Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "kurdistan"

1. Three Kings (1999)

R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze

Votes: 180,514 | Gross: $60.65M

2. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi

Votes: 12,325 | Gross: $0.21M

3. Turtles Can Fly (2004)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, War

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman

Votes: 20,763 | Gross: $0.26M

4. Beyond Paradise (II) (2015)

PG | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Haunted by a tragic past, Shahrzad, a stunning music student, flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.

Director: J.J. Alani | Stars: Ryan Guzman, Daphne Zuniga, Spencer Grammer, Francia Raisa

Votes: 456

5. Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun (2009)

128 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Story of 40-man Turkish task force who must defend a relay station.

Director: Levent Semerci | Stars: Mete Horozoglu, Ilker Kizmaz, Birce Akalay, Ibrahim Akoz

Votes: 35,409

6. Triage (2009)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, War

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 10,678

7. Girls of the Sun (2018)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War

A Kurdish female battalion prepares to take back their town from extremists.

Director: Eva Husson | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut, Sinama Alievi

Votes: 2,822 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Rhino Season (2012)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk

Votes: 7,299

9. Mosul (II) (2019)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, War

The gritty, thrilling story of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq's second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 2017.

Director: Daniel Gabriel | Stars: Bashar Atiyat, Ali Mula, Anouar H. Smaine, Mahdi Chalkhaoui

Votes: 7,421

10. Goodnight Soldier (2022)

97 min | Drama

Ziné and Avdal are madly in love in spite of their families' ancestral feud. When both parties finally set aside their differences and agree to their children getting married, Avdal is ... See full summary »

Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Galyar Nerway, Dilin Doger, Alend Hazim, Barzan Shaswar

Votes: 88

11. Bekas (2012)

97 min | Adventure, Drama

The story is about two brothers want to travel to america and the adventures that they face in the journey.

Director: Karzan Kader | Stars: Zamand Taha, Sarwar Fazil, Diya Mariwan, Suliman Karim Mohamad

Votes: 5,798

12. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War

Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini

Votes: 8,833 | Gross: $0.70M

13. Damascus Under Fire (2018)

113 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a small Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.

Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Babak Hamidian, Hadi Hejazifar, Pierre Dagher, Layth Al-Mufti

Votes: 2,751

14. The Wall (1983)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.

Director: Yilmaz Güney | Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein

Votes: 4,433

15. Auction of Souls (1919)

80 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.

Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Aurora Mardiganian, Irving Cummings, Anna Q. Nilsson, Henry Morgenthau

Votes: 1,242

16. Sisters in Arms (2019)

112 min | Action, Drama, War

Sisters in Arms is a film of war on women's war.

Director: Caroline Fourest | Stars: Dilan Gwyn, Amira Casar, Camélia Jordana, Maya Sansa

Votes: 1,498

17. Walnut Tree (2020)

100 min | Drama, History, War

Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 ... See full summary »

Director: Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Stars: Payman Maadi, Mina Sadati, Minoo Sharifi, Mehran Modiri

Votes: 2,229

18. My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)

100 min | Drama

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but ... See full summary »

Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Suat Usta, Mir Murad Bedirxan

Votes: 2,529

19. 14 Tirmeh (2017)

146 min | Drama

In September 12 1980, Turkish state carries out a military coup suppressing struggle of Kurds for human rights and freedom.

Director: Hasim Aydemir | Stars: Ezel Akay, Furkan Bolukbasi, Furkan Bölükbasi, Sakine Cansiz

Votes: 423

20. Half Moon (2006)

107 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he... See full summary »

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Farzin Sabooni, Kambiz Arshi

Votes: 3,089 | Gross: $0.00M

21. The Last Outpost (1935)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.

Directors: Charles Barton, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Cary Grant, Gertrude Michael, Claude Rains, Margaret Swope

Votes: 594

22. The Fall (2023– )

Drama, Romance, War

The story is about a young newlywed couple Aysan and Lhakan who are dealing with the challenges of married life. After a while, Zhakan receives an offer and persuades Aysan to leave the ... See full summary »

Stars: Elnaz Malek, Sajad Babaei, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Abbas Jamshidifar

Votes: 537

23. Wild Kurdistan (1965)

95 min | Adventure

In Kurdistan Ahmed, the sheikh's son of Halef's Bedouin tribe, is captured by the Turkish governor's militia. Kara Ben Nemsi and Halef try to rescue him and re-meet Sir David Lindsay who is venturing to help a lady in distress.

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: Lex Barker, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter, Djordje Nenadovic

Votes: 683

24. Vodka Lemon (2003)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the ... See full summary »

Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek, Ruzan Mesropyan

Votes: 2,135 | Gross: $0.06M

25. Blackboards (2000)

88 min | Drama, War

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a ... See full summary »

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati

Votes: 2,905 | Gross: $0.00M

26. Zero Nine (2021)

93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A detective abandoned his daughter for a governmental mission. He risks his life in order to fix their relationship. Their search leads them to face an organ trafficking band who has blackmailed a doctor for harvesting the organs.

Director: Bakhtyar Fatah | Stars: Mahir Hasan, Shwan Attoof, Sirwan Jamal, Besaran Jasim

Votes: 1,119

27. Bakur (2015)

TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary

Bakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows... See full summary »

Directors: Çayan Demirel, Ertugrul Mavioglu | Stars: Mohammad Saeed Abdi, Cemil Bayik, Fehman Huseyin, Murat Karayilan

Votes: 342

28. Jani Gal (2007)

100 min | Drama, History

Setting: Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs into the middle of a political ... See full summary »

Director: Jamil Rostami | Stars: Nzar Salami, Rinas Voria, Abdol Hama Javan, Jian Ebrahim

Votes: 214

29. Before Snowfall (2013)

96 min | Drama

A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.

