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.

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...

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 supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...

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

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances ...

Bharat, a graduate from Oxford, is forced to take up his father's position as the chief minister aft...

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are th...

The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a membe...

A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Ha...

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the mi...

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 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...