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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant(2023)

2h 3min | War, Action, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 916 votes)

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.

Warhorse One(2023)

3.6/5 (with 94 votes)

A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.

Rambo III(1988)

3.1/5 (with 1,367 votes)

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Special Forces(2011)

Κ-15
| 1h 49min | Action, Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 239 votes)

Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.

Lone Survivor(2013)

Κ-15
| 2h 1min | War, Action, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 1,871 votes)

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

Max(2015)

1h 51min | Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 337 votes)

A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.

12 Strong(2018)

2h 10min | War, Drama, Action, History
3.1/5 (with 1,261 votes)

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

The Outpost(2020)

2h 3min | War, Drama, History, Action
3.4/5 (with 469 votes)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

The Lair(2022)

1h 30min | Horror, Action
2.9/5 (with 52 votes)

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

War Machine(2017)

2h 2min | Comedy, Drama, War
2.8/5 (with 492 votes)

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.

Padmaavat(2018)

3.5/5 (with 117 votes)

Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

The Kite Runner(2007)

2h 8min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 514 votes)

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot(2016)

1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 422 votes)

In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

Lions for Lambs(2007)

13
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

Restrepo(2010)

1h 33min | War, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 141 votes)

Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.

Rock the Kasbah(2015)

1h 40min | Comedy, Music, War
2.7/5 (with 146 votes)

A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.

Flee(2021)

3.9/5 (with 132 votes)

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

The Breadwinner(2017)

1h 34min | Animation, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 351 votes)

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Directed by Nora Twomey

Kajaki(2014)

1h 48min | Thriller, War, Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.

High Road to China(1983)

1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 38 votes)

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

The Objective(2008)

2.8/5 (with 56 votes)

A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

Directed by Daniel Myrick

Cargo 200(2007)

1h 29min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.

The Point Men(2023)

1h 48min | Crime, Action
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

A story about a diplomat and a national intelligence service agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in the Middle East.

Taxi to the Dark Side(2007)

1h 46min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 89 votes)

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

Directed by Alex Gibney - With Alex Gibney

A War(2015)

Κ-15
| 1h 55min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.

Brothers(2004)

1h 57min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to theInternational Security Assistance Forceoperation inAfghanistanfor three months. His first mission there is to find a youngradartechnician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, hishelicopteris shot down and he is taken as aprisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again(2013)

1h 4min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

Kathleen Madigan drops in on Detroit to deliver material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, and her love of John Denver and the Lunesta butterfly.

Sand Serpents(2009)

1h 30min | Action, Horror, Thriller
1.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.

Directed by Jeff Renfroe - With Jason Gedrick

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.

Baran(2001)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

On 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.

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