American films about the war in Iraq

List of the best American films about the war in Iraq according to visitors: American Sniper, Sand Castle, War Dogs, The Hurt Locker, Lone Survivor, Green Zone, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Last Flag Flying, Official Secrets.

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

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

    U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
    CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
    Duration02:11

      Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

        Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda 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.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Spain, USA
        Duration01:54

          During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
          CountryUSA, Malta, Morocco
          Duration02:20

          An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
          CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
          Duration02:11

          19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, drama, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:31

          Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Doc and his old buddies take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire. Along the way, the three men find themselves reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
          Duration01:37

          The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:07

          George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama, military
          CountryUSA

          Upon returning from serving in the U.S. Army, Chaplain Darren Turner faces a crisis that shatters his Family and Faith in God but through the help of his fellow soldiers, he returns to his faith and family

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA

          Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

          A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
          CountryUSA

          A troubled Iraq War veteran struggling to reintegrate into society sets out on a cross-country journey with the hope of reuniting with his young son.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA, Bulgaria
          Duration01:26

          Follows Jim Bickerman, a poacher who discovers that his local lake is inhabited by man-eating crocodiles.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          A young woman is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.

          Genrewestern, crime
          CountryUSA

          Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredocumentary
          CountryUSA

          Paris Hilton, the Fat Jew, and Brittany Furlan have all used social media to achieve massive internet fame. But, American Meme explores, is it worth it?

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryChina, USA
          Duration01:55

            Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

            Markimdb: 3.2
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:16

            Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:27

            An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:27

            An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA, Greece
            Duration02:08

            An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genreaction, comedy
            CountryUSA

            Steve Ford is a private detective in Venice Beach, Calif., who's good with the ladies, bad with the punches and wild about his dog Buddy. When local thugs steal Buddy, Ford turns to Spyder, their devious leader, and forges an unlikely alliance. With help from his best friend, Steve pulls out the big guns to retrieve Spyder's stolen cash and cocaine and save Buddy.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrethriller, comedy, drama, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:23

            Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrecomedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:31

            When brokenhearted Stan flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of "accidentally" running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy, he arrives to find their best friends Jeff and Kara in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn – and with the Air Sex World Championships in town, anything can go down.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, documentary, cartoon, short
            CountryUSA
            Duration00:06

            Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genredrama, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:51

            Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

            Markimdb: 4.4
            Genrethriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA

            Follows Samantha Fink who, after a spectacularly embarrassing public breakdown, is forced to move back home with her overbearing mother to sober up and avoid jail time.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrecomedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA

            Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York, Roger proposes to his boyfriend Tyler , and the gang embarks on a road trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts for Bear Week.

            Markimdb: 4.2
            Genrehorror
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:22

            A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama, crime, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:36

            The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

            Markimdb: 5.6
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:37

            A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genreaction, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:34

            Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Based on the best-selling Bob Lee Swagger novel by Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact, and the 2007 Paramount film starring Mark Wahlberg.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrethriller, western
            CountryUSA

            In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genreaction, drama, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:51

            Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.

            Markimdb: 4.3
            Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, China
            Duration02:22

            When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:27

            After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genredocumentary
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:00

            An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, military
            CountryPortugal, USA

            In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA

            Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:35

              A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genreaction, comedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:27

              Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
              CountryUSA, Canada, Hong Kong

              A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.




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