One Day in September (1999), State of the Union (2019), Promises (2001), In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016), Late Marriage (2001), The Power of Nightmares (2004), The Attack (2012), The Syrian Bride (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Middle East movies.
Storyline: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, war, media, iraq war, propaganda, truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, national security, counterterrorism, history, interview, covert operations ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.
Plot Keywords: war, syria, documentary, terrorism, conflict, politics, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, romance, thriller, suspense, espionage, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On an ordinary day, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, led by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in as best it can, each of the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way. What follows is a special night of quiet happenings and confessions as the band makes its own impact on the town and the town on them.
Plot Keywords: music, war, comedy, humanity, cultural clash, friendship, peace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?
Plot Keywords: history, politics, thriller, revenge, espionage, action, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of slights and misunderstandings. The women of the village conspire to avert sectarian strife though a series of harebrained plans, none of which succeeds in slowing down the escalating spiral of violence. When tragedy strikes, the women find themselves driven to make a deeply personal sacrifice for the sake of peace.
Plot Keywords: war, religion, women, friendship, community, peace, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From a high-tech workshop in Germany to battle-torn regions of Iraq and Afghanistan, this documentary follows the adventures of Fidelis Cloer, a man who sells armored vehicles to political leaders and well-connected businessmen. Cloer's business thrives when his clients feel at their most vulnerable, and he seems resigned to the fact that he makes most of his money during wartime. His latest challenge is devising a vehicle that can withstand roadside explosives that begin to dot Iraqi highways.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, military, conflict, journalist, danger, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Palestinians Said and Khaled, now in young adulthood, have been lifelong friends living in Nablus in the West Bank. They have both had what they consider a difficult life, now working side-by-side in unfulfilling jobs as auto mechanics in a small garage, being unfulfilling as difficult as the jobs were to get. Those difficult lives includes feeling like they are prisoners in the West Bank, Said who has only left the region once on a medical issue when he was six. They blame all their problems on the oppression by the Israelis. As such, they have volunteered and have been accepted by a Palestinian resistance group to carry out a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv: after the initial response to the first bomb, the second bomb would be detonated at the same site. Following the bombing, the resistance group would release pre-taped video messages of Said and Khaled confessing to the bombing in the name of God. The mission would require Said and Khaled to cross "illegally" into Israel. ...
Plot Keywords: war, political, conflict, terrorism, humanity, moral dilemma, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tehran, and possibly the whole of Iran, is galvanised by a match to be played at the Azadi stadium between Bahrain and Iran, the victor of which will qualify for the World Cup. Although women are banned from watching, a number of them, undeterred, attempt to buy tickets and enter disguised as men. Funny and fierce in equal measure Offside was filmed during the actual Iran versus Bahrain match in Tehran in 2005.
Plot Keywords: sports, football, iran, women, gender discrimination, social issues, cultural conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, culture, conflict, heritage, memory, displacement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager embarks on a murderous crime spree with a friend he hopes to impress.
Plot Keywords: spy, cold war, true story, history, thriller, war, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three Arab-Israeli women share an apartment in Tel Aviv and try to balance their traditions with the modern world.
Plot Keywords: women, cultural conflict, identity, freedom, tradition, modern life, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade.
Plot Keywords: war, history, conflict, politics, desert, colonialism, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary by Oscar winner Laura Poitras about the war in Iraq.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, politics, occupation, humanitarianism, conflict, democracy ...
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