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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: 640,397 | Gross: $136.03M
2. Not Without My Daughter (1991)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
An American woman trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutal husband must find a way for her and her daughter to escape.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth
Votes: 14,839 | Gross: $14.79M
3. 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: 100,429 | Gross: $4.45M
4. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,411
5. Zero Days (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Documentary
A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien, Liam O'Murchu
Votes: 10,448 | Gross: $0.10M
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: 2,711
7. 3 Faces (2018)
100 min | Drama
Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Votes: 4,830 | Gross: $0.07M
8. 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: 5,808
9. Rosewater (2014)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Director: Jon Stewart | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
Votes: 10,973 | Gross: $3.13M
10. Filmfarsi (2019)
84 min | Documentary
An essay-film about Iranian pre-revolutionary popular cinema known as filmfarsi.
Director: Ehsan Khoshbakht | Stars: Pouri Baneai, Reza Beyk Imanverdi, Mohamad Ali Fardin, Fourouzan
Votes: 105
11. 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: 7,312
12. 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
13. Coup 53 (2019)
120 min | Documentary, History
Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
Director: Taghi Amirani | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Walter Murch, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Votes: 694
14. A Dying King: The Shah of Iran (2017)
TV-PG | 85 min | Documentary
Uncover the mystery of the last Shah of Iran's exile from his country during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, his illness, misdiagnosis, maltreatment and eventual death, and its impact on the Middle East, United States and the world.
Director: Bobak Kalhor | Stars: Amir Aslan Afshar, Robert Armao, Jerry Berlin, Lyn Boyd-Judson
Votes: 80
15. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Music
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato
Votes: 746 | Gross: $1.16M
16. Price for Freedom (2017)
18+ | 120 min | Drama
Based on the 2013 book by NYC dental surgeon Dr. Marc Benhur. It details his families struggles and resistance when Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, 1979.
Director: Dylan Bank | Stars: Navid Negahban, Paul Sorvino, Mandy Bruno Bogue, Martin Kove
Votes: 95
17. Radiograph of a Family (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally... See full summary »
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani | Stars: Farahnaz Sharifi, Hossein Khosrovani, Tayi, Firouzeh Khosrovani
Votes: 296
18. Terror's Advocate (2007)
Unrated | 135 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bassam Abu Sharif
Votes: 1,703 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gordon Pinsent, Chris Wiggins, Diana Barrington, Robert Joy
Votes: 147
20. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2016 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Reza Shirazi, an aspiring photojournalist, who returns to Iran amidst the Iranian Revolution. As he becomes more involved in the events of the Revolution, Reza is forced to make decisions in order to survive.
Director: Navid Khonsari | Stars: Navid Negahban, Bobby Naderi, Farshad Farahat, Omid Abtahi
Votes: 91
21. Our Man in Tehran (2013)
85 min | Documentary, History
The events of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Canada's involvement, especially concerning Ambassador Ken Taylor, are explored.
Directors: Drew Taylor, Larry Weinstein | Stars: Assadollah Alam, Bob Anders, Jimmy Carter, Joe Clark
Votes: 280 | Gross: $0.00M
22. Ferestadeh (1983)
103 min | Drama
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai
Votes: 238
23. 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
24. Drottningen och jag (2008)
90 min | Documentary
Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.
Director: Nahid Persson | Stars: Farah Pahlavi, Nahid Persson, Zinat S. Lloyd, Reza Tiregar
Votes: 613
25. Son of the Revolution (2020)
167 min | Biography
For almost 40 years, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was a mysterious character in the Iranian revolution. He was a supporter and close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader, during his exile. ... See full summary »
Stars: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Carole Jerome, Lean Waage Beck, Christian Bourguet
Votes: 28
26. Ein Augenblick Freiheit (2008)
110 min | Drama
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Director: Arash T. Riahi | Stars: Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari, Elika Bozorgi, Sina Saba
Votes: 683
27. 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: 560
28. Drum (2016)
90 min | Crime, Drama
The film is set in a dreamlike atmosphere, the characters do not have names, locations and streets neither. Tehran is the only character whose name is constantly mentioned. The main ... See full summary »
Director: Keywan Karimi | Stars: Amir Reza Naderi, Elias Rasouli, Ebrahim Zanjanian
Votes: 34
29. Iran and the West (2009– )
Documentary
Stars: Tony Gardner, Richard Haass, Warren Christopher, Mohammad Khatami
Votes: 199
30. Hate Among Us (2019)
TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary
Filmmaker David McKenzie examines the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes across the world.
Director: David McKenzie | Stars: Menhaz Afridi, Andrew Anglin, Wes Bellamy, David Ben-Gurion
Votes: 25
31. 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
32. Revolution (IV) (2012)
15 min | Short, Drama, Family
A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a ... See full summary »
Director: Abdi Nazemian | Stars: Mojean Aria, Sunday Burke, Zach Cumer, David Diaan
Votes: 146
33. Chroniques d'un Iran interdit (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
While winds of freedom blow through the Arab world, the Iranian youth waits. They were the first to rise up against their leaders in 2009.
Director: Manon Loizeau | Stars: Neda Agha-Soltan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sohrab Arabi, Mehdi Chamran
Votes: 28
34. 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
35. Destiny's 5th Rider (1980)
Crime, Drama
Director: Saeed Motalebi | Stars: Iraj Ghaderi, Fakhri Khorvash, Rasoul Tavakolli, Ali Aghapoor
Votes: 22
36. Toadstool (2002)
93 min | Drama
Director: Rasool Mollagholi Poor | Stars: Jamshid Hashempur, Mitra Hajjar, Farhad Ghaemian, Amir Jafari
Votes: 165
37. 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
38. Plastic Flowers Never Die (2008)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Filmmaker and Anthropologist Roxanne Varzi explores the cultural aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by interviewing Iranians and comparing their reactions to her own thoughts and ... See full summary »
Director: Roxanne Varzi
Votes: 6
39.
Declassified (2004–2006)
Episode:
Ayatollah Khomeini
(2006)
Documentary, History
Director: Kosh | Stars: Ervand Abrahamian, Madeleine Albright, Shaul Bakhash, Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Votes: 9
40.
Today's Close Up (1993– )
Episode:
'Hanbei' Iran wa doko e
(2009)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Hiroko Kuniya, Hideki Nakayama, Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, Kamal Tabrizi
41.
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
42.
State of Happiness (2018–2022)
Episode:
Fred og krig
(2022)
TV-MA | Drama, History
Marius is surprised by an unexpected visitor. Meanwhile, Anna engages in a budding friendship. An Iranian coup opens new doors for Nyman Diving.
Directors: Pål Jackman, Petter Næss | Stars: Anne Regine Ellingsæter, Paal Herman Ims, Bart Edwards, Malene Wadel
Votes: 40
43.
Ward Carroll (2020– )
Episode:
Iranian F-14 Tomcat Ace Reveals His Iraqi MiG-Killing Secrets
(2021)
26 min | Documentary
The Shah of Iran had acquired seventy-nine F-14 Tomcats to counter an Iraqi aircraft build up. But following the mayhem of the Iranian revolution only twelve Tomcats were serviceable when ... See full summary »
Star: Ward Carroll
44.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
Obviously, It Was America
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Dave Smith, Robbie Bernstein
45.
The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode:
The Real House of Saud - Saudi Arabia's Oil-for-Tyranny
(2015)
Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Ali Al Ahmed, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger
Votes: 20
46.
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