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1. 6 Underground (2019)
R | 128 min | Action, Thriller
Six individuals from all around the globe, each the very best at what they do, have been chosen not only for their skill, but for a unique desire to delete their pasts to change the future.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy
Votes: 196,635
2. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun, Honglei Sun
Votes: 49,201 | Gross: $5.70M
3. War, Inc. (2008)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A corporation hires a professional assassin to pose as its trade show representative who must organize the wedding of a Middle Eastern pop star, which will allow him the opportunity to kill a Middle Eastern politician.
Director: Joshua Seftel | Stars: John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack
Votes: 22,515 | Gross: $0.58M
4. Genghis Khan (1965)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach
Votes: 2,537 | Gross: $0.00M
5. The First Gokturk
History, War | Pre-production
The first film in the epic Gokturk Trilogy follows the humble beginnings of the greatest empire Asia had ever seen.
Director: Alper Caglar | Stars: Robert Maaser, Cengiz Coskun, Aytaç Sasmaz, Tugba Sunguroglu
6. The Scythian (2018)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants ... See full summary »
Director: Rustam Mosafir | Stars: Aleksey Faddeev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Yuriy Tsurilo, Vasilisa Izmaylova
Votes: 2,752
7. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl
Votes: 8,094
8. Mendirman Jaloliddin (2021– )
80 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of Sultan Jalaluddin Manguberdi, the last Khwarazmshah of the Turkic Anushteginid dynasty who defeated Mongols in many battles.
Stars: Emre Kivilcim, Javohir Zakirov, Takhir Saidov, Kaan Yalçin
Votes: 1,024
9. Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes.
Directors: Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer | Stars: Kuno Becker, Jason Scott Lee, Jay Hernandez, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov
Votes: 3,975 | Gross: $0.08M
10. Zhauzhürek myng bala (2012)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.
Director: Akan Satayev | Stars: Asylkhan Tolypov, Ayan Utepbergen, Kuralai Anabekova, Tlektes Meiramov
Votes: 983
11. The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines (2011)
R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines (released in Malaysia as "Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa") is an adventure feature film set against the backdrop of ancient Malay, Roman and Chinese ... See full summary »
Director: Yusry Abd Halim | Stars: Stephen Rahman Hughes, Gavin Stenhouse, Jing Lusi, Rahim Razali
Votes: 1,156
12. Mongol II
Drama | Pre-production
Genghis Khan secures his legacy by defeating Shah Mohammed, crossing continents, opening trade routes, and choosing a successor determining his empire's future.
Director: Sergei Bodrov
13. White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
Director: Vladimir Motyl | Stars: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze
Votes: 7,843
14. Bride Kidnapping (2023)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
Film depicts true stories of Kyrgyzstan's "bride kidnapping, " where distorted tradition leads men to abduct and force women into marriage. UMUT (19), a nurse in the suburbs, becomes an unwitting victim.
Director: Mirlan Abdykalykov | Stars: Akak Berdibekova, Elchibek Shamenov, Mairambek Erkegulov, Ainur Akylbek Kyzy
Votes: 44
15. Hakikat (2021)
99 min | Drama
It is 1416, 13 years after Timur's victory over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Ankara. Çelebi Mehmed emerged victorious from the struggle for the Ottoman throne. Although the dispute ... See full summary »
Director: Hakan Alak | Stars: Suavi, Bülent Emrah Parlak, Saygin Soysal, Ezgi Esma Kürklü
Votes: 86
16. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,580
17. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Kamran is a 12-year-old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and poet of Persia Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in ... See full summary »
Director: Kayvan Mashayekh | Stars: Adam Echahly, Bruno Lastra, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 805 | Gross: $0.22M
18. The Golden Horde (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready, Henry Brandon
Votes: 230
19. Kurmanjan datka (2014)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The relevant epic story of the strong-willed, courageous and independent woman before her time, Kurmanjan, who is revered to this day for her diplomacy for saving her nation from complete destruction when the Russians invaded.
Director: Sadyk Sher-Niyaz | Stars: Elina Abai Kyzy, Nasira Mambetova, Jamal Seidakmatova, Lunara Ayaskanova
Votes: 3,514
20. The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
PG | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.
Directors: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope | Stars: Edward Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley, Igor Paramonov
Votes: 232
21. Kökler (2022– )
28 min | Documentary
Stars: Teoman Durali, Aynur Koçak, Bilgin Saydam, Ahmet Tasagil
Votes: 7
22. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 593
23. Turksib (1929)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia... See full summary »
Director: Victor A. Turin
Votes: 460
24. Malik Bin Al Rayb (2016– )
Biography, History
Malik Bin Al Rayb is a drama series that highlights the life of a poet from Bani Tamim tribe and the historical period in which he, his family and tribe lived.
