🏷 Discover The Best Muslim Character Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the World of Muslim Characters in Movies and TV Shows

Delve into the rich and diverse stories of Muslim characters in cinema and television. From heartwarming dramas to action-packed blockbusters, discover the best movies and TV shows that showcase the complexities and triumphs of Muslim individuals. Get ready to be inspired and entertained by these captivating tales.

SKAM (2015) TV Show

8.2 747 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Norway

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 43

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The story of young teenagers and pupils from Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and their troubles, scandals and everyday life. Each season is told from a different person's point of view.

Plot: muslim, friendship, high school, teenage sexuality, lgbt, oslo, norway, teen drama

Place: norway

Cast

Carla Souary

Nu2019landu Lubansu

Alma Schmitt

Romane Parc

SKAM France (2018) TV Show

8.1 53 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Seasons: 12

Episodes: 122

Story: Skam France follows five french girls and their friends as they go to high-school.

Plot: male friendship, female friendship, friendship, high school, remake, female protagonist, lgbt, teenage romance, ...

Place: france

Cast

Omar Ayuso

Valentina Zenere

Andru00e9 Lamoglia

Carmen Arrufat

Elite (2018) TV Show

8.0 9.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Spain

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 64

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Plot: love triangle, jealousy, infidelity, seduction, menage a trois, friendship, elite, murder, ...

Cast

Riz Ahmed

John Turturro

Bill Camp

Payman Maadi

The Night Of (2016) TV Show

8.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Plot: new york city, prison, muslim, murder, jail, lawyer, trial, miniseries, ...

Cast

Soran Ebrahim

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Avaz Latif

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Saddam Hossein Feysal

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Hiresh Feysal Rahman

Turtles Can Fly (2004)

7.8 242 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Iran, France

Duration: 98 min.

Story: Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Plot: suicide, rape, muslim, refugee, village, landmine, tank, bicycle, ...

Place: iraq

Cast

u00d6yku00fc Karayel

Funda Eryiu011fit

Fatih Artman

Defne Kayalar

Ethos (2020) TV Show

7.7 129 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: A group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meet in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, some by chance and some by force of will.

Plot: suicide, rape, muslim, chaos, betrayal, family relationships, psychiatrist, city

Cast

Homayoun Ershadi

Abdolrahman Bagheri

Safar Ali Moradi

Mir Hossein Noori

Taste of Cherry (1997)

7.7 712 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Iran, France

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Plot: depression, suicide, life and death, muslim, talking, nihilism, koran, teheran (tehran), ...

Cast

Rolf Lassgu00e5rd

Bahar Pars

Filip Berg

Ida Engvoll

A Man Called Ove (2015)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Norway, Sweden

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Plot: friendship, dark comedy, black humor, suicidal, pregnant woman, first kiss, bitterness, power of love, ...

Cast

Denzel Washington

Angela Bassett

Albert Hall

Al Freeman Jr.

Malcolm X (1992)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 202 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Plot: prison, new york city, police brutality, beach, assassination, muslim, police, ku klux klan, ...

Time: 1960s

A Prophet (2009)

7.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: R

Story: Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

Plot: prison, muslim, gangster, arabian, protection, money, murder, mafia, ...

Cast

Ramy Youssef

May Calamawy

Hiam Abbass

Amr Waked

Ramy (2019) TV Show

7.3 148 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities, and a God who's always watching.

Plot: muslim american, self exploration

Cast

Kumail Nanjiani

Zoe Kazan

Holly Hunter

Ray Romano

The Big Sick (2017)

7.3 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

Plot: chicago, illinois, new york city, immigrant, muslim, roommates, sadness, sarcasm, ...

Place: pakistan

Cast

Prithviraj Sukumaran

Parvathy Thiruvothu

Tovino Thomas

Saikumar

Ennu Ninte Moideen (2015)

7.2 34 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 167 min.

Story: Children of two renowned families fall in love amidst orthodox surroundings. When their inter-religious relationship is opposed, the two lovers' situation is fraught with familial pressure, societal culture and blind arrogance.

Plot: muslim, rain, hindu, past, based on true story, love, family

Cast

Orlando Bloom

Eva Green

Jeremy Irons

David Thewlis

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

7.1 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Plot: blacksmith, muslim, crusade, catapult, swordsman, battlefield, knight, religion, ...

Time: 12th century

Place: jerusalem

Cast

Kamal Haasan

Shah Rukh Khan

Hema Malini

Rani Mukerji

Hey Ram (2000)

7.0 65 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 199 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.

Plot: assassination, muslim, hindu, mahatma gandhi, based on true story, riot, race riot, revenge, ...

Cast

Bill Maher

Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda

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Andrew Newberg

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Steve Burg

Religulous (2008)

7.0 659 votes

Genre: Comedy, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.

Plot: muslim, faith, museum, rabbi, interview, atheist, chapel, religion, ...

Cast

Christopher Lee

James Fox

Maria Aitken

Shashi Kapoor

Jinnah (1998)

6.9 29 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Pakistan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: U

Story: Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Plot: muslim, biography, political unrest

Place: pakistan

Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017)

6.8 107 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 116 min.

Story: Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.

Plot: small town, muslim, sexuality, islam, patriarchy, social satire, rural area, masturbation

Place: india

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Willem Dafoe

Robin Wright

Rachel McAdams

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

6.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.

Style: intense

Plot: immigrant, muslim, based on novel or book, espionage, spy, intelligence, torture, surveillance, ...

Cast

Chuck Norris

Lee Marvin

Martin Balsam

Joey Bishop

The Delta Force (1986)

6.0 524 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, airplane, war veteran, fight, patriotism, hijacking, rescue mission, ...

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