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1. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 639,734 | Gross: $136.03M
2. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,298 | Gross: $4.45M
3. Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Thriller
Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody, Alon Aboutboul
Votes: 5,803
4. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,551
5. On Wings of Eagles (1986)
300 min | Drama
When executives from an important Texas Corporation are taken hostage during the Iranian Revolution, magnate Ross Perot launches a special unit for their rescue.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Richard Crenna, Paul Le Mat, Jim Metzler
Votes: 359
6. All Three of Us (2015)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Director: Kheiron | Stars: Kheiron, Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon, Zabou Breitman
Votes: 2,683
7. Tomorrow We Are Free (2019)
96 min | Drama, History
Iran 1979. The true story of a young mother and her Iranian-born husband from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who move to Iran with their little daughter in the wake of the Islamic ... See full summary »
Director: Hossein Pourseifi | Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Katrin Röver, Damon Zolfaghari, Reza Brojerdi
Votes: 222
8. The Hidden Half (2001)
103 min | Drama
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 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Atila Pesiani, Akbar Moazezi
Votes: 876
9. Two Women (1999)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Merila Zare'i, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Atila Pesiani
Votes: 1,729
10. Breath (2016)
112 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Breath is about an Iranian family who lives in Iran. It tells the story of Bahar, who is living with her father, Ghafour and Grandmother during the 70s.She is living in her childish and surreal world, filled with their dreams and fantasies.
Director: Narges Abyar | Stars: Mehran Ahmadi, Pantea Panahiha, Siamak Safari, Gelareh Abbassi
Votes: 1,796
11. Maryam (2002)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.
Director: Ramin Serry | Stars: Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 299 | Gross: $0.10M
12. One Night (2005)
78 min | Drama
On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories.
Director: Niki Karimi | Stars: Hanieh Tavassoli, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Nader Torkaman, Abdolreza Fakhar
Votes: 201
13. Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)
92 min | Drama
Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the ... See full summary »
Director: Bahman Farmanara | Stars: Bahman Farmanara, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi, Dariush Asadzade
Votes: 731 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
75 min | Crime, Drama, War
Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mahmoud Hatamikia, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi, Mohsen Zaehtab
Votes: 559
15. For Liberty (1979)
111 min | Documentary
A documentary on last days of Shah's regime, the event ensued after the arson of cinema Rex in Abadan, which lead to final victory of 1979 revolution.
Director: Hossein Torabi | Stars: Shapour Bakhtiar, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Beheshti, Mehdi Eraqi
Votes: 84
16. The Tree That Remembers (2002)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary
In 1992, a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario town. Having escaped the Ayatollah's regime and found a new home in Canada, he could not escape his past.... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Raouf | Stars: Niousha Farahi, Reza Gahfari, Shirin Ghanbari, Shokoufeh Sakhi
Votes: 26
17. Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates! (2007)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems.
Director: Massoud Bakhshi | Stars: Ain Al-Daula, Massoud Bakhshi, Winston Churchill, Forugh Farrokhzad
Votes: 403
18. Alex & Ali (2014)
84 min | Documentary, Drama, Romance
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 igniting, the American was ... See full summary »
Director: Malachi Leopold | Stars: Alex, Ali
Votes: 47
19. L'Iran: une révolution cinématographique (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and... See full summary »
Director: Nader T. Homayoun | Stars: Rakhshan Banietemad, Bahram Beyzaie, Farokh Ghafari, Bahman Ghobadi
Votes: 236
20. Death and the Judge (2018)
50 min | Documentary, Crime, Family
The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years and issued about 4500 death sentences; ... See full summary »
Director: Hassan Khademi | Stars: Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi, Hassan Khademi
Votes: 21
21. Toadstool (2002)
93 min | Drama
Director: Rasool Mollagholi Poor | Stars: Jamshid Hashempur, Mitra Hajjar, Farhad Ghaemian, Amir Jafari
Votes: 165
22. Qaleh (1966)
18 min | Documentary, Short
It's a short documentary about prostitutes zone in Tehran which called "Shahre no" before Iran's revolution on 1979. based on interviews with it's inhabitants
Director: Kamran Shirdel
Votes: 201
23. Writing on the City (2016)
60 min | Documentary, History
The formation of a city named Tehran goes back to 200 years ago. Before that it was a small village resting between surrounding mountains. Many political and social events have happened in ... See full summary »
Director: Keywan Karimi | Stars: Salman Razavi, Farahnaz Sharifi
Votes: 54
25. Deh Namaki-ha (2008)
62 min | Documentary
Pegah Ahangarani sets out to a one woman manhunt for Masoud Dehnamaki.
Director: Pegah Ahangarani | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Pegah Ahangarani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Votes: 114
26. Bazm-e Razm (2017)
123 min | Documentary, History, Music
This documentary is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989. The years just after 1979 Revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war. The narrative of restrictions ... See full summary »
Director: Seyyed Vahid Hosseini | Stars: Hossein Alizadeh, Bijan Kamkar, Ali Akbar Shekarchi, Majid Derakhshani
Votes: 70
27.
Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode:
Das Königreich
(2020)
53 min | Documentary, History
In the 1960s, Afghanistan was divided between a westernised elite and a traditional, largely poor majority of the population. A communist revolution set these contradictions on fire.
Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Homayun Assefi, Sima Samar
Votes: 51
28.
Irak, destruction d'une nation (2021)
Episode:
L'allié
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
From the beginning of the 1980s, the tension between the Iran of the mullahs and the Iraq of the Raïs, Saddam Hussein, was at its height. Westerners see in the latter a final bulwark ... See full summary »
Votes: 9
29.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
Iran headed for its next revolution?
(2022)
13 min | Documentary
Iran is a religious dictatorship with a declining standard of living in the midst of a a social revolution that the controlling Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is determined to resist. ... See full summary »
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
30.
Regressive News (2016– )
Episode:
Episode dated 5 April 2016
(2016)
Talk-Show
Dave's topics include headscarves on flight attendants, offensive hairstyles, and Hillary Clinton's opinion on the rights of the unborn.
Star: Dave Cullen
31.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
The Legacy
(2018)
42 min | Documentary, History
Tragedy strikes again when Bobby Kennedy is assassinated; Ted Kennedy must overcome scandal and misfortune to continue the family legacy and pass the torch to the next generation.
Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Adam Walinsky, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Barbara Perry
Votes: 44