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85
8.0
/22189/
80
/300/
78
/234/
4.2
/19730/
87
/71/
93
/687/
85
/31/

Turtles Can Fly (2005)
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.2
/26359/
80
/660/
80
/433/
4.4
/125883/
89
/19/
88
/179/
92
/15/

Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
poster
Hoopla
80
7.7
/9407/
74
/98/
75
/85/
3.7
/4677/
89
/62/
90
/166/
79
/25/

Baran (2001)
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
poster
78
7.7
/9433/
74
/117/
75
/115/
3.9
/6443/
86
/36/
86
/1/
78
/24/

A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
78
7.4
/13812/
74
/254/
71
/188/
4.1
/32119/
97
/32/
84
/126/
87
/19/

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish 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.
poster
Hoopla
78
7.1
/186666/
70
/4548/
66
/2219/
3.5
/75503/
94
/131/
77
/3832/
82
/34/
cc age 16+

Three Kings (1999)
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
poster
77
8.1
/1237947/
81
/35073/
78
/15273/
3.9
/880735/
73
/254/
90
/58000/
62
/39/
cc age 18+

V for Vendetta (2006)
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
poster
75
7.3
/564338/
74
/21877/
74
/13431/
3.4
/533475/
71
/299/
84
/7194/
73
/48/
cc age 17+

American Sniper (2014)
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
6.9
/37737/
65
/744/
65
/483/
3.6
/43468/
92
/86/
78
/726/
73
/32/

The Limey (1999)
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
poster
76
68
8.0
/36779/
74
/182/
72
/137/
3.9
/7010/
79
/37/

The Breath (2009)
A small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.5
/613/
66
/8/
50
/3/
70
/20/
68
/37/
60
/13/

Brothers at War (2009)
BROTHERS AT WAR is 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 film follows Jake’s exploits as he risks everything—including his life—to tell his brothers’ story.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.5
/3015/
72
/89/
70
/85/
3.4
/2551/
48
/52/
80
/9/
51
/17/

Girls of the Sun (2018)
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.3
/51279/
60
/943/
61
/665/
3.0
/22655/
57
/220/
42
/4996/
56
/36/
cc age 15+

W. (2008)
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to invade Iraq.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
60
7.5
/7520/
73
/204/
70
/132/
3.4
/437/
83
/6/
99
/26/

Mosul (2019)
An Iraqi journalist joins an army of uneasy allies and unforgettable characters in the epic battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.
poster
75
60
7.2
/3298/
72
/25/
64
/28/
3.7
/1512/
100
/24/
77
/47/
72
/9/

Half Moon (2006)
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 sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
poster
77
60
8.1
/5693/
76
/46/
75
/41/
3.9
/3319/

The Herd (1979)
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
6.5
/362455/
66
/13228/
62
/6265/
3.0
/443425/
56
/219/
45
/5590/
58
/41/
cc age 16+

The Dictator (2012)
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
poster
68
57
6.8
/3021/
64
/20/
66
/40/
3.5
/2040/
74
/34/
75
/51/
64
/13/

Blackboards (2000)
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 group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
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73
55
6.8
/2226/
70
/27/
66
/39/
3.6
/999/
93
/30/
73
/68/
69
/16/

Vodka Lemon (2003)
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 lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
poster
60
54
6.5
/10921/
62
/237/
60
/169/
3.1
/1519/
53
/176/

Triage (2009)
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
poster
76
53
7.5
/6322/
72
/65/
74
/111/
3.7
/2946/
86
/12/

Bekas (2012)
Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.
poster
77
51
7.0
/2737/
68
/50/
71
/93/
3.5
/1898/
100
/10/
83
/4/

My Sweet Pepper Land (2014)
Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
poster
Netflix
63
50
6.4
/2863/
71
/353/
66
/46/
3.1
/3903/
52
/7/
cc age 10+

Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
poster
76
50
7.1
/1692/
71
/38/
66
/17/
3.6
/561/
91
/65/
79
/152/
84
/26/

Iraq in Fragments (2006)
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
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78
49
7.9
/4616/
74
/36/
71
/31/
3.8
/1966/
93
/11/

The Wall (1983)
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
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48
5.9
/87371/
61
/2771/
60
/1638/
2.7
/48261/
20
/163/
40
/9354/
45
/31/
cc age 14+

The Invasion (2007)
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
poster
80
48
7.2
/1605/
76
/25/
72
/18/
3.8
/888/
100
/12/
85
/31/

Son of Babylon (2009)
A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
poster
61
47
6.3
/7579/
61
/57/
53
/51/
3.0
/3303/
65
/15/
66
/6/

