Movies: Iran

  • 2024
    Empty Nets

    Empty Nets (2024)

    Empty Nets

    8.12024HD

    Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piec...

    Empty Nets
  • 1971
    Dash Akol

    Dash Akol (1971)

    Dash Akol

    6.11971HD

    Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Ma...

    Dash Akol
  • 2006
    Havoo

    Havoo (2006)

    Havoo

    3.52006HD

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    Havoo
  • 2023
    Two Apples

    Two Apples (2023)

    Two Apples

    02023HD

    In pursuit of a better future, a young girl decides to emigrate. She leaves her homeland behind along with her belongings and her loved ones. In the new country she realizes the depth of her venture and discovers that the only thing she carries with ...

    Two Apples
  • 2009
    Iran: The Hundred Year War

    Iran: The Hundred Year War (2009)

    Iran: The Hundred Year War

    82009HD

    What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?...

    Iran: The Hundred Year War
  • 2020
    The Queen and the Coup

    The Queen and the Coup (2020)

    The Queen and the Coup

    72020HD

    Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role ...

    The Queen and the Coup
  • 2006
    Men at Work

    Men at Work (2006)

    Men at Work

    6.32006HD

    A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but......

    Men at Work
  • 2009
    Jalil

    Jalil (2009)

    Jalil

    62009HD

    Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has lived in Finland all his life, it seems hard for him to find acceptance among the "native" Finns. At home he faces the opposite problem. His parents dema...

    Jalil
  • 2023
    Seven Winters in Tehran

    Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

    Seven Winters in Tehran

    7.52023HD

    After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case....

    Seven Winters in Tehran
  • 1955
    Rabies in Man

    Rabies in Man (1955)

    Rabies in Man

    01955HD

    This program presents filmed sequences of a group of twenty-nine villagers from Sahneh who had been attacked by a rabid wolf. Filmed sequences of one villager taken at various times during his disease, are presented to illustrate the clinical course ...

    Rabies in Man
  • 2023
    Inside the Iranian Uprising

    Inside the Iranian Uprising (2023)

    Inside the Iranian Uprising

    02023HD

    In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread t...

    Inside the Iranian Uprising
  • 2012
    An Unfinished Film For My Daughter Somayeh

    An Unfinished Film For My Daughter Somayeh (2012)

    An Unfinished Film For My Daughter Somayeh

    02012HD

    Family videos are odd objects. You can sit around all together and for a few hours relive your life. Family videos are valuable. The older the videos are, the more valuable they become for us. Especially for those of us who have had complicated lives...

    An Unfinished Film For My Daughter Somayeh
  • 2018
    Death and the Judge

    Death and the Judge (2018)

    Death and the Judge

    72018HD

    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; a record in not only Iran, but also the world. This documenta...

    Death and the Judge
  • 2009
    Poverty

    Poverty (2009)

    Poverty

    62009HD

    A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to ...

    Poverty
  • 2020
    Mamanam

    Mamanam (2020)

    Mamanam

    72020HD

    West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the mood changes when her mother, Hanna, discovers her husband’s plans....

    Mamanam
  • 2017
    Midday Event

    Midday Event (2017)

    Midday Event

    6.32017HD

    In 1981, Islamic Republic intelligence agents work to track down MEK operatives trying to assassinate Iranian officials in the aftermath of the resignation of President Banisadr....

    Midday Event
  • 1969
    Everything Is Fine Here

    Everything Is Fine Here (1969)

    Everything Is Fine Here

    71969HD

    25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One day, her short stories win her a grant to attend a writing workshop in Germany. Soon before she is to leave, however, Arghavan is abducted and raped. I...

    Everything Is Fine Here
  • 2012
    The Green Wave

    The Green Wave (2012)

    The Green Wave

    82012HD

    Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This documentary-collage illustrates with animated blogs and tweets the story of democracy under fire and the dramatic events before and a...

    The Green Wave
  • 2001
    Sanam

    Sanam (2001)

    Sanam

    6.52001HD

    In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other...

    Sanam
  • 2009
    Green Days

    Green Days (2009)

    Green Days

    72009HD

    A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election....

    Green Days