Movies by Country - Iran (142)Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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20 FingersA film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of the issues of men and women within the confines of tradition and family life in Iran. Each episode displays a different form of male/female intera... | 2004 | Mania Akbari | Drama | 6.6 (479 votes) | 72 | 20231001 |
About Elly [Darbareye Elly]The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers. | 2009 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama, Mystery | 8.0 (51K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
Actor, The [Honarpisheh]It is about a burly film actor who wants to act only in art films but is forced by his family's economic demands to do a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, infertile and obsessed with having a baby, insists that | 1993 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (623 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
And Life Goes On [Zendegi va digar hich]A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier. | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.9 (5.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Apple, The [Sib]After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time. | 1998 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | 7.3 (2.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Asphyxia [Khafegi]Masoud takes his wife who has neurotic tensions to the asylum to take care of her but.. | 2017 | Fereydoun Jeyrani | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.4 (1.4K votes) | 107 | 20240504 |
Badger, The [Goorkan]The Badger"" is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage. | 2020 | Kazem Mollaie | Drama | 5.4 (350 votes) | 93 | 20231016 |
Ballad of a White Cow [Ghasideyeh gave sefid]Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake. | 2020 | Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha | Drama | 7.1 (2.2K votes) | 105 | 20231016 |
Ballad of TaraTara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. In her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa's belongings among her neighbours. But there | 1979 | Bahram Beizai | Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 (585 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Bashu, the Little Stranger [Bashu, gharibeye koochak]An iranian little boy is Lost from the south to northern part of the country after running away for his life, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman. | 1989 | Bahram Beizai | Drama, War | 8.1 (2.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Beautiful City [Shah-re ziba]In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money." | 2004 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.7 (5.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Blackboards [Takhté siah]Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out | 2000 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama, War | 6.9 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Blind Owl, The [Boof-e koor]The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. In order to offer him some refreshments, he goes to bring a bottle of wine. Through the crevice of the wall which happens to be there, he sees an ethereal girl offering a | 1975 | Kioumars Derambakhsh | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.2 (140 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
BodyguardA government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job. | 2016 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (3.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Boycott [Baykot]A young guy Valeh is arrested by the security during Shah's reign in Iran. There in prison he remembers his past and his life and begins to asks about his believes and ideals. Finally they execute him while his friends try to make a | 1986 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Drama | 5.9 (306 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Breath [Nafas]Breath is about an Iranian family who lives in Iran. It tells the story of Bahar, who is living with her father, Ghafour and Grandmother during the 70s.She is living in her childish and surreal world, filled with their dreams and fan | 2016 | Narges Abyar | Drama, Family, Fantasy, War | 7.5 (1.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame [Buda as sharm foru rikht]In Afghanistan, a young girl wants to go to school and learn to read and write, but is met with hostility or indifference. | 2007 | Hana Makhmalbaf | Drama, War | 7.3 (2.3K votes) | 81 | 20240219 |
CaravansIn 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U.S. Senator. | 1978 | James Fargo | Action, Adventure, History | 6.1 (950 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
Careless Crime [Jenayat-e bi deghat]On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people. | 2020 | Shahram Mokri | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (431 votes) | 139 | 20230619 |
Child and the Soldier, The [Koudak va sarbaz]On New Year's Eve, a young soldier is looking forward to going home but is given orders to escort a juvenile delinquent to a distant reformatory. He sets off with the child handcuffed to him. | 2000 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 6.6 (83 votes) | 90 | 20221116 |