Director: Hisham Zaman | Stars: Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Ozen, Ava Abdulsattar

Votes: 599

30. Marooned in Iraq (2002)

100 min | Drama, War

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the ... See full summary »

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Shahab Ebrahimi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Rojan Hosseini

Votes: 1,625 | Gross: $0.14M

31. Büyük Adam Küçük Ask (2001)

120 min | Drama

The paths of 75-year-old retired judge Rifat Bey and little Hejar, who was left with a relative because he lost all his relatives in the operation carried out in his village, cross paths in Istanbul.

Director: Handan Ipekçi | Stars: Sükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel, Yildiz Kenter

Votes: 1,818

32. Brothers at War (2009)

R | 110 min | Documentary, War

An intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The... See full summary »

Director: Jake Rademacher | Stars: Jake Rademacher, Isaac Rademacher, Joe Rademacher, Mahmoud Hamid Ali

Votes: 595 | Gross: $0.15M

33. Journey to the Sun (1999)

104 min | Drama

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Nazmi Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan, Ara Güler

Votes: 1,887 | Gross: $0.00M

34. Where is Gilgamesh? (2024)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a Museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he face his own inner demons.

Director: Karzan Kardozi | Stars: Barzan Yunis, Goran Dlshad, Ragash Kizhan, Yasin Omar

35. Death Scenes 2 (1992 Video)

84 min | Documentary

A nauseating mondo documentary about violent death. The bulk of the tape is consumed with the same war-atrocity footage already overused in dozens of other mondo films.

Director: Nick Bougas | Stars: Harold Wells, Susan Atkins, Lenny Bruce, Renee Chen

Votes: 188

36. David & Layla (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York.

Director: J.J. Alani | Stars: David Moscow, Shiva Rose, Peter Van Wagner, Polly Adams

Votes: 892 | Gross: $0.12M

37. Gulistan, Land of Roses (2016)

86 min | Documentary

They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq ... See full summary »

Director: Zayne Akyol

Votes: 644

38. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)

72 min | Documentary, War

A war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin McKiernan | Stars: William Hartung, Jim McGovern, Kevin McKiernan, Abdullah Ocalan

Votes: 93

39. Iraq in Fragments (2006)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, War

Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.

Director: James Longley | Stars: Marmar Alhilali, Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, Mohamed Qasim Sainakh

Votes: 1,546 | Gross: $0.20M

40. A Flag Without a Country (2015)

97 min | Documentary, War

A documentary about Kurds, middle-east war and "Kurdistan", a nation with about 45m population and still without a country.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Nariman Anwar, Helly Luv

Votes: 222

41. The Blue Girl (2021)

84 min | Drama

In a remote village between the rocky mountains in Kurdistan, everyone is in love with football, but there is no plain field to play the game. The children decide to climb up the mountain in order to find somewhere to play the game.

Director: Keivan Majidi | Stars: Mobin Majidi, Vorya Majidi, Hima Mohammadi

Votes: 28

42. Shin (II) (2023)

87 min | Drama

The story of the movie talks about the problems of the Kurdish society and the problems of a family and how they fight for their lives.

Director: Mohammed Mustafa | Stars: Halwest Muhammad, Rubar Khalid, Shamal Abarash, Ala Abas

Votes: 5

43. Isiklar Sönmesin (1996)

80 min | Drama

The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.

Director: Reis Çelik | Stars: Berhan Simsek, Tarik Tarcan, Sermin Karaali, Tuncel Kurtiz

Votes: 309

44. Kilomètre zéro (2005)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.

Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Nazmi Kirik, Eyam Ekrem, Belçim Bilgin, Ehmed Qeladizeni

Votes: 501

45. On the Way (2005)

90 min | Drama

Under military rule, famed filmmaker Yilmaz is transferred to another prison. He is followed by his wife, a prison friend, and a young director in a car. At a motel, he tries to escape but cannot break free from his bond with his master.

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Yesim Büber, Halil Ergün, Mehmet Esen, Israfil Köse

Votes: 113

46. Future Lasts Forever (2011)

108 min | Drama

Sumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east ... See full summary »

Director: Özcan Alper | Stars: Gaye Gürsel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoç

Votes: 1,476

47. Jiyan's Story (2017)

80 min | Documentary, War

The catastrophic war in Syria has brought about one good thing: the forming of the autonomous region of Rojava is radically changing the position of women in the Middle East. The ... See full summary »

Director: A. Haluk Unal | Star: Jiyan Tolhildan

Votes: 23

48. Hiçbiryerde (2002)

90 min | Drama

Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to ... See full summary »

Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu | Stars: Zuhal Olcay, Michael Mendl, Parkan Özturan, Meral Okay

Votes: 707

49. Love in the Time of Corona (2024)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.

Director: Shwan Attoof | Stars: Mahir Hasan, Ahmad Jola, Mustafa Ahmad, Zahir Ali

50. Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom (2008)

93 min | Drama, Romance, War

Three years ago, in real-life, Hama Ali, a charismatic actor from Iraq famous locally for his performance as Iraq's version of Superman, met Ayca on a film-set. He and Ayca, a fiery actress... See full summary »

Director: Hüseyin Karabey | Stars: Ayça Damgaci, Hama Ali Kahn, Cengiz Bozkurt, Nesrin Cavadzade

Votes: 1,074