Tehran Taboo

2017

Persian

7.1

♡ 47

97%

teheran (tehran), iran

Ali Soozandeh Director

Farhad Abadinejad as

Arash Marandi as Babak

Mohamad Hosein Nazari as Dost-e babak

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Sara

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

White Paradise

2022

French

5.8

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Thriller

Guillaume Renusson Director

Guillaume Pottier as Cédric

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Chehreh

Raphaël Ferret as Le médecin

Denis Ménochet as Samuel

Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating with his wife in the Italian Alps. Indifferent to the anger of locals who help police to hunt down migrants, he comes across a woman who fled Afghanistan. Samuel decides to help her reach the border, thinking it will take them a few hours. But an agressive group of men comes after them…

Shayda

2023

Persian

6.7

♡ 12

97%

mother daughter relationship

shelter

Noora Niasari Director

Mojean Aria as Farhad

Leah Purcell as Joyce

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Shayda

Jillian Nguyen as Vi

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.

Holy Spider

2022

Persian

7.3

♡ 38

82%

Ali Abbasi Director

Sima Seyed as

Hamid Djavadan as Agha Rasul

Wael Baghdadi as Photographer

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Rahimi

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

Tatami

2023

English

7.4

♡ 8

94%

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi Director

Nadine Marshall as Jean Claire Abriel

Arienne Mandi as Leila Hosseini

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Maryam Ghanbari

Jaime Ray Newman as Stacey Travis

Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the Judo World Championships, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose, or she will be branded a traitor of the state. With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: comply with the Iranian regime as her coach Maryam implores her to do, or fight on, for the gold.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024

Persian

6.2

♡ 5

Drama

Eran Riklis Director

Golshifteh Farahani as Azar Nafisi

Reza Diako as Bahri

Arash Marandi as Bijan Nafisi

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi as Sanaz

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.

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