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Films Shot in Afghanistan

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Pathaan(2023)

NR
| 2h 26min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 61 votes)

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

The Beast of War(1988)

R
| 1h 51min | War, Drama
3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.

Kandahar(2001)

1h 25min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Osama(2003)

1h 23min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

Directed by Siddiq Barmak - With Marina Golbahari

Torbaaz(2020)

2h 12min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

At an Afghanistan refugee camp, an ex-army doctor seeks to bring children joy through cricket and soon realizes that the stakes go beyond the sport.

Kabul Express(2006)

1h 44min | Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Five people - two Indian journalists, an American journalist, an Afghan guide and a Pakistani soldier who takes them all hostage - are taken on a 48-hour journey into Afghanistan in a jeep called the Kabul Express, a special and unlikely bond developing between them along the way.

Khuda Gawah(1992)

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.

Meetings with Remarkable Men(1979)

1h 48min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha(2019)

1h 26min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Three Afghan women from different social background, living in Kabul, are facing a big challenge in their lives. Hava, a traditional pregnant woman whom no one cares about, is living with her father- and mother-in-law. Her only joy is talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband that finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, accepts to marry her cousin because she is pregnant from her boyfriend who disappears after hearing her pregnancy news. Therefore, she needs to find a doctor to get an abortion and regain her virginity. Each of them has to solve her problem by herself for the first time.

Directed by Sahraa Karimi

Jirga(2018)

1h 18min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Made under extraordinary, and extremely dangerous, conditions, Jirga tells the emotional story of a former Australian soldier who travels to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness.

Directed by Benjamin Gilmour

Dharmatma(1975)

Wealthy, powerful and influential Seth Dharamdas leads a financially secure life in a palatial mansion. He is known to come to the aid of all people who are beyond any hope of assistance, and this leads to him being known as "Dharmatma". But Seth Dharamdas does have a number of skeletons in his closet, and a parallel life as a gangster. The only person Dharamdas hates and fears is none other than his very own son, Ranbir, who has sworn that he will never compromise with his father's dark career, and threatens to expose him. Dharamdas has never conceded surrender or defeat at the hands of any mortal, and will never even consider to do so - even if this means the death of Ranbir.

The Tiger Gang(1971)

1h 29min | Drama, Action, Thriller

Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to Pakistan to destroy the Red Tigers gang, responsible for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan into the United States.

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Selam(2013)

1h 43min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

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Directed by Levent Demirkale - With Burcin Abdullah, Yunus Emre Yildirimer, Fatma Karanfil, Selma Alispahic, Miraj Grbić

An Afghan Love Story(2013)

1h 26min
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.

Directed by Barmak Akram

Midnight Traveler(2019)

1h 28min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

In 2015, the Taliban put a price on the head of Hassan, a filmmaker, who was forced to flee Afghanistan with his wife and two young daughters. Using their camera phones, the fugitives show first-hand the many dangers refugees face when seeking asylum in a safe place.

Directed by Hassan Fazili

Buzkashi Boys(2012)

28min
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.

Directed by Sam French

Rogue's March(1953)

1h 24min | Drama, War, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.

Directed by Allan Davis - With Peter Lawford

Earth and Ashes(2004)

1h 45min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.

Directed by Atiq Rahimi

The Nightingale of Tibet(2013)

1h 15min | Drama

The Nightingale of Tibet is a musical biopic about the life of opera singer Yiga Gyalnang, played by Tibetan singer Namgyal Lhamo. The movie follows the perilous journey of the singer as she escapes illegal detention in an underground Tibetan prison cell to make it across the border to Nepal and eventually to Europe where she finds international acclaim and success.

With Namgyal Lhamo

Janasheen(2003)

2h 42min
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Australian based Lucky Kapoor (Fardeen Khan) has no interest whatsoever in his dad's, Virendra Kapoor's (Harsh Chhaya) business in India. Saba Karim Khan (Feroz Khan), however, does have an interest in the property of Mr. Kapoor, but Mr. Kapoor is not willing to sell. This angers Karim Khan, and he has Mr. Kapoor killed, and makes it look like an accident. Lucky's childhood sweetheart, Jessica Periera (Celina Jaitley), has the proof of Mr. Kapoor's death, but decides to keep it to herself. When Karim Khan meets with Lucky to re-negotiate the property, he finds that Lucky is willing to sell; he also finds that Lucky resembles his dead son. Karim Khan will give anything to make Lucky the heir to his vaste wealth and properties, but Lucky is not willing. Karim Khan turns on all the machinations he has in his power to force Lucky to be his heir.

A Letter to the President(2017)

1h 23min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help.

Directed by Roya Sadat - With Leena Alam

Mina Walking(2015)

2h 5min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when she is forced to neglect her education and walk the streets of Kabul to support her fragmented family. In the seven days that follow her life, Mina’s quest to emancipate her father from the claws of a local drug dealer and her attempt to secretly attend school underlines the current struggle of a young generation of Afghans trying to shake off the echoes of oppression from the Taliban era that continues to haunt those who bore witness to it.

Directed by Yosef Baraki - With Marina Golbahari

Bad Omen(2020)

19min | Drama, War

Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.

Black Kite(2017)

1h 27min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Against oppression, change, and seismic political shifts, a father and his daughter find solace in the seemingly clandestine act of kite flying, in the latest by Afghan filmmaker Tarique Qayumi.

Zolykha's Secret(2006)

2h 22min | War, Drama

A rural Afghan family living at the base of a mountain, struggles to survive during the last year of the Taliban and the beginning of a new war that still rages. Living under harsh and oppressive conditions, the family finds comfort in one another and in trying to rebuild their mountainous home. The youngest daughter, Zolykha, is specially receptive, curious and clairvoyant. Zolykha can sense and see spirits of strange men from the past that roam the hills and mountains behind her home. As Zolykha and her older siblings, Amena and Zalmai struggle to find meaning in life's natural and man-made tragedies, they discover new convictions to carry on.

Directed by Horace Shansab

Opium War(2008)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Two American soldiers crash their helicopter in the Afghan desert and find themselves at the mercy of the natural elements and an eclectic family of Afghan opium farmers.

Directed by Siddiq Barmak - With Peter Bussian, Marina Golbahari

16 Days in Afghanistan(2007)

16 Days in Afghanistan is a documentary that documents the state of Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban.

Directed by Anwar Hajher

Firedancer(2003)

1h 19min | Drama

For centuries the Afghan people threw back all invaders. But in 1979, the Russians invaded with planes and tanks. 5 million Afghans fled the country. 300,000 lucky ones made it to North America. They escaped the Russians but not themselves. This film depicts the lives of the members of two families in New York.

Directed by Jawed Wassel

Disarm(2005)

1h 7min

Disarm filmmakers Mary Wareham (Next Step Productions) and Brian Liu (Toolbox DC) present a contemporary and provocative view of the forces challenging the achievement of a mine-free world. Disarm spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to claim victims daily in more than eighty countries.

Directed by Brian Liu, Mary Wareham
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