Under the Shadow (2016)

Summary: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.

Release Date: October 07, 2016

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Babak Anvari

Writer: Babak Anvari

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Wigwam Films, Creativity Capital, MENA Film, Doha Film Institute

Distributor: Netflix, Vertical Entertainment, XYZ Films

Countries: United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar, Iran

Language: Farsi

Domestic: $ 31,900

International: $ 101,424

A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

Summary: Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.

Release Date: September 13, 2000

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Writer: Bahman Ghobadi

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bahman Ghobadi Films, Farabi Cinema Foundation, MK2 Productions, Mij Film Co.

Distributor: Shooting Gallery

Countries: Iran, France

Language: Farsi

Domestic: $ 587,654

International: $ 44,656

Persepolis (2007)

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

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Animation, Biography, Drama

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud

, Marjane Satrapi

Writers: Marjane Satrapi

, Vincent Paronnaud

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Classics, Soficinéma, Sofica Europacorp, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 4,445,756

International: $ 18,338,222

Body of Lies (2008)

Summary: A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.

Release Date: October 10, 2008

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Ridley Scott