Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "religious-society"

1. Women Talking (2022)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama

Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand

Votes: 42,038

2. Law of Tehran (2019)

131 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.

Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani

Votes: 18,590

3. The Secrets (2007)

R | 127 min | Drama, Romance

Two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.

Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler, Adir Miller

Votes: 2,250 | Gross: $0.12M

4. Timbuktu (2014)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, War

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed

Votes: 18,290 | Gross: $1.08M

5. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero

Votes: 6,049

6. Country (1984)

PG | 105 min | Drama

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,239 | Gross: $9.64M

7. 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: 7,301

8. Gett (2014)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani, Dalia Beger

Votes: 6,891 | Gross: $0.99M

9. Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq's Secret Sex Trade (2019 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

This powerful investigation into Shia clerics in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a dark network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Wells | Stars: Nawal Al-Maghafi, Fares Al-Musawi, Husain Al-Musawi, Ghaith Tamimi

Votes: 137

10. The White Meadows (2009)

92 min | Drama

Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani

Votes: 1,054

11. Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)

130 min | Documentary, History

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Katayun Amir Ebrahimi, Mary Apick, Pouri Baneai

Votes: 20

12. Sly (2018)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted ... See full summary »

Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Vishka Asayesh, Azadeh Samadi, Mani Haghighi

Votes: 775

13. Sobyan wa banat (1996)

72 min | Documentary

A documentary which depicts the life of Bassem Samra and his friends and family. The film discusses issues concerning love and the veil.

Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Star: Basem Samrah

Votes: 53

14. Awakening Dreams (2010)

Drama, War

Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow. But ...

Director: Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar | Stars: Mehri Sadat Alagha, Amir Hossein Arman, Hamid Reza Azarang, Habib Dehghan Nasab

Votes: 114

15. 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

16. Un'infermiera di nome Laura (2009)

25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

Pietro awakes in a strange hospital unable to use his legs and no recollection of how he came to be here. Laura, an evasive Nurse, and a Leo, a mentally-ill patient, are the only other ... See full summary »

Director: Stefano Viali | Stars: Ottavia Bianchi, Ilaria Genatiempo, Roberto Mantovani, Stefano Viali

17. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: Commandante (1969)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An enemy nation has hijacked a US supported revolutionary movement trying to overturn a dictatorship. The IMF posses as a religious organization seeking the release of the priest who is the... See full summary »

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 158

18. The Nanny (1993–1999)
Episode: Not Without My Nanny (1998)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Grace's pen pal, Billy, is the son of the Sultan of Koorestan, a country in the Middle East. Billy has invited Grace for a visit. Despite the fact that Fran would prefer Niles take Grace ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Lyman | Stars: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane

Votes: 312