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Iranian Cinema
Top 232 films from Iran (out of 232 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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| From Iran, a Separation | 2,011 | Kourosh Ataee | Documentary | 8.5 | 11 | Persian | In March 2012, Iranian movie "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people this was more than a cinematic award. When sanctions and threats of war with Iran covered the world headlines, Farhadi talked about Iran's love for peace and the rich culture of the Iranians on the stage when receiving his award. This time the Iranians voice was heard through someone other than the government officials. This documentary shows the reaction of the Iranians to this Oscar award and has a general view on Iran's society of today. |
| Close-Up | 1,990 | Abbas Kiarostami | Crime, Drama | 8 | 438 | Persian | This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. |
| A Separation | 2,011 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.9 | 1,916 | Persian | A 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. |
| Children of Heaven | 1,997 | Majid Majidi | Drama, Family | 7.9 | 699 | Persian | Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits. |
| Where Is The Friend's House? | 1,987 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Adventure | 7.9 | 422 | Persian | An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school. |
| Life and a Day | 2,016 | Saeed Roustaee | Drama | 7.9 | 71 | Persian | Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone. |
| M for Mother | 2,006 | Rasoul Mollagholipour | Drama | 7.9 | 22 | Persian | What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy. |
| Beautiful City | 2,004 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.8 | 63 | Persian | Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of Akbar, tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar’s plaintiff so as to stop the execution. |
| The Brick and the Mirror | 1,966 | Ebrahim Golestan | Drama | 7.8 | 16 | Persian | Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him. |
| Death of Yazdgerd | 1,982 | Bahram Beyzai | History, Drama | 7.8 | 10 | Persian | Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown. |
| Taste of Cherry | 1,997 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7.7 | 685 | Persian | A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide. |
| Turtles Can Fly | 2,004 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama | 7.7 | 236 | KU | Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall. |
| Life, and Nothing More… | 1,992 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Adventure | 7.7 | 167 | Persian | After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest. |
| The Cow | 1,969 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 7.7 | 81 | Persian | An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns. |
| Redhat and Cousin | 1,994 | Iraj Tahmasb | Comedy, Family, Music | 7.7 | 13 | Persian | Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles. |
| The Color of Paradise | 1,999 | Majid Majidi | Family, Drama | 7.6 | 183 | Persian | 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. |
| Leila's Brothers | 2,022 | Saeed Roustaee | Drama | 7.6 | 154 | Persian | At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan. |
| A Time for Drunken Horses | 2,000 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 7.6 | 115 | Persian | After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. |
| A Moment of Innocence | 1,997 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 107 | Persian | A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends. |
| Mother | 1,990 | Ali Hatami | Drama | 7.6 | 23 | Persian | The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death. |
| About Elly | 2,009 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.5 | 536 | Persian | 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. |
| The White Balloon | 1,995 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Family | 7.5 | 103 | Persian | Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with. |
| The Lizard | 2,004 | Kamal Tabrizi | Action, Comedy | 7.5 | 87 | Persian | The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community? |
| The Song of Sparrows | 2,008 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7.5 | 78 | Persian | 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. |
| Homework | 1,989 | Abbas Kiarostami | Documentary | 7.5 | 42 | Persian | Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework. |
| Willow and Wind | 2,003 | Mohammad Ali Talebi | Drama, Family | 7.5 | 10 | Persian | A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm. |
| Through the Olive Trees | 1,994 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 201 | Persian | When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other. |
| Fireworks Wednesday | 2,006 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7.4 | 147 | Persian | Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future. |
| The House Is Black | 1,963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | Documentary | 7.4 | 144 | Persian | 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. |
