Best award winning movies with a fresh perspective from Iraq
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a fresh perspective from Iraq! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a fresh perspective from Iraq, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
2 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
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7.5
3 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
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6.7
4 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
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7.2
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5 Haifa Street (2019)
2006, Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicenter of the conflict. Ahmed gets dropped off there by a taxi on his way to his beloved Suad's home to ask for her hand for marriage, he gets shot by Salam, a sniper who's living his own personal hell on a rooftop above.
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- 2019-10-05 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Ali Thamer, Asaad Abdul Majeed
Rating
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7.0
6 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.
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- 2006-08-21 | Music / Drama
Cast
- Golshifteh Farahani, Ismail Ghaffari
Rating
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6.4
7 Bekas (2010)
Two homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers.
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- 2010-11-18 | Drama / Family
Cast
- Zamand Taha, Sarwar Fazil
Rating
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5.5
8 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
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7.6
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
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7.0
10 Zero Nine (2021)
A detective abandoned his daughter right after his wife's death for a governmental mission. This made her daughter angry. He risks his life to find his daughters missing best friend in order to fix their relationship. Their search leads them to face a deadly organ trafficking band who has blackmailed a doctor for harvesting the organs.
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- 2021-03-04 | Action / Crime
Cast
- Mahir Hasan, Shwan Attoof
Rating
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5.0
