Films like Septembers of Shiraz
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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Not Without My Daughter
Film · 1991 · also drama and thrillerAn American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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The Operative
Film · 2019 · also drama and thrillerA young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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A Dry White Season
Film · 1989 · also drama and thrillerDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police cu...
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Escape from Pretoria
Film · 2020 · also drama and thrillerSouth Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion...
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Freedom Writers
Film · 2007 · also dramaA young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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Room
Film · 2015 · also drama and thrillerHeld captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
Film · 2009 · also dramaIn 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arran...
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The Red Sea Diving Resort
Film · 2019 · also drama and thrillerSudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions fr...
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The Hate U Give
Film · 2018 · also dramaRaised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend,...
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Adam Resurrected
Film · 2008 · also dramaAfter again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where...
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