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4.2
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cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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78
7.1
/186216/
70
/4461/
66
/2193/
3.5
/73582/
94
/131/
77
/3831/
82
/34/
cc age 16+

Three Kings (1999)
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
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64
7.0
/248290/
70
/5930/
66
/3200/
3.1
/81574/
55
/209/
62
/6801/
57
/37/
cc age 17+

Body of Lies (2008)
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
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Kanopy
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56
7.1
/1764/
70
/28/
64
/36/
3.7
/1107/
87
/46/
67
/124/
75
/17/

Terror's Advocate (2007)
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
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78
53
8.0
/3607/
71
/25/
73
/31/
4.1
/3506/
88
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Bashu, the Little Stranger (1991)
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.
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Criterion Channel
76
46
7.8
/2295/
68
/45/
75
/42/
4.1
/8358/
78
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Homework (1989)
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
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69
46
7.7
/7591/
71
/31/
67
/30/
3.1
/1484/

The Glass Agency (1998)
An armed veteran of the Iran-Iraq War takes hostages at a travel agency after failing to raise enough money for his injured comrade to travel abroad for medical treatment.
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68
43
7.5
/5345/
65
/25/
69
/28/
3.1
/1127/

Leily is with Me (1996)
During the Iran-Iraq war, a television cinematographer, having financial problems, needs to get a loan from the TV to complete his half-built flat so one of his colleagues suggests him going to the war zone under the pretext of making a documentary about the Iraqi captives for the sake of accompanying another man who is so influential in TV's treasury, so that he can take his loan more easily. However he doesn't want to get to the line of fire, his sanctimonious demeanor leads him to something more precious than what he started his journey for.
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64
43
6.5
/3860/
69
/34/
67
/27/
2.9
/2876/

Bomb: A Love Story (2018)
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.
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Hoopla
74
41
7.4
/6001/
73
/24/
80
/23/
3.3
/1833/
81
/5/

M for Mother (2006)
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
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71
38
7.6
/3172/
71
/22/
62
/7/
3.8
/2088/

Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
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67
29
6.5
/2711/
75
/14/
71
/16/
2.9
/909/

The Lost Strait (2018)
The resistance of Ammar battalion in Abughoraib strait at the last days of Iran-Iraq war.
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66
29
7.4
/1912/
66
/20/
61
/13/
3.3
/1247/

Breath (2016)
Breath is about an Iranian family who lives in Iran. It tells the story of Bahar, who is living with her father, Ghafour and Grandmother during the 70s.She is living in her childish and surreal world, filled with their dreams and fantasies.
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66
28
7.1
/3128/
67
/14/
64
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3.1
/551/

From Karkhe to Rhein (1993)
Young veteran Saeed, who is suffering from visual problems due to injuries sustained during the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatment and recuperation. Once there, he is reunited with his sister Leyla, who is now married to a German citizen. The siblings struggle to reconnect in a foreign land, while Saeed prepares himself for surgery that could change his life. A tragic exploration of the horrific repercussions of war.
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The Roku Channel
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25
7.0
/2288/
71
/18/
61
/9/
2.7
/1059/

Track 143 (2014)
Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
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57
19
6.2
/1256/
62
/26/
55
/16/
50
/15/

Doomsday Gun (1994)
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.
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JustWatchTV
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17
6.7
/1265/
66
/3/
50
/6/
3.2
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The Situation of Mehdi (2022)
Mehdi Bakeri asks his younger brother Hamid to return to the war zone and be by his side despite the problems and issues that have happened to him. Hamid accepts his request and goes with his brother. After the Operation Kheibar.
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16
6.6
/1804/
47
/11/
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/9/
3.0
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The Scent of Joseph's Shirt (1995)
َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...
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15
5.9
/1878/
49
/11/
56
/7/
2.4
/453/

In the Name of the Father (2006)
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
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12
7.0
/1235/
63
/10/
56
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3.1
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The Red Ribbon (1999)
A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
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52
12
6.2
/1464/
64
/25/
25
/4/
2.9
/389/

The Third Day (2007)
During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province. Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.
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57
12
6.6
/587/
44
/9/
63
/14/
3.3
/483/
46
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Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
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57
11
6.4
/1431/
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40
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3.0
/318/

