Movies Similar to Drought and Lies

Alexander(2004)

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

5.9

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers(2007)

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

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Esther(1999)

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

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The Stoning of Soraya M.(2009)

In 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 arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.

7.7

Syriana(2005)

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

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One Night with the King(2006)

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

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Not Without My Daughter(1991)

An 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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Queen Esther(1948)

A Jewish woman, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.

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Forbidden(2017)

A young girl escapes from her home and comes to Tehran to find her fiance but she has to face many unexpected difficulties and different challenges after meeting him.

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Parole(2015)

It's A Story About Life Of Crime...

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Conditional Release(2018)

Keyvan Has Been Sentenced 25 years In Jail. He is released on condition after 10 but...

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Iron Island(2005)

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

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Someone Wants to Talk with You(2012)

Yasaman has been living with her mother Leila since birth. Leila has never let her see her father. When Yasaman gets brain death in an accident, Leila has one week time to get consent from her ex-husband for a vital issue.

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Mastaneh(2015)

An Adopted Movie From Orginal Title 'Lipstick"

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100W Bulb(2014)

The film tells the story of Farzin's life (played by Mohsen Tanabandeh) who is addicted to narcotics and is involved with his family throughout the story ...

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I'm His Wife(2012)

Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.

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I'm a Mother(2012)

The film is about the lives of two affluent families that are collapsing.

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Felicity Land(2011)

Yassi, who has doubts about Mohsen's life in common, decides to remind her of a memorable occasion. He anticipates everything in advance for the best of the party, ignoring the fact that the circumstances do not go away on his own. The film deals with betrayal in marriage.

6.5

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Booye Gandom(2010)

Erfan and his friends decide to perform a concert in memory of him and Khalilians on the oil platform where the father of mysticism was martyred ....

5.5

Wind and Fog(2011)

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken care of by his older sister as he struggles to process his trauma.

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