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85
8.0
/22043/
80
/299/
77
/232/
4.2
/18005/
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
/26076/
80
/658/
79
/427/
4.4
/121064/
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
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.7
/659805/
76
/16909/
72
/8683/
3.7
/438461/
96
/360/
90
/10915/
86
/45/
cc age 16+

Argo (2012)
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
poster
80
7.8
/9343/
74
/98/
74
/84/
3.7
/4372/
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
/9406/
74
/117/
76
/113/
3.9
/6286/
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
/13675/
74
/246/
71
/187/
4.1
/30634/
97
/32/
84
/125/
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
78
7.1
/186126/
70
/4442/
66
/2189/
3.5
/73354/
94
/131/
77
/3831/
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
/1233320/
81
/34519/
78
/15156/
3.9
/844592/
73
/254/
90
/58004/
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
/4520/
66
/45/
62
/53/
3.6
/1402/
89
/62/
88
/117/
75
/25/

In This World (2003)
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
poster
fuboTV
75
7.3
/561251/
74
/21676/
74
/13366/
3.4
/511212/
71
/299/
84
/7198/
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
/37465/
65
/733/
65
/475/
3.6
/41489/
92
/86/
78
/725/
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
79
71
7.9
/15260/
74
/135/
73
/126/
3.9
/9419/
77
/13/
94
/47/

The Road (1982)
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
poster
Kanopy
75
70
7.5
/7787/
73
/181/
71
/254/
3.6
/4091/
87
/30/
86
/148/
61
/7/

Welcome (2009)
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
poster
Netflix
68
7.0
/221355/
70
/5644/
66
/3061/
3.6
/246119/
60
/196/
68
/13149/
58
/40/
cc age 16+

Jarhead (2005)
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
poster
66
6.8
/146751/
68
/4616/
64
/2301/
3.1
/39875/
53
/188/
57
/6290/
63
/38/
cc age 17+

Green Zone (2010)
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.5
/10957/
65
/722/
69
/554/
3.0
/8198/

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.5
/2997/
72
/89/
70
/85/
3.4
/2547/
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
/51182/
60
/936/
61
/662/
3.0
/22037/
57
/220/
42
/4998/
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
75
60
7.2
/3288/
72
/25/
64
/28/
3.7
/1457/
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
/5669/
76
/46/
75
/40/
3.9
/3103/

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
60
6.5
/359556/
66
/12977/
62
/6194/
3.0
/407140/
56
/219/
45
/5591/
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
77
58
7.8
/10987/
72
/79/
73
/56/
3.6
/3790/
91
/20/

Lovelorn (2005)
A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ends up in the seedier parts of the city. …
poster
68
57
6.8
/3009/
64
/20/
66
/40/
3.5
/1962/
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
/2222/
70
/27/
66
/38/
3.6
/946/
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
77
51
7.0
/2727/
68
/48/
71
/93/
3.5
/1828/
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
76
50
7.1
/1687/
71
/38/
66
/17/
3.6
/542/
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.
poster
50
5.5
/25540/
55
/414/
50
/308/
2.6
/5287/
39
/182/
31
/2822/
45
/37/
cc age 14+

American Dreamz (2006)
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
poster
71
49
7.7
/3041/
58
/17/
58
/12/
3.7
/1990/
89

The Tenants (1987)
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
poster
78
49
7.9
/4598/
75
/35/
71
/29/
3.8
/1910/
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.
poster
48
5.9
/87045/
61
/2718/
60
/1617/
2.7
/46323/
20
/163/
40
/9357/
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
47
7.2
/1602/
77
/24/
72
/18/
3.8
/807/
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
HBO Max Amazon Channel
47
5.7
/101139/
69
/14452/
60
/3535/
2.6
/49884/
30
/57/
40
/512/
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
/1700/
60
/15/
69
/12/
3.6
/499/
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
/1946/
58
/19/
57
/27/
3.6
/1786/
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
The Roku Channel
51
44
5.7
/15926/
54
/191/
56
/138/
2.6
/3043/
37
/24/

Five Minarets in New York (2010)
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served time for murder. This tale love, friendship, peace and prejudices, takes us on a journey seeking to answer the question of whether innocence or guilt even matters to one who lusts for vengeance.
poster
61
43
6.3
/7558/
61
/57/
53
/50/
3.0
/3201/
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
Kanopy
43
5.7
/13275/
61
/661/
58
/293/
2.7
/6237/
18
/80/
36
/77/
39
/18/
cc age 14+

Queen of the Desert (2015)
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
poster
63
38
7.2
/2121/
55
/30/
59
/25/
3.4
/1060/
59

Jîn (2013)
A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly beautiful mountainous country is home to 17-year-old Jîn. But she is no longer safe since she secretly stole away from a group of rebels with whom she was fighting. Now she wanders the picturesque landscape alone, caught between two fronts. All of a sudden, the sound of gunfire and explosions rend the air above the untouched natural scenery. Attack is threatened from all sides. Desperate to find peace, Jîn decides to escape to another part of the country – an impossible plan, since the military is omnipresent and there are road blocks everywhere. As a Kurd without identity papers she risks arrest at every turn. In addition, as a woman with no family to shield her, many men will see her as fair game. But her courage is unbroken.
poster
65
35
6.6
/332/
65
/7/
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
Amazon Prime Video
55
31
5.4
/2929/
69
/21/
57
/33/
2.1
/1184/

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
29
7.6
/1906/
73
/23/
70
/17/
3.6
/821/

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
/428/
63
/13/
72
/10/
3.4
/758/
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
71
21
7.3
/1382/
60
/15/
63
/19/
3.6
/602/
88
/4/

Before Your Eyes (2009)
After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street
poster
59
20
5.7
/739/
56
/26/
59
/38/
3.2
/276/

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
17
6.6
/760/
60
/11/
59
/10/
3.4
/885/

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
6.6
/603/
65
/2/
62
/10/
3.5
/811/

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
70
12
7.1
/663/
60
/9/
73
/13/
3.5
/286/
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
/1101/
59
/13/
49
/7/
3.4
/611/
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.


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