The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.
Third Sister Liu
1960
6.6/10
Monkey Business
1952
6.7/10
Taxidermia
2006
6.6/10
Smiles of a Summer Night
1955
7.4/10
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
1939
7.8/10
Decalogue II
1989
7.3/10
Re-Existences
2020
7.4/10
American Beauty
1999
8.0/10
Something Wild
1986
6.6/10
Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation
2012
6.2/10
Stroszek
1977
7.3/10
Decalogue VI
1989
7.9/10
Twin Peaks
1989
8.4/10
Re-Generator
2010
6.2/10
Love Songs
2007
7.0/10
An American in Paris
1951
7.0/10
The Isle
2000
6.9/10
The Merchant of Venice
2004
6.8/10
Mean Creek
2004
6.8/10
Torn Curtain
1966
6.6/10
The Sun's Gonna Shine
1969
6.6/10
