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 small craftsman disappears, his brother, a grocer, searches for him and… to his surprise, he finds...

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

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...

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on...

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a ...

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away...

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his...

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to u...

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful t...

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

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...

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the de...