Best award winning movies with visual storytelling from Iraq
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with visual storytelling from Iraq! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with visual storytelling 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 Memories on Stone (2014)
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
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- 2014-07-06 | Drama
Cast
- Nazmi Kırık, Shima Molaei
Rating
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6.2
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 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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6 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
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 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