Children of Heaven [Bacheha-Ye aseman]After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair. | 1997 | Majid Majidi | Drama, Family, Sport | 8.3 (72K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Close-UpThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film. | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (18.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Crimson Gold [Talaye sorkh]An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime. | 2003 | Jafar Panahi | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (4.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Critical Zone [Mantagheye bohrani]A man driving through Tehran's underworld with his dog, dealing drugs and healing troubled souls. | 2023 | Ali Ahmadzadeh | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (194 votes) | 99 | 20240116 |
Cube of Sugar, A [Ye habe ghand]The story happens in an old house in an old city of Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother. | 2011 | Reza Mirkarimi | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.1 (3.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
Cycle, The [Dayereh mina]Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in bloo | 1977 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 7.4 (564 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Dancing in the Dust [Raghs dar ghobar]When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution | 2003 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 6.7 (2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Deer, The [Gavaznha]Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, bot | 1974 | Masud Kimiai | Drama | 7.9 (2.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
DerakulaAn addict is captured by a Dracula. Dracula's wife prevents him from killing the victim. The addict suggests a remedy which turns Dracula's life upside down. | 2016 | Reza Attaran | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 3.6 (689 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Desiderium [Sooteh-Delan]Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing... | 1978 | Ali Hatami | Drama, Romance | 8.3 (2K votes) | 111 | 20230424 |
Det Means Girl [Det Yani Dokhtar]Shuan, a young man supports himself as a cook and a security guard. Shuan's father (Nabi Jalilian) arrives one day with his daughter Balut (Zeinab Barbandi) in town. Balut is crippled by paralysis and in poor health, and father ho... | 1995 | Abolfazl Jalili | Drama | 6.2 (37 votes) | 86 | 20230619 |
Downpour [Ragbar]A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother. In | 1972 | Bahram Beizai | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (680 votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
Dragon Arrives!, A [Ejdeha Vared Mishavad]A Dragon Arrives. | 2016 | Mani Haghighi | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (2.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Drawn From DreamsWhen the mother of a separated family dies, Jalal the father returns to sort things out but he does not want to take the children with him. | 2019 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Drown [Shena-ye Parvaneh]A film of a woman swimming in a pool is distributed through the internet. Now her husband and her brother are after finding the one who is responsible for that and taking revenge on him. | 2020 | Amirhossein Ashrafi, Mohammad Kart, Arastoosohrabinya | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.5 (5.1K votes) | 120 | 20230424 |
Exam, The [Emtehan]An assembly of women of all generations gather inside a school of Tehran to take an exam that will lead them to the university. Their conversations reveal their daily problems. | 2002 | Nasser Refaie | Drama | 7.0 (179 votes) | 80 | 20241019 |
Father, The [Pedar]Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his... | 1996 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7.4 (1.6K votes) | 91 | 20230424 |
Felicity Land [Saadat Abad]A look at the lives of 3 well-off Iranian couples who are ostensibly living an idyllic life and are going to have a get-together for a birthday party. Each couple bearing their own sordid secrets attend the party to find out what fol | 2011 | Maziar Miri | Drama | 6.4 (1.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Fireworks Wednesday [Chaharshanbe-soori]On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a differe | 2006 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (11.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Fish & Cat [Mahi va gorbeh]A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant. | 2013 | Shahram Mokri | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 134 | 20240313 |
Fish Fall in Love, The [Mahiha ashegh mishavand]After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl w... | 2005 | Ali Rafie | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 96 | 20240715 |
Frontier BluesIn this debut feature written and directed by Iranian born Babak Jalali, Frontier Blues features 4 intertwined stories all set in Irans northern frontier with Turkmenistan, a region that has long been neglected in Iranian cinema, int | 2009 | Babak Jalali | Drama | 6.4 (160 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
GabbehWhen an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story. | 1996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 (3.3K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
GheisarA young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother. | 1969 | Masud Kimiai | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (3.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Goodbye [Be omid-e didar]Story of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11. | 2011 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 6.9 (797 votes) | 105 | 20230328 |
Green Ashes [Khakestar-e sabz]Hadi travels to Croatia to complete his researches on Film making. His friend Aziz who has heard about his trip gives him a photo and a VHS cassette asking him to look after a girl Fatemeh there. Hadi with the help of a woman Hani... | 1994 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Drama, War | 6.0 (196 votes) | 98 | 20240127 |
