Animation, Drama
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Electric Shadows
The Doctor
Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
Horns and Halos
The Anniversary Party
Prison Song
Torremolinos 73
Effi Briest
Old Joy
Little Lips
Parallel Lives
Alma's Rainbow
El círculo de los mentirosos
Swinging Safari
Welcome to São Paulo
Barcelona 1714
These Vagabond Shoes
Summer Crossing
Danger Patrol
Alistair1918
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Electric Shadows
IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 2005
For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies.The Doctor
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 1991
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2023
As Sasaki prepares for his college entrance exams, Miyano tries to make the most of their limited time together while grappling with his own emotions.Horns and Halos
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2002
"What if someone wrote your biography? Would there be horns and halos involved?"The Anniversary Party
IMDB 5.7 | Jun , 2001
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.Prison Song
IMDB 5.4 | Apr , 2001
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.Torremolinos 73
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2003
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.Effi Briest
IMDB 5.2 | Feb , 2009
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.Old Joy
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 2006
Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.Little Lips
IMDB 5.2 | Feb , 1978
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.Parallel Lives
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1994
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a long list of stars.Alma's Rainbow
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1994
The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.El círculo de los mentirosos
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
Swinging Safari
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2018
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.Welcome to São Paulo
IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 2004
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.Barcelona 1714
IMDB 0.5 | Sep , 2014
These Vagabond Shoes
IMDB 5.2 | Jul , 2009
A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.Summer Crossing
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
The young daughter of a wealthy New York family falls for a parking attendant.Danger Patrol
IMDB 5.3 | Nov , 1937
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.Alistair1918
IMDB 4.6 | Jul , 2015
A social work grad student’s film project on L.A. homelessness becomes something quite other when she and her friends encounter a man claiming to be from another time and place.