreno

Votes: 15

97. Tambourine (2008)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who ... See full summary »

Director: Parisa Bakhtavar | Stars: Baran Kosari, Saber Abar, Mehran Modiri, Amin Hayayee

Votes: 4,619

98. The Sacred City (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Documentary, History

This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.

Director: David Taylor | Stars: Dan Gibson, Matt Jamie, Ranj Nagra, Adel Shemari

Votes: 211

99. Fah Jarod Sai (2013–2014)

120 min | Drama, Fantasy

Due to Kashfiya's wrath, she planed to send Michelle, her best friend, King Amedha's concubine. One day, Oman, King Amedha's younger relative, rebelled and killed King Amedha in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Theerapat Sajakul, Usamanee Waitayanon, Nok Usanee

100. Case #1, Case #2 (1979)

53 min | Documentary, Drama

While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students ... See full summary »

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mehdi Azadbakht, Mohammadreza Barati, Hedayat Matin Daftari, Nader Ebrahimi

Votes: 792