Green Fire, The [Atash-e sabz]Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a ... | 2008 | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Fantasy, History | 6.3 (119 votes) | 104 | 20240709 |
Hajji WashingtonA loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction. | 1983 | Ali Hatami | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.1 (754 votes) | 98 | 20240210 |
HamounHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong. | 1990 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 8.0 (6.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Harmonica [Saz Dahani]Set on the sun-drenched southern coast of Iran, from which director Amir Naderi hails, "Harmonica" begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as | 1974 | Amir Naderi | Drama, Family | 7.5 (347 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
HeiranAn Iranian high school student falls for an illegal foreign worker and follows him to Tehran. | 2009 | Shalizeh Arefpoor | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (346 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Hello Cinema [Salaam Cinema]Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors. | 1995 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Documentary, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (1.9K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Hero, A [Ghahreman]Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. | 2021 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.5 (28.4K votes) | 127 | 20231116 |
Hit the Road [Jaddeh Khaki]Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet. | 2021 | Panah Panahi | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.3 (5.7K votes) | 93 | 20231116 |
House Is Black, The [Khaneh siah ast]Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | Documentary, Short | 7.9 (4.6K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
How to Make Use of Leisure Time [Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim]A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute. | 1977 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Short | 7.0 (117 votes) | 17 | 20240229 |
Hunter, The [Shekarchi]In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate lands | 2010 | Rafi Pitts | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
I'm Not Angry! [Asabani Nistam!]I'm not Angry. is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in th... | 2014 | Reza Dormishian | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (3.3K votes) | 110 | 20240709 |
Immigrant, The [Mohajer]A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return. | 1990 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Drama, War | 5.9 (310 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Immortal [Mamiroo]Ayaz, a lonely seventy-year-old man, detests his life. He's constantly in search of ways of ending his life. Some years back, on the way back from a family wedding party, the minibus which he was driving, falls in the bottom of a val | 2015 | Hadi Mohaghegh | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (79 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Inversion [Varoonegi]With fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination. | 2016 | Behnam Behzadi | Drama | 6.3 (570 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Invincible Six, TheIn 1970s Iran, a motley group of international thieves saves an Iranian village from murderous local bandits. | 1970 | Jean Negulesco | Action, Adventure | 5.6 (138 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Iran Is My Land [Iran saray-e man ast]Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events. | 1999 | Parviz Kimiavi | Drama, Fantasy, History | 7.3 (99 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Iron Island [Jazireh ahani]Some poor people in the Southern coasts of Iran do not have any place to live, and thus, they reside on an old, abandoned ship in the sea. Captain Nemat, their chief, tries to persuade the ship-owner and the official authorities not | 2005 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 7.1 (818 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
It's Winter [Zemestan]The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home. | 2006 | Rafi Pitts | Drama | 6.7 (598 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Jar, The [Khomreh]In the yard of an Iranian village school stands in the shade of a tree a large stoneware jar from which all the pupils drink fresh water. On an unfortunate day, the jar starts leaking. The schoolmaster tries hard to get a new one but | 1992 | Ebrahim Forouzesh | Drama, Family | 7.1 (286 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Key, The [Kelid]A young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartmen | 1987 | Ebrahim Forouzesh | Drama | 6.8 (229 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Killing Mad Dogs [Sagkoshi]While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own. | 2001 | Bahram Beizai | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (2.6K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
KimiaDuring the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again... | 1995 | Ahmad Reza Darvish | Drama, War | 6.2 (315 votes) | 92 | 20240820 |
Kingdom of Solomon, TheSolomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men. | 2010 | Shahriar Bahrani | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.2 (4.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Last Stage, The [Akharin marhaleh]Explore popular sci-fi movies and TV shows available to stream with Prime Video. | 1996 | Mohsen Mohseni-Nasab | War | 4.5 (7 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Law of Tehran [Metri shesh va nim]The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family. | 2019 | Saeed Roustayi | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (17K votes) | 131 | 20230619 |
