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Drama
Iran|France|Australia
2011
123 Minutes
Director
Peyman Moaadi Leila Hatami Sareh Bayat Shahab Hosseini Merila Zare'i Babak Karimi Shirin Yazdanbakhsh Sarina Farhadi Ali-Asghar Shahbazi Kimia Hosseini
bank employee wife pregnant woman nurse senior citizen daughter powerful emotional profound tehran, iran family home courtroom divorce family investigation emigration legal case rivalry love 2010s
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Director
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
husband wife tenant actor intruder bleak brooding emotional gripping touching intense tehran, iran apartment building apartment stage theater school violence domestic life mysterious strangers
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Drama
France|Italy|Belgium|Iran
2013
130 Minutes
Director
Bérénice Bejo Ali Mosaffa Tahar Rahim Pauline Burlet Elyes Aguis Jeanne Jestin Sabrina Ouazani Babak Karimi Valeria Cavalli Aleksandra Klebanska Jean-Michel Simonet
ex-husband ex-wife daughter emotional paris france secret past mother/daughter relationship love 2010s
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Drama
Iran
2004
101 Minutes
Director
Faramarz Gharibian Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Ansari Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
daughter sister father mother friend prisoner intense moving tense iran prison family dysfunction money forgiveness race against time death sentence law and order quest revenge 2000s
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Spain|France|Italy|Argentina|Germany
2018
133 Minutes
Director
Penélope Cruz Javier Bardem Ricardo Darín Eduard Fernández Inma Cuesta Bárbara Lennie Elvira Mínguez Ramón Barea Carla Campra Sergio Castellanos Sara Sálamo
mother daughter sister kidnapper kidnapped child thrilling gripping argentina spain hometown kidnapping wedding dark secrets darkness financial scheme investigation rescue 2010s
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Drama
2006
104 Minutes
Director
Taraneh Alidoosti Hedye Tehrani Hamid Farokhnezhad Pantea Bahram
housekeeper wealthy man wife son fiancé beautician intricate powerful melodramatic family home tehran, iran spa office engagement marital problems disillusionment infidelity gossip suspicion rivalry