| Baran | 2,001 | Majid Majidi | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 85 | Persian | On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives. |
| Terrestrial Verses | 2,023 | Ali Asgari | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 53 | Persian | A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. |
| Leila | 1,999 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 38 | Persian | This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation. This is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough. |
| The White Meadows | 2,009 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 7.4 | 29 | Persian | Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of Iran's political leadership emerges. |
| The Salesman | 2,016 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 918 | Persian | Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life. |
| Ten | 2,002 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7.3 | 133 | Persian | A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers. |
| Bashu, the Little Stranger | 1,991 | Bahram Beyzai | Drama, War | 7.3 | 32 | Persian | During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond. |
| The Painting Pool | 2,013 | Maziar Miri | Drama | 7.3 | 22 | Persian | Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference.... |
| Here Without Me | 2,011 | Bahram Tavakkoli | Drama, Family | 7.3 | 20 | Persian | The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans. |
| What's the Time In Your World? | 2,015 | Safi Yazdanian | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 17 | Persian | A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life. |
| The Jar | 1,992 | Ebrahim Forouzesh | N/A | 7.3 | 11 | Persian | 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 unf... |
| It Was Just an Accident | 2,025 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 7.2 | 361 | French | An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. |
| Law of Tehran | 2,019 | Saeed Roustaee | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.2 | 265 | Persian | Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While se... |
| The Mirror | 1,997 | Jafar Panahi | Drama | 7.2 | 54 | Persian | When a young girl's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to navigate the streets of Tehran by herself. |
| The Traveler | 1,974 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7.2 | 48 | Persian | Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. |
| The Runner | 1,984 | Amir Naderi | Drama | 7.2 | 34 | Persian | A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running. |
| Two & Two | 2,011 | Babak Anvari | Drama | 7.2 | 24 | Persian | In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit. |
| Iron Island | 2,005 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 7.2 | 19 | Persian | Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city? |
| The Father | 1,999 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7.2 | 19 | Persian | 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 family. |
| The Wind Will Carry Us | 1,999 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7.1 | 190 | Persian | Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish 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. |
| Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame | 2,007 | Hana Makhmalbaf | Drama, War | 7.1 | 37 | Persian | A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him from arriving in time. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing as Taliban fighters. They tear her school book to pieces and threaten to stone their female captives. |
| Chess of the Wind | 1,976 | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 | 35 | Persian | The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage. |
| The Warden | 2,019 | Nima Javidi | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.1 | 33 | Persian | In 1967, an old prisoner in southern Iran is being evacuated because of the proximity to the city's new airport. The head of the prison, Major Nema... |
| Low Heights | 2,002 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Thriller, Action, Drama, Adventure | 7.1 | 26 | Persian | A person wants to hijack an airplane to go out of Iran and cure his sick son. |
| A Cube of Sugar | 2,011 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama, Comedy, Family | 7.1 | 19 | Persian | Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts). |
| The Lost Strait | 2,018 | Bahram Tavakkoli | War | 7.1 | 16 | Persian | The resistance of Ammar battalion in Abughoraib strait at the last days of Iran-Iraq war. |
| Saint Mary | 2,001 | Shahriar Bahrani | Drama, History | 7.1 | 16 | Persian | In the year 16 BCE, the people of Jerusalem are awaiting the birth of the son of Imran. Instead of the much-anticipated "Messiah", a girl is born t... |
| Taxi | 2,015 | Jafar Panahi | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 464 | Persian | A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive… |
| Sun Children | 2,021 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 7 | 56 | Persian | The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located. |
| Hamoon | 1,990 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 7 | 37 | Persian | Hamoon'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. |
