American films about Afghanistan

List of the best American films about Afghanistan, selected by visitors to our site: NCIS: New Orleans, Queen of Earth, Expelled, Sneaky Pete, Keep the Lights On, Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, Hellbender, Moonlight, Falling for Christmas, The Kitchen.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration02:18

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers—compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA

The story of the investigation and trial of abortion provider Dr Kermit Gosnell.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror
CountryUSA

A lonely teen discovers her family's ties to witchcraft.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama
CountryPuerto Rico, USA

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:15

Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genreadventure, western, biography
CountryUSA

This epic, action-packed Western tells the incredible true story of Bass Reeves, the first black marshal in the Wild West. Having escaped from slavery after the Civil War, he arrives in Arkansas seeking a job with the law. To prove himself, he must hunt down a deadly outlaw with the help of a grizzled journeyman. As he chases the criminal deeper into the Cherokee Nation, Reeves must not only dodge bullets, but severe discrimination in hopes of earning his star--and cement his place as a cowboy legend.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, short, detective
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration02:36

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:41

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA

When the staff inside a renovated film studio finds a co-worker dead one morning, the pieces of a forty year puzzle add up to an angry ghost who has let the last person step inside her house. But will they ever get out alive?

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration03:03

In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

October, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen’s visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Mexico

The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

The unfiltered internal monologues of a young man and a young woman are exposed as they begin a new relationship together.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Duration01:59

A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA

Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:31

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Stand-up comic Gabriel Iglesias delights audiences during his sold-out "Unity Through Laughter" tour, which spans more than 400 cities in 23 countries. During his set, Iglesias -- nicknamed "Fluffy" -- pounces on topics like communicating with his teenage son, struggling with his weight, performing his concert tour across India, and handling the reappearance of his father after a 30-year absence.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, history, news
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'

Markimdb: 5.5
Genremelodrama
CountryUSA, South Korea
Duration01:47

A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:38

Sanjay's Super Team follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his father's religious meditation, who imagines "a kind of ancient, Hindu version of The Avengers, with the gods appearing like superheros.

MoviesList