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.

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with t...

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana s...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang membe...

In 71 BC in Rome, utter disorder reigns in the form of political corruption and bribery involving th...

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take ...

During the late 1980s, two detectives in rural South Korea attempt to solve a series of gruesome rap...

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood...

When Anita Raja, CEO of Sheppard power plant, brings a power plant proposal to set up in rural Mahra...

A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few supe...