Cinema Rex - Iranian Cinema Podcast

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers. A film by Mania Akbari and Abbas Kiarostami.

After losing her house due to a taxing error, reformed addict Kathy Nicolo begins to harass the new owners of the house - Iranian immigrant Massoud Amir Behrani, along with his wife and son.
Based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. Directed by Vadim Perelman
This film is available for digital purchase and rental.

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. This film is available for digital rental and purchase in the U.S, U.K. and Canada.

Our first Halloween Special! 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. Directed by Babak Anvari.
This movie can be found on Netflix in most territories.

A boat drifts onto the shore of a small village, which the beautiful Rana hopes the has brought back her husband, who disappeared a year ago out on the sea. But the only passenger is Ayat, a wounded stranger with no memory of how he ended up in this land. After gradually proving himself as a member of the community, Ayat  grows increasingly paranoid about wraiths from a forgotten past.
 
Directed by Bahram Beyzaie

When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.
Directed by Bahram Beyzaie

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Azeri worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both of their lives.
Directed by Majid Majidi.

Leila, who has spent her entire life caring for her family, hatches a plan to help her struggling brothers - but she might have to cross her parents to do it.
Directed by Saeed Roustayi. This movie can be found in select local cinemas.

A blind woman's daughter befriends a famous singer who decides to help them in life, but unbeknownst to either party, is how they're all truly connected...
Directed by Mohamad Ali Fardin. This movie can be found on DVD through Pars Video, and on YouTube.

The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. This movie can be found on Apple TV in the USA.