19 Films & TV Shows Set In Saudi Arabia
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Ava
Massachusetts British Columbia 🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaKill. Or be killed. — A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
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Born a King
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1910sA coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.
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All the Money in the World
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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A Hologram for the King
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 2010sHow far will you go? To find yourself. — Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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Conquest 1453
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 14th Century The 7th CenturyThe fall of an empire will be the rise of another. — After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do: Conquer Constantinople.
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Khaddama
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabiaexpatriated housemaid — Aswathi (Kavya Madhavan), who is a lower mid-class Malayali woman from Pattambi, Kerala. Due to the financial constraints of her family and the untimely death of her husband, Ashwathy is forced to be the bread earner of the house and opts to go to the gulf. Usman (Suraj Venjaramood), who is the chauffeur of an Arab family. Originally from Aswathi's village, he arranges the Aswathi's visa and brings her to Saudi Arabia. Many surprises await her, starting at the airport itself. The story follows Razak, who tries to trace Aswathi, and Aswathi's attempts to leave Saudi Arabia
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Journey to Mecca
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 Syria The 14th CenturyIn the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta — The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.
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The Kingdom
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 2000sHow do you stop an enemy who isn't afraid to die? — A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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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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What's Up?
🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaThe film is a comedy-drama that recounts the story of a family torn between modernity and tradition in Saudi Arabia.
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The Great Journey
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 SyriaReda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
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Inside Mecca
🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaThe events of the hajj have long remained veiled from non-Muslims, who are forbidden even to enter the holy city of Mecca. A team of Muslim filmmakers gained access to Islam's holiest place at the peak of the pilgrimage to document the holy event for National Geographic Television.
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Escape: Human Cargo
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1970sSeperated from his country and family, John McDonald has one purpose... Getting Home. — An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.
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Malcolm X
Illinois Massachusetts Michigan New York 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sA 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.
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The Soldier
Pennsylvania Kansas Ontario 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 20th CenturyYou don't assign him. You unleash him. — Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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Rollover
New York 🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaThe most erotic thing in their world was money. — An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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The Next Man
New York 🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaKhalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?
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King of the Sands
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sA daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), founder of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.