Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Brutal
- volatile
- bleak
- kinetic
- intense movie night
- iranian cinema night
What critics said
Critics broadly regard it as a forceful, stylish, socially charged Iranian crime drama driven by intense performances and kinetic direction.
What sets it apart
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Shahin and Shakoor lead a gang that shelters street youths and orphans while enforcing its own neighborhood code.
Mobile footage from the sister's phone spreads widely and triggers the film's chain of strange incidents.
The drug laboratory, street gang, and south Tehran neighborhood are presented through a tense, rough-edged crime-drama atmosphere.
The brothers' leadership, family hierarchy, and sense of neighborhood honor are threatened when the gang collapses.
Films like Sheeple, and why
A Separation
urban crime drama centered on criminal underworlds, social marginalization, and volatile male relationships
The Salesman
iranian social realism, moral pressure, and family crisis unfolding within an unequal society
City of God
raw crime storytelling, charismatic criminal protagonists, and escalating neighborhood violence
Gomorrah
bleak urban atmosphere, drug economies, and intimate family dysfunction under criminal pressure
Movie Details
- Director
- Houman Seyyedi
- Release Date
- 2018-02-05
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (36)
Cast
- Navid Mohammadzadeh
- Farhad Aslani
- Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
- Nazanin Bayati
- Marjan Etefaghian
- Navid Pourfaraj
- Ladan Zhaveh Vand
- Mahyar Rahat-Talab
Common questions
- What is Sheeple about?
- A volatile Tehran crime drama follows two brothers whose drug gang and family hierarchy unravel after incriminating phone footage goes viral.
- What is Sheeple like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Sheeple as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Sheeple violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Sheeple as brutal.
- What did critics think of Sheeple?
- Critics broadly regard it as a forceful, stylish, socially charged Iranian crime drama driven by intense performances and kinetic direction.
- Which films are like Sheeple?
- Films with a similar feel include A Separation, The Salesman, City of God, and Gomorrah.
- How long is Sheeple?
- Sheeple runs 120 minutes.
