14 Hollywood Movies You Didn’t Know Were Shot in Morocco

The most famous Hollywood movie shot in Morocco is undoubtedly the 1940’s classic Casablanca. This is just one of many films that would come to tell the stories of the country or use its landscape as the backdrop for films from across the Middle East and North Africa. Learn more

Casablanca was not shot at any point in Casablanca, so it is an imagined Casablanca that is portrayed. But some of the more famous movies you might know that feature a desert or Middle Eastern scene(s) have a good chance of having been filmed in Morocco.

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Start planning your Moroccan movie night by taking a read through these Hollywood movies shot in Morocco.

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One of the most popular film studios outside of Hollywood is in Morocco. There’s a good chance that if you’ve seen a desert movie in the last 10-15 years it was filmed in Morocco.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2006 Best Picture-nominated drama takes place across the globe, but one of its main storylines involves an American couple’s emergency in the Sahara.

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Winner of the 2000 Academy Award for Best Picture, Ridley Scott’s epic focuses on a Roman general called Maximus, played by Russell Crowe.

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Betrayed by the new emperor, Maximus is captured and sold as a gladiator. Early scenes of the hero’s captivity, gladiatorial training, and first combat were filmed at studios in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

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Clint Eastwood’s 2014 Oscar-winning drama stars Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, a prolific military sniper who achieves acclaim in Iraq before struggling to reacclimate to civilian life.

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The Moroccan capital of Rabat and the town of Sale appear in American Sniper as the Iraqi city Fallujah.

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