| Dancing in the Dust | 2,004 | Asghar Farhadi | Drama | 7 | 28 | Persian | When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered. |
| A Wedding Suit | 1,976 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 7 | 15 | Persian | 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 what it feels like. |
| White Nights | 2,003 | Farzad Motamen | Drama, Romance | 7 | 13 | Persian | A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. The young professor's encounter with the young and passionate girl during four nights brings about significant changes in both of their lives and beliefs. Now concepts like love, literature and expection have a new meaning for them. |
| Boutique | 2,003 | Hamid Nematollah | Drama | 7 | 12 | Persian | A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but… |
| Malkoçoğlu – Cem Sultan | 1,970 | Remzi Jöntürk | History, Adventure | 7 | 12 | Turkish | During one of his campaigns, Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey was taken prisoner by Homer and spent years in a dungeon, enduring torture. He eventually escapes. Separated from his beloved wife and his unknown son Polat, he continues his life as a cavalry leader on horseback. His son's desire to become a cavalryman brings together the father and son, who do not know each other. They are given a mission: to prevent Cem Sultan, the son of Fatih Sultan Mehmet and the blood brother of Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey, from falling into the hands of the Venetians. This film tells the story of Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey, the son of the famous raider Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey, who was educated at the Enderun-ı Hümayün, the palace university founded by Fatih Sultan Mehmed Han. He served as the governor of Sofia and was martyred in the Battle of Çaldıran in 1514. |
| Under the Skin of the City | 2,005 | Rakhshan Banietemad | Drama | 7 | 10 | Persian | Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran. |
| Offside | 2,006 | Jafar Panahi | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 125 | Persian | 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. |
| This Is Not a Film | 2,011 | Mojtaba Mirtahmasb | Documentary | 6.9 | 102 | Persian | Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal. |
| The Circle | 2,000 | Jafar Panahi | Drama | 6.9 | 93 | Persian | Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran. |
| Crimson Gold | 2,003 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 85 | Persian | Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly expensive receipts from an upscale jewelry store. He attempts to bring the purse back to the store, but because of his working-class attire, he's not allowed inside. Then, during a delivery, a rich man invites Hussein into his extravagant mansion – an event that spurs Hussein to make a desperate bid for wealth. |
| Leily is with Me | 1,996 | Kamal Tabrizi | War, History, Comedy | 6.9 | 27 | Persian | During the Iran-Iraq war, a television cinematographer, having financial problems, needs to get a loan from the TV to complete his half-built flat so one of his colleagues suggests him going to the war zone under the pretext of making a documentary about the Iraqi captives for the sake of accompanying another man who is so influential in TV's treasury, so that he can take his loan more easily. However he doesn't want to get to the line of fire, his sanctimonious demeanor leads him to something more precious than what he started his journey for. |
| Qeysar | 1,969 | Masoud Kimiai | Crime, Drama | 6.9 | 20 | Persian | A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother. |
| Closed Curtain | 2,013 | Jafar Panahi | Drama | 6.9 | 19 | Persian | In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she takes refuge in the house. But come dawn, another unexpected presence will change everything. |
| The Last Fiction | 2,019 | Ashkan Rahgozar | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 | 17 | Persian | Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul. |
| Standing in the Dust | 2,016 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama, War | 6.9 | 16 | Persian | The life and times of IRGC officer Ahmad Motevaselian, who served as a commander during the Iran-Iraq War and ultimately disappeared in Lebanon in 1982. |
| Harmonica | 1,974 | Amir Naderi | Drama | 6.9 | 14 | Persian | Set on the southern coast of Iran, "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 they compete for the privilege of holding the harmonica or even blowing a few notes, until the games and horseplay begin to take on a sinister edge. |
| Walnut Tree | 2,020 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama, History, War, Crime | 6.9 | 12 | KU | Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated ... |
| Marooned in Iraq | 2,002 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, War | 6.9 | 12 | KU | 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 Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people. |
| So Close, So Far | 2,005 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Persian | Dr. Alam, a prolific neurologist and a successful surgeon has drowned himself in his professional and social work in a way that has caused his estrangement from his son. On the night of his son's birthday a shocking fact about his son's health is revealed to him so he tries to track him down. |
