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1. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Life is wonderful for the people in the quiet, island town of Port Gamble....until a zombie virus outbreak.
Director: Kevin Hamedani | Stars: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Cooper Hopkins, Russell Hodgkinson
Votes: 4,283
2. Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake (2022)
TV-MA | 50 min | Documentary
Survivors' firsthand accounts and actual footage fuel this emotional docuseries about the deadly 2015 earthquake that shook Nepal.
Stars: Sara Safari, Shahar Zakai, Arjun Bhandari, Durga Kunwar
Votes: 4,312
3. Shirin (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Votes: 2,850
4. Rhino Season (2012)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
Kurdish-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.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk
Votes: 7,299
5. Tehran Taboo (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic
Votes: 4,983 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Orca (2021)
107 min | Drama
A young Iranian woman, having reached the lowest point in her life, fights back against an abusive spouse and religious and governmental obstacles to set the Guinness world record in endurance swimming with both her hands and feet tied.
Director: Sahar Mosayebi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mahtab Keramati, Ayoub Afshar, Arash Aghabeik
Votes: 561
7. The Red Suitcase (2022)
18 min | Short, Drama
Luxembourg Airport. Late in the evening. A veiled 16-year-old Iranian girl is frightened to take her red suitcase on the automatic carpet. She keeps pushing back the moment to go through the arrival gate and seems more and more terrified.
Director: Cyrus Neshvad | Stars: Nawelle Evad, Sarkaw Gorany, Anne Klein, Céline Camara
Votes: 1,373
8. A Moon for My Father (2019)
73 min | Documentary
An Iranian filmmaker and her British sculptor partner read letters they have exchanged with each other about their lives and social conditions.
Directors: Mania Akbari, Douglas White | Stars: Mania Akbari, Douglas White
Votes: 37
9. You Won't See Winter (2022)
70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The director of the Iranian internet censorship is trying to contain the scandal of viral sex footage on social media depicting his sister-in-law's alleged lesbian affair with an Iranian-Canadian girl.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Aryan Abbasnia, Ghazal Partou, Nazanin Arabani, Ali Aryana
Votes: 7
10. The Badger (2020)
93 min | Drama
"The Badger" is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.
Director: Kazem Mollaie | Stars: Vishka Asayesh, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Mehraveh Sharifinia, Behnoosh Bakhtiari
Votes: 362
11. Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)
130 min | Documentary, History
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Katayun Amir Ebrahimi, Mary Apick, Pouri Baneai
Votes: 20
12. The Iran Job (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Sport
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 team A.S. Shiraz.
Director: Till Schauder | Stars: Kevin Sheppard, Eunice Sheppard, Leah Sheppard, Gholam Reza Khajeh
Votes: 627 | Gross: $0.02M
13. Border Café (2005)
107 min | Drama, Romance
"Cafe Transit" depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop café.
Director: Kambuzia Partovi | Stars: Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Parviz Parastui, Nikos Papadopoulos, Svieta Mikalishina
Votes: 2,172
14. 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: 200
15. 20 Fingers (2004)
72 min | Drama
A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of issues of men and women within confines of tradition and family life in Iran.
Director: Mania Akbari | Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Mania Akbari
Votes: 489
16. Walls of Sand (1994)
115 min | Drama
Soraya, a young Iranian woman, escaped the prospect of war in her homeland by moving to San Francisco to be with her American boyfriend. However she is unable to remain in that relationship... See full summary »
Director: Erica Jordan | Stars: Shirin Etessam, Jan Carty Marsh, John Evans, Hester Schell
Votes: 11
17. The Wall (2008)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A Man which does acrobatic with motorcycle, dies during an action. His children, Setareh and Shahab, decide to continue his work on "wall of death".
Director: Mohammad Ali Talebi | Stars: Mohammad Ali Dashti, Golshifteh Farahani, Azita Hajian, Mohammad Kasebi
Votes: 394
18. Maria (V) (2023)
97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Aspiring actress Maria plays a prostitute in a film without telling her family. When a rehearsal video is leaked, her family, assuming Maria works as a prostitute for real, accuse her, and ... See full summary »
Director: Mahdi Asghari Azghadi | Stars: Saber Abar, Kamyab Geranmayeh, Mahshid Khodadi, Pantea Panahiha
Votes: 13
19. Honor Diaries (2013)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary, Crime, News
Several Muslim women activists discuss their stories and the state of women's rights in Muslim-majority nations.
