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1. Guy Ritchie's the Covenant (I) (2023)
R | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong
Votes: 165,003
2. Kandahar (2023)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Tom Rhys Harries, Farhad Bagheri, Gerard Butler, Mitchell LaFortune
Votes: 34,586
3. The Kite Runner (2007)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub
Votes: 82,621 | Gross: $15.80M
4. Taste of Cherry (1997)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Votes: 37,028 | Gross: $0.31M
5. Transfusion (I) (2023)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former Special Forces operative thrust into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.
Director: Matt Nable | Stars: Sam Worthington, Matt Nable, Phoebe Tonkin, Edward Carmody
Votes: 3,170
6. 9th Company (2005)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin
Votes: 21,715
7. The Furnace (2020)
116 min | Adventure, Drama, History
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
Director: Roderick MacKay | Stars: Ahmed Malek, Baykali Ganambarr, Kaushik Das, Noah Skape
Votes: 4,215
8. Kesari (2019)
Not Rated | 150 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.
Director: Anurag Singh | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, Suvinder Vicky, Vansh Bhardwaj
Votes: 22,346
9. Heaven's Burning (1997)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a botched bank job, a gang takes hostage a Japanese girl on the run from an arranged marriage, and escapes. Their wheel man saves the girl from them and the two go on the run with cops, the gang and her psycho husband on their tail.
Director: Craig Lahiff | Stars: Russell Crowe, Yûki Kudô, Kenji Isomura, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,228
10. The White Balloon (1995)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Family
Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska
Votes: 8,263 | Gross: $0.47M
11. Baran (2001)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub
Votes: 8,979 | Gross: $0.13M
12. Moonlight (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
A bored teen piano prodigy has her life turned upside down one day when she learns her parents are divorcing. After a horrible accident that drives her to run away, Claire befriends a young... See full summary »
Director: Paula van der Oest | Stars: Hunter Bussemaker, Franck Sasonoff, Andrew Howard, David Bustard
Votes: 839
13. My Blind Date with Life (2017)
111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Kostja Ullmann, Jacob Matschenz, Anna Maria Mühe, Johann von Bülow
Votes: 5,797
14. El diputado (1978)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama
Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ... See full summary »
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: José Sacristán, María Luisa San José, José Luis Alonso, Enrique Vivó
Votes: 745
15. White Paradise (2022)
93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Samuel, a man who lives in the Italian Alps, decides to help Chehreh, an Afghan woman, arrive in France. They will have to face a hostile nature and the cruelty of the men who inhabit this territory.
Director: Guillaume Renusson | Stars: Denis Ménochet, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Victoire Du Bois, Oscar Copp
Votes: 560
16. A Grunt's Life (2019)
116 min | Comedy
On a remote patrol base in Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2008, Marine Lieutenant Vinny Murphy fights to protect his Marines from the local insurgents and his self-serving Commander, Captain Berry.
Directors: Donny O'Malley, Braden Smith | Stars: Donny O'Malley, Bruce Clifford, Michael Drake Krueger, Ian Stanley
Votes: 90
17. No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
106 min | Drama, Music
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Babak Mirzakhani
Votes: 7,485 | Gross: $0.08M
18. The Cyclist (1989)
82 min | Drama
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mahshid Afsharzadeh, Firouz Kiani, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Reza Maleki
Votes: 2,349
19. The Wakhan Front (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu's men start vanishing one by one without explanation.
Director: Clément Cogitore | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Marc Robert, Kévin Azaïs
Votes: 1,192 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Janasheen (2003)
162 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Lucky Kapoor (Fardeen Khan) lives in Australia and has no interest in taking over his father's business in India. Saba Karim Khan (Feroz Khan) has a great interest in the property, but Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Feroz Khan | Stars: Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan, Celina Jaitly, Pinky Harwani
Votes: 420
21. Kabuliwala (1961)
95 min | Drama
A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.
Director: Hemen Gupta | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Baby Sonu, Usha Kiran, Padma
Votes: 359
22. Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History
Look at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. ... See full summary »
Stars: Khaled Hosseini, Nadja Berlinghoff, Shukria Barakzai, Sven Brieger
Votes: 410
23. My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.
Directors: Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi | Stars: Tony Blair, Lyse Doucet, Robert Gates, Mir Hussain
Votes: 137
24. Watandar, My Countryman (2022)
70 min | Documentary, History
When former Afghan Refugee Muzafar Ali, discovers that Afghans have been an integral part of Australia for over 160 years, he begins to photograph their descendants in a search to define ... See full summary »
Director: Jolyon Hoff | Stars: Muzafar Ali, Nici Cumpston, Ken Dadleh, Elaine Mackean
Votes: 16
25. Rogue's March (1953)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 169
26. The Son of an Afghan Farmer (2012)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Muhad, a Muslim boy from Afghanistan, attends college in California, where he falls in love with an American journalism student, Victoria. Shortly after, his father suffers a stroke and ... See full summary »
Director: Mathew Levin II | Stars: Tui Asau, Jamie Tisdale, Maya Hazen, Garen Boyajian
Votes: 43
27. Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016– )
173 min | Documentary
Shot over 3 years in 31 countries, continuing to follow the refugee crisis in Europe. Finding out what happened to some of the people featured previously and meeting others still making the journey.