Rhino Season (2012)
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 he's been dead for over twenty years.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
47
5.7
/101819/
69
/14503/
60
/3561/
2.6
/52344/
30
/57/
40
/514/
38
/15/
cc age 17+

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.
poster
76
45
7.4
/1704/
60
/15/
69
/12/
3.6
/517/
93
/27/
82
/19/
88
/14/

Marooned in Iraq (2002)
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 border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
poster
65
44
7.0
/1951/
58
/19/
58
/28/
3.6
/1847/
72
/10/

Journey to the Sun (1999)
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from 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 mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
poster
Hoopla
70
37
7.5
/2956/
76
/20/
69
/12/
3.1
/2054/

Walnut Tree (2020)
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan 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 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
poster
65
37
6.1
/1628/
65
/97/
71
/147/
3.2
/793/

Sisters in Arms (2019)
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
poster
65
35
6.6
/331/
65
/8/
47
/14/
90
/10/
59
/15/
68
/9/

Fratricide (2005)
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 into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge.
poster
65
31
5.4
/1286/
60
/4/
48
/8/
91
/11/

Auction of Souls (1919)
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
31
5.4
/2938/
69
/21/
58
/33/
2.1
/1197/

Damascus Time (2018)
Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
poster
72
30
7.6
/1919/
73
/23/
70
/17/
3.6
/926/

Big Man, Little Love (2001)
An orphaned Kurdish child (Hêjar) and a Turkish pensioner (Rıfat) are thrown together by circumstance. Rıfat, a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics. He is forced out of his solitude, when Hêjar the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home. Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.
poster
78
28
6.8
/434/
63
/13/
72
/10/
3.4
/779/
100
/5/
100
/2/

The Exam (2021)
Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.
poster
66
27
6.6
/1570/
60
/22/
54
/20/
3.6
/2184/
79
/1/

Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Sumru, a young ethnomusicologist in search of her lost lover, leaves Istanbul for a three-month research project in Diyarbakır. While crossing paths with locals and tracing the pains of others through a music project based on Anatolian mournings, she comes to confront the remnants of her own agony.
poster
71
21
7.3
/1389/
60
/15/
63
/19/
3.6
/613/
88
/4/

Before Your Eyes (2009)
After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street.
poster
59
21
5.7
/746/
56
/26/
59
/38/
3.2
/306/

The Wild Men of Kurdistan (1965)
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
poster
63
18
6.5
/765/
60
/11/
59
/11/
3.4
/910/

In Nowhere Land (2002)
Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate.
poster
65
16
6.7
/609/
65
/2/
62
/10/
3.5
/873/

Zer (2017)
Zer is the story of a song, whispered to Jan's ear on his grandmother's deathbed. A survivor of Dersim Massacre, Zarife hid her identity, her past in her memory of this song. Raised in NYC, Jan begins a journey through Kurdistan, searching for his grandma's past and his own self.
poster
Pluto TV
53
13
5.4
/495/
58
/41/
60
/20/
42
/3/

Beyond Paradise (2015)
Haunted by a tragic past, 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.
poster
70
12
7.1
/664/
60
/9/
73
/13/
3.5
/291/
80
/1/

Zagros (2017)
Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumours of her having an affair. Zagros brushes his father’s concerns away as he trusts his wife and refuses to give credit to the rumours. Later, while Zagros tends to his sheep, he learns that his family have accused Havin of adultery and locked her up. Zagros returns to his village but finds his wife and daughter gone. Havin has fled to the west with their daughter and unborn child. Zagros, believing his wife’s innocence and opposing his father, travels to Istanbul and meets a smuggler who can take him to the west…
poster
Hoopla
68
12
6.6
/1110/
59
/13/
50
/8/
3.4
/621/
100
/1/

Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando (2008)
Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
11
5.9
/891/
65
/11/
73
/3/
3.0
/552/

Kifn (2024)
In the 2000s, several families in Sulaimani were recording videos and archiving their family memories in various ways. Peri, in her early teens, has just gotten married. Her mother passed away when she was very young, so she spent her entire life living with her aunt and cousin. Her aunt and cousin arranged her marriage to someone outside their family, which later caused significant problems in her and her husband's life. These issues eventually forced Peri to revisit the old family archives to find a way to resolve their troubles.
poster
47
10
3.7
/597/
30
/8/
38
/6/
3.0
/612/

July 14 (2017)
Turkey, after the 1980 military coup. In the notorious Diyarbakır prison, the prisoners decide to resist the torture. 14 July 1982 is the day when the biggest resistance starts.


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