Cyanide(2016)

Cyanide is a political thriller set in pre-revolutionary Iran. The film follows a police investigation tasked with tracking down and neutralizing a network of political dissidents opposed to the Iranian regime. As tensions escalate in the years leading up to the 1978 revolution, the hunt intensifies, blurring the lines between duty and morality. The story explores the dangerous underground resistance movement and the state apparatus determined to crush it, capturing a volatile moment in Iranian history when ideological conflict threatened to tear the nation apart. Cyanide examines the human cost of political repression and the choices made by those on both sides of an inevitable upheaval.