Best award winning movies with an overarching theme from Iraq
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an overarching theme from Iraq! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an overarching theme 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
- 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
- 6.709
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
- 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
- 7.0
6 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
7 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