Stars: Sameera Asir, Margo Haddad, Yasser Al Masri, Nadira Omran
Votes: 23
25. Ulzhan (2007)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai, David Bennent, Maximilien Muller
Votes: 657
26. Welcome to the USA (2019)
95 min | Drama
Aliya is a 36-year-old Kazakh lesbian woman. Aliya for the first time in her life tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On... See full summary »
Director: Assel Aushakimova | Stars: Dinara Alieva, Daniyar Beisov, Sultana Bektassova, Kul-Sara
Votes: 37
27. The Caviar Connection (2021)
86 min | Documentary, Thriller
How do dictatorships like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan launder their reputations from despotic to democratic? This investigative series exposes how Lady Gaga, luxury gifts and ... See full summary »
Director: Benoit Bringer | Stars: Sunna Aevarsdóttir, Heydar Aliyev, Ilham Aliyev, Daniel Freund
Votes: 88
28. The Bodyguard (1979)
90 min | Action
The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and ... See full summary »
Director: Ali Khamraev | Stars: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Radzhab Adashev
Votes: 79
29. Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd (2014)
99 min | Documentary
The incredible odyssey of a group of men from China's persecuted Uyghur minority, detained in Guantánamo as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic of post-September 11 geopolitical gamemasters... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Henríquez
Votes: 34
30. Rethink Afghanistan (2009)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, War
Award-winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation deliver a ground-breaking documentary that shatters all perceived truths behind the war in Afghanistan.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Tariq Ali, Faiysal Alikhan, Andrew Bacevich, Robert Baer
Votes: 102
31. The Broken Moon (2010)
52 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Beyond the mountains of the Western Himalaya, Sonam, an old nomad man, lives with his tribe in one of the most adverse and isolated regions of the planet, but a sudden change in the climate... See full summary »
Directors: Marcos Negrão, André Rangel
Votes: 30
32. Legend of The Han Empire
55 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Pre-production
After founding the HAN dynasty after Qin dynasty, he has adopted a series of fresh and practical policies that have pursued filial piety domestically, requisite the Confucian scholars and ... See full summary »
33. Annapurna (1953)
56 min | Documentary
This documentary was released in France 1953 only 8 weeks before Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest. The first 8,000 m peak to be climbed was the Annapurna I, three years earlier ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Ichac | Stars: Jean Couzy, Francis de Noyelle, Maurice Herzog, Marcel Ichac
Votes: 12
34. Bomba (1995)
77 min | Comedy
Director: Zulfikar Musakov | Stars: Farkhad Abdullayev, Rimma Ahmedova, Tuychi Aripov, Sherin Azizova
Votes: 17
35. Kai (2016)
96 min | Animation, Family
After narrowly escaping a horrific avalanche, Kai searches for her missing brother, Shamui. To find him, Kai must cross the dangerous ice lake ruled by Snow Queen Hattan.
Director: Seong-gang Lee | Star: Jinah Kang
Votes: 30
36. Manpower Express (2018–2019)
12 min | Documentary, Biography
Ten years after their first bicycle tour, Matthias Schneemann and Tobias John take on a new adventure and cycle from their hometown in central Germany to Saigon in southern Vietnam.
Stars: Tobias John, Matthias Schneemann, Waldemar Schleicher, Jakob Schleicher
Votes: 9
37. Eto bylo v Mezhgorye (1975)
Drama
Director: Munid Zakirov | Stars: Baba Annanov, Viktor Miroshnichenko, Razzak Khamrayev, Nikolai Kryukov
38. Buzkashi! (2012)
82 min | Documentary
Surrounded by change, Azam, a traditional herder and Buzkashi player, tries to find his place in the new Tajikistan.
Director: Najeeb Mirza
Votes: 31
39. Mir vashemu domu (1981– )
192 min | Drama, History
Stars: Igor Ledogorov, Ali Mukhammad, Takhir Sabirov, Galib Islamov
Votes: 7
40. Barkhan (1989)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Young spouses go by car from Moscow to Central Asia to a new place of work. When the highway changes to off-road, the heroes find themselves in a difficult situation of being not only inexperienced travelers, but also witnesses of a crime
Director: Sanzhar Babayev | Stars: Marina Starykh, Valeri Ryzhakov, Boris Tokarev, Vladimir Treshchalov
Votes: 12
43. Velikij turan (1995)
90 min | Drama
The film is based on historical events that took place in the 6th century at the junction of three great powers: The Turkish Khagan, The Byzantine Empire and The Sasanian Empire.
Director: Giyas Shermukhamedov | Stars: Bekzod Mukhammadkarimov, Fatima Redzhametova, Karima Yakhyavi, Ali Mukhammad
Votes: 8
44. Petites histoires en Turkestan: Voyage sur les traces d'Ella Maillart (2001)
52 min | Documentary
July 1932. Ella Maillart uses every possible means to reach Central Asia where she hopes to discover an authentic nomadic life, despite the soviet policy of forced settlement and ... See full summary »
Directors: Elsa Cornevin, Amiel Emdin
45. Çapar (2022)
98 min | Drama, History
A young man who, by the will and important order of the Turkmen ruler, sets off on a long journey. On the way, many exciting adventures, trials, and encounters await him.
Director: Wepa Isangulyyew | Stars: Didar Kowusow, Syhmämmet Mollaýew, Döwran Muhammedow
46. Pervyye passazhiry (1975 TV Movie)
129 min | Drama
Director: Eduard Khachaturov | Stars: Shukhrat Irgashev, Viktor Avdyushko, Pulat Saidkasymov, Aida Yunusova
47. Rhythms of Lost Time (2021)
45 min | Documentary
A journey through the most remote parts of Tajikistan - a young and little-known country which cradles the last embers of an ancient culture.
Director: Anisa Sabiri | Star: Leo Abrahams
Votes: 10
48. Zdravstvuy, dobryy chelovek (1973)
Drama
Director: Khabib Faiziyev | Stars: Khabibullo Abdurazakov, Natalya Velichko, Gurmindzh Zavkibekov, Nabi Rakhimov
49. Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan (1913)
Documentary, Short
The building of a pontoon bridges is shown, and the construction of a bridge on piles is shown in interesting scenes, camels being used to carry the necessary material. After the bridges ... See full summary »
50. Uruz: Return of the Er Kishi (2020 Video Game)
Adventure
A fantasy epic action-adventure based on Central Asian Turkish mythology and culture. Explore the ruined lands, help people, solve small puzzles, face the monsters and spiritual creatures, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Director: Ali Can Meydan