Middle Eastern Movies on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
The Source
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn a remote village in northern Africa, women have traditionally fetched water from a mountaintop well in the blistering sun. But Leila doesn't see why the men can't do their fair share, and unites the local women in a sex strike until they do.
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A Separation
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAn Iranian husband and wife split up over his decision to stay and care for his aging father instead of leaving the country with his family. But his fateful choice to hire a stranger to do most of the caretaking breeds unexpected consequences.
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Precious Life
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMohammad Abu Mustafa, a 4-month-old Palestinian boy living in the barricaded Gaza Strip, was born without an immune system and faces certain death if he does not receive a bone marrow transplant at an Israeli hospital -- an unlikely prospect.
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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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The Debt
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAs a young woman, Rachel Berner (Gila Almagor) is assigned with two other Israeli Mossad agents to apprehend a man wanted for heinous crimes in a Nazi concentration camp. But after capturing their target, the team unintentionally lets him escape. To conceal their blunder, the agents claim their captive killed himself. A willing public believes the story and hails the trio heroes. Decades later, however, their shameful lie is about to be revealed.
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Where Do We Go Now?
2011 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhile their men fight a remote sectarian war, the women of a Lebanese village -- one hemmed in by minefields -- band together to denounce the clash of Islamic and Christian beliefs that sustains the war and threatens to poison their own community.
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Kiss the Moon
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn this Berlin Film Festival selection, director Khalid Gill trains his camera on the Khusra subculture of transsexuals in Pakistan, revealing a world that blurs the lines between masculine and feminine, and freedom and oppression. The result is a fascinating portrait of Gill's subjects' search for acceptance amid a culture deeply rooted in ancient traditions that don't leave much room for interpretation.
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Circumstance
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIranian teens Atafeh and Shireen explore their forbidden attraction to one another against the backdrop of modern-day Tehran. Atafeh's brother, Mehran, returns home after drug rehab and is soon dismayed by his sister's newfound sense of liberation.
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The Assassin Next Door
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsTwo apartment-dwelling neighbors -- and virtual strangers -- on the rough side of town discover that they share more than an address: They're both looking for an escape from their tortured lives and are willing to go to great lengths to find one. Under duress, Galia (Olga Kurylenko) escalates from prostitution to murder-for-hire, while Elinor (Ninette Tayeb) is trapped under the thumb of an abusive husband ... but all that's about to change.
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Lebanon
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn the Israel-Lebanon conflict of the 1980s, four Israeli soldiers command a tank amid a tense, chaotic situation. Confined to the stark interiors of the tank, the men wrestle with fear, anger and their own consciences in the face of possible death.
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Kadosh
1999 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsMeir's rabbi father thinks his son should divorce his wife, Rivka, because she's not fulfilling her duty as a child-bearer. Meanwhile, Rivka's sister is in love with a Jewish outcast, but her rabbi wants her to marry a brute.
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Offside
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn director Jafar Panahi's offbeat Iranian tale, several girls find themselves arrested after posing as boys to sneak into a soccer stadium to see a key international qualifying match. It's illegal for Iranian women to attend sports events, so the gate-crashers end up in a holding pen waiting for authorities. But a sympathetic guard watching through a peephole describes the action for the girls, who are eager to know what's happening in the game.
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Footnote
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsLong-buried tensions erupt in this witty drama, which follows the strained relationship between a reserved Talmudic scholar and his ambitious son -- both professors at the same university -- when the father wins a prestigious award the son covets.
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Foul Gesture
2006 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsIn Israel, a land marked by violence and the need to avenge the past, depressed writer Michael Klienhouse (co-writer Gal Zaid) runs afoul of war-hero-turned-gangster Dreyfus (Ashar Tzarfati) and finds himself in a fight for his life that, ironically, renews his zest for living. Michael's wife respects her husband's newfound assertiveness, but the escalating hostilities endanger them and their son, prompting questions about Michael's actions.
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Rabies
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a brother and sister who share a dark secret run away to a densely wooded nature preserve, they don't realize that a psychopathic killer walks among them. But what happens next is hardly the familiar horror formula you might expect.
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Joe + Belle
2011 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsJoe, a laid-back dope dealer full of magnetic charisma, and Belle, a forlorn yet irresistibly sensual crazy girl, fall madly in love against the backdrop of a wild cross-country getaway after they accidentally kill a guy.
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