LeilaThe story of a semi-modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation, but is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough. | 1997 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Family, Romance | 7.5 (4.1K votes) | 102 | 20240412 |
Leila's Brothers [Baradaran-e Leila]Leila, who has spent her entire life caring for her family, makes a plan as her brothers are struggling to make ends meet. | 2022 | Saeed Roustayi | Drama | 7.9 (12.1K votes) | 165 | 20231116 |
Letters in the Wind [Namehay bad]A group of uneducated cadets is sent to a snowy Iranian military outpost for basic training where they are toughened up and abused, and two of them make a difficult adjustment to military life. When one of the men gets the opportunit | 2002 | Alireza Amini | Drama | 6.4 (62 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Manuscripts Don't Burn [Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoosand]Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans... | 2013 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (1.1K votes) | 125 | 20221212 |
Marooned in Iraq [Gomgashtei dar Aragh]During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Ira... | 2002 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 7.4 (1.6K votes) | 100 | 20231231 |
Maybe Some Other Time [Shayad Vaghti Deegar]Mr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the documentary he finds the stranger who has a pawn s... | 1988 | Bahram Beyzaie | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (710 votes) | 159 | 20221212 |
MelbourneThe film recounts the story of a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event. | 2014 | Nima Javidi | Drama | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Messiah, TheThe story of Jesus Christ told from an Islamic perspective. | 2007 | Nader Talebzadeh | Drama | 4.9 (118 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Midnight Terror, The [Faryade nimeshab]Amir who needs money to marry with his fiance Maryam begins to do illegal working in a gang of a guy Afshar. Afshar's wife falls in love with Amir but he doesn't care for her. One day Afshar sees them alone and becomes suspicious. | 1961 | Samuel Khachikian | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (78 votes) | 120 | 20240722 |
Mongols, The [Mogholha]A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region ... | 1973 | Parviz Kimiavi | Adventure, Drama, History | 6.9 (208 votes) | 92 | 20231001 |
Mourning [Soog]A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative,s house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on t... | 2011 | Morteza Farshbaf | Drama | 7.1 (368 votes) | 85 | 20221116 |
Mr. Gullible [Aghaye Halou]A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect. | 1970 | Dariush Mehrjui | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (409 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Muhammad - The Messenger of God [Mohammad Rasoolollah]The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD. | 2015 | Majid Majidi | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (12K votes) | 162 | 20240419 |
Mum's Guest [Mehman-e maman]A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources. | 2004 | Dariush Mehrjui | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Music Man, The [Santouri]Not being able to work because of the religious country's prejudice against music, a talented Santour player has to deal with poverty, addiction and the absence of his ex-wife. | 2007 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (8.4K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
NargessAdel is a young criminal who frequently teams up with his middle-aged wife Afagh in order to carry out the most audacious schemes. But when Adel falls in love with Narges, he realises he is quite prepared to start a new life on the r | 1992 | Rakhshan Banietemad | Drama | 6.8 (269 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Nights of Zayandeh-Rood, The [Shabhaye Zayendeh-Rood]An embittered Professor and his daughter (whose job it is to nurse sucidal patients) try to deal with life in Iran before and after the fall of the Shah. | 1990 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Drama | 6.5 (256 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Nightsongsnan | 1982 | Marva Nabili | Drama | 7.0 (7 votes) | 113 | 20231130 |
No Bears [Khers nist]Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power. | 2022 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (3.1K votes) | 106 | 20231116 |
No Fly ZoneTo take part in a competition three teenagers are trying to make a drone. Some saying that people saw a cheetah in the plains around their town. The news interferes the activity of the teenagers and engage them in a new story. | 2019 | Amir Dasargar | Adventure, Drama, Family | 5.8 (140 votes) | 96 | 20241012 |
No Men Allowed [Vorood-e-Aghayan Mamnoo]This movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school. | 2011 | Rambod Javan | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (6.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
No One Knows About Persian Cats [Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh]Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so. | 2009 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, Music | 7.1 (7.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
One 2 One [Yek. Do. Yek]In a society where all social customs are based on the beauty of a woman, her challenge is to find self confidence and inner beauty despite having lost her physical beauty. | 2011 | Mania Akbari | Drama | 6.7 (133 votes) | 79 | 20230328 |
