6.9
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IMDb: 6.9 1981 85 min
It all began with “Black Friday” – a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah’s police. Official pronouncements put the ...
6.1
Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)
IMDb: 6.1 2016
The life and work of Arthur Penn, whose films like “Bonnie and Clyde” helped shape the conversation around violence in America and ...
7.7
Tight Spot
IMDb: 7.7 1973 112 min
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 ...
5.6
Cut
IMDb: 5.6 2011 133 min
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to ...
7.8
The Runner
IMDb: 7.8 1985 94 min
Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he ...
6.7
Waiting
IMDb: 6.7 1974 43 min
One of Naderi’s most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy’s daily chore: bringing an elegant glass ...
6.1
Mountain
IMDb: 6.1 2016 107 min
About a farmer family living at the bottom of a mountain During the medieval time in Italy. The frightening mountain is preventing the Sun light ...
6.8
Water, Wind, Dust
IMDb: 6.8 1989 75 min
A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search ...
7.4
Manhattan by Numbers
IMDb: 7.4 1993 85 min
The story of George Murphy, a laid-off newspaperman who has 24 hours to come up with the back rent he owes or be put out in the street. ...
6.6
Vegas: Based on a True Story
IMDb: 6.6 2008 102 min
The film takes place away from the glittering strip of mega casinos, but the greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts. This ...
5.7
A, B, C… Manhattan
IMDb: 5.7 1997 90 min
Three NYC stories at a climax. Stories about breaking up, losing, leaving, giving away… the things or people you love, you live with, you ...
6.3
Marathon
IMDb: 6.3 2002 74 min
A woman continuously solves crossword puzzles everywhere she goes; in subway trains, on buses, and on the streets of New York City. Release: ...
5.9
Sound Barrier
IMDb: 5.9 2005 107 min
The film portrays the search by an 11-year old deaf and mute boy for an audio-cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death. Release: ...
7.5
Harmonica
IMDb: 7.5 1974 75 min
Set on the southern coast of Iran, “Harmonica” begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, ...