Movies Similar to The Child of the Sahara

SommerHundeSöhne(2005)

Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together.

5.6

March or Die(1977)

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…

5.8

Ad Fundum(1993)

Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn

6.3

Hideous Kinky(1999)

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

6.1

Française(2008)

A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.

6.2

Five Fingers(2006)

Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate

6.0

Another Sky(1954)

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

4.8

Dead of Summer(1970)

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

5.3

Brideshead Revisited(2008)

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

6.3

Babel(2006)

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

7.2

Paranoid Park(2007)

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

6.5

Casablanca(1943)

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

8.2

Port Afrique(1956)

An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about.

5.3

Allal Al Kalda(2003)

Allal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.

0.0

Final Round(2022)

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.

10.0

Resisting Roots(2022)

Genevieve Harper makes the most out of raising her two siblings after their parents' tragic accident. At just 24, Viv has devoted herself to providing her family with the best life possible, sacrificing her own dreams along the way. When Trent Fox, a known player on and off the baseball field, shows up at Viv’s job, the Lotus House Yoga Center to recuperate, the attraction between the two of them is instant. But Viv does not have time to devote to a man, let alone a man who will only break her heart. Can love grow between a woman who’s rooted in her life and a man who resists any notion of setting roots down?

5.6

Apatride(2018)

Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been separated since the conflict between Morocco and Algeria during the Black Demonstration of 1975. After being given an opportunity to assist an elderly blind man, she accepts the offer and eventually finds herself agreeing to marry him. For Henia, this is a chance to get the necessary papers for her return to Algeria. For the old man, it’s a chance to start over. For his son, it is a disgrace.

0.0

Zero(2012)

Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.

7.8

So What If the Goats Die(2021)

Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.

6.5

Pegasus(2010)

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.

5.5