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Movies: Best Movies in Maltese(Malti)

Maltese (Maltese: Malti, also L-Ilsien Malti or Il-Lingwa Maltija) is a Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata spoken by the Maltese people. It is the national language of Malta and the only official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European Union. Maltese is a Latinized variety of spoken historical Arabic through its descent from Siculo-Arabic, which developed as a Maghrebi Arabic dialect in the Emirate of Sicily between 831 and 1091. As a result of the Norman invasion of Malta and the subsequent re-Christianization of the islands, Maltese evolved independently of Classical Arabic in a gradual process of latinization. It is therefore exceptional as a variety of historical Arabic that has no diglossic relationship with Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. Maltese is thus classified separately from the 30 varieties constituting the modern Arabic macrolanguage. Maltese is also distinguished from Arabic and other Semitic languages since its morphology has been deeply influenced by Romance languages, namely Italian and Sicilian. The original Arabic base comprises around one-third of the Maltese vocabulary, especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words, but about half of the vocabulary is derived from standard I... ()

Maltese is spoken in United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Australia and Malta and 16 movies (between 1971 and 2022) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Malta (14). Popular genres for Maltese movies are Drama (12), Thriller (3) and Romance / Love (2). Eleġija (2014), Plangent Rain (2011), 20,000 Reasons (2016), Whatever (2022) and The Cage (1971) are among the best known & most successful Maltese movies.

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Simshar(2014)

1h 45min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.

Directed by Rebecca Cremona - With Lotfi Abdelli

The Isle(2004)

7min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A foreigner comes to Malta, to take pictures of dilapidated buildings. He photographs ruins that look like they could be on Bocklin's "Isle of the Dead." Soon he finds, however, that crumbling edifices are not the only similarity between the two Isles.

Qerq(2007)

2h 20min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A young woman joins a criminal gang after being released from a juvenile correctional facility.

Broken Hearts(2014)

3h 3min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller

An emotional story of a man who rediscovers love after his wife suddenly and mysteriously leaves him. The plot further develops an intriguing insight into their separate lives leaving viewers at the edge of their seat until the very end.

Luzzu(2021)

1h 34min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.

Directed by Alex Camilleri

Genesis(2003)

1h 20min

In this art film, we follow the lives of three room-mates, over a period of seven days. JP, Ginger and Steve are young men who are all in some respect running away from life. One day, they meet a disabled gay author, who forces them to rediscover themselves and those around them.

The Pomegranate House(2015)

16min | Drama

Set on the island of Gozo, "Dar ir-Rummien" (The Pomegranate House) is a heart warming portrait of young love through the generations.

The Weeping House of Qala(2019)

1h 25min | Horror
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the quaint little village of Qala, Gozo, Emily Edevane was abandoned with her three little children by her husband. Four decades later, a Maltese documentary crew agrees to spend a day at their now desolate and decaying House to find out why nobody seems to have heard of them since.

Of Time and the Sea(2018)

1h 34min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life.

Maltageddon(2009)

1h 40min | Comedy, Action, Adventure

A group of laymen from the island of Malta are entrusted to save the planet. (100 mins.)

The Cage(1971)

1h 15min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

A study of the political and religious fanaticism in Malta in the 60s.

Directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi - With Vitorin Galea

20,000 Reasons(2016)

1h 20min

Sophie Bellizzi is a hard-working perfectionist who is obsessed with getting her company off the ground. She has a strained relationship with her younger sister Juliana, and an even more difficult one with her grandmother who is obsessed with seeing her only grandchildren married so as to protect the family's wealth. When Sophie breaks it off with her cheating boyfriend, she is abruptly faced with her grandmother's cunning plan to pass her substantial inheritance onto her sister, unless she marries before her 30th birthday, which is in three months time. Sophie has to act fast.

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Plangent Rain(2011)

14min | Drama

Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back and forth across a hemmed harbour. Numbed by ineptitude yet spurred by guilt and expectations, tormented by the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, the boy spirals down a foredoomed path.

Eleġija(2014)

18min | Drama

Two women are held together by the emotional distance between them. Faced by the question of creating a new life, their relationship hangs in the balance.

Whatever(2022)

1h 30min | Drama

John, a Maltese student with big dreams and a serious lack of sleep, has had a busy and exhausting last couple of days. It all takes a toll on him during one night whilst driving home from work. His going missing effects a series of coincidental events on a night of tragedy.