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- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing 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.
- DirectorBabak AnvariStarsNarges RashidiAvin ManshadiBobby NaderiAs a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
- CreatorDana EdenMaor KohnOmri ShenharStarsNiv SultanShaun ToubShervin AlenabiA Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
- DirectorKaweh ModiriStarsSohrab BayatLily SzramkoEddie PatonThe people in Forres don't work. Between 9 and 5, they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this remote corner of Europe to hide and lie low. The film blends fiction, documentary and a literary essay of a man looking for a fresh start, aiming for a fair chance. In his pure and existential aim to belong somewhere, he is a hazard to himself and his surrounding.
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsLars UlrichBella WardaLarry LavertyA brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan's first rock band.
- DirectorCyrus NowrastehStarsShohreh AghdashlooJim CaviezelMozhan NavabiA story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsSheila VandArash MarandiMarshall ManeshIn the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
- DirectorJon StewartStarsGael García BernalKim BodniaDimitri LeonidasIranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya HelliA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsJennifer ConnellyBen KingsleyRon EldardAn abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsKhajeh Araz DordiMahmoud KaltehAbolfazl KarimiIn this debut feature written and directed by Iranian born Babak Jalali, Frontier Blues features 4 intertwined stories all set in Irans northern frontier with Turkmenistan, a region that has long been neglected in Iranian cinema, interesting not only for its magnificent, forlorn landscape but also for its multi-ethnic population of Persians, Turkmens and Kazakhs. Featuring non-professional actors from the northern region of Iran, Jalalis film looks at fragments of the everyday existence of a varied collection of characters from the region.
- DirectorAli SoozandehStarsJasmina AliHasan Ali MeteZar Amir EbrahimiIn their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
- DirectorSepideh FarsiStarsJavad DjavaheryDarya Djavahery-FarsiBabak FarahaniTehran. June 2009. The uproar of a city swinging with the "Green Wave" of protest to the rigged presidential election. An apartment as a shelter. A man and a woman who belong to two different generations. A mobile phone and a computer to communicate with the free world. A love story, that will change two lives.
- DirectorShirin NeshatShoja AzariStarsShabnam TolouiPegah FerydoniArita ShahrzadAgainst 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 independence, solace and companionship.
- DirectorSusan GordanshekanStarsPegah FerydoniHadi KhanjanpourHenrike von KuickThey hardly know each other - but now they are married. Mina and Kian met through a traditional Iranian marriage bureau. But although Kian does his best to help Mina find her way in Germany, living together proves difficult.
- DirectorJonathan KesselmanStarsMaz JobraniJohn HeardSheila VandA wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
- DirectorCyrus NowrastehStarsJim CaviezelClaudia KarvanHal OzsanAn American man (Jim Caviezel) is kidnapped after a friend invites him to Cairo to speak out about recent militant uprisings. His wife heads to the city after hearing the news, determined to get him back.
- DirectorSophia KiaposStarsShohreh AghdashlooA young girl unearths a secret underground corps de ballet, propelling her onto a journey of healing and self-expression, ultimately rewriting her family's destiny.
- DirectorRamin NiamiStarsNazanin BoniadiRiley SmithAmy MadiganLove has no borders and therein lies the premise of the charming, new Iranian-American romantic comedy "Shirin in Love." Nazanin Boniadi plays Shirin, an absent-minded, young Iranian-American living in "Tehrangeles" (the large Iranian community in Los Angeles) with her overbearing mother and empathetic father. Despite being engaged for years to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself breaking loyalty and tradition when she falls in love with a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California. As her secret unravels and cultures clash, Shirin discovers what it ultimately means to be true to herself.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsBehrouz VossoughiMonica BellucciYilmaz ErdoganKurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
- DirectorMichael CuestaStarsDylan O'BrienMichael KeatonSanaa LathanAfter the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Stan Hurley.
