1. Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri (Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri)
(Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri)
2. Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
It has an average vote of 7.941 on TMDB.
3. The Guerrilla Unit (Njësiti guerril)
Action war film drama directed and written by Hysen Hakani with Muharrem Skënderi.
4. Mariupolis (Mariupolis)
The city of Mariupolis is by the Azov sea. It is also on the river Kalmius. Most of the city’s residents, half a million according to the last census, are working for the steel factory and do fishing, for leisure or food, in between shifts. The orthodox church towers above the city and its newly build bronze domes are sitting next to it, waiting to be donned. A tent near by is sheltering a crying icon, which receives a steady flow of visitors.
It has an average vote of 7.222 on TMDB.
5. Before Dawn (Перед рассветом)
Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.
It has an average vote of 5.278 on TMDB.
6. North (Bakur)
Bakur is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows the lives of the guerilla in three different camps on the Kurdish region that lies within Turkish borders.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. Atatürk II 1881 – 1919 (Atatürk II 1881 – 1919)
A biopic centred on the military career of the founder and the first president of Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. Otelina e Lutoy
Otelinda and Lutoy, married for almost 50 years, are reminded of the moments of greatest tension they experienced, in the Angolan civil war, when confronted with the images on the news about the war in Ukraine. Narrated by Otelinda, her story, we learn her story from the 25th of April, until the day she waited alone for her husband on the verge of misfortune, in Cabinda. Her narration is accompanied by the contrasting images of their daily lives in 2023, as well as the landscapes and people of the country where they now reside. Their relationship initially appears distant, but becomes closer towards the end of the narrative, through the memories of everything they suffered together.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. The Lark Farm (La masseria delle allodole)
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
10. Exchange (Обмін)
How to repay parental debt on the other side of the front line? Why would a doctor kill and when to believe the enemy? How is the war in eastern Ukraine different from any other war in the world? A war drama about the stories of two families, where adult men took up arms and thus crossed their destinies.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
11. Beasts of War (Bêtes de guerre)
The military history of animals is surprising and little-known. Starting from a strange London memorial dedicated to war animals, the evocative power of animation and the testimonies of those who are passionate about this long history, this documentary sets out to meet these anonymous heroes.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
12. Atatürk, père de la Turquie moderne (Atatürk, père de la Turquie moderne)
(Atatürk, père de la Turquie moderne)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
13. Der Jungfrauenwahn (Der Jungfrauenwahn)
For young Muslims who live in a free society, how is the culture of origin of the parents compatible with their own wishes? What significance does the commandment of virginity have?
14. Region of Heroes (Область героїв)
Film reconstruction of five real stories about the heroic deeds of the residents of Kyiv region during the Russian occupation. A story about those who heroically and selflessly saved tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
15. The Last Dinner (Son Akşam Yemeği)
The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day before the proclamation of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and formally marking the end of the Ottoman Empire.
16. Scars Of Nanking
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Paths of War (Shtigje të luftës)
World War II - a famous warrior and a villager face the destruction of their village and heroically lead the people in a rebellion.
18. Drawing from Memory (Aus meinem Leben)
An autobiographical film about my childhood in Syria, the war and my escape from it. My childhood was happy but unusual: my mother raised me as a girl. When I became a teenager I was buoyed up by the energy of youth and a desire to change the world. Then the war broke out and I had to leave everything behind.
19. Zübeyde (Zübeyde, Analar ve Oğullar)
Zübeyde, Mothers and Sons, tells the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother, Zübeyde Hanim, which begins in Thessaloniki, in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, and reflects the period until the declaration of the Republic.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
20. The Walk (The Walk)
Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a charming gigantic puppet named Amal, who represents millions of migrant and displaced children in a walk from the Syrian border in Turkey all the way across Europe. Escorted and animated by a group of puppeteers who are themselves refugees, Amal’s epic journey is one of compassion and discovery.