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Kanopy
90
7.5
/7749/
72
/206/
75
/150/
3.8
/14481/
98
/53/
91
/6/
82
/15/

There Is No Evil (2020)
Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.
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Kanopy
89
8.1
/74637/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
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Hoopla
80
7.2
/1659/
73
/59/
74
/52/
3.4
/7627/
96
/27/
83
/11/

Terrestrial Verses (2023)
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/6468/
73
/154/
75
/97/
3.8
/5368/
93
/45/
82
/24/
78
/13/

Clash (2016)
In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
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Criterion Channel
83
76
7.6
/8637/
72
/132/
72
/188/
3.8
/9939/
100
/33/
87
/95/
98
/12/

Pépé le Moko (1937)
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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The Roku Channel
79
76
8.2
/18812/
75
/286/
73
/190/
3.9
/5357/
75
/8/
93
/122/

Lion of the Desert (1981)
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Kanopy
67
6.6
/4247/
68
/97/
66
/198/
3.3
/1621/
76
/42/
63
/76/
59
/14/

Outside the Law (2010)
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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Shahid VIP
85
66
8.9
/11780/
79
/55/
87
/41/
4.2
/5687/

The Message (1976)
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
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Peacock Premium
65
7.0
/136918/
71
/3763/
67
/1762/
3.2
/29236/
51
/186/
76
/21448/
56
/37/
cc age 18+

The Kingdom (2007)
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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Kanopy
79
63
7.7
/20874/
76
/337/
71
/263/
3.5
/14240/
95
/20/
85
/1/

Law of Tehran (2019)
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
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Amazon Prime Video
69
61
7.2
/4341/
72
/117/
65
/188/
3.6
/2444/
70
/10/
67
/39/

The Source (2011)
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
poster
80
44
7.6
/1270/
73
/17/
75
/28/
4.0
/3424/
80
/5/
100
/5/

The White Meadows (2009)
Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of Iran's political leadership emerges.
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59
43
6.2
/3295/
52
/133/
59
/145/
3.3
/4302/
60
/9/

Much Loved (2015)
A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
poster
66
42
6.9
/2294/
64
/40/
68
/34/
3.2
/1721/

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination (2017)
The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
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Kanopy
66
39
6.7
/1279/
65
/75/
65
/28/
3.4
/11469/

Our Uniform (2023)
An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she's nothing but a "female" and explores the roots of this idea in her school years.
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77
38
7.0
/1303/
79
/54/
68
/47/
3.8
/2720/
92
/2/

I Still Hide to Smoke (2017)
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
31
5.4
/2938/
69
/21/
58
/33/
2.1
/1191/

Damascus Time (2018)
Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
poster
66
16
6.6
/434/
65
/10/
66
/16/
3.6
/357/
65
/11/

Mascarades (2008)
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
poster
70
13
7.0
/412/
71
/7/
69
/8/
3.5
/346/
72
/12/

Rachida (2003)
Rachida, a young and self-assured teacher at an elementary school, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom. This acclaimed debut feature offers a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens in Algeria, where terrorism was commonplace during the civil conflict of the 1990s.
poster
69
12
6.7
/202/
72
/7/
63
/10/
3.7
/528/

Omar Gatlato (1976)
Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely knows.
poster
54
9
4.9
/272/
46
/9/
57
/15/
3.2
/209/

Of Skin and Men (2018)
Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women.
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Hoopla
42
9
4.2
/838/
52
/16/
40
/7/
1.7
/718/

Sly (2018)
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 parties and politicians, none take him seriously until he's connected to a single, notorious incident.
poster
48
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5.3
/474/
55
/6/
32
/7/
2.6
/435/

Africa (2010)
Three young criminals are ordered to keep a girl inside a house until her brother pays his debts.
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Kanopy
?
8.2
/32/

I Am the Revolution (2018)
The inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.
poster
?
8.8
/7/
10
/1/

