Favorite Middle Eastern Movies

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.

The difficulties experienced by five prisoners who took a weeks leave from prison.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.

The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children, like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...

The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.

A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.

After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

A Palestinian father seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. Tensions rise as the ceremony proceeds, with youths plotting violence and a loose horse running into a minefield, forcing unlikely cooperation.

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.