Highest-Rated Movies about 'Iran', Sort by Popularity

The Circle (2000), A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), People of the Wind (1976), Persepolis (2007), Beautiful City (2004), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Everyday Rebellion (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Iran movies.

#16. Blackboards (2000)

Storyline: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: teacher, husband, wife, nomad, son, old man, emotional ...

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#17. Syriana (2005)

Storyline: American oil companies Connex and smaller Killen are undergoing a merger, the new company named Connex-Killen. The move is in response to Connex losing a number of oil fields in the Persian Gulf region as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai, his country's foreign minister, and the oldest son of the Emir and thus the heir apparent to the throne, signed a contract with the Chinese instead. As Killen somehow managed to get the contract for the oil fields in Kazahkstan, the merger would give Connex-Killen additional control of the industry in the Middle East. Connex's retained law firm, headed by Dean Whiting, assigns Bennett Holiday to demonstrate to the US Department of Justice that due diligence has been done to allow the merger to proceed i.e. that the merger would not break any antitrust regulations. The US government is unhappy with Prince Nasir's decision to award the contract to the Chinese, and in combination with issues around illegal weapons, the CIA assigns field agent Bob Barnes, who has ...

Plot Keywords: cia agent, attorney, analyst, prince, wife, friend, intense ...

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#18. Rosewater (2014)

Storyline: Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.—abivians

Plot Keywords: journalist, interrogator, president, political candidate, brutal, disheartening, gripping ...

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#19. Not Without My Daughter (1991)

Storyline: "Moody" is an Iranian doctor living in America with his American wife Betty and their child Mahtob. Wanting to see his homeland again, he convinces his wife to take a short holiday there with him and Mahtob. Betty is reluctant, as Iran is not a pleasant place, especially if you are American and female. Upon arrival in Iran, it appears that her worst fears are realized: Moody declares that they will be living there from now on. Betty is determined to escape from Iran, but taking her daughter with her presents a larger problem.

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, daughter, smuggler, gripping, brutal, emotional ...

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#20. Desert Cry (2016)

Storyline: A film based on an incredible true story. Desert Dancer is a classic hero story about brave young people risking their lives to rebel against their government and fight for their dreams. Set in Iran, where it is currently forbidden to dance, the story follows Afshin Ghaffarian and his friends who despite the dangers form an underground dance company where, via hacking into YouTube, they learn from the very best - Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. Reveling in the freedom of expression that dance gives them, they set upon putting on a performance deep in the desert, away from the watchful eyes of the military police.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: dance instructor, dancer, older woman, government agent, police officer, secret agent, confident ...

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#21. Silver Bears (1978)

Storyline: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Sir Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all of his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything for which he's worked, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).—marktreut

Plot Keywords: finance expert, mob boss, prince, mine owner, con artist, brash, charming ...

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#22. The Peacemaker (1997)

Storyline: Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly doesn't think it was an accident... Special Operations Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands...

Plot Keywords: scientist, special agent, colleague, terrorist, general, senator, tense ...

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#23. The Queen and I (2008)

Storyline: Iranian Filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani chronicles the day-to-day life of Farah Pahlavi, the last queen of Iran and former wife of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Farah has been living in exile in Paris since 1979 and now spends most of her time responding to letters. Sarvestani, who participated in the ousting of the Shah in her youth and endured personal tragedy following the Iranian Revolution, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Farah as the two discuss their country's tumultuous history.

Plot Keywords: queen, filmmaker, emotional, touching, iran, paris, sweden ...

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#24. The Deserted Station (2002)

Storyline: A photographer (Nezam Manouchehri) and his wife (Leila Hatami) seek help at the nearest village when their car breaks down en route to Tehran. There they find a teacher, Feizollah (Mehran Rajabi), overseeing a small group of scrappy children. While the men fix the car, the wife is left to care for the children and confront her own fears of parenthood. Over the course of the day, this childless woman and these motherless gamins form a bond that will change them forever.

Plot Keywords: child, student, teacher, photographer, husband, wife, solemn ...

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#25. Men at Work (2006)

Storyline: Returning from a ski trip, four middle-aged men (Mahnaz Afshar, Ahmad Hamed, Mahmoud Kalari, Reza Kianian) stop their car on a mountain road when they see a massive rock protruding from a cliff. The friends joke about how easy it would be to push the rock off the cliff, but find the task to be much more difficult than they expected. What begins as a silly idea becomes a serious mission as the men struggle to dislodge the rock by any means necessary in this existential Iranian comedy.

Plot Keywords: friend, dentist, old man, husband, calm, quirky, amusing ...

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