PariHaunted by a book found in her dead brother's room, Pari wanders around to find answers for a meaningful life. | 1995 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (901 votes) | 115 | 20231001 |
Party in Hell, A [Shab-neshini dar jahannam]Hajji Jabbar is a miser, greedy and disliked businessman. He tries to make more money by any means even by forcing her daughter to marry a rich old man rather than let her marry her cousin Hamid that she loves. Jabbar suddenly bec... | 1956 | Samuel Khachikian, Mushegh Sarvari | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.7 (111 votes) | 120 | 20221116 |
Pear Tree, The [Derakhte Golabi]Esteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for beautiful tomboy "M". | 1998 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (1.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Pig [Khook]Iranian directors are getting slaughtered by an unknown serial killer and a blacklisted director, Hasan Kasmai, is curious about only one thing: Why isn't the killer after him? | 2018 | Mani Haghighi | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.1 (2.1K votes) | 104 | 20230328 |
Please Don't Disturb [Lotfan mozahem nashavid]Three interwoven stories about life in modern day Iran that explore the redemptive qualities of human nature. A TV host tries to prevent his wife from telling authorities that he assaulted her, a clergyman tries to get legal document | 2010 | Mohsen Abdolvahab | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (259 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Pomegranate and Cane [Nar-o-nay]Hunting for interesting elements for a play, a photographer meets an old man, who has just had a heart attack He tries to save the man's life. In an effort to determine the old man's identity, he is confronted with the old man nos... | 1989 | Saeed Ebrahimifar | Drama, Musical | 6.9 (122 votes) | 100 | 20240127 |
Prince Ehtejab [Shazdeh Ehtejab]Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects | 1974 | Bahman Farmanara | Biography, Drama, History | 6.7 (232 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Red Carpet [Farshe Ghermez]An Iranian man with high hopes of becoming a professional actor arrives in Can,France to meet Spielberg but his expectations and the reality are not so much alike. | 2014 | Reza Attaran | Comedy, Drama | 4.7 (1.2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Report, The [Gozaresh]The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife. | 1977 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 6.9 (1.2K votes) | 112 | 20240229 |
Reza, the Motorcyclist [Reza motori]Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistak | 1970 | Masud Kimiai | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (966 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Runner, The [Davandeh]After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect. | 1984 | Amir Naderi | Drama | 7.7 (2.2K votes) | 94 | 20231109 |
Salesman, TheWhile both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections. | 2016 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.7 (57.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
SaraSara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years, it is Sara, labouring secretly to pay the shady loan an | 1993 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 6.6 (632 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
School We Went To, The [Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh]Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules. | 1980 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 7.2 (85 votes) | 0 | 20240709 |
Separation, AA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 8.3 (236.1K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
ShirakShirak's village is under the attack of the wild boars and he has lost his father in one of their attacks. To help his village he buys a dog from the Gypsies in return of some dates. He trained his dog and become ready to one nigh... | 1988 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Family | 6.1 (77 votes) | 110 | 20231101 |
ShirinA hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The deve | 2008 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 6.7 (2.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Snake's Fang [Dandan-e-mar]Reza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over the home beyond bearing, he departs to overcome his sorrows. He ends up at a hostel ... | 1990 | Masud Kimiai | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.3 (268 votes) | 105 | 20230424 |
Song of Sparrows, The [Avaze gonjeshk-ha]An ostrich-rancher, Karim, embarks on a journey to Tehran, a bustling city, to replace his daughter's hearing aid, a pivotal moment in his family's struggle for independence and cultural exchange. | 2008 | Majid Majidi | Drama, Family | 7.9 (11.2K votes) | 96 | 20240803 |
South of the City [Jonube shahr]Effat tells Mahmoud her life story in order to convince him not to divorce his wife. | 1958 | Farokh Ghafari | Drama | 6.1 (58 votes) | 75 | 20231120 |
Still Life [Tabiate bijan]For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle the loneliness and boredom inherent in the j | 1974 | Sohrab Shahid Saless | Drama | 7.8 (973 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Strait [Tangna]Naderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. He runs for his life, eventually taking refuge in the ho | 1973 | Amir Naderi | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (219 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Stray Dogs [Sag-haye velgard]The story of survival of 2 children in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Their mother has been imprisoned for ""adultery"" and their father is in Guantanamo Bay. | 2004 | Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Drama | 7.1 (684 votes) | 93 | 20230424 |
