Best dark & gritty Arabic movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
22 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 5.8. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. Capernaum (2018)
Movie · Arabic · 2h 6m · Drama · IMDb 8.4 (1.3L votes)
Dark & grittySlow-burnMatureCold & detached
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
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2. The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Movie · Arabic · 2h 9m · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 8.0 (12.2K votes)
TwistyDark & grittyCold & detachedFast-paced
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
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3. The White Helmets (2016)
Movie · Arabic · 40m · Documentary, War · IMDb 7.5 (8.6K votes)
Edge-of-seatDark & grittyVisually stunningStraightforward
As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.
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4. Mosul (2019)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 42m · War, Drama · IMDb 7.1 (33.8K votes)
Edge-of-seatVisually stunningMatureFast-paced
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
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5. Night Courier (2023)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 52m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.2 (6.1K votes)
Dark & grittyMature
In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, Mandoob brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father. As his world crumbles under the weight of financial burden and societal indifference, Fahad's life takes an unexpected turn
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6. The Blazing Sun (1954)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 56m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 7.2 (1.9K votes)
TwistyDark & grittyFast-pacedEdge-of-seat
A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
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7. Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Movie · Arabic · 2h 57m · Drama, War · IMDb 7.3 (1.0K votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyVisually stunningMature
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of c
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8. Notturno (2020)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 40m · Documentary · IMDb 6.6 (1.5K votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyMatureSerious
Shot over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, the film depicts the everyday struggles of people attempting to rebuild their lives amongst the devastating effects of civil wars, dictatorships, foreign invasions, and the deadly presence of ISIS.
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9. Tomorrow (2022)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 36m · U/A 13+ · Drama · IMDb 6.3 (248 votes)
Dark & grittySerious
Habib and his 15 year old son Ahmed from his previous marriage, are brought together by Habib’s worsening state of health. Habib’s political past during the dictatorship in Tunisia is dangerously affecting his present. The roles are reversed, Ahmed has to protect his father and try to keep him safe. Habib and Ahmed fin
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10. Masameer Junior (2025)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 11m · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 5.8 (403 votes)
FunnyFast-pacedMatureCold & detached
After a dire lesson on bad behavior, three unruly six-year-olds embark on a chaotic quest for the ultimate "good deed" — unleashing mayhem at every turn.
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12. The Ambush (2021)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 50m · War, Action · IMDb 6.1 (2.9K votes)
Edge-of-seatFast-pacedDark & grittyVisually stunning
It is the winter of 2018, the men and women of the UAE military are deployed to provide aid. At the Mocha Base, spirits are high as three Emirati soldiers anticipate an imminent return home. While on their final routine patrol, the three soldiers, Ali, Bilal and Hindasi are ambushed by heavily armed militants on their
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13. The Swarm (2024)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 44m · Action, War · IMDb 5.1 (434 votes)
Edge-of-seatVisually stunningFast-pacedCold & detached
Based on actual events and the efforts of the Egyptian National Security Authorities against terrorist organizations through the incident of the massacre of 21 Egyptians in Libya and the army’s expanding operations in order to confront these terrorist groups.
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14. The Spider (2022)
Movie · Arabic · 2h 11m · Action, Drama · IMDb 5.0 (505 votes)
Cold & detachedEdge-of-seatFast-pacedDark & gritty
A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.
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15. El Hareth (2020)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 40m · Horror · IMDb 4.0 (402 votes)
Dark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatMature
A married couple heard a strange story during their honeymoon about a night where the moon is absent, the desert is angry, and the people on the outskirts of the Siwa Oasis believe that Satan is searching for a bride.
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16. Renegades of Europe (2022)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 17m · Action, Drama · IMDb 3.2 (303 votes)
Dark & grittySerious
A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.
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17. Karmouz War (2018)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 55m · Action, War · IMDb 5.6 (2.6K votes)
Edge-of-seatFast-pacedVisually stunningDark & gritty
Alexandria, Egypt, 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of a woman being attacked by three British soldiers. One of them is arrested and thrown in jail. When the military surrounds the police station and begins an all-out assault, it's up to one man, Gen. Youssef al-Masri, to defend his prison and protect his pe
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18. The Matchmaker (2023)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 21m · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 3.7 (669 votes)
TwistyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatMature
When an office worker becomes powerfully infatuated with his beautiful intern, he follows her to a desert resort overrun with bizarre forces.
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19. From the Ashes (2024)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 32m · U/A 13+ · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 4.9 (1.5K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seatSerious
At a strict girls school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
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20. The Worthy (2016)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 35m · Thriller, Action · IMDb 5.1 (2.4K votes)
Edge-of-seatMatureDark & grittyCold & detached
In this dystopian thriller, with civilization a thing of the past, a man puts his family in peril when he reluctantly lets outsiders into his compound.
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21. The Sand Castle (2024)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 38m · U/A 13+ · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 4.7 (2.0K votes)
TwistySlow-burnDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Stranded on a deserted island, a family of four scavenges for survival as their past unravels, sending them into a downward spiral of painful events.
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22. Pharaoh's War (2019)
Movie · Arabic · 1h 50m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 3.0 (842 votes)
Edge-of-seatMatureFast-pacedDark & gritty
Yehia, known as Pharaoh, reassembles a group of six of his old friends, each with a unique combating skill, to travel to Syria under the pretense of bounty hunting. Their real mission is to save his kidnapped son from the hands of Franco and his ISIS gangsters after they assaulted Syrian refugees, including Yehia's wif
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