Best award winning movies with a dramatic structure from Iraq
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a dramatic structure from Iraq! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a dramatic structure from Iraq, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Only the Dead (2015)
A searing account of war correspondent Michael Ware's seven years reporting in Iraq--an extraordinary journey that takes him into the darkest recesses of the Iraq War and the human soul.
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- 2015-06-11 | Documentary
Cast
- Michael Ware
Rating
- 7.5
2 Turtles Can Fly (2005)
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
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- 2005-01-07 | Drama
Cast
- Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
Rating
- 7.7
3 Leaving Baghdad (2010)
Leaving Baghdad is a road movie that follows Sadik, the personal cameraman to the leader Saddam Hussein, at the end of the nineties. Sadik is trying to escape the grip of the regime, being pursued from country to country, encountering smugglers and crooks on his journey. Sadik suffers from paranoia and constant fear. The Iraqi secret police are after him because he is carrying evidence of the atrocities committed by the regime. Sadik is dreaming to go to London, to join his wife who is, however, unwilling to help. In his despair and loneliness, Sadik writes letters to his son, Semir. These letters turn into a confession and reveal Sadik's past and the real reason for his fleeing , the endless waiting and his paranoia.
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- 2010-12-20 |
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- 0.0
4 Mosul (2019)
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
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- 2019-09-04 | War / Drama
Cast
- Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa
Rating
- 6.709
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5 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.
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- 2009-05-01 | Drama / War
Cast
- Shazada Hussein, Yasser Talib
Rating
- 7.2
6 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.
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- 2021-08-25 | Drama
Cast
- Avan Jamal, Vania Salar
Rating
- 7.6
7 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.
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- 2012-11-30 | Drama
Cast
- Zamand Taha, Sarwar Fazil
Rating
- 7.561
8 Underexposure (2005)
Iraqi filmmaker Hassan documents the lives of his friends and neighbors in the tumultuous days following the U.S. invasion of his country.
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- 2005-08-04 |
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- 0.0
9 Our River... Our Sky (2023)
In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of unpredictable violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and novelist, who regains her will to write after witnessing the forced exile of her Christian neighbour and best friend Sabiha. With the news of Saddam Hussein's sudden execution shortly before the New Year, Sara and her neighbours brace themselves for an uncertain future. Yet, like a miracle, each is able to sustain a fragile sense of hope.
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- 2023-07-06 | Drama / War
Cast
- Darina Al Joundi, Zainab Al-Ghanimi
Rating
- 7.0
10 Life (2001)
"Jiyan" takes place in Halabja about five years after Saddam's infamous chemical attack in 1988. Diyari (Kurdo Galali) has come from his new homeland, America, to put up a badly needed new orphanage. As construction proceeds, he gradually becomes acquainted with the tragic individual stories of the survivors. Prime among these is orphan girl Jiyan (Pirsheng Berzinji), and her lively young cousin Sherko (Choman Hawrami). Although he seems to fit right into life in this impoverished town, Diyari can hardly absorb the catastrophe that hit there, nor can he accept the level of injury that he encounters. When the orphanage is ready, Diyari says his goodbyes, plunging Jiyan back into quiet despair.
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- 2001-04-12 | Drama / Romance
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- 6.0