Films set in Afghanistan

2008 film directed by Jon Favreau

2004 film by Oliver Stone

1987 film by John Glen

1988 film directed by Peter MacDonald

2012 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

2011 film by Duncan Jones

2007 film directed by Mike Nichols

2014 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2005 film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk

Geostorm is a 2017 American science-fiction action film directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Dean Devlin (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, and Andy García. It follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

1975 film by John Huston

2007 film directed by Marc Forster

2010 film by Lasse Hallström

Padmaavat is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language epic historical drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Based on the epic poem of the same name by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, it stars Deepika Padukone as Rani Padmavati, a Sinhalese-born Rajput queen known for her beauty, wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh, played by Shahid Kapoor. Sultan Alauddin Khilji, played by Ranveer Singh, hears of her beauty and attacks her kingdom to enslave her. Aditi Rao Hydari, Jim Sarbh, Raza Murad, and Anupriya Goenka are featured in supporting roles.

2007 film directed by Robert Redford

2014 film directed by Olivier Megaton

2009 film directed by Jim Sheridan

2013 film directed by Peter Berg

2014 film by Cameron Crowe

2016 film by Todd Phillips

2018 film by Nicolai Fuglsig

2020 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

2023 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2023 Indian film by Siddharth Anand

2015 film by Tobias Lindholm

1985 film by John Landis

2003 film by Siddiq Barmak

2017 film directed by David Michôd

2001 film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

2015 film directed by James McTeigue

1988 film directed by Kevin Reynolds

2016 film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa

2023 film by Ric Roman Waugh

2015 film directed by Barry Levinson

War Machine is a 2026 military science fiction action film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Patrick Hughes. It stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Daniel Webber.

2011 film by Stéphane Rybojad

2005 film by Ketan Mehta

2004 film directed by Susanne Bier

film directed by Ashutosh Gowariker

Kandagar (; also known as Kandahar) is a 2010 Russian historical action film detailing the escape of a Russian crew from the captivity of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 1996. The film stars some of Russia's most famous actors, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrei Panin and Alexander Baluyev. The movie is based on the Russian pilot Vladimir Sharpatov's diary. The film was released in Russia on April 4, 2010. The Andrey Kavun film is the first to depict Russians in Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal from the country.

2023 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Sudipto Sen

2023 film directed by Maneesh Sharma

2020 film directed by Rod Lurie

2010 film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

2012 film by Sriram Raghavan

1992 Hindi film directed by Mukul S. Anand

2024 Indian film

1991 film by Vladimir Bortko

2023 film by Rajkumar Hirani

2003 Japanese dystopian action film

2020 film directed by Eric Bress

2006 film directed by Kabir Khan

1971 film by John Frankenheimer

2018 film by York Shackleton

2012 film by Atiq Rahimi

2003 film by Samira Makhmalbaf

1983 film by Brian G. Hutton

South Korean action crime thriller film

2014 film directed by Jabbar Raisani

Dhurandhar: The Revenge, also referred as Dhurandhar 2, is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the final installment of a duology. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, Danish Pandor, and Manav Gohil, with several actors reprising their roles from the first film. It follows an undercover Indian intelligence agent who continues to infiltrate Karachi's criminal syndicates and Pakistani politics while avenging the 26/11 attacks and confronting larger threats.