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Top 100 Middle East Films - SCFZ Poll

At the Super Champion Film Zone film forum, we held a poll to discover our community's favourite Middle East films ever made. Participants submitted ballots of up to 100 films each, and those ballots combined to produce the top 100 list below.

We're now holding polls for other countries - Central America/Caribbean is our next poll. Feel free to join us!

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Middle East Top ten:
1. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002, Turkey)
2. Al-makhdu'un (Tewfik Saleh, 1973, Syria)
3. Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey)
4. Yumurta (Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2007, Turkey)
5. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005, Palestine)
6. İtiraf (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2002, Turkey)
7. Hatuna Meuheret (Dover Kosashvili, 2001, Israel)
8. Susuz Yaz (Metin Erksan, 1963,…

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  • Distant
  • The Dupes
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Egg
  • Paradise Now
  • The Confession
  • Late Marriage
  • Dry Summer
  • The Bus
  • Bride of the Earth
  • Destiny
  • Innocence
  • The Hungry Wolves
  • My Prostitute Love
  • Wedding in Galilee
  • The Girl with the Red Scarf
  • Friend
  • The Night
  • A Woman's Case
  • The Herd
  • Kippur
  • My Father and My Son
  • Divine Intervention
  • Climates
  • The Cruel Sea
  • Diary
  • Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds
  • Oh, Moon!
  • Time to Love
  • Somersault in a Coffin
  • Law of the Border
  • Captain Abu Raed
  • West Beirut
  • Theeb
  • Omar
  • Winter Sleep
  • Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam
  • Mist
  • First Lesson in Love
  • The Sob
  • A House in Jerusalem
  • Kafr Kassem
  • Love and Revolution
  • The Wrestler
  • Despite Everything
  • The Little Wars
  • Esther
  • I Love You Rosa
  • Kosmos
  • The Secret Face
  • Dreams of the City
  • Everyday Life in a Syrian Village
  • Sweet Mud
  • Journey to the Sun
  • Sallah
  • Kedma
  • Fate
  • The Return of Superman
  • Envy
  • Son of Babylon
  • Chronicle of a Disappearance
  • Hope
  • Or (My Treasure)
  • Kadosh
  • Walk on Water
  • Lemon Popsicle
  • The Small Town
  • Ajami
  • Lemon Tree
  • Caramel
  • Three Monkeys
  • Wadjda
  • Waltz with Bashir
  • Sweet Nigar
  • Nights of The Jackal
  • A Season in Hakkari
  • Stars in Broad Daylight
  • The Good Omen
  • Red River, Black Sheep
  • The Father
  • Elegy
  • Kick Off
  • Sea Shadow
  • Avanti Popolo
  • Beyond the Walls
  • Oh, Beautiful Istanbul
  • The Bride
  • Aviya's Summer
  • Life According To Agfa
  • The Broken Landlord
  • Rampage
  • Autumn
  • Beyond the Hill
  • The Syrian Bride
  • Beaufort
  • The Bandit
  • The Road
  • The Man Who Saved the World
  • Lebanon
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