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War in afghanistan movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant war in afghanistan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, suspense and serious films and TV shows about / with war in afghanistan, military, soldier, war, danger, survival, helicopter, murder, heroes and violence plots mostly in War, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as war in afghanistan: The Rogue (2020), 12 Strong (2018), The Covenant (2023), Kajaki (2014), The Patrol (2013), A War (2015), Days of Hell (1986), Black Shark (1993), Lone Survivor (2013), Code Name: Geronimo (2012).
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List of war in afghanistan movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Story:
Selected from an elite military unit post-9/11, Special Agent Mike Cutler carries out a dangerous mission to track and trace Al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, only to find himself at the center of a deadly conspiracy.
Plot:
spy, war on terror, hitman, war in afghanistan, covert operation, war, black ops, terrorist, cia agent, government, cia, torture ...
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
100K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Style:
touching, anamorphic, historical drama, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, taliban, war on terror, behind enemy lines, heroism, military, cia, us military, war in afghanistan, special forces, machismo, commando mission ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa
Is relevant?
205K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, powerful ...
Plot:
war in afghanistan, ambush, american soldier, shooter, military, soldier, translator, sniper, brotherhood, friendship, chase, taliban ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
afghanistan, los angeles
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Style:
bleak, exciting, tense, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
war, soldier, war in afghanistan, minefield, bravery, military, british army, desert, danger, heroic mission, tough heroes, battle zone ...
Time:
year 2006, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Morocco
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, military, british army, soldier, isolation, military life, danger, confined, chaos, war on terror, army, anti war ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, morocco, middle east
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a ...
Style:
social, psychological, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
war in afghanistan, trial, court case, war zone, islam, soldier, officer, witness, killed in action, murder, war on terror, lawyer ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
afghanistan, somalia, iraq, denmark
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This fast-paced film stars (Conrad Nichols) as the tough Captain Williams, head of a crack commando squad who goes into Afghanistan to save the U.S.S.R. -- and indirectly, the U.S. -- from some very bad publicity. A journalist and his daughter have ...
Style:
fast paced, suspenseful, action adventure, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
war in afghanistan, hostage, rescue mission, conspiracy, cover up, suspicion, cold war era, espionage, violent, betrayal, cold war, survival ...
Time:
80s
Place:
afghanistan, iran
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Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film takes place during the Afghan war in an area where, by agreement of the warring parties, no military action was conducted. Taking advantage of this convenient circumstance, local mafioso Karakhan secretly built a drug factory here. US ...
Style:
tense, action packed, suspense
Plot:
war in afghanistan, drug traffic, military operation, us military, mafia, violent, espionage, explosions, sabotage, violent content, black ops, political corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
322K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style:
rough, captivating, inspirational, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, survival, soldier, gunfight, war, terrorism, death, squad, courage, military life, special forces, war on terror ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa, iraq, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the rumored whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are revealed, the CIA readies a team of seasoned U.S. Navy SEALs for the mission of a lifetime. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin Laden is inside the compound, and ignoring the possible ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, top secret, military, navy seal, manhunt, mastermind, terrorist, heroic mission, wanted, once in a lifetime opportunity, government agency, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, usa, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, perverse, brutal, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, combat, u.s. army, war, death, taliban, military operation, politics, roadblock, danger, battles, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, year 2009, year 2006, year 1984 ...
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Special Ops military Force, led by expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler, are sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American congressman being held by the Taliban.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sniper, war in afghanistan, violence, heroism, courage, war, heroes, heroic mission, battles, gunfight, danger, special ops ...
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, action thriller
Plot:
taliban, war in afghanistan, navy seal, rescue mission, child in peril, children in wartime, problem, battles, fight, survival, threat, soldier ...
Place:
afghanistan, pentagon, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Story:
Having been shot out of the sky and lost his entire crew, Major Michael Parson finds himself in the middle of an Afghan blizzard with only Army Sgt. Sophia Gold and her high value prisoner fighting for survival against a treacherous Taliban radical.