| No Date, No Signature | 2,017 | Vahid Jalilvand | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 | 128 | Persian | Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him. |
| No Bears | 2,022 | Jafar Panahi | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 124 | Persian | Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble. |
| World War III | 2,023 | Houman Seyyedi | Drama | 6.8 | 34 | Persian | Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib’s scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime. |
| The Music Man | 2,007 | Dariush Mehrjui | Music, Drama | 6.8 | 31 | Persian | Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption. |
| Still Life | 1,978 | Sohrab Shahid Saless | Drama | 6.8 | 25 | Persian | A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness. |
| The Willow Tree | 2,005 | Majid Majidi | Drama | 6.8 | 23 | Persian | 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? |
| The Deer | 1,976 | Masoud Kimiai | Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 20 | Persian | An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to discover that his friend has fallen into addiction. The guerrilla hides in his house and gradually begins to influence him, helping him regain his courage and strength. Eventually, he entrusts the stolen money to him… |
| Gholamreza Takhti | 2,019 | Bahram Tavakkoli | Drama | 6.8 | 13 | Persian | The story of life of Gholam Reza Takhti from his childhood till adulthood, his matches and finally his death. |
| Fifi Howls from Happiness | 2,013 | Mitra Farahani | Documentary | 6.8 | 12 | Persian | Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist at the time of the Shah. Trained in Italy, he created sculptures and paintings in his homeland. But audiences often took offence at the pronounced phalli on his mostly naked bronze figures and his work was regularly censored. All traces of him were lost after the revolution. It was said he destroyed his remaining paintings and disappeared. |
| 3 Faces | 2,018 | Jafar Panahi | Drama | 6.7 | 147 | Persian | Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions. |
| Hit the Road | 2,021 | Panah Panahi | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 143 | Persian | A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet. |
| No One Knows About Persian Cats | 2,009 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, Music | 6.7 | 78 | Persian | Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so. |
| Subtraction | 2,022 | Mani Haghighi | Drama, Thriller | 6.7 | 40 | Persian | After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers. |
| The Cyclist | 1,989 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama | 6.7 | 31 | Persian | The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim's strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won't finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion? |
| I'm Taraneh, 15 | 2,002 | Rasoul Sadrameli | Drama | 6.7 | 21 | Persian | Taraneh is a model 15-year-old Iranian girl, studious and filial, who supports her ailing grandmother with a job at a photo shop and visits her father (who has been imprisoned for reasons never made clear in the film) bearing gifts of cigarettes and magazines. But when Amir, a young man from a well-off family, sets his sights on Taraneh and courts her with an intensity that borders on stalking, her well-ordered life spirals into chaos. |
| The Pear Tree | 1,998 | Dariush Mehrjui | Romance, Drama | 6.7 | 19 | Persian | Mahmoud is suffering from writer's block and he is unable to continue the book he is currently working upon. He decides to take a break from his routine life and plans to visit his family's rural estate that is situated at north of Tehran. He also intends to complete his book in this visit. While at the estate, Mahmoud's attention is brought to the old Pear Tree that is situated behind the estate by the old gardener of the estate. Seeing the Pear Tree, Mahmoud thinks about his past - his infatuation towards his 14-year-old female cousin known only as M, his adolescent dreams, how that changed over the years. The rest of the film chronicles thoughts of Mahmoud and his past. |
| Drown | 2,020 | Mohammad Kart | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 | 16 | Persian | After leaking of a video of her class in a women only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation and dignity as the godfather in the neighborhood. Hashem’s brother, Hojat, embarks a journey into the labyrinths of underground in Tehran to find out who is responsible for this dirty game. Once wrongfully accused for smuggling drugs, he returns to the world of crime to trace his brother’s rivals… |
| The Report | 1,977 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 6.7 | 13 | Persian | A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home. |
| Muhammad: The Messenger of God | 2,015 | Majid Majidi | History, Drama | 6.6 | 72 | Persian | Abousofyan tells Aboutaleb, Muhammad's uncle, that in the upcoming morning he wants to kill the holy prophet of Islam and Muslims, who are in boycott. Aboutaleb remembers the past years when Abraha charges ahead Mecca to ruin the house of God. but by God's will his army loses out against millions of small birds sent by GOD. A month later, Muhammad is born. |