Duel (2004)
The story of Zeinal, a man who after 20 years of being a POW, tries to clear up his past.
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9
6.0
/540/
61
/6/
53
/12/
3.4
/213/

Kilometer Zero (2005)
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
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48
7
5.2
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60
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35
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2.3
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Bulletproof (2012)
When Salim - who sells governmental forbidden western music and film tapes in the streets- discovers he has a fatal brain tumor, he decides to join the army and get killed defending his ...
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?
6.7
/115/

Deh Namaki-ha (2008)
Pegah Ahangarani sets out on a one woman manhunt for Masoud Dehnamaki.
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?
5.6
/37/

A House Beside Clouds (2014)
During the Iran and Iraq war, two young men scam the soldier's family.
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?
6.4
/95/
70
/1/

Nose Iranian Style (2006)
A look at the reasons why every year 70,000 Iranians have a nose job.
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?
5.8
/69/
55
/4/
20
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Sweet and Savage (1983)
A Mondo documentary that juxtaposes footage of death, carnage, and unpleasantness with scenes of inspiring and beautiful imagery.
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65
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7.4
/246/
62
/5/
60
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Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution (2006)
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.
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?
6.4
/91/
70
/1/

Doomsday Machine (2009)
DOOMSDAY MACHINE (Mashine Rooze Ghiamat) deals with the mentally disabled war veterans in one of the permanent sanatoriums in Tehran. One of the patients "Mahmood" is under the illusion that he has built a "doomsday machine" which can destroy the world by pressing a button.
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66
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7.2
/495/
60
/1/

The Tear of the Cold (2004)
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
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?
8.7
/80/

Back to Babylon (2002)
Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?"
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Amazon Prime Video
64
?
6.4
/758/
63
/3/
67
/3/

Sniper (2021)
According to the true story of Abdolrasoul Zarrin, he was the Iranian sniper of the Iran-Iraq war, who is known as the best sniper in the contemporary world wars with a record of 3,000 successful shootings with Dragunov weapons.
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51
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6.2
/323/
50
/5/
42
/4/

Kimia (1995)
During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again...
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58
?
6.6
/659/
67
/4/
40
/1/
3.1
/277/

Night Bus (2007)
The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides
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38
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5.4
/406/
40
/2/
20
/1/

Dead Wave (2001)
Even after ten years, Lieutenant Morteza Rashed still has nightmares of corpses and dolls floating around after the fall of the Airbus plane by those who served aboard USS Vincennes at 1988. He has been holding a grudge towards them ever since they attacked this plane, and is always looking for an opportunity to take revenge...
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41
?
5.5
/405/
26
/3/
42
/4/

Minoo Watch Tower (1996)
Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.
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45
?
6.1
/359/
30
/1/
45
/2/

The Scout (1990)
In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.
poster
55
?
5.9
/381/
51
/5/
48
/4/
3.2
/204/

The Immigrant (1990)
A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.
poster
?
5.7
/58/
40
/2/
60
/2/

Inhumanities II: Modern Atrocities (1989)
Compilation of newsreel footage of atrocities, murders, natural disasters, aircraft accidents, and other spectacles involving violent death or extremes of human suffering
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60
?
6.9
/276/
62
/4/
50
/3/

Dawn of the World (2009)
The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
poster
57
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6.5
/262/
51
/10/
59
/7/
54
/6/

Uncle Saddam (2000)
Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).
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46
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5.0
/147/
80
/1/
10
/1/

A Place to Live (2004)
Six young men—Pouya, Reza, Abbas, Hossein, Saeed, and Mojtaba—live together in a Tehran dormitory during the last days of the year. The film observes their daily routines, small struggles, and shared hopes.
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50
?
5.0
/888/
60
/8/
2.1
/632/

Exodus (2020)
The story is about two men who start their journey from Dezful to Tehran, who are on the road for two and a half months and face many challenges.
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63
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6.7
/761/
65
/8/
58
/5/
3.2
/317/

Gilaneh (2005)
A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.
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?
8.2
/92/
70
/3/

My Enemy, My Brother (2015)
The real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life. Was later expanded into a feature length documentary.
poster
69
?
6.8
/112/
70
/1/

Keys of Heaven (2014)
Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.


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