Plot:
war in afghanistan, duty, military, courage, rescue, mission
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
Andrei Potyomkin, frontier guard cadet, learns that his MIA father who fought in the Soviet-Afghan war is accused of treason. He is trying to find out the truth about his father's death, and together with a young promising journalist Alyona ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense
Plot:
army, female journalist, betrayal, soldier, father son relationship, military, war crime, investigative journalism, expose, investigative reporter, anti war, organized crime ...
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Afghanistan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, disturbing, intercultural ...
Plot:
soldier, journalism, military, heroes, freedom fighter, fight, state affairs, danger, hostage, war, conflict, prisoners of war ...
Time:
80s, september 11 2001
Place:
afghanistan, soviet union, middle east, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every Marine has a story, some they're proud of, other they'd rather forget. After coming home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan suffering from PTSD, Luke Stephens wants nothing more than to forget. What happens when our soldiers come ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, war in afghanistan, marine, ptsd, soldier, post traumatic stress disorder, veteran, military, family relations, brothers, life is a bitch, social problems ...
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
soldier, translator, culture clash, gain trust, danger, battle zone, friendship, war in afghanistan, military, village, murder, death threat ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan, middle east
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
American journalist Charlie Palmer gets permission to meet Russian soldiers in a camp controlled by Tali-ban. While the Russian soldiers take over the camp Charlie films it all.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense, political drama
Plot:
war in afghanistan, journalist, pow, escape, taliban, conflict, brutality, confined, captivity, danger, behind enemy lines, fear ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the supernatural thriller The Objective, writer-director Daniel Myrick locates the action in a remote mountain region on Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, military, mission, soldier, cia agent, survival, survival horror, danger, supernatural, terrorism, supernatural ability, taliban ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, morocco
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
Style:
exciting, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hallucination, desert, survival, u.s. marine, landmine, soldier, stranded, parent child relationship, war zone, military operation, wilderness survival, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, stylized, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue mission, military, war, battlefield, battles, chaos and mayhem, battle zone, violent, rescue, squad, danger, courage ...
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
taliban, military, chase, soldier, war zone, kidnapping, tough heroes, daring rescue, danger, rescue, swat team, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan
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Genre: War
Country: Russia, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A drama about the last days of a specific Russian regiment stationed in Afghanistan, before the main troop withdrawal in 1985.
Plot:
soviet army, war in afghanistan, perestroika, soviet afghanistan war, air force, cavalry, cold war era, military officer, father son relationship, son, killing, amputee ...
Time:
80s
Place:
afghanistan, ussr, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Afghanistan, spring of the 1985th.
Style:
breathtaking, compassionate, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prospector, reconnaissance, torture, soviet afghanistan war, weapons, soldier, danger, war, team, murder, saving a life, heroes ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ussr, afghanistan
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
Style:
sexy, gothic, realistic, bleak, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tank, politics, military, soldier, war in afghanistan, vengeance, international relations, brutality, revenge, anti communist, desert, cavalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, israel, vietnam, russia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot:
military, post traumatic stress disorder, iraq war, sex scene, soldier, profanity, ptsd, haunted by the past, rage, homecoming, war zone, jihad ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iraq
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Markus, a deployed military man, has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which ...
Style:
dark comedy, suspense, captivating, funny, sincere ...
Plot:
revenge, father daughter relationship, vengeance, gay subtext, psychology, organized crime, obsessive compulsive disorder, male prostitute, soldier, hacker, revenge killing, statistics ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
cairo egypt, copenhagen, denmark, afghanistan, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
The story involves an Australian platoon in the Afghanistan war, forced to come home following the death of their leader. A murder mystery involving the now deceased Captain Ted Nordenfelt ensues.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
military, military life, soldier, life is a bitch, veteran, ptsd, secret, military officer, multiple storylines, wartime life, social problems, cover up ...
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Thailand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Style:
sexy, erotic, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
top secret, soldier, terrorist, swat team, heroes, mission, military, undercover, one man army, daring rescue, heroic mission, teamwork ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
pakistan, middle east, afghanistan, sudan, chicago ...
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