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...

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...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assi...

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...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangs...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous t...

Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies...

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 ...