- DirectorAngelina MaccaroneStarsJasmin TabatabaiNavid NavidMossadegh HamidThe educated Fariba Tabrizi flies from Teheran to Germany expecting to have asylum, since she is persecuted in Iran due to her lesbian relationship with her beloved Shirin. However, her application is denied by the authorities and Fariba has to return to her home country. When her recent acquaintance Siamak, who is grieving the death of his brother, commits suicide, Fariba assumes his identity and status of political refugee and is sent to a refugee camp in a German village. Fariba finds an illegal work in a cabbage factory and she has many difficulties for not having bath with the other male workers. She becomes close to her colleague Anne and they fall in love for each other. However, prejudice and her illegal condition jeopardize her exile in Germany.
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsShohreh AghdashlooSalma HayekAdrien BrodyPrior 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.
- DirectorRamin SerryStarsMariam ParrisDavid AckertShaun ToubAn 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.
- DirectorSara ZandiehStarsTara GrammyChris O'SheaShohreh AghdashlooA young Iranian-American woman goes to great lengths to appease her parents and their need to see her settled down.
- DirectorKamshad KooshanStarsShohreh AghdashlooKian AbediniLauren Parissa AbediniSurviving Paradise follows the adventures of 10-year-old Sam and 8-year-old Sara, Iranian children lost in Los Angeles, as they struggle to search for an uncle and elude the hit man who kidnapped their mother. On their way, they encounter a colorful cast of character and dangerous situations, but through connections they endure the rigors of life on the street.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsParviz ShahinkhouMaryam HamidGolshifteh FarahaniThe story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
- DirectorBabak ShokrianStarsAtossa LeoniBelinda WaymouthShohreh AghdashlooAmerica So Beautiful follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian Immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crises. Houshang believes his ticket out of his uncles Persian market is to become a partner in a glittery disco - if he can just come up with the money. As Houshang struggles to pull his family into the deal, he decides to show them a piece of the dream by taking them out for an evening at the disco. They instead encounter a night of surprise and transformation, filled with hilarity, pain and revelation. Houshang's desperate night of assimilation becomes a moving search for identity, culture and an effecting dissection of the American dream.
- DirectorDesiree AkhavanStarsDesiree AkhavanRebecca HendersonHalley FeifferShirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
- DirectorBabak ShokrianStarsMantha BalourdouBahar BarkziVenna Bidasha-kaurAt 40, the road less traveled is narrowing for Bob who struggles to write his next screenplay while dealing with eccentric tenants, unclogging drains and collecting rents, for his father's real estate business. But when his father falls ill, Bob decides to change and embrace the legacy of his family and culture for the first time. He even finds himself falling in love with a Jewish Iranian 'princess' from the community. But can he really change?
- DirectorDaniel GroveStarsReza Sixo SafaiHelena MattssonParviz SayyadAfter being wrongly accused of stealing from his former boss, an Iranian gangster with girl problems must hunt down stolen drugs in this neon-noir fever dream set in the bizarre Persian and Russian Los Angeles underworld where obscene reigns supreme.
- DirectorShaun Paul PiccininoStarsGeorge KosturosTommy FlanaganSean Patrick FlaneryIn this gritty action tale, a young wrestler competes in the world of underground fighting to raise money for his ailing mother. But will he survive his next match?
- DirectorKaweh ModiriStarsJasmin TabatabaiMohsen NamjooShabnam Toloui37 years after her daughter was executed in Iran, Haleh finds the woman who betrayed her. The traitor, now a loving mother herself and just arrived in the Netherlands, does not recognize Haleh and trusts her as an older and wiser countryman. While Haleh is plotting her revenge, she gets to know the perpetrator better than she would like to.
- DirectorAlex RanariveloStarsGeorge KosturosWilliam FichtnerAli AfsharIn 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
- DirectorKourosh AhariStarsShahab HosseiniNiousha NoorLeah OganyanAn Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
- DirectorAli Samadi AhadiStarsNavid NavidAnna BögerMichael NiavaraniTo save the family's butchery from insolvency smallish, sensitive Mohsen heads to Poland to buy low-priced sheep. On his way he lands somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Germany and falls in love with former shot-putter Ana. The villagers assume Mohsen to be a scion of a Persian textile dynasty who may save the village. Mohsen becomes more and more en vogue until his father appears.
