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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.3
/9841/
72
/136/
70
/125/
3.7
/4747/
96
/101/
87
/459/
83
/35/

Osama (2004)
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
poster
77
7.3
/2120/
71
/26/
59
/33/
3.9
/3856/
88
/60/
83
/56/
84
/24/

The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.6
/84745/
74
/1345/
73
/1220/
3.4
/27758/
65
/177/
84
/10011/
61
/34/
cc age 15+

The Kite Runner (2007)
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
poster
74
6.8
/7254/
67
/69/
62
/87/
3.5
/2827/
89
/100/
75
/197/
76
/28/

Kandahar (2001)
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.9
/22943/
77
/376/
76
/246/
3.6
/8650/
58
/84/
87
/640/
50
/20/

The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
7.6
/61017/
73
/1865/
70
/618/
3.3
/16591/
69
/154/
78
/4735/
56
/31/
cc age 16+

Religulous (2008)
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.
poster
66
5.9
/8229/
66
/153/
66
/87/
3.0
/4271/
86
/77/
68
/117/
65
/24/

Circumstance (2011)
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.
poster
64
7.0
/2956/
68
/36/
58
/49/
3.5
/815/
41
/49/
82
/116/
52
/23/

House of Fools (2002)
The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.
poster
80
63
8.4
/24282/
78
/129/
75
/86/
3.6
/5412/
94
/20/

The Lizard (2004)
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
poster
61
6.5
/99800/
72
/8001/
63
/3122/
3.0
/58722/
50
/172/
62
/702/
54
/43/
cc age 15+

12 Strong (2018)
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
7.0
/80495/
69
/2324/
67
/1293/
3.1
/16590/
63
/148/
60
/476/
50
/36/
cc age 16+

The Water Diviner (2014)
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
poster
54
36
7.1
/4027/
59
/32/
65
/21/
2.8
/1787/
20

Gold and Copper (2011)
A Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's Muslim clergy with its unusual tale of a man forced by hardship to become a better husband and father. Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra to look after their two young children and weave the intricate rugs that earn them a living. But one evening Zahra collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she's diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Scarcely able to process the tragedy, Seyed is left to cook, change diapers, walk his daughter to school and take his toddler son with him to his classes, where peers and elders treat him with scorn. But Seyed eventually learns to cope, his prayers and devotional studies taking on deeper meaning as he attends to the hard nightly work of rug weaving, getting through with a heavy ...
poster
Criterion Channel
71
28
7.5
/889/
69
/11/
65
/8/
3.9
/2025/

First Case, Second Case (1979)
A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking behind the master's back.
poster
63
15
7.7
/953/
51
/8/
52
/6/
3.7
/666/

Tight Spot (1973)
This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny.
poster
?
6.8
/57/
70
/4/
80
/1/

Iran: The Hundred Year War (2009)
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
poster
Kanopy
63
?
7.5
/128/
62
/4/
52
/8/

Enemies of Happiness (2006)
In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.
poster
?
6.5
/10/
10
/1/

The Mystery of the Forgotten Crossing (1974)
In the besieged town of Khojent, famine begins. The leaders of the revolutionary committee, Kozyrev, Sattar, and Alim, with the help of the chief mullah of the mosque, Abdulrahman-khan, win over the local residents, defeat a group of bandits, and bring back bread to the starving people.
poster
67
?
6.8
/304/
40
/2/
80
/1/
78
/36/
75
/4/
65
/18/

Maryam (2002)
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.
poster
Hoopla
31
?
5.5
/130/
10
/2/

Bicycle Bride (2011)
Beena struggles to follow her dream of the freedom to choose her own destiny and the love of her life, but her overly dramatic and meddlesome Indian mother Billo, wants to marry her off.
poster
59
?
6.9
/319/
46
/3/
62
/13/

Afghan Alphabet (2002)
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
poster
63
?
6.6
/756/
48
/11/
63
/7/
3.2
/375/
72
/46/
71
/6/
63
/19/

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)
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 anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?
poster
49
?
6.5
/111/
40
/2/
42
/4/

Serenades (2001)
Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game.
poster
60
?
6.9
/912/
56
/11/
46
/9/
3.2
/386/
76
/4/
49
/4/

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 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
poster
66
?
7.3
/774/
64
/5/
80
/5/
3.4
/258/

The Fateful Day (1995)
As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.
poster
29
?
4.0
/716/
17
/5/
30
/3/
1.6
/477/

Paradise (2019)
Two young students want to go to Germany for a seminar on religion. The head of their seminary, called Haj Agha Frosti, blocks the way for them to travel. The young scholars, with the deceit of Hajj Agosti, get a visa for him and take him to Germany.
poster
46
?
7.0
/252/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Mission (1983)
An 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.
poster
40
?
7.0
/279/
20
/1/
32
/4/

After the End of the World (1998)
Two friends (Katarina Didaskalou, Stefan Danailov) are separated when their village is divided by Communism, but they meet again 40 years later and begin having an affair.


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