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1. American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Sport
In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
Director: Alex Ranarivelo | Stars: George Kosturos, William Fichtner, Ali Afshar, Lia Marie Johnson
Votes: 2,692
2. The Charmer (2017)
100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Esmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
Director: Milad Alami | Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann, Susan Taslimi
Votes: 1,240 | Gross: $0.03M
3. They (2017)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun 'They' and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty... See full summary »
Director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | Stars: Rhys Fehrenbacher, Kooyar Hosseini Golkou, Nicole Coffineau, Norma Moruzzi
Votes: 608
4. Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)
TV-MA | 84 min | Comedy
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
Director: Jonathan Kesselman | Stars: Maz Jobrani, John Heard, Sheila Vand, Deanna Russo
Votes: 3,059 | Gross: $0.49M
5. Hus i helvete (2002)
100 min | Drama
Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
Director: Susan Taslimi | Stars: Melinda Kinnaman, Hassan Brijany, Caroline Rauf, Meliz Karlge
Votes: 430
6. Guests of Hotel Astoria (1989)
124 min | Drama
Tale of a group of Iranian families, fleeing from Iran to Turkey in order to seek asylum from Turkey to some Western European country or USA. The movie shows the hardship and very sad days ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marshall Manesh, Mohsen Marzban, Alan Desatti
Votes: 92
7. Born in Evin (2019)
95 min | Documentary
Filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, and her quest to find out the circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
Director: Maryam Zaree | Stars: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Maryam Zaree, Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Votes: 185
8. Das Phallometer (2013)
7 min | Short, Comedy
The phallometric tests were used in the Czech Republic until recently in order to verify the homosexuality of asylum seekers, who reported homosexuality-based persecution in their home ... See full summary »
Director: Tor Iben | Stars: Annette Frier, Klaus J. Behrendt, Harry Baer, Firat Erol
Votes: 109
9. Freedom and Other Maladies (2016)
53 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi's ... See full summary »
Director: Shirin Saghaie | Stars: Reza Aghnami, Bahman Amini, Ali Badri, Jimmy Carter
Votes: 17
10.
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode:
On Your Honor
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama
Victor represents an Iranian immigrant woman suing the U.S. government whose husband died on the A300 Airbus jet that was shot down by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988. ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Robman | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry
Votes: 37
11.
Crime Scene (2021– )
Episode:
Murder on 42nd St.
(2021)
TV-MA | 48 min
Bright lights, fear city: In Times Square, 1979, police stumble on a fiery "hotel room from hell" housing the bodies of two women.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Malcolm Reiman, Vernon Geberth, Jim Reigel, Josh Alan Friedman
Votes: 304
12.
Familie Braun (2016)
Episode:
Sieg!
(2016)
5 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Maurice Hübner | Stars: Edin Hasanovic, Vincent Krüger, Nomie Laine Tucker, Marios Gavrilis
Votes: 54