Movies like Kira & El Gen (2022)
The best movies like Kira & El Gen (2022) are The Treasure : Love & Destiny (2019), Casablanca (2019) and The Night of Counting the Years (1969). If Kira & El Gen hooked you with its drama and history, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedRRR (2022)7.7/10 from 1,754 votes
- NewestPalestine 36 (2025)Released 2025
The Treasure : Love & Destiny (2019)
A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Casablanca (2019)
Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his own and escape to Morocco.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKarmouz War (2018)
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 people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Passage (2019)
A platoon of Commandos’ soldiers, lead by a fearless commander, Nour, and their journey through heroic battles from The Six Days War to the commencement of The Attrition War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & history
Sons of Rizk 2: Return of the Lions of the Land (2019)
Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces them to new worlds for them, and puts them in very dangerous confrontations with A number of professional criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Saladin (1963)
The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Flight 404 (2024)
A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Alexandria Again and Forever (1989)
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992)
In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
The Treasure: Truth & Imagination (2017)
The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Bharat (2019)
At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMousa (2021)
An engineering college student invents the first of its kind robot in the Middle East, in an attempt to avenge his father's death and achieve justice, which gets him pursued by the authorities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
The Lady of Heaven (2021)
Two stories separated by 1400 years. After losing his mother in the midst of a war-torn country, an Iraqi child learns the importance and power of patience by discovering the historical story of Lady Fatima and her suffering.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
A seemingly ordinary life is shattered when a woman uncovers a hidden truth about her husband, plunging her into a high-stakes international conflict. As loyalties blur and danger escalates, an Egyptian intelligence officer is tasked with a critical mission where failure is not an option.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClash (2016)
In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPalestine 36 (2025)
Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe and some arriving with nefarious Zionist-colonial ambitions, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Girls from Egypt (2010)
The struggle of two women who face many events and the psychological and sociological aspects of being unmarried yet of marrying age in the context of an Eastern society where women are expected to be part of a man's household.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Forced Escape (2017)
Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
The Cell (2017)
During an operation to capture the head of a terrorist cell, special operations officer Saif, is injured while his partner, Amr, is killed. Saif vows to take revenge with the help of officer, Saber, who's working the same case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRRR (2022)
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse of Gucci (2021)
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrorism and Kebab (1992)
Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wife of an Important Man (1988)
When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Suit (2018)
The events revolve around Akram, who receives an invitation to attend a masquerade party. He decides to wear police uniforms, which causes him to suffer a crisis as a police officer, while looking for a particular file.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Mary (2024)
A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary's journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Call to Spy (2020)
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Kira & El Gen?
The closest matches to Kira & El Gen are The Treasure : Love & Destiny (2019), Casablanca (2019) and The Night of Counting the Years (1969). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Kira & El Gen?
People who watched Kira & El Gen most often go on to The Treasure : Love & Destiny (2019), Casablanca (2019) and The Night of Counting the Years (1969).
What is the highest-rated movie like Kira & El Gen?
RRR (2022), rated 7.7/10 by 1,754 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Kira & El Gen?
Palestine 36 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Kira & El Gen chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Kira & El Gen, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.