Best award winning movies with an artistic approach from Iraq
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an artistic approach from Iraq! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an artistic approach 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 Europa (2021)
Kamal, a young Iraqi man entering Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is captured by Bulgarian border police but escapes, finding himself to search for a way out in a seemingly interminable forest, an underworld where rules and laws don’t exist, where he is wounded and chased by Bulgarian migrant hunters. For three days and three nights Kamal must fight for his life through a journey of survival until a final life-or-death confrontation.
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- 2021-09-02 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Adam Ali, Svetla Yancheva
Rating
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6.0
3 Killing the Eunuch Khan (2021)
Thrown back into a dusty 1980s and the height of the Iran/Iraq war, the film is a meditation on the cycles of violence and war and their infectious qualities. Clean, architectural sets are washed over by rivers of blood, as historical grievances are played back like excerpts from a documentary.
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- 2021-11-24 | Crime / Science Fiction
Cast
- Ebrahim Azizi, Iman Basim
Rating
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7.2
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4 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
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7.6
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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 Kilometer Zero (2005)
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
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- 2005-05-12 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Nazmi Kırık, Eyam Ekrem
Rating
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5.3
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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7.561
9 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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6.709
10 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