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1. Bride of Fire (2000)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Ahlam who is studying medicine in the college is in love with Dr. Parviz and wants to marry him. But according to her tribe's laws and traditions she must marry her cousin Farhan. She decides to face her family and find a solution.
Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Ghazal Saremi, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Salimeh Rangzan
Votes: 583
women issues in (south of) Iran
2. Two Women (1999)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Merila Zare'i, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Atila Pesiani
Votes: 1,727
Women issues in Iran
3. The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama
A story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Navabi, Navid Negahban
Votes: 21,724 | Gross: $0.66M
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,261 | Gross: $1.19M
About forbidden abortion
5. Tess (1979)
PG | 186 min | Drama, Romance
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin
Votes: 18,233
6. Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
135 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own.
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian, Mitra Hajjar
Votes: 2,944
7. Nobat e Asheghi (1995)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. He kills his rival and is condemned to the capital punishment. Gazale takes her own life. Part ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar, Aken Tunj
Votes: 223
8. Revolutionary Road (2008)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie
Votes: 224,838 | Gross: $22.91M
9. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand
Votes: 1,990 | Gross: $0.34M
10. The Fifth Reaction (2003)
102 min | Drama, Thriller
Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Ali Ghorbanzadeh, Zandish Hamidi, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 649
11. The Last Supper (2002)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Katayoun Riahi, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Soraya Ghasemi
Votes: 891
12. What's Up? (1992)
110 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Mahaya Petrossian, Danial Hakimi, Jahangir Almasi, Rashid Aslani
Votes: 247
13. As Simple as That (2008)
PG | 93 min | Drama
Tomorrow is an important day for Amir. He had participated in an international architecture competition to win the competition with foreign companies. His wife ,Tahereh (Hengameh Ghaziani),... See full summary »
Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Hengameh Ghaziani, Mehran Kashani, Safa Aghajani, Parvaneh Ahmadi
Votes: 1,524
14. Water (I) (2005)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
Set in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Sarala Kariyawasam
Votes: 15,355 | Gross: $3.22M
15. Life with Closed Eyes (2010)
101 min | Drama
Parasto a young girl from a virtuous family, in absence of her brother and being alone, by her careless behavior leads the neighborhood and her family into some misunderstandings. But that changes by return of her brother when she tries to clear them up.
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Taraneh Alidoosti, Poulad Kimiayi, Farhad Aeesh
Votes: 572
16. Nothing (2010)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Ahmad Mehranfar, Mehran Ahmadi, Nayereh Farahani, Marzieh Boroomand
Votes: 1,144
17. The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M (2012)
80 min | Drama, Family
Mohsen is improving his business life to higher levels, but when his wife gets involved in the business, he finds it difficult to tolerate the underlying conflicts.
Director: Rouhollah Hejazi | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Yoosef Ghorbani, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Abolghasem Keramati
Votes: 598
18. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,603 | Gross: $0.18M
19. Just Like a Woman (2012)
R | 87 min | Drama
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 secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee
Votes: 2,947
20. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,876 | Gross: $1.09M
21. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Not Rated | 202 min | Drama
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Votes: 13,856 | Gross: $0.02M
22. The Tango Lesson (1997)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A scriptwriter comes to Paris to work on her film. There she takes up tango lessons and forms a relationship with the dancer.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Sally Potter, Pablo Verón, Morgane Maugran, Géraldine Maillet
Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $1.30M
23. Vagabond (1985)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane
Votes: 13,625
24. Death and the Maiden (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova
Votes: 26,785 | Gross: $2.10M
25. Faithless (2000)
R | 142 min | Drama, Romance
An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.
Director: Liv Ullmann | Stars: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon
Votes: 3,720 | Gross: $0.73M
26. Raspberry (2014)
90 min | Drama
Hamid and Homa are incapable of having a baby. Rezvan accepts to carry their child in her uterus through artificial impregnation until the child is born. When Homa dies and Hamid loses his memory in a car accident, things get complicated.
Director: Saman Salur | Stars: Bijan Afshar, Mehran Ahmadi, Milad Ajoudani, Maryam Amini
Votes: 92
27. The Help (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Drama
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 492,146 | Gross: $169.71M
28. Circumstance (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes: 8,002 | Gross: $0.44M
29. The Hidden Half (2001)
103 min | Drama
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Atila Pesiani, Akbar Moazezi
Votes: 876
30. Vessel (II) (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
Director: Diana Whitten | Stars: Rebecca Gomperts, Kinga Jelinski, Cecilia Costa, Gunilla Kleiverda
Votes: 244
31. Life and a Day (2016)
112 min | Drama
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Shabnam Moghadami
Votes: 17,503
32. Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)
69 min | Documentary
Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.
Director: Bonnie Sherr Klein | Stars: Linda Lee Tracey, Bonnie Sherr Klein, Suze Randall, Kate Millett
Votes: 312
33. Quest for Honor (2009)
63 min | Documentary
A former teacher and tireless activist works with local lawmen, Kurdish government agencies and her colleagues to investigate and eradicate honor killings in the tribal regions of Kurdistan.
Director: Mary Ann Smothers Bruni | Stars: Lawen Azad, Runak Faraj, Hemin Kakaiy, Kalthoum
Votes: 28
34. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks -- a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Pantea Bahram
Votes: 13,485
35. Head-On (2004)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie
Votes: 57,618
36. When We Leave (2010)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama
Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against her family's resistance. Her struggle initiates a dynamic that results in a life-threatening situation.
Director: Feo Aladag | Stars: Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller, Derya Alabora, Settar Tanriögen
Votes: 5,562 | Gross: $0.02M
37. Abba Jaan (2017)
75 min | Drama, War
The story is in Zanjan 1980s. It tells the life of people of that city and their problems in those years.
Director: Hatef Alimardani | Stars: Shabnam Moghadami, Melisa Zakeri, Saeed Aghakhani, Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Votes: 520
38. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,812 | Gross: $13.62M
39. Three Monkeys (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal
Votes: 22,978 | Gross: $0.04M
40. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 199,774 | Gross: $6.86M
41. Unorthodox (2020)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama
Story of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad.
Stars: Shira Haas, Amit Rahav, Jeff Wilbusch, Alex Reid
Votes: 92,299
42. The Bleeding Edge (2018)
TV-14 | 99 min | Documentary
A look at the unforeseen consequences of advanced technological devices used in the medical field.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Jim Spencer, Jeanne Lenzer, Michael Carome, Angie Firmalino
Votes: 3,099
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