Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "savak"

1. Argo (2012)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin

Votes: 639,279 | Gross: $136.03M

2. Persepolis (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux

Votes: 100,207 | Gross: $4.45M

3. Rhino Season (2012)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk

Votes: 7,300

4. Boycott (1986)

85 min | Drama

A young guy Valeh is arrested by the security during Shah's reign in Iran. There in prison he remembers his past and his life and begins to asks about his believes and ideals. Finally they ... See full summary »

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Esmat Makhmalbaf, Zohreh Sarmadi

Votes: 388

5. Parviz Sabeti (2023)

120 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Parviz Sabeti's documentary is a narrative of the important political and security events of Iran until the 1979 revolution in the words of one of the highest security officials of the imperial government of Iran.

Star: Parviz Sabeti

Votes: 25

6. Sly (2018)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted ... See full summary »

Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Vishka Asayesh, Azadeh Samadi, Mani Haghighi

Votes: 775

7. Cursed Bloodlines (2017)
Episode: The Curse of the Peacock Throne (2017)

TV-PG | Documentary, History

The story of how ancient Persia morphed into the Iran of today is very much the story of one family: the Pahlavis. Their reign would prove short-lived for a dynasty and would be the most tumultuous in the nation's complicated history.

Director: Susana Lopez | Star: Drew Patterson