Movies (50) tagged by 'Iran'
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Persepolis (2008)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's def...
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bl...
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
A Separation (2011)
This is one of the most hailed films of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. Take a look at some of the underlying issues in Iranian society. The script this movie is...
The Song of Sparrows (2008)
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life with his family in his small house, until one day one of the ostr...
Escape from Iran The Canadian Caper (1981)
This film tells a combination of how Ken Taylor and his Canadian Embassy staff in Teheran during the Iranian hostage crisis hid half a dozen American embassy st...
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Young Iranian Kurds (brothers and sisters) try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
The Human Shield (1992)
An ex-Marine who was hired to train Iraqi soldiers to fight Iran returns to Iraq as a CIA agent to free his brother, who has been imprisoned there by a renegade...
Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spe...
My Tehran for Sale (2009)
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life...
Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Desert Dancer (2014)
Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.
Women Without Men (2009)
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find indep...
Ertefae Past (2002)
Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) with his wife, Narges (Leila Hatami), his mother and other relatives and parents take a flight to Bandar Abbas, to get hired in an i...
Taxi Tehran (2015)
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Rosewater (2014)
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
The Iran Job (2012)
A documentary that follows one year in the life of American pro basketball player Kevin Sheppard, who signed on to play for the upstart Iranian Super League tea...
Iran Is Not The Problem (2008)
A response to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as...
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
In an attempt to stem the heroin trade from Iran, a group of narcotics agents working for the UN inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium, ...
The House Is Black (1963)
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with ...
Ten Little Indians (1974)
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Mosul (2019)
The gritty, thrilling story of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq's second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 20...
Bad ma ra khahad bord (1999)
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in wit...
Drottningen och jag (2008)
Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.
Jeunesse perdue (1961)
In a nutshell: A successful crowdfunding campaign was held at the beginning of the year to get the german theatrical version scanned because all known prints su...
Ravaryete makdush (2002)
Banned in Iran this experimental film uses fictionalized, grainy, home video footage to tell the story of the abusive relationship between a successful middle a...
There Is No Evil (2020)
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed u...
Baran (2002)
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat&...
The Willow Tree (2005)
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had ...
The Hidden Half (2001)
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 y...
Sunless Shadows (2020)
In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls are serving time for having murdered their father, husband or another male family member.
Metri Shesh Va Nim (2020)
The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family...
No Date, No Signature (2017)
Kaveh Nariman is a coroner in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
Alex & Ali (2014)
The story of a gay American Peace Corp volunteer who moved to Iran in 1968 and fell in love with an Iranian man. Ten years on and just prior to the revolution i...
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film Zendegi va digar hich (1992).
And Life Goes On (1992)
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Missile X - Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe (1979)
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy ...
Shab, Dakheli, Divar (2022)
The life of a blind man starts to fall apart when a wandering woman enters his life.
Khorshid (2022)
12-year-old Ali and his three friends, together they work hard to survive and support their families. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entruste...
Keshtzar haye sepid (2009)
Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one ...
Sorkhpoost (2019)
A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Major Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facil...
Mogheiyate Mehdi (2022)
Mehdi Bakeri, the commander of the 31st Ashura Division, wants his younger brother Hamid to return to the area and be by his side.
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