| Welcome (2009) | 7.5 | |
| Jani gal (2007) | 7.8 | |
| Rhino Season (2012) | 6.3 | |
| The Edge of Heaven (2007) | 7.7 | |
| Jin (2013) | 7.2 |
Kurd movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant kurd movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, bleak and emotional films and TV shows about / with kurd, life is a bitch, family relations, politics, society, survival, human rights, muslim, love and friendship plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in France, Germany, Turkey and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kurd: Girls of the Sun (2018), On the Old Roman Road (2001), A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Half Moon (2006), Jin (2013), Marooned in Iraq (2002), Before Your Eyes (2009), Come to My Voice (2014), Big Man, Little Love (2001), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999).
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Style:
independent film, islamic
Plot:
kurd, isis, islam, partisan, terrorist, woman with a gun, woman, female terrorist, propaganda, extremist, military, journalism ...
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, maghreb
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Armenia, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In Holland, a group of Armenian terrorists have swung into action, murdering a Turkish intelligence agent and holding his son for ransom. As the battle of wits between the terrorists and the Dutch police plays itself out, an author from Armenia ...
Style:
explicit, erotic
Plot:
sex scene, making love, oedipus complex, children, terrorist, overprotective mother, armenian genocide, barber, turk, voice over narration, nudity, politician ...
Place:
rotterdam netherlands
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
meditative, emotional, harsh, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
kurd, coming of age, children, youth, smuggling, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, parents and children, family in crisis, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, iraq ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Austria, France, Iran, Iraq
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
kurd, on the road, follow your dream, musician's life, social relations, self discovery, against the rules, renaissance, music, composer, independence, dictatorship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, persia, turkey, iraq ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
kurd, life is a bitch, social problems, society, partisan, social issues, social relations, terrorist, female terrorist, lonely, feminist, resistance ...
Place:
middle east, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in ...
Style:
sincere, serious, sentimental, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
kurd, military life, treasure hunt, escapades, self discovery, daring rescue, orphan, musician's life, military, estrangement, battles, on the road ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
iraq, kurdistan, iran, middle east, persia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
kurd, youth, terrorist, survival, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, orphan, siblings relations, family relations, street life, disappearance, children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
turkey, kurdistan, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
Style:
serious, touching, atmospheric, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
kurd, family relations, against the odds, youth, elderly, obsessive quest, false arrest, family in crisis, on the road, military, injustice, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hejar, meaning "Dispossessed", a little Kurdish orphan war victim, educates a Turkish judge!
Style:
sincere, sentimental, suspense, political, islamic ...
Plot:
kurd, racism, nationalism, political oppression, children, orphan, neighbor, cultural difference, injustice, old man, police, murder ...
Place:
kurdistan, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
kurd, countryside, small town, village, fish out of water, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, death, existentialism ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
kurd, refugee, family drama, immigration, social problems, social issues, relationship problems, teenage protagonist, teenager, female protagonist, adolescence, teenage girl ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style:
political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, child abuse, revolutionary, female nudity, nude young male, social injustice, traumatic childhood, sex crime, racial discrimination ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
Style:
islamic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, iraq iran war, kurd, love, wartime, relationships, male female relationship, moral dilemma, sacrifice, frontline, anti war, humanism ...
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, intense, grim ...
Plot:
kurd, brother sister relationship, brother, problem, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, trauma, loss, diaspora, identity, activism ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iraq, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he faces his own inner demons.
Style:
psychotronic, crime drama, surprise ending, neo noir, cult classic ...
Plot:
kurd, isis, possessed girl, heist, iraq war, mythology, myth, egyptian mythology, bricklayer, love, roman mythology, money ...
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, ottoman empire, iran, egypt ...
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Genre: History
Country: Iraq
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years later, traveling the globe working for Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Diplomat Herro Mustafa invites her ...
Style:
intercultural, reflective
Plot:
kurd, immigration, american dream, refugee, resilience, courage, inspiration, diplomat, assimilation, hopes, storytelling, identity ...
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
poverty, women, cleaning lady, kurd, dysfunctional family, single mother, breakup, everyday life, working class, motherhood, cleaning, female friendship ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and dreams of one day living in Australia. Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt), meanwhile, is a Kurdish ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, bleak, independent film, tense
Plot:
coming of age, kurd, revenge, gay, immigration, illegal immigrant, deportation, diaspora, friendship, survival, refugee, alienation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hamburg germany, kurdistan
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iraq, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Jiyan" takes place in Halabja about five years after Saddam's infamous chemical attack in 1988. Diyari (Kurdo Galali) has come from his new homeland, America, to put up a badly needed new orphanage. As construction proceeds, he ...
Plot:
kurd, children, hopes, genocide, political oppression, tragedy, love, magazine, poison gas, good samaritan, swing, massacre ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
iraq, kurdistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
wedding, chase, young heroes, survival, on the run, family relations, family life, on the road, reluctant hero, winter, boy, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, turkey, germany, greece ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot:
kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, orphan, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship, injustice, society, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, kurdistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, danger, terrorism, military, heroes, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, kurd, brother brother relationship, rescue mission ...
Time:
90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, baghdad iraq, jordan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
friendship, childhood, redemption, islam, muslim, coming of age, mission, guilt, courage, bully, rape, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, china, middle east, california, iraq ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a midwife to help his pregnant wife, years ago. As he has been arrested during a demonstration the authorities thought he is one of the opposition group ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, tension, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kurd, oppression, wrongful imprisonment, injustice, resilience, survival, mistaken identity, prison sentence, social realism, political unrest, family reunited, child ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
kurdistan, iraq
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, society, nothing goes right, immigrant, disorder, kurd, muslim, dark humor, misfit, life is a bitch, communication problem ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
iraq, paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
The story is real story that tells about a man's life who has a very influential philosopher that had lived in between 1877-1960. His name is 'Said Nursi' and he is originally Kurdish. But, he speaks perfectly Turkish, Kurdish, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, controversial, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
disagreement, redemption, life is a bitch, society, politics, injustice, repression, religions or cults, political unrest, hopes, humble, kurd ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ottoman empire, turkey
Is relevant?
745
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, thought provoking, political thriller
Plot:
kurd, journalism, media, political unrest, politics, society, realism, workplace, rivalry, oppression, investigative journalism, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, turkey
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Style:
road movie, art house, political, black and white, psychological ...
Plot:
kurd, racism, prison, love, muslim, turk, nationalism, road trip, lonely, labor, social commentary, strike ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
kurdistan, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, touching, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, human spirit, wartime life, life is a bitch, hopes, elderly, family problems, haunted by the past, kurd, dealing with death, mountain, lost
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
homeless, brother brother relationship, hopes, kurd, survival, coming of age, siblings relations, follow your dream, family relations, life is a bitch, dictatorship, child ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
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