The FT’s film critic takes us on a cine-tour of the megalopolis, featuring James Bond chases, a psychedelic heist, domestic ...

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still ...

One of the most controversial WW2 movies of the 21st century, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, is heading to a new streaming home next month.

Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzaie, best known for his 1989 feature Bashu: The Little Stranger, which was restored at the 2025 ...

It can be hard to find the best movies on Netflix. We all understand the struggle of scrolling time—hours lost to wading through all of the Netflix movie options that could instead have been spent, ...

A new documentary about the acclaimed Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, detailing her outspoken support for the “Women, Life ...

The Ariana Cinema was closed after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, when authorities banned most forms of entertainment, including films and music ...

Journalists Gideon Levy and Rami Khouri discuss the work of acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who died at the age of 72 on Christmas Eve. He appeared in more than 40 films and ...

A six-kilometre island in the Sea of Marmara has served as an open prison, an execution site and a fortress of solitary ...

A movie theatre that bore witness to Afghanistan's modern history - from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers - has ...

A look at some of the year’s most powerful films and documentaries, exploring survival, memory and resistance across the ...