| Gabbeh | 1,996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 | 59 | Persian | An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan. |
| 24 Frames | 2,018 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 6.6 | 56 | Persian | A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. |
| Blackboards | 2,000 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama, History, War | 6.6 | 40 | Persian | 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 village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope? |
| In the Shadow of the Cypress | 2,023 | Hossein Molayemi | Animation, Drama | 6.6 | 30 | Persian | Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life. |
| The Glass Agency | 1,998 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Action, Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 29 | Persian | An armed veteran of the Iran-Iraq War takes hostages at a travel agency after failing to raise enough money for his injured comrade to travel abroad for medical treatment. |
| Our Uniform | 2,023 | Yegane Moghaddam | Animation, Documentary | 6.6 | 28 | Persian | An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she's nothing but a "female" and explores the roots of this idea in her school years. |
| Bomb: A Love Story | 2,018 | Payman Maadi | Drama, War | 6.6 | 28 | Persian | It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way. |
| Hush! Girls Don't Scream | 2,013 | Pouran Derakhshande | Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 28 | Persian | Hours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically troubled. But as the dark secrets in her past are slowly revealed, exposing a childhood of neglect, abuse, and the tragic history of two previous failed marriages, the characters must face their own battles with justice, retribution, and morality. |
| Raving Iran | 2,016 | Susanne Regina Meures | Documentary | 6.6 | 16 | Persian | Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them. |
| Mainline | 2,011 | Rakhshan Banietemad | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | Persian | The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab |
| The Peddler | 1,987 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 10 | Persian | The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second episode, a mentally impaired and isolated young man tries to take care of his senile mother who is almost dead. In the third episode, a cowardly and desperate peddler tries to escape from his boss. |
| Salaam Cinema | 1,995 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Documentary, Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 41 | Persian | 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. |
| The Bread and Alley | 1,970 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Family | 6.5 | 40 | Persian | After returning from an errand to get bread, a young boy encounters a dog that frightens him making the journey to get home more difficult than he could’ve imagined. |
| The Hunter | 2,010 | Rafi Pitts | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 28 | Persian | 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 landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive. |
| Tales | 2,014 | Rakhshan Banietemad | Drama | 6.5 | 22 | Persian | Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society. |
| Gold and Copper | 2,011 | Homayoun Assadian | Drama | 6.5 | 21 | Persian | A Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-univer... |
| My Brother Khosrow | 2,017 | Ehsan Biglari | Drama | 6.5 | 16 | Persian | Khosrow (Shahab Hosseini) who is a bi-polar man is forced to live in his brother's house Nasser, as his guardian and sister goes abroad for a while. The brothers soon find themsleves in friction due to the challenging behavior of Khosrow and quesrionable moral decisions by Nasser. |
| Invasion | 2,017 | Shahram Mokri | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 | 15 | Persian | Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative. |
| The Old Bachelor | 2,025 | Oktay Baraheni | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 11 | Persian | In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point. |
| I'm Not Angry! | 2,014 | Reza Dormishian | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Persian | 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 the society, and does all he can to keep his love, Setareh. |
| The Postman | 1,972 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Persian | A political metaphor based on Karl Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder. |
| P for Pelican | 1,972 | Parviz Kimiavi | Documentary | 6.5 | 10 | Persian | An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of. |
| The Silence | 1,998 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama, Music | 6.4 | 39 | Persian | Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house. |
| Nahid | 2,015 | Ida Panahandeh | Drama | 6.4 | 34 | Persian | A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city of Iran, wants to marry the man she has fallen in love with. According to the current rules, the father has the custody of children; however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition that she doesn’t remarry. Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: Temporary Marriage (Sighe). However, this will get her into a predicament, as despite its being legal, Sighe is not well-received by the society at all. Would temporary marriage be a good solution for her? |