- DirectorElahe MassumiStarsLara WolfMary ApickEric EtebariA groundbreaking feature film, both in style and content. A riveting live action story is presented in a new animation style that helps illustrate how moral lines can be blurred by necessity. A young female reporter returns to Iran to care for her ailing mother, but is soon drawn into reporting on a forbidden subject - the women and girls who prostitute themselves in sham 'temporary marriages.' Arrested, imprisoned, and beaten by officials who demand that she confess to her 'sins' (of trying to tell the truth), Roxana realizes that the only way to survive is to seduce her interrogator in prison. Amir falls in love with her, and against all odds, gets her released from prison, an act that helps her escape the country at the expense of his own demise.
- DirectorMichael BashaChateau BezerraMaria De SanctisStarsIman NazemzadehSprague GraydenMichelle LukesA young American real estate agent of Middle Eastern descent is framed by his co-workers in the wake of the September 11 attacks and sent to prison at Guantanamo Bay. Thirteen years later, he returns to Los Angeles under a false identity to exact revenge.
- DirectorHannes HolmStarsRolf LassgårdBahar ParsFilip BergOve, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
- DirectorMary ApickStarsMary ApickSoraya DaneshAli DeanEvery hundred years the magical 'Jewel of the Night' appears in the forest to bring it's blessings and to be presented to Pari, the Good Fairy. This time however, Andora, the Black Fairy, stole the Jewel and kidnapped Pari. All the animals of the forest team-up, led by King Lion, to save Pari and the Jewel from the dark dungeons of Andora's castle. Will they be in time to prevail?
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadMary ApickHoushang TouzieAn Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. Tabataie) has already been killed by a Muslim American Hassan Tantai (aka David Theodore Belfield). A prominent mullah residing in the U.S. find him a new assassination target.
- DirectorYuval DelshadStarsNavid NegahbanAsher AvrahamiDavid DiaanThe son of a family of Iranian farmers in Israel rebels against his strong-willed father.
- DirectorArash T. RiahiStarsNavid NavidPourya MahyariElika BozorgiCenters on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
- DirectorMichael KellerStarsDan WellsNoah KnightMichael KellerA Frat boy from Kansas moves to Los Angeles, falls in love with a Persian girl and gets sucked into the zany world of Iranian-American culture.
- CreatorNasim PedradRob RosellStarsNasim PedradSaba HomayoonPaul ChahidiA 14-year-old Persian boy desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's dating life, and figure out his cultural identity.
- DirectorReza AllamehzadehStarsShohreh AghdashlooMarshall ManeshMohsen MarzbanTale of a group of Iranian families, fleeing from Iran to Turkey in order to seek asylum from Turkey to some Western European country or USA. The movie shows the hardship and very sad days that millions of Iranian families have had experienced during 1980's outcome of the Iranian Revolution.
- DirectorFarrokh MajidiStarsShohreh AghdashlooNasrin GhasemzadehAli EsfahaniAn Iranian woman named Raha (played by Shohreh Aghdashloo) forced to give up her job as an actress and flee her homeland after the Islamic takeover of the country. During the escape, she is separated from her husband and daughter, who are detained in Iran. RAHA is a film about breaking boundaries and about the struggle for freedom. Raha is a 1991 Danish produced short film directed by Farrokh Majidi following screenplay by Farrokh Majidi, Moddabber Kyan. Produced at the Film Workshop (Filmværkstedet) in Denmark. Prod. No. 1989012 Iranian-born director Farrokh Majidi made this almost feature-length short film together with a number of other exiled Iranians. The movie got an ordinary movie premiere and was seen by many. It was a good example of how difficult it was to define the concept of Danish film in the early nineties.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsBaran RasoulofZhila ShahiMahtab ServatiThe 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 under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
- DirectorMaryam KeshavarzStarsSarah KazemyNikohl BoosheriReza Sixo SafaiA wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
- DirectorHossein KeshavarzStarsSara EsfahaniTahereh AzadiShahrokh TaslimiIntertwines the lives of six young Iranians as they struggle to satisfy their private desires in the face of conservative Islamic society.
- DirectorMitra TabrizianStarsShahab HosseiniBehrouz BehnejadNasser MemarziaHaunted by his past and with an uncertain future, Gholam gets involved in the conflict of a total stranger and sees it through to the very end.
