7 Films & TV Shows Set In Bahrain
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Dead Sands
🇧🇭 BahrainIn the wake of a viral outbreak throughout Bahrain, a group of strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they must unite to ward off the undead plague.
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Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
🇧🇭 Bahrain The 2010sThe story of the Arab revolution that was abandoned by the Arabs, forsaken by the West and forgotten by the world. — As the "Arab Spring" protests for justice and democracy spread through the middle east in early 2011, people long repressed by the Bahrain monarchy spontaneously gathered at the central Pearl Square to join in the call for their rights.
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Cinema 500 km
🇧🇭 Bahrain 🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaBring your passport, we are going to Cinema — From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.
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A Bahraini Tale
🇧🇭 Bahrain The 1960sSet during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, this epic drama is both the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Jamal Abdul Nasser as its leader. Intimately told, it skillfully interweaves the personal and the general to reveal a society built on male domination and female sacrifice, as women attempt to enjoy freedom of choice.
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Afghan Muscles
🇧🇭 BahrainThe young men of Afghanistan have discovered the art of bodybuilding. In a country ravished by war, these men still hold on to their dreams; dreams of muscle, honour and fame - absolute control of the body in a world of chaos.
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The Princess & the Marine
Nevada 🇧🇭 BahrainBased on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member of the Bahraini Royal Family. Meriam, who does not wish to consent to an arranged marriage, knows her love affair with Jason is dangerous, as he is a Mormon Christian and she a Muslim. Her parents would never consent to their match, and so Meriam and Jason race against time to escape Bahrain and make it to the United States, where they can marry. If Meriam is sent back, however, her life may be in jeopardy.
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
🇧🇭 Bahrain 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980sTwo North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.