Tirich Mir til topps (1952)
The Norwegian climbing expedition to the Tirich Mir mountain in Pakistan in 1950. Per Kvernberg, Arne Næss, Henry Berg and Tony Streather became the first people ever to reach the top of this mountain - in July 1950.
poster
?
6.1
/22/
10
/2/
100
/1/

Rose Of The Desert (1989)
An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; They try, together, to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed. The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood, of times when parents took all the responsibilities. Moussa is perfectly independent, although he has no arms, he nevertheless loves being cared for by his sister. Zineb, for her part, does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute. Life passes punctuated by the same gestures. Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory. Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster, draws or dreams of Mériem, the woman he loves. A rose secretly grows in the sand, which Moussa waters every day.
poster
61
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6.6
/237/
50
/5/
60
/9/
3.4
/266/

Bab El Oued City (1994)
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
poster
?
6.5
/92/
50
/3/
44
/7/

The Citadel (1988)
El Kalaa, a village in southern Oran. Although already married, old Sidi planned to marry another. He sets his sights on the beautiful Aïssa, with whom Kaddour, his adopted son, is in love. The old man decides to play a trick on Kaddour to teach him never to covet a woman that an elder wants to marry...
poster
?
7.2
/22/
10
/1/
77
/3/

The Outlaws (1969)
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
?
7.9
/227/
65
/4/
70
/3/

The Sacred City (2016)
This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.
poster
?
7.8
/21/
20
/2/
17
/4/

Dancer on the Wounds (1974)
A belly dancer and prostitute falls in love with a famous doctor who asks her for marriage, but for the sake of her lover's social standing, she decides to abandon him and return to her life of sin, and in order to forget him, she meets another man but also discovers that he has a family he loves. The dancer feels that she is not made for marriage life or to establish a normal family life, so she moves from A man to another after she lost all faith in love.
poster
Kanopy
77
?
7.9
/244/
78
/5/
80
/2/
74
/4/

Honor Diaries (2013)
Honor Diaries is the first film to break the silence on ‘honor violence’ against women and girls. Honor Diaries is more than a movie, it is a movement to save women and girls from human rights abuses – around the world and here in America.
poster
?
6.4
/39/
35
/2/

Sorkhpustha (1979)
Arbab Jamshid St. is a congregation place for the extras of Persian Film where they wait for a famous person called Ciccio to take them to the movie location. There is a newcomer in this group; a young man called Davoud who has moved to Tehran from a small town with the hope of becoming an actor.
poster
?
5.8
/19/
10
/1/
50
/1/

The Eighth Day of the Week (1973)
Lili is a young medical student who lives a normal life with her mother until one night that being raped changes Lili's life.
poster
?
8.2
/21/
100
/1/
100
/1/

Lotfi (2015)
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
poster
?
6.1
/14/
80
/1/

Öcalan and the Kurdish Question (2015)
Kurdistan, partitioned between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, could play a major role in a torn Middle East. But who are the Kurds? What influence do they have? Who exactly is Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party? An enlightening investigation by Luis Miranda.
poster
?
5.9
/30/
20
/1/
57
/3/

Normal! (2012)
After the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
poster
?
6.8
/60/
80
/1/
70
/3/

Nahla (1979)
After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war. Linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel who surround Nahla, he witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population. One day Nahla loses her voice on stage. The atmosphere of crisis that reigns around her is spreading like an infection. Larbi, fascinated, loses his footing and gets bogged down.
poster
?
5.8
/88/
85
/2/
42
/5/

The Rooftops (2013)
A sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria’s greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache.
poster
62
?
5.5
/528/
60
/13/
73
/6/
3.2
/418/

A Husband On Demand (1985)
A rich man hires another man to marry his ex-wife.
poster
43
?
3.5
/554/
46
/6/
50
/3/
2.1
/381/

Parkway (2007)
Parkway is a crossing in Tehran. Part horror, part thriller, the film chronicles the tribulations of a young couple, Raha and Kouhyar.
poster
Hoopla
70
?
7.1
/193/
77
/8/
65
/4/
3.5
/319/

Born in Evin (2019)
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.


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