War in the Middle East
In recent years, the Middle East has always been under tension. War is also one of the causes of this disintegration and is the subject of many films.
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- DirectorMohammad Ali Bashe AhangarStarsHossein AhangarHamid Reza AzarangHooman BarghnavardDuring the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...
- DirectorShakhwan IdreesStarsTaha AghajanNaser HasanDuring the Iraqi-Iranian war, which started in 1980 and lasted for eight years, a Muslim family in a Kurdish village received from the government the corpse of their son, who had been killed in the war. When they were preparing for the funeral, they discovered that the corpse was not circumcised, and they had doubts that it was their son. Once they told their Christian neighbors about that, the problem grew as each family claimed the body was their son.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsNazmi KirikEyam EkremBelçim BilginSet during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMahmoud HatamikiaRoya NonahaliEbrahim AbadiHaji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniEzzat El AlailiShada SalimThe movie is about the four days battle of Qadisiyya between the Arab army under the command of Saad and the Persian army under the command of Rustam in the year 640 AD in Iraq
- DirectorKhosro MasumiStarsParviz ParastuiMerila Zare'iFarhad AslaniDuring Iran-Iraq war Noor Aldin who is a carpenter is missing. He is captured by Iraqi army. After 8 years he returns home, but finds out that in his absence his wife is married to another man.
- DirectorKiumars PoorahmadStarsKhosro ShakibaiMohammad Reza ForutanAmir Mohammad ZandTwo young Iranian soldiers guard a bus load of prisoners of war on a trip to prison.
- DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsKambiz DirbazArzhang AmirfazliAkbar AbdiThe movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.
- DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsAkbar AbdiHamid AhadiArzhang AmirfazliIn this sequel the deportees are now captured by the Iraqis and are living in a camp. On the other hand their families who are going to Mashad are imprisoned when their airplane is hijacked by some terrorists who want to take it to Iraq. In the camp also they have to deal with the Iraqis who are imprisoned them.
- DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsAkbar AbdiKamand AmirsoleimaniAfshin ArashtanabiehThe war is over and the deportees are back to their homes and each is after his life. A TV-show is trying to meet some old veterans of war. One of them who is very sick should go to hospital but they late and he is near to meet death. This cause his other friends (the deportees) who now are each with a different look to come visit him.
- StarsIgal NaorShohreh AghdashlooMakram KhouryA mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsHadi HejazifarYousef AghaeiMehrdad AhmadiAhmad is an army commander who must confront the enemy at the gates of the Khorramshahr. But his fate is determined far from the Iranian border.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsBabak HamidianHadi HejazifarPierre DagherTwo Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a small Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiMahtab NasirpourGolshifteh FarahaniThis is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
- StarsAmir AghaeeAmir Kaveh AhaninJanShahin AlizadehA political prisoner in Shaah regime who lost his little girl in Tehran City before his conviction, be released and return to his own city (Khorramshahr) after 15 years. In this time his girl knows about her origin and try to find her father, but Iran-Iraq war begins and Iraq army brunt to Khorramshahr City.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiAzita HajianGhasem ZareEven after ten years, Lieutenant Morteza Rashed still has nightmares of corpses and dolls floating around after the fall of the Airbus plane by those who served aboard USS Vincennes at 1988.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsAzita HajianReza KianianParviz ParastuiA man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiReza KianianHabib RezaeiThe Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsNiki KarimiAli MosaffaMohammad Reza SharifiniaMinoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsNiki KarimiAli NasirianJafar DehghanGhafoor is a Taxi Driver whose son is saying to be killed during war but he is refusing to believe it. Although all the evidences proves that his son is dead and everyone believe so, he still is waiting for his beloved son Yousef. Then one day in the airport Ghafoor encounters a strange woman Shirin.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsAli DehkordiHoma RustaHans NoimanSaeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to re-establish the close relationship that they had long time ago.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsHassan AbbasiKobra FarrokhiHabibollah BahmaniAmir insists on celebrating the wedding ceremony despite the dangerous situation made by Iran-Iraq's war.