- DirectorHossein PourseifiStarsZar Amir EbrahimiKatrin RöverDamon ZolfaghariIran 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 Revolution. Driven by the desire to create a free and equal society, they fight against violence and religious doctrines in a country full of hopes and dreams, which gradually turns into a ruthless theocracy. In order to save their child they eventually have to make the biggest sacrifice imaginable.
- DirectorHasan FathiStarsParsa PirouzfarShahab HosseiniHande ErçelStory of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
- DirectorReza BagherStarsSara SommerfeldAlexander SkarsgårdSaid OveissiNazli is18, born in Iran, raised in Sweden. She lives with her father Abbas and her older sister Mahin. Nazli, who want to blend in calls herself Sara. One day Abbas tell her how he sees her future.
- DirectorBani KhoshnoudiStarsArash MarandiEdwarda GurrolaLuis AlbertiRamin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico.
- DirectorMania AkbariStarsBijan DaneshmandNeda AmiriElahe HesariIt is a story about a couple by the name of Ava and Ashkan who live in a beautiful house located in the outskirts of the city with their caretaker couple, Maryam and Rahim.
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsHarrison FordAshley JuddRay LiottaCrossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.
- DirectorJ.J. AlaniStarsRyan GuzmanDaphne ZunigaSpencer GrammerHaunted by a tragic past, Shahrzad, a stunning music student, flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.
- DirectorMiia TervoStarsMimosa WillamoAmir EscandariElá YildirimAurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
- DirectorSoudabeh MoradianStarsAlicja BachledaBahram RadanCoby Ryan McLaughlinA psychologically traumatized war photographer is locked in a desperate struggle to protect her secrets and escape her inevitable return to the Middle East.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMamhoud ChokrollahiMahnour ShadziKarl MaassA girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India. Searching the countryside for a guru called the "perfect man," who fobs them off with a message in invisible ink. Seeking for the truth, the wife starts performing rituals by dunking herself in the Ganges river, while naked old men cavort around her...
- DirectorMani Maserrat-AgahStarsPoyan KarimiChanelle LindellOliver Wahlgren-IngrossoMustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.
- DirectorPouria Heidary OurehStarsHovhannes AzoyanHenri HakobyanPedram AnsariAram, the Iranian Armenian youth who has immigrated to the US in childhood returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one day trip, but harder obstacles are ahead.
- DirectorHamy RamezanStarsAran-Sina KeshvariShahab HosseiniShabnam GhorbaniA story of an Iranian refugee family in Finland waiting for the decision of whether or not they'll be granted an official asylum status. The story is loosely based on the childhood experiences of the director.
- DirectorFaran MoradiStarsSammy AzeroMo ZeighamiNavid NegahbanEnemies to Lovers story of a Canadian-Iranian girl and Iranian-Canadian boy.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKierston WareingJuliet EllisLeslaw ZurekAfter being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.
- DirectorRichard RaymondStarsFreida PintoNazanin BoniadiTom CullenAfshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amid his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.
- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayA young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
- DirectorToa FraserStarsJamie BellMark StrongAbbie CornishBased on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action-thriller dramatizes a six-day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack.
- DirectorVincent ParonnaudMarjane SatrapiStarsChiara MastroianniCatherine DeneuveGena RowlandsA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsSally FieldAlfred MolinaSheila RosenthalAn American woman trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutal husband must find a way for her and her daughter to escape.
- DirectorYuval AdlerStarsDiane KrugerMartin FreemanCas AnvarA woman is recruited by the Mossad to work undercover in Tehran.
- DirectorFaraz ShariatStarsBenjamin RadjaipourBanafshe HourmazdiEidin JalaliSecond-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt refugee status.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsKorkmaz ArslanGolshifteh FarahaniSuat UstaBaran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.
- DirectorMijke de JongStarsSina NazariMalihe RezaieNahid RezaieOn the border of Turkey and Iran, 19-year-old twins Zahra and Fatimah from Afghanistan lose their family. To survive in a hostile world of smugglers and drug dealers, they face choices and dilemmas that severely test their symbiotic relationship and conscience.
- DirectorKheironStarsKheironLeïla BekhtiGérard DarmonAn 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.
- DirectorAnn Marie FlemingStarsElliot PageShohreh AghdashlooSandra OhA young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.