| Fish & Cat | 2,013 | Shahram Mokri | Thriller, Drama, Mystery | 6.4 | 26 | Persian | A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape. |
| Beyond the Clouds | 2,018 | Majid Majidi | Family, Drama | 6.4 | 24 | Hindi | A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail. |
| Midday Event | 2,017 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Action, Crime, History | 6.4 | 22 | Persian | In 1981, Islamic Republic intelligence agents work to track down MEK operatives trying to assassinate Iranian officials in the aftermath of the resignation of President Banisadr. |
| At Five in the Afternoon | 2,003 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | 6.4 | 21 | Persian | Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her own hunger is preventing her from lactating. Nogreh, however, aspires toward a life in a western styled democracy. Although the Taliban are no longer in power in Afghanistan, traditional forces are still active in the country. Nogreh often displays signs of rebellion, such as wearing a pair of white pumps instead of the traditional slipper beneath her burqa. But mostly, Nogreh wants to be educated. Without her father's knowledge, Nogreh is attending a secular girls school. Ultimately, she wants to become President of Afghanistan. With the help of a Pakistani refugee who likes her as a woman, Nogreh tries to understand exactly what forces led to current world leaders being elected, those forces which she wants to emulate. |
| Manuscripts Don't Burn | 2,014 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Crime, Drama | 6.4 | 17 | Persian | 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… |
| The Experience | 1,973 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 6.4 | 17 | Persian | The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes. |
| Modest Reception | 2,013 | Mani Haghighi | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 16 | Persian | An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them. |
| Goodbye | 2,011 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 6.4 | 14 | Persian | 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. |
| Downpour | 1,972 | Bahram Beyzai | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.4 | 14 | Persian | When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. |
| Castle of Dreams | 2,019 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 6.4 | 12 | Persian | When mom is terminally ill at the hospital, dad comes along after the long years of absence. Anxious and hesitant, he has got no way but taking his son and his daughter away. But to which destination when he has not managed to build the castle of dreams drawn by mom for the children? |
| Kandahar | 2,001 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama | 6.3 | 88 | English | After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her. |
| The Apple | 1,998 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | 6.3 | 55 | Persian | After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time. |
| Melbourne | 2,014 | Nima Javidi | Drama | 6.3 | 31 | Persian | Amir and Sara are 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. |
| The Kingdom of Solomon | 2,010 | Shahriar Bahrani | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.3 | 19 | Persian | Solomon, 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. |
| When the Moon Was Full | 2,019 | Narges Abyar | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 15 | Persian | In the market Abdolhamid meets Faezeh and falls in love with her. They get marry and begin their life. But after a while Faezeh becomes aware of Abdolhamid's family in Sistan and Baluchestan province and that they are doing illegals. Faezeh decides to escape with her husband to Pakistan but there they meet Abdolhamid's brother Abdolmalek Rigi who is a terrorist. |
| From Karkhe to Rhein | 1,993 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Drama, War | 6.3 | 15 | Persian | Young veteran Saeed, who is suffering from visual problems due to injuries sustained during the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatment and recuperation. Once there, he is reunited with his sister Leyla, who is now married to a German citizen. The siblings struggle to reconnect in a foreign land, while Saeed prepares himself for surgery that could change his life. A tragic exploration of the horrific repercussions of war. |
| Marriage of the Blessed | 1,989 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | War, Drama, Crime | 6.3 | 14 | Persian | Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives. |
| Rain Main | 1,998 | Abolhassan Davoodi | Drama | 6.3 | 11 | Persian | A doctor graples with family difficulties while trying to find a cure for cancer. |
| Shirin | 2,009 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 6.2 | 36 | Persian | A 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 development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show. |
| Mum's Guest | 2,004 | Dariush Mehrjui | N/A | 6.2 | 21 | Persian | A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources. |
