The Song of Sparrows
Oct 01, 2008 | IMDB 7.5
96 min Watch NowDrama
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Days of Heaven
The Color of Paradise
Offside
Withnail & I
The Milagro Beanfield War
Immortal Beloved
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Aaltra
Transit
Dear Frankie
Tess
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Moriqueta
Earth and Ashes
Ten
In the Company of Men
2048: Nowhere to Run
Kozanoğlu
Blue Rodeo
Sunset Song
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IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1978
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IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 1999
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.Offside
IMDB 6.9 | May , 2006
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.Withnail & I
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1987
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.The Milagro Beanfield War
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1988
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.Immortal Beloved
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1994
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.It's All Gone Pete Tong
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2004
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IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2004
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IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2018
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IMDB 7 | May , 2004
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IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1979
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IMDB 8.1 | Jun , 2022
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IMDB 0 | May , 2024
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IMDB 5.6 | May , 2004
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.Ten
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2002
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.In the Company of Men
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1997
Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.2048: Nowhere to Run
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1967
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IMDB 3.8 | Oct , 1996
Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who harbors a dark secret...Sunset Song
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2015
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.