Middle Eastern Movies on Netflix
Last updated May 16, 2024
5 Broken Cameras
2012 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn this moving documentary, a Palestinian farmer chronicles his village's nonviolent resistance to the presence of encroaching Israeli settlers and military. As camera after camera gets shot or otherwise destroyed, the farmer continues filming.
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Bliss
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAfter it's discovered that Meryem (Özgü Namal) has been raped, the young girl is ostracized by her family and community, who hold her accountable for the "crime." To salvage the family name, her father, Tahsin (Emin Gursoy), orders Cemal (Murat Han) to murder Meryem. But when Cemal refuses to carry out his orders, he and Meryem escape to a seaside town and set sail with a charismatic professor (Talat Bulut).
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The Little Traitor
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn 1947 Palestine, the occupying British army is a source of outrage and anger for the locals, and young Proffy Liebowitz is no exception, until he strikes up an unusual and unexpected friendship with a fatherly British officer. The great Alfred Molina plays Sgt. Dunlop, who is hardly the enemy Liebowitz takes him for upon their first meeting. Ultimately, their relationship will change the two men's lives in ways they could never imagine.
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Children of Heaven
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA young boy accidentally loses his sister's shoes and must share his own sneakers with her in a sort of relay while each attends school at different times during the day. The boy eventually enters a foot race in hopes of winning a new pair of shoes.
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Turtles Can Fly
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsResidents of an Iraqi Kurdistan village await the violent arrival of the invading U.S Army. A young boy named Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) helps clear minefields and installs equipment that brings in news from the outside world. Meanwhile, three orphans wander aimlessly, the victims of tragic happenstance. As Saddam is removed from power, these innocent children must confront the harsh reality that awaits them. Bahman Ghobadi directs.
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Yossi
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhile driving through a remote part of Israel, a closeted gay doctor crosses paths with a group of soldiers who inspire him to live life in the open. Ohad Knoller reprises the title role in this sequel to Yossi & Jagger.
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Before Your Eyes
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTen-year-old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their parents are killed by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. Traumatized and orphaned, the kids try to care for their infant sister.
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A Time for Drunken Horses
2000 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the youngest boy of a destitute Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation, resorting to manual labor and smuggling to raise the funds because their parents are dead.
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Silent Waters
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this drama set in 1979, a Sikh widow living a small Pakistani village struggles to adapt to martial law and Muslim rule. Meanwhile, her teenage son takes up with a group of Muslim fundamentalists.
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Spring 1941
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.
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Budrus
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDocumentarian Julia Bacha delves into the fraught world of Palestinian-Israeli relations in this amazing account of one family's leadership of a movement to prevent Israel's Separation Barrier from slicing the Palestinian village of Budrus in half.
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Mommo: The Bogeyman
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAbandoned by their father in Anatolia, two siblings never lose hope of survival in this gritty drama. Nine-year-old Ahmet courageously is a big brother, a father and a mother to his sister, while struggling with his limitations as a child himself.
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Little Senegal
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter working as a tour guide at a slavery museum in Senegal, Alloune goes to America to learn about his ancestors, who were sold as slaves and taken to the New World 200 years earlier. There, Alloune meets a woman who might be a distant relative.
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The Flat
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother died at 98, he was charged with cleaning out her Tel Aviv apartment, where he made a shocking discovery. The filmmaker plays detective as he sorts through decades of the Holocaust survivor's letters and photos.
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Salt of This Sea
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBorn in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya journeys to the country of her ancestry when she learns her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. But her plan takes her for from her comfort zone.
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Eyes Wide Open
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMarried Jerusalem butcher Aaron (Zohar Strauss) takes pity on homeless student Ezri (Ran Danker) and hires him to work in his shop. But when romantic sparks fly between the unlikely pair, Aaron's wife, Rivkeh (Tinkerbell), becomes increasingly suspicious. The stern Orthodox community disapproves, and a menacing group of "modesty guards" monitors Aaron's every move in this tragic drama, an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Palestine Blues
2005 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhile the Israeli government views the West Bank security wall as a critical safety measure, this searing documentary explores how it has also disrupted the lives of the people who live and work in the region.
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Baran
2001 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhile building a site in Tehran, 17-year-old Turkish worker Lateef is drawn to young Afghan worker Rahmat, who is dangerously in disguise. Her secret will changes both of their lives forever.
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
2000 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAli, Kwita, Omar and Boukber are a group of urchins living on the hard streets of Casablanca, their everyday lives filled with violence, begging and indifference. To survive, the four youths create a bond of friendship and family among them.
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Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThis provocative documentary draws back the curtain on the Camp David peace summit, which set the stage for the future of Middle East relations. Though each party had its own agenda, it remains a landmark confluence of modern leadership.
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No One Knows About Persian Cats
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhat do you do when you can't play music in your homeland, but you can't leave your country to play it abroad either? This is the dilemma faced by an Iranian guy and gal who, fresh on the heels of their prison release, decide to form a rock band. Despite having drive and ambition to spare, the wannabe rockers are stymied by lack of passports, lack of funds and lack of musicians who're willing to leave Iran in this drama from Bahman Ghobadi.
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Voices of Iraq
2004 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThe makers of this documentary handed out more than 150 video cameras to Iraqi citizens -- mothers, children, sheiks, insurgents and many others -- and asked them to voice their perspectives on war, terror and reform. The result is a unique tableau documenting Iraqis' lives and hopes as they struggle with years of turmoil and strive to build a civil society. Some of the footage, which depicts many casualties, is startlingly graphic.
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The Wedding Song
2008 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhile preparing for their respective weddings in 1942 Tunisia, two young women -- one a Muslim, the other a Jew -- find their friendship becoming deeply strained as the Nazi occupation affects their lives in drastic ways.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsA body has been buried in the grasslands of rural Turkey. Over the course of one night, a doctor and a detective from a nearby town join a search effort in which the desolate landscape comes to symbolize their own solemn, insular lives.
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Time of Favor
2000 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsBoth a political-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, this profound film addresses the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military on Israel's West Bank.
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