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsGholamreza Ali AkbariHamid Reza CharakchianEbrahim HatamikiaIn Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsSeyed Ali Reza KhatamiSeyed Ebrahim AsgharzadehAli Reza HeydariA man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsJalil FarjadReza AsadiAli GholamiNasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. He has an accident with a child hitting him with his motorcycle. Because of his conscience hurting him badly he returns to Tehran alone. In the way back home he himself has a car accident. An ambulance comes to take him to the hospital but by accident they take him to an hospital of war injures. But he can not remember his true identity so doctors and nurses try hard to help him remember his true identity.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsMehdi AhmadiAteneh Faghih NasiriGhasem ZareWhen Mamhoud is invited to a conference to speak about his new war novel, 'Parental farm,' his aim to discuss war literature in general turns into a much more personal journey. Having lost his family to war, Mamhoud refuses to accept the reality, and begins to believe his wife and children are still alive. While the film unfolds this complex emotional journey in the present, flashbacks tell the story of Mamhoud's war experience, and reveal the heart-breaking mystery of how his family was lost.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsJamshid HashempurGolchehre SajadiehAtila PesianiHeeva Akbari after 15 years of the disappearance of her husband Hamid in the war decides to visit the old house she was living there by her husband. Amir Karami who is the ambassador of Iran in Senegal wants to marry Heeva. He was a friend of her husband during war. But Heeva still is looking for her missing husband and not willing to forget about him though there is some evidences which prove that he has been killed during war.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsHabib AllahyariFarhad AslaniHabib Dehghan NasabVahid is making a movie about the war. He invites a musician friend of himself Ali to compose a theme music for this film. But Ali can not make his mind. So they go to visit the real places of shooting of the film in Chazabeh. There they have a fancy seeing themselves in real time of war and among the soldiers.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsAtefeh RazaviAli YaghoubzadehJamshid EsmailkhaniDuring the war a field hospital is bombard. A group of red crescent helpers bring an injured soldier to take him to the behind lines. But it is not easy at all and in the way they face many difficulties.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsPayam ErisMasume ShakoriAsadolah AsadniaCaptivating images from pastoral northern Iran serve as a backdrop for Mohammad-Ali Talebi's enchanting tale of a boy rendered mute after losing his mother in the Iran-Iraq war. Ostracized by his classmates but doted over by his loving sister, eight-year-old Sahand--whose wan face and haunted eyes evince the unspeakable horrors he's witnessed--becomes obsessed with a wounded white goose. Making wondrous use of classic fantasy elements (the climax unfolds in a misty, magical forest), Wind and Fog is humanist film making at its most affecting.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsJahanbakhsh SoltaniAli Sajjadi HosseiniMehrzad NooshiravanA group of Iranian divers are equipped to destroy the Al-Umayya platform. Nosrat goes on a mission to identify and photograph the pier alone. Ahmed, who knows that Nosrat is ill, follows him. They are surrounded by the enemy.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsFarajollah SalahshoorAli YaghoubzadehTajbakhsh FanaiyanDuring Iran-Iraq war a group of Iranian soldiers are surrounded by Iraqi army. Four soldiers are chose to go get help but only one manages to make it through enemy lines.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsKhosrow ZiaeeAtaollah SalmanianBehzad BehzadpourAt the end of October 1981, when the Khorramshahr is at risk of collapse, a battalion commander of the Revolutionary Guards to help the warriors of the city of Tehran Morteza, and because of its road near the Iraqis, they should bring the Khorramshahr port of Mahshahr by helicopter, but his efforts for the helicopter failed and Morteza Battalion.
- DirectorShahriar BahraniStarsJafar DehghanFaramarz ShahaniHassan AbbasiThe attack of 8 Iranian F4 planes on the H3 base in Iraq near the border of Jordan. Based on a true story.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi AhmadiYousef JokarBahram ZandiWe follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the young man returns years later. As he surveys the ruins of his former homestead, he remembers how his family adapted to a new life, his boyhood escapades, and his first love. An elegant account of how war affects the lives of children, this drama is a must see.
- DirectorAhmad Reza DarvishStarsSaeed RadPejman BazeghiParivash NazariehThe story of Zeinal, a man who after 20 years of being a POW, tries to clear up his past.
- DirectorAhmad Reza DarvishStarsKhosro ShakibaiBita FarahiReza KianianDuring the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again...
- DirectorSamuel MaozStarsYoav DonatItay TiranOshri CohenDuring the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNada Abou FarhatGeorges KhabbazRawia ElchabIn the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.