Movies & TV Shows from Iraq

Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.

The talented Hamoudi is an 11-year-old boy with a passion for soccer and an ultimate dream to one day reach the level of his idol Lionel Messi. The day Hamoudi is caught in a horrific suicide attempt, he wakes up severely injured in a hospital. As his parents struggle to keep the family safe, Hamoudi is determined to fight for his shattered dream.

Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.

Azad comes to Sweden by mistake. In order to blend in with the family that hides him, he must pretend that he is nine years old. Suddenly he's quite alone in a new country and doesn't understand the language. But with the help of a spaced-out hot-dog vendor, the coolest guy in school, and world champion Kajsa Bergqvist, maybe he can find his real family again.

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But adversity threatens...

Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.

Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.

Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

'Journey' follows the story of a disparate group of people fleeing their homelands in search of a better life. Drawn from Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, they travel overland, by air and by sea with the dream of reaching Australia.

On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.

A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering Persia in 636 A.D.

Bahoz is 19 years old and lives surrounded by nature and beautiful landscapes. Every day, he goes to the mountains to hunt although he catches very little. But today will be the day that will change his life forever.

In Baghdad's streets, Chum-Chum, a diabetic and dreamy nine-year-old, believes the Tigris hides a gate to Irkalla, the underworld where he can revive his lost parents. As his friend Moody is pulled into a militia plot, Chum-Chum must choose between myth and truth.

Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.

The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.

Haunted by the chemical attacks that claimed the lives of his family, a Kurdish sniper flees his homeland in search of a better life in the United Kingdom. However, he is caught up in a terrorist plot.

Adel, a young Iraqi, goes to Cairo to continue his studies in the field of medicine. His life is disrupted by a wealthy and arrogant girl who manages to take him away from his fiancée. However, he regrets his decision later and returns to her. They travel together to Iraq after his great success in discovering a new medicine for a serious illness, which played a role in curing a wealthy person in Egypt.

An Iraqi flavored series about different characters, a dreamer, taxi driver,hairdresser and the troublesome in comedic scenes about social problems.

In a tale of love and revenge, two star-crossed lovers must face a ruthless society and a powerful patriarch hellbent on stopping their marriage.

A comedy show that addresses the hardships and negative aspects in a funny way through different settings in each episode

The life of a father-to-be is turned upside down when news of his wife’s pregnancy inadvertently sets off a chain of tragic events.

A drama, comedy series, discussing social issues, including the spread of the Corona epidemic, and the Iraqi protests, and each episode has a separate topic and story that discusses problems from reality.

The events of the series revolve around the steadfastness of the people of the city of (Haditha), which is located in (Anbar) Governorate in Iraq, as they confront the terrorist organization ISIS, and the scourges of terrorism they are exposed to.

Reality show exposed people to random situation and measuring their reactions to the situations, and often these situations are not usual in the daily basis.

Amirliis the love story of an Iraqi journalist to find the secret of his life in a war situation...

A forty-year-old widow whose teenage son disappears, so she begins a journey to search for him and discover his secrets and his private world.

Gardalul's drama was one of the most watched dramas in the Kurdistan Region, directed by artist Jalil Zangan and produced in three parts.

The events revolve around a group of elderly people and retirees, as they make the decision to enroll in literacy classes, and they go through daily mishaps.

The tragedy of a country embodied in the life of Khatun, which owned beauty, money and power, and was chastity, so she saved her body from the arrogance of the governor and the injustice of her uncle to go on the journey of challenge, giving and pain

The story takes place between 2014 and 2017 and deals with the events of Mosul during the years of its occupation by ISIS. It shows the tragic conditions that the people of Mosul experienced during that era and how the Iraqi Armed Forces, in partnership with the Peshmerga forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces, were able to defeat terrorism.

The baker Qissa(Rawan Mahdi) and a young man talented in playing football Zad(Alexander Uloom) live in slum areas. They face the harshest conditions of life and unimaginable surprises. Fate puts them before the most difficult choices... Will their love story for each other succeed?

Samara drama is a comedy social drama in which most prominent Actors of Kurdistan are involved, directed by Jamil Mafakheri, produced by Kurdsat Media. A group of artists from Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Halabja have participated. This drama includes most of the real events of Kurdish society, far from regional, political and religious, produced in a simple Kurdish language.