Director: Micah Smith | Stars: Raheel Raza, Raquel Evita Saraswati, Juliana Taimoorazy
Votes: 240
20. The Curse (1973)
100 min | Drama
An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ... See full summary »
Director: Nasser Taghvai | Stars: Jamshid Mashayekhi, Mohammad Taghi Kahnemoui, Fakhri Khorvash, Behrouz Vossoughi
Votes: 189
21. Sunless Shadows (2019)
74 min | Documentary
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.
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Votes: 255
22. A House Is Not A Home: Wright or Wrong (2020)
73 min | Documentary
"This intimate saga links the filmmaker's long-lost family home in Tehran, a historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama, and the formative years of renowned film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum... See full summary »
Director: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa | Stars: Alvin Rosenbaum, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Rosenbaum
Votes: 26
23. South Fire (1976)
101 min | Adventure
Director: Alain Brunet | Stars: Naser Malek Motiee, Pouri Baneai, Ali Azad, Esmail Shirazi
Votes: 23
24. Life May Be (2014)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director, (Mark Cousins, the celebrated film maker and historian) and an Iranian actress and director (Mania Akbari, ... See full summary »
Directors: Mania Akbari, Mark Cousins | Stars: Mania Akbari, Mark Cousins
Votes: 76
25. Iranian Woman Is to Die For (1973)
96 min | Comedy
Ahmad (Mansour Sepehrnia) is a simple employee who's always late for his work. but he is decent and hardworking. his boss impressed by his hard working and make him the new manager of company witch make some of Ahmad's co-workers envy.
Director: Reza Safai | Stars: Pouri Baneai, Mansour Sepehrnia, Morteza Aghili, Carol Wyler
Votes: 8
26. One 2 One (2011)
79 min | Drama
In a society where all social customs are based on the beauty of a woman, her challenge is to find self confidence and inner beauty despite having lost her physical beauty.
Director: Mania Akbari | Stars: Neda Amiri, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Payam Dehkordi, Ashkan Mehri
Votes: 147
27. The Female Voice of Iran (2020)
76 min | Documentary, Music
Dealing with cultural censorship in Iran, women singers started using also digital media more. Invited by a magical entity, female voices from all over the country gather to make their dream come true.
Director: Andreas Rochholl | Stars: Baran Mozafari, Mina Deris, Samin Ghorbani, Maliheh Moradi
Votes: 14
28. From Tehran to London (2012)
45 min | Drama
It 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.
Director: Mania Akbari | Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Neda Amiri, Elahe Hesari, Mania Akbari
Votes: 59
29. Private Party (1987)
Drama
After the coup of 1953, four convicts escape while they are being taken to jail and attack the home of a foreign ministry official and take everyone hostage. Guests decide to choose two to accompany the convicts so they can escape abroad.
Director: Hassan Hedayat | Stars: Hadi Eslami, Parviz Poorhosseini, Mohammad Barsoozian, Asghar Zamani
Votes: 21
30. Kill Gaddafi's Whores!
Short, Action, Adventure | Announced
Alia, a former bodyguard to the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, finds her second chance at life in America threatened by a trio of Arab hit men who seek to kill the Persian beauty.
Director: Angel Connell | Star: Angel Connell
31. Snowy Way
26 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The journey of a female Iranian snow and grass skier as she overcomes many obstacles and eventually makes the Olympic Team.
Director: Azar Faramarzi
32. Sahra's Daughter (2019)
23 min | Short, Drama
Shara is a young woman who is searching for her husband. she didn't see her husband for one year, and now she must search for him in strange cities. Sahra is traveling with their daughter.
Director: Amin Ebrahimi | Stars: Kiana Bakhsi, Nazanin Kohan, Javad Laledoost, Siamak Mozaffari
33. A Woman with a Digital Camera (2012)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Gahzal A ,traveled from Iran to Indonesia with her husband to seek refuge in Australia and is telling her story using a small digital camera. Gahzal, who has no acting experience, takes a ... See full summary »
Director: Hassan Sonboli | Star: Gahzal Ali Shahi
34. Eidology
Post-production
"Eidology" is an independent crowd-sourced feature documentary about the celebration of Nowruz (Persian New Year) by Iranians and Persian speakers worldwide that under the pretext of Nowruz... See full summary »
Director: Kazem Mollaie
35.
Crime Scene (2021– )
Episode:
Murder on 42nd St.
(2021)
TV-MA | 48 min
Bright lights, fear city: In Times Square, 1979, police stumble on a fiery "hotel room from hell" housing the bodies of two women.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Malcolm Reiman, Vernon Geberth, Jim Reigel, Josh Alan Friedman
Votes: 304
36.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Auditions #5 and #6/Vegas Callbacks, Part 1
(2010)
TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV
Auditions end in Dallas and Nashville. Then Las Vegas week begins.
Director: Nigel Lythgoe | Stars: Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman
Votes: 21