Suit for Wedding, A [Lebassi Baraye Arossi]A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see w... | 1976 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 7.1 (734 votes) | 54 | 20240228 |
Sun Children [Khorshid]12-year-old Ali and his three friends, together they work hard to survive and support their families. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. | 2020 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7.1 (4K votes) | 99 | 20240701 |
Tall Shadows of the Wind [Sayehaye bolande bad]Two villagers go mad when they encounter the scarecrow in the field. Gradually others start to worship the scarecrow till the driver decides to destroy it in order to put an end to the panic. | 1979 | Bahman Farmanara | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.3 (113 votes) | 111 | 20221228 |
Taste of Cherry [Ta'm e guilass]An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide. | 1997 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 7.8 (28.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Tenants, The [Ejareh-Nesheenha]The tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building. | 1987 | Dariush Mehrjui | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (2.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Terrestrial Verses [Ayeh haye zamini]Ordinary people navigate societal constraints in a series of vignettes. | 2023 | Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami | Drama | 7.4 (860 votes) | 77 | 20240803 |
Through the Olive Trees [Zire darakhatan zeyton]A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film Zendegi va digar hich (1992). | 1994 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 7.8 (7.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Tight Spot [Tangsir]This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad... | 1973 | Amir Naderi | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (824 votes) | 114 | 20230619 |
Time for Drunken Horses, A [Zamani barayé masti asbha]Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill. | 2000 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 7.7 (8.6K votes) | 80 | 20230424 |
Time of Love [Nobat e Asheghi]Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. He kills his rival and is condemned to the capital punishment. Gazale takes her own life. Part two: Same story. Same denouement, the only va | 1995 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (185 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Travellers [Mosaferan]A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mou | 1992 | Bahram Beizai | Drama | 7.4 (1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Turtles Can Fly [Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand]Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate. | 2004 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 8.1 (19.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Two-Legged Horse [Asbe du-pa]A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse. | 2008 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | 7.0 (548 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Uncle Moustache [Amoo Sibilou]A lonely old man takes to terrorizing the kids who build a football pitch next to his house. | 1969 | Bahram Beyzaie | Short | 6.4 (136 votes) | 29 | 20221116 |
Under the Moonlight [Zir-e noor-e maah]Hassan is a student of Religious /Islamic school and is about to be dressed as a missioner .In such a time when his other mates are excited and are getting ready to be formally dressed and to become a spiritual missioner Hassan's dou | 2001 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 6.9 (1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Under the Skin of the City [Zir-e poost-e shahr]A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet dur | 2001 | Rakhshan Banietemad | Drama | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Walnut Tree [Derakhte Gerdoo]Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs... | 2020 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama, History, War | 7.3 (1.9K votes) | 100 | 20231013 |
Weak Point, The [Noghteh Zaf]nan | 1983 | Mohamad Reza Aalami | Unknown | 6.7 (76 votes) | 120 | 20230424 |
White Balloon, The [Badkonake sefid]Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with. | 1995 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Family | 7.7 (7.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
White Meadows, The [Keshtzar haye sepid]Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them. | 2009 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 7.6 (807 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Willow Tree, The [Beed-e majnoon]Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before? | 2005 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7.4 (4.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Wind Will Carry Us, The [Bad ma ra khahad bord]Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. | 1999 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 7.5 (10.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
World War III [Jang-e jahani sevom]After being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him. | 2022 | Houman Seyyedi | Adventure, Crime, Drama, War | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 117 | 20231116 |
ZalavaInvestigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist. | 2021 | Arsalan Amiri | Drama, Horror | 6.2 (769 votes) | 93 | 20240622 |