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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: 180,639 | Gross: $60.65M
2. 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: 20,796 | Gross: $0.26M
3. 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: 12,357 | Gross: $0.21M
4. 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: 35,449
5. 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: 10,688
6. 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: 457
7. 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: 5,808
8. 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: 7,423
9. 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: 2,248
10. 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: 7,302
11. 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: 1,499
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: 8,854 | Gross: $0.70M
13. 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: 2,535
14. Where is Gilgamesh? (2024)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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
Votes: 18
15. 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: 4,437
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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: 2,830 | Gross: $0.02M
19. 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: 3,093 | Gross: $0.00M
20. 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: 685
21. 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: 427
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. 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: 1,121
24. 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: 2,753
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: 2,910 | Gross: $0.00M
26. 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: 1,626 | Gross: $0.14M
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. 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: 1,243
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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: 6
32. 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: 1,819
33. 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
34. 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: 2,136 | Gross: $0.06M
35. 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: 1,548 | Gross: $0.20M
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. 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
38. 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
39. Come to My Voice (2014)
105 min | Drama
This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a life-time, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
Director: Hüseyin Karabey | Stars: Tuncay Akdemir, Selim Bulut, Sabahettin DAG, Feride Gezer
Votes: 374
40. 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
41. 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
42. Kleine Freiheit (2003)
102 min | Drama
Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran... See full summary »
Director: Yüksel Yavuz | Stars: Cagdas Bozkurt, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Leroy Delmar, Sunay Girisken
Votes: 188
43. Fratricide (2005)
90 min | Drama
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them ... See full summary »
Director: Yilmaz Arslan | Stars: Xevat Gectan, Erdal Celik, Bulent Buyukasik, Nurretin Celik
Votes: 322
44. 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: 1,890 | Gross: $0.00M
45. 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
46. 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
47. Jiyan (2002)
102 min | Drama, Romance, War
Five years following the infamous chemical and biological bombing of Halabja, Diyari, a Kurdish/ American good Samaritan, returns to his homeland to build an orphanage in what is left of ... See full summary »
Director: Jano Rosebiani | Stars: Kurdo Galali, Pirshang Berzinji, Choman Hawrami, Enwer Shexani
Votes: 119
48. 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
49. Kurdistan, la guerre des filles (2016 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Mylène Sauloy | Stars: Ayla Akat, Sakine Cansiz, Aysel Dogan, Gültan Kisanak
Votes: 48
50. 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