Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 1972) is a Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah. Her movie Cairo Time won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was Best Reviewed Romance on Rotten Tomatoes for 2010. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 6, 1972 (53)
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Director and writer
- 18 on MovieCove · 26 credits in all
What are Ruba Nadda's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ruba Nadda's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 18 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Ruba Nadda's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
26 credits, 18 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Gray (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Alaska Daily(2022)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
So Help Me Todd(2022)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Tom Swift(2022)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Big Shot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Roswell, New Mexico(2019)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
Magnum P.I.(2018)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows
Manifest(2018)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Krypton(2018)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows
Frankie Drake Mysteries(2017)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows
Valor(2017)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows
Taken(2017)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all shows
Riverdale(2017)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
Killjoys(2015)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
October Gale(2014)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Arrow(2012)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
Inescapable(2012)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Hawaii Five-0(2010)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows
Cairo Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
NCIS: Los Angeles(2009)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows
Becoming 13 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Sabah (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Aadan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Damascus Nights (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Career shape
A full career of 26 titles from 1998 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ruba Nadda's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 20th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 26th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th7
- Below 25th4
Shape of the crowd
8 of their 18 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic3
- Crowd Pleaser8
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the pacing 32/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 45, detractors 13. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Ruba Nadda work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ruba Nadda's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Aeschylus Poulos shares the most, 2.
Producers
- Aeschylus PoulosShared titles: October Gale (2014), Inescapable (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Aeschylus Poulos
- Christine VachonShared titles: October Gale (2014), Inescapable (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Christine Vachon
- Daniel IronShared titles: October Gale (2014), Inescapable (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Daniel Iron
- Kirk D'AmicoShared titles: October Gale (2014), Inescapable (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Kirk D'Amico
