Highest-Rated Movies about 'Syria'

Lawrence of Arabia (1962), This Is Not a Movie (2019), The Visitor (2007), The Cave (2019), Munich (2005), Of Fathers and Sons (2017), Body of Lies (2008), Hidalgo (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Syria movies.

#1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Storyline: Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.

Plot Keywords: arab, desert, ottoman empire, british military, homosexual subtext, violence, guerilla warfare ...

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#3. The Visitor (2007)

Storyline: In Connecticut, lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna ...

Plot Keywords: professor, subtitled scene, tenant, umbrella, loneliness, economics, connecticut ...

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#5. Munich (2005)

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: jew, israel, based on true story, based on book, beirut lebanon, vengeance, reference to adolf hitler ...

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#7. Body of Lies (2008)

Storyline: Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare.

Plot Keywords: middle east, spy, terrorist, covert operation, syria, muslim, shot to death ...

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#8. Hidalgo (2004)

Storyline: Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire--a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian desert--was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal families. In 1890, a wealthy sheik invited an American, Frank T. Hopkins, and his horse to enter the race for the first time. During the course of his career, Hopkins was a cowboy and dispatch rider for the U.S. cavalry--and had once been billed as the greatest rider the West had ever known. The Sheik puts his claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang, Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders--some of whom are determined to prevent a foreigner from finishing the race. For Frank, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor, but a race for his very survival as he and his horse attempt the impossible.

Plot Keywords: beheading, torture, rescue, leopard, shot in the hand, lasso, ambush ...

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#9. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Storyline: When the President of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. This change in political leaders sparks paranoia amongst American C.I.A. officials, so C.I.A. Director Bill Cabot (Morgan Freeman) recruits young analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Plot Keywords: nuclear explosion, washington d.c., throat slitting, atomic bomb, helicopter, terrorist plot, secret agent ...

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#10. Une Femme Francaise (1995)

Storyline: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.—Peter Davis <pdavis@macollamh.ucd.ie>

Plot Keywords: 1950s, year 1940, year 1944, wedding, year 1939, 1940s, f rated ...

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#11. Kippur (2000)

Storyline: The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces.—Fiona Kelleghan <fkelleghan@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: year 1973, wound, war zone, war injury, tank, stretcher, israel ...

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#12. Action in Arabia (1944)

Storyline: Michael Gordon, star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after completing a difficult assignment in Iraq. On a Damascus stopover he relays a tip to a fellow American newsman who subsequently ends up in a local camel market with a knife in his back. Even though everyone, including the American legation, seems to want Gordon to leave the country, he feels obliged to find his friend's murderer. Among the red herrings he must sort through in the "World's Oldest City" are an informing card cheat, a beautiful femme fatale, an enigmatic hotel owner, a Frenchman with two aliases, and several sinister Arabs. In short order, Gordon foils Nazi plots to unite the Arab tribes against the Allies and help the Germans seize the Suez Canal.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: airplane, impersonation, meeting, murder, parrot, pilot, syria ...

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#13. Southland Tales (2006)

Storyline: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Plot Keywords: anarchy, doppelganger, surveillance, corpse, severed finger, blood, leg wound ...

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#15. Red Sky (2014)

Storyline: Butch 'Cobra' Masters aces his USNAF top gun squad, until they are all disgraced, blamed for an exercise turned tragically wrong as manipulated real-time information made them launch real rockets on a cave hideout for chemical arms. As suggested at court trial, his mates accept to avoid a conviction by applying for a voluntary dismissal, each finding a niche in civilian aircraft. When ambitious Pentagon official John Webster, the former squad's former superior, urgently needs their specialty of strike capacity in the Middle East but can't officially engage troops for diplomatic risks, the team is informally reassembled under promise of full rehabilitation. They are retrieved from placed as far as Moscow, complemented for research with his ex girl friend, now investigative reporter, supposed to prevent chemical weapon Rainmaster falling in the hands of crazy Kurdish militia in Syria, but layers of betrayal cause unforeseen trouble.—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords: bunker, judge, airplane, bomb, air force base, combat, battlefield ...

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