Vadim Perelman has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Persian Lessons.
CriticCrunch Career Percentile
Top 10%
Titles Scored
3
Highest-Ranked Title
Persian Lessons (Top 10%)
Primary Role
Director
Career Overview
By decade
Top 5%Top 6–25%Below 25%Unranked
Best Work
Top 19%
3 titles scored
By genre
Drama
3
Titles can span multiple genres.
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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Dir. Vadim Perelman · With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
Dir. Vadim Perelman · With Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard
As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her seemingly perfect life shaped by the events of that day.
Dir. Vadim Perelman · With Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri