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Alexander
2004 film by Oliver Stone
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 film directed by Mike Newell
The Salesman
2016 Iranian film by Asghar Farhadi
White House Down
2013 film directed by Roland Emmerich
Syriana
Syriana is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on Robert Baer's 2003 memoir See No Evil. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig, and Mazhar Munir.
The Stoning of Soraya M.
2008 film by Cyrus Nowrasteh
Where is the Friend's Home?
1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami
About Elly
2009 film directed by Asghar Farhadi
Genghis Khan
1965 film by Henry Levin
The Color of Paradise
1999 film by Majid Majidi
Holy Spider
2022 film directed by Ali Abbasi
Wishmaster
1997 film directed by Robert Kurtzman
Close-Up
1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami
The Physician
2013 film directed by Philipp Stölzl
The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 film by Abbas Kiarostami
Kandahar
2023 film by Ric Roman Waugh
Through the Olive Trees
1994 film by Abbas Kiarostami
Offside
2006 film by Jafar Panahi
Blackboards
Blackboards (, Takhté siah; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
The Song of Sparrows
2008 film by Majid Majidi
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 film by Ana Lily Amirpour
The Cow
1969 film by Dariush Mehrjui
In This World
2002 film by Michael Winterbottom
11'09"01 September 11
2002 anthology film by 11 different directors
Ten
2002 film by Abbas Kiarostami
The Cyclist
1987 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Life, and Nothing More...
1992 film by Abbas Kiarostami
Half Moon
2006 film directed by Bahman Ghobadi
And Then There Were None
1974 film by Peter Collinson
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966 television film directed by Terence Young and Georges Lampin
Desert Dancer
2014 film by Richard Raymond
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
1977 film by Agnès Varda
Circumstance
2011 film by Maryam Keshavarz
Closed Curtain
2013 film by Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi
Crimson Gold
2003 film by Jafar Panahi
Leila
1996 film by Dariush Mehrjui
No Bears
2022 film directed by Jafar Panahi
The Bread and Alley
1970 film by Abbas Kiarostami
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
1954 film by Don Weis
Marooned in Iraq
2002 film by Bahman Ghobadi
The Report
1977 film by Abbas Kiarostami
The Traveller
1974 Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Omar Khayyam
1957 film by William Dieterle
The Hunter
2010 film
Shirin Farhad
1956 film
A Wedding Suit
1976 film by Abbas Kiarostami
Bodyguard
2016 film by Ebrahim Hatamikia
The Exorcist: Italian Style
1975 film by Ciccio Ingrassia
Captain Khorshid
1987 film by Nasser Taghvai
On Suffocation
2013 short film
Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe
1978 film by Cesare Canevari, Leslie H. Martinson
Deadwater
2008 film by Roel Reiné
Winners
2022 film directed by Hassan Nazer
The Upside-down Triangle
2016 film by Hossein Rajabian
Che
2014 film directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia
Hit the Road
2021 film directed by Panah Panahi
Silver Bears
1978 film by Ivan Passer