Golshifteh Farahani
Also Known As: Rahavard Farahani, 골쉬프테 파라하니, گلشیفته فراهانی, Golshifte Farahani, ゴルシフテ・ファラハニ, Гольшифте Фарахані, Гольшіфте Фарахані, 格什菲·法拉哈尼, Гольшифтех Фарахані
Biography: Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) was born on 10th July 1983 and is an international Iranian actress. She has dual Iranian and French nationality. Golshifteh Farahani started her acting career in theatre at the age of 6. Since then she has played in more than 40 films, many of which have been screened or awarded at international festivals. Amongst her famous Iranian films are Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, Dariush Mehrjui's Santoori , Rasool Mollagholipour's M for Mother and Asghar Farhadi's About Elly. Starring in Ridley Scotts Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Russel Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani became the first Iranian to act in a major Hollywood production. She has also played in Paterson (2016) with Adam Driver, in the last Pirates of the Caribbean (2017) and in the French movie Santa & Cie (2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Birthday: July 10, 1983
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Gender: Female
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Body of Lies
Overview: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Extraction 2
Overview: Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Romantique
Overview: After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. This time he will do his best.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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About Elly
Overview: The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Half Moon
Overview: Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2006-08-21
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To Each His Own Cinema
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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There Be Dragons
Overview: Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Overview: As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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Brother and Sister
Overview: Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-20
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Chicken with Plums
Overview: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Extraction 3
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
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Can Creativity Save the World?
Overview: The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspiring film about imagination's power and a hopeful glimpse into the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-18
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Just Like a Woman
Overview: Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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The Patience Stone
Overview: In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
Overview: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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My Father's Dragon
Overview: Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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The Pear Tree
Overview: A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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My Sweet Pepper Land
Overview: Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2014-04-09
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Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
Overview: On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wearing a headscarf contrary to the law", sparked off an unprecedented insurrection. Within hours, a spontaneous movement formed around the rallying cry: "Woman, life, freedom". For the first time, women, joined by men and students, took the initiative and removed their veils, the hated symbol of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian population, from all regions and social categories, rose up in protest. Social networks went wild. The diaspora (between 5–8 million Iranians) took up the cause, and the whole world discovered the scale of this mobilization: could the theocratic regime be overthrown this time?
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-19
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The Rule of Three
Overview: Louis takes care of Vincent but expects that Marie manage it alone. The three of them spend an afternoon together and at the end of the day, they think the same thing: what's the point if I'm alone?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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The Music Man
Overview: Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-04-01
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Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Overview: Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-07-04
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William Tell
Overview: The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, desiring more land, invades neighbouring Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation. Protagonist William Tell, a formerly peaceful hunter, finds himself forced to take action as his family and homeland come under threat from the oppressive Austrian King and his ruthless warlords.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Cocorica
Overview: Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chickens are allowed to sing, hens should be brood. In order to escape her fate, she decides to rebel and become a singer.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-09
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-23
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
Overview: Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at your local cinema with this spectacular worldwide live broadcast of the band’s sold out concert at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium directly from Argentina in a stadium bursting with lights, lasers, fireworks and LED wristbands - all of which combine to make Coldplay’s concerts such a joyful and life-affirming experience.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Finding Altamira
Overview: The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Two Friends
Overview: Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-23
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Two Angels
Overview: In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a shepherd who plays Ney. From that moment his life changes forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-11-19
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Free to Create - Artists in Exile
Overview: Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Sudanese graphic designer Anwar, and members of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-02-13
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Rosewater
Overview: In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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The Thing That Hurts
Overview: The patients of a recently deceased American psychotherapist remember her.
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Original Language: fr
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Hood Witch
Overview: A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-15
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Boutique
Overview: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-08-23
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Sophie's Misfortunes
Overview: Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Alpha
Overview: In the late 1980s, a teenager starts getting rejected by her classmates because of a rumor spreading that she’s been infected with a new disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Paterson
Overview: A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Les Clochettes de Kaboul
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Sinjar, naissance des fantômes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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Go Home
Overview: Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. Something happened in this house. Something violent. A young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
Overview: In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-23
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Shirin
Overview: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-01-20
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M for Mother
Overview: What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-10-24
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Eden
Overview: Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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Bab'Aziz
Overview: The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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The Fish Fall in Love
Overview: After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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The Upside
Overview: Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-10
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Christmas & Co.
Overview: Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough moment for Santa, better known as Father Christmas. He's left no choice: he must make an emergency trip to Earth with his reindeer to search for a remedy. When he arrives, he must find some allies to save the magic of Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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The Song of Scorpions
Overview: While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader listens to her sing and falls in love with her and they marry. But soon, Nooran discovers treachery and must avenge herself and rediscover her lost song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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The Night Eats the World
Overview: After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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Shelter
Overview: Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Girls of the Sun
Overview: Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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In the Name of the Father
Overview: This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-07-08
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There's Always a Woman in Between
Overview: A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-02-06
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Arab Blues
Overview: Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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Seven Acts
Overview: Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Blind Spot
Overview: Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but rarely uses it. Instead he has kept it a shameful secret, hidden even from Viveka, his fiancée. But when his ability to control his gift gets out of hand, his life, friendships and relationships will be forever turned inside out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Extraction
Overview: A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-23
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The Wall
Overview: For the young and fearless Setareh, there are no walls or boundaries she cannot overcome. Determined to provide for her family, Setareh takes a job as a bike rider in a theme park, following the tracks of her late father. When she becomes the first female to ride around 'The Wall', a wooden cylinder-shaped structure, the authorities intervene to prevent her from taking her rightful place on the wall of fame. With the successful show on the verge of being cancelled, Setareh struggles for her voice to be heard. An adventurous philosophical debate into gender equality.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-07-22
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The Tear of the Cold
Overview: During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Somewhere Else
Overview: Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-10-22
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Zamaneh
Overview: Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for this opposition, especially her father’s, is the fact that Saeid is a disabled veteran who is on the wheelchair. Zamane, who’s had enough of her family’s strict behavior, offers Saeid to run away with her and then get married, but he doesn’t accept that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Disgraced
Overview: Mariam is a young girl growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although she is quite innocent, her conservative father keeps thinking that she has relations with other boys which leads ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Overview: An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe Edition Blu-ray set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-17
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Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Overview: In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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La Vie d'une Femme
Overview: The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Conference of the Birds
Overview: The film centers on a flock of birds who are the sole survivors of a man-made natural disaster. Leading the avian gang is Hod-Hod, a young adventurous hoopoe who sets off on a quest to meet the legendary bird Simorgh, rumored to hold the key to solving all the birds’ problems.
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Original Language: en
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
Overview: Filmed during Coldplay’s sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium, this spectacular concert film features remixed sound and stunning visuals, including a host of previously-unseen footage.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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