Stars: Tariq, Isra, Paul Bown, Dominic Rowan
Votes: 73
28. Serenades (2001)
99 min | Drama, Romance
A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afghan father.
Director: Mojgan Khadem | Stars: Alice Haines, Aden Young, Sinisa Copic, Bille Brown
Votes: 107
29. My Tehran for Sale (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself ... See full summary »
Director: Granaz Moussavi | Stars: Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi, Mobina Karimi
Votes: 1,714
30. The Back of Beyond (1954)
G | 66 min | Documentary
A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback.
Director: John Heyer | Stars: Tom Kruse, William Henry Butler, Jack the Dogger, Old Joe the Rainmaker
Votes: 129
31. Dar-Badar
45 min | Drama | Completed
Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu ... See full summary »
Director: Rohit Khaitan | Stars: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nidhi Joshi, Shoaib Lodin
32. Karavan smerti (1992)
79 min | Action
Soviet troops are no longer in Afghanistan and some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of border guards in Tadzhikistan.
Director: Ivan Solovov | Stars: Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Elena Kondulaynen, Viktor Pavlov
Votes: 68
33. Ayaneh (2019)
14 min | Short, Drama
Set in Switzerland, our story follows Ayaneh, a young refugee from Afghanistan. One day at a public swimming pool she meets Anna and instantly feels attracted to her. As the relationship ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Greinacher | Stars: Mo Ahmadi, Afsaneh Dehrouyeh, Ladina von Frisching, Mithra Zahedi
Votes: 51
34. Hassan - The image of our common pain (2018)
111 min | Drama, Family
"Hassan" is a family drama film that demonstrates love, compassion and humanity amongst the Afghan community living in Afghanistan and abroad. Hassan runs a non-profit lotto company which ... See full summary »
Director: Emaan | Stars: Leena Alam, Haroon Azizi, Harjeet Dhillon, Hakim Diljo
Votes: 16
35. Afghan Alphabet (2002)
45 min | Documentary
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Ghafour Barahouyi, Maryam Ozbak, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Votes: 303
36. The Red Ribbon (1999)
110 min | Drama, War
A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Azita Hajian, Reza Kianian, Parviz Parastui
Votes: 1,202
37. Shuravi (1988)
64 min | Drama, War
The film tells the story of a Russian soldier captured by Afghan Mujahideen, and his successful escape.
Director: Sergey Nilov | Stars: Vadim Stepashkin, Juozas Kiselius, D. Bryzzhanov, Ilyas Khasanov
Votes: 12
38. Return to Kandahar (2003)
65 min | Documentary
Nelofer Pazira returns to Afghanistan to find her lost friend.
Directors: Paul Jay, Nelofer Pazira
Votes: 111
39. The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Grabsky | Star: Mir Hussain
Votes: 159
40. Tehran 7:00 a.m. (2003)
85 min | Drama
Director: Amir Shahab Razavian | Stars: Nazanin Farahani, Ali Golzadeh, Mohammad Haj Hosseini, Behnaz Jafari
Votes: 56
41. What Color Do You See As Blue (2019)
15 min | Short
As a result of war and displacement 2 generations of refugees facing new challenges in order to utilize in a new life.
Director: Reza Salsany | Stars: Viona Moarefi, Kanza Feris, Baharan BaniAhmadi, Babs Hopkinson
43. Lost Whispers in the Distance (2021)
60 min | Documentary
A group of Iranian and Afghan refugees are living in camps in Serbia who are talking about their dreams and perceptions about Europe as a dreamland while a group of Kurdish families is ... See full summary »
Director: Mansour Forouzesh
Votes: 18
44. Afghanistan, Land of Wonders (2009)
52 min | Documentary, War
Afghan and Russian war veterans look back on Afghanistan, the "Land of Wonders", at the time of the Soviet occupation. Aside from the human suffering and tragedy, there is a room to look at the beautiful aspects of Afghanistan.
Directors: Jorrit Kamminga, Kim Taminiau, Johan Zielstra
45. Voyage en Afghanistan, 2ème partie: La Montagne (1967 TV Special)
51 min | Documentary
Directors: Igor Barrère, Michel Colomes | Star: Joseph Kessel
46. Afghan Cameleer Australia (2013 Video)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Afghan cameleers and their camels arrived in Australia to aid explorers and contribute massively in the development of this continent. Fahim Hashimy documentary filmmaker who made (Afghan ... See full summary »
Director: Sayed Fahim Hashemy | Stars: Ghulam Hazrat Beedav, Bejah, Donna Cook, Max Dadleh
48. Akharin malakeye zamin (2006)
89 min | Drama
Leaving his family in Afghanistan to find work in Iran, Ali Bakhsh returns home to Afghanistan in search of his family in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the following U.S. invasion.
Director: Mohammad Reza Arab | Stars: Ghorban Najafi, Asghar Hemmat, Ali Azadnia, Ala Mohseni
Votes: 21
49. Jack Absalom on the Birdsville Track (1985 Video)
46 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: John Mabey | Stars: Jack Absalom, George Morton, Dennis Overton, Gabrielle Overton
50. Mahomad Allum: Adelaide's Wonder Man (1941)
1 min | Documentary, Short, News
Stars: Charles Lawrence, Mahomad Allum, Jean Allum, Bebe Allum