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

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rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #135 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #166 for
    blasphemous
  3. Ranked #280 for
    with mercenaries

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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

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #462 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #538 for
    tetchy
  3. Ranked #606 for
    murky

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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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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1019 for
    Independent Film
  2. Ranked #1067 for
    juicy atmosphere
  3. Ranked #1678 for
    cinema verite

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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

rating icon 6.709
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    realistic fight scenes
  2. Ranked #28 for
    feeling lucky
  3. Ranked #28 for
    heroic

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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

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #440 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #789 for
    grease monkey
  3. Ranked #1557 for
    foster father

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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

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    dialed down acting
  2. Ranked #2358 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #3165 for
    melodious song

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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

rating icon 7.561
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #474 for
    foster father
  2. Ranked #2377 for
    tug at heartstrings
  3. Ranked #2548 for
    with mercenaries

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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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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5928 for
    can't make heads or tails
  2. Ranked #7420 for
    allusive
  3. Ranked #7689 for
    tight writing

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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

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5840 for
    instantly gratifying
  2. Ranked #7587 for
    prideful
  3. Ranked #8445 for
    like Scarface

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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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Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10547 for
    startling image
  2. Ranked #16264 for
    mainstream
  3. Ranked #19276 for
    for intellectual exercise

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