Dastan, Prins av Persien, har efter en belägring avtvingat en indisk maharadja hans dotter samt olika magiska föremål. Men den vesir som förrått maharadjan lurar Dastan att öppna ett timglas med en magisk dolk och släppa ut Tidens sand. När sanden lämnat sin hållare förvandlas stadens invånare till rasande demoner och Dastan måste ta hjälp av den indiska prinsessan för att rädda sitt folk och förhindra att en sandstorm förgör hela världen. Med hjälp av Tidens dolk kan Dastan styra tiden och kanske ordna så att hans ödesdigra misstag blir ogjorda...

Han var världens första stora erövrare och redan som 25-åring härskade han över 90 procent av den kända världen. Han drev sin elittränade krigshär mot den massiva persiska armén och vann storslagna segrar från Egypten till Indien. Han var en härskare utan dess like och hade ett imperium som världen aldrig skådat.

En fattig föräldralös pojke i ett gruvsamhälle i England på 1000-talet, beger sig till Persien för att studera medicin under ledning av filosofen och läkaren Ibn Sina.

En politisk thriller av manusförfattaren/regissören Stephen Gaghan, belönad med Oscar för Bästa manus för Traffic. Handlingen utspelar sig bland intrigerna och korruptionen i den globala oljeindustrin. Ett porträtt av konsekvenserna av jakten på makt och rikedom.

When Ester becomes King Xerxes’ queen, her Cousin Mordecai and that despicable Haman engage in a dangerous game of intrigue for control of the young Persian King Xerxes.

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.

Ett besök med familjen i makens hemland Iran slutar med att han bestämmer sig för att stanna - och plötsligt är Betty en fånge utan några som helst rättigheter som kvinna. Filmdrama baserat på Betty Mahmoodys bok om sin flykt med dottern från Iran hem till USA.

En berättelse om den vägfarande brittiska författarinnan, arkeologen, upptäckaren, kartografen och politiska attachén Gertrude Bells liv och bedrifter under det tidiga 1900-talet.

This amazing biblical drama chronicles the brave and historic legend of Hadassah, a Jewish orphan with exceptional beauty who rises to become Queen Esther of Persia and saves Persian Jews from genocide. By revealing her heritage to the king, Esther thwarts the evil prime minister's plan to annihilate all Jews in the Persian Empire. The annual festival of Purim is inspired by her heroism.

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

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

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.

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!

Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.

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

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?

Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was originally broadcasted in October 31, 1961. The play deals with the aftermath of the Persian defeat in the battle of Salamis (480 BC), which makes it the only Greek tragedy that deals with a real historical event.

Omid happily celebrates his birthday with his wife and her family at a beautiful villa near the Caspian Sea. A phone call from Omid's ex-wife puts the festivities on hold as she drops a bombshell that threatens to unravel the new life he is trying to lead. Written by Iranian playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi, this insightful drama tackles marital and social issues with sharp dialogue and knowing humour.