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.
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...
A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms th...
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenpl...
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...
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...
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...
When Mahi's son dies in a car accident, Behrouz who has returned to Iran to sell his properties, att...
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...