| The Night It Rained | 1,967 | Kamran Shirdel | Documentary | 6.2 | 17 | Persian | Initially banned for seven years, the film treats the questionable and controversial newspaper story of a heroic village boy who prevented a train disaster as an antiauthoritarian, Rashomon-like puzzle. |
| Breath | 2,016 | Narges Abyar | Drama, Fantasy, Family | 6.2 | 13 | Persian | 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 fantasies. |
| Afghan Alphabet | 2,002 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Documentary | 6.2 | 13 | Persian | Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime. |
| Inversion | 2,016 | Behnam Behzadi | Drama | 6.2 | 11 | Persian | Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Now Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life. As the youngest she has always obeyed their orders. Can she stand up for herself this time? |
| Unruled Paper | 2,002 | Nasser Taghvai | Drama, Family, Mystery | 6.2 | 10 | Persian | Royaa, mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and relationship with her shady architect husband Jahaan, gets into some serious drama; which leads to question if everything is really what it seems to be? |
| No Men Allowed | 2,011 | Rambod Javan | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.1 | 34 | Persian | In order to prepare her best and brightest for the upcoming chemistry Olympiad, strict, conservative headmistress Ms. Darabi is forced to break her lifelong rule of not allowing male teachers in the school and reluctantly hires the bumbling Mr. Jebeli. Little does she know though that several of her students, led by the self-assured Paria, have a plan to get her to fall in love with him. 'No Men Allowed' is a hilarious, rollicking romcom, chock-full of witty dialogue and zany antics that will have you coming back time and time again! |
| More Than Two Hours | 2,013 | Ali Asgari | Drama | 6.1 | 21 | Persian | A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult. |
| Lantouri | 2,016 | Reza Dormishian | Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 16 | Persian | Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’. |
| Malkoçoğlu: Ölüm Fedaileri | 1,972 | Remzi Jöntürk | History, Adventure | 6.1 | 16 | Turkish | A band of 14th-century warriors with some very unique combat skills protect a princess during an attempted coup. |
| Superstar | 2,009 | Tahmine Milani | Drama | 6.1 | 14 | Persian | An arrogant movie star's life drastically changes when a teenage girl shows up. |
| The Double Lottie | 1,995 | Kiumars Pourahmad | Family, Drama | 6.1 | 14 | Persian | A young, inquisitive girl named Nargess encounters a girl from another school who could pass as her twin. Amazed by the strange coincidence, the two girls rush to their respective parents, but neither side has the time to hear them out. Nargess finds herself caught between her mother and father as she tries in vain to make herself heard, and when that fails, the two girls hatch a plan to swap places and see if their parents notice. While everything goes smoothly at first, it's not long until they start encountering problems in this double-sided family drama. |
| The Colours | 1,976 | Abbas Kiarostami | Documentary, Family | 6.1 | 12 | Persian | By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours. |
| Sheeple | 2,018 | Houman Seyyedi | Drama, Crime | 6 | 34 | Persian | The story is about a family of three brothers and a sister in the suburbs of the city's poverty. Their elder brother owns a drug-producing kitchen and presides over the group, like a shepherd for sheep. |
| A Dragon Arrives! | 2,016 | Mani Haghighi | Drama, Mystery, Horror | 6 | 33 | Persian | On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why? |
| The Day I Became a Woman | 2,000 | Marziyeh Meshkiny | Drama | 6 | 33 | Persian | A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get. |
| Breaktime | 1,972 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Family | 6 | 23 | Persian | A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home. |
| The Chorus | 1,982 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 6 | 19 | Persian | An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to see him. |
| Without Her | 2,022 | Arian Vazirdaftari | Thriller, Mystery | 6 | 17 | Persian | Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life. |
| A Simple Event | 1,973 | Sohrab Shahid Saless | Drama | 6 | 14 | Persian | The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only one room. Their life is austere. The boy eats only bread and milk every day... One day the boy's mother dies. |
| Crazy Rook | 2,015 | Abolhassan Davoodi | Crime, Drama | 6 | 13 | Persian | The story of a young friends who met on the Internet and a fun way to bet on a complex and daunting fall. The path to a new understanding of life and society for Each of them. |
| Poverty | 2,009 | Hamid Nematollah | Drama, Family, Comedy | 6 | 13 | Persian | A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having squandered all the money he had on trivial matters, he tells his wife about being axed & that's when the tables turn on him. |
| The Tenants | 1,987 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Comedy | 6 | 13 | Persian | A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord. |
| Blockage | 2,017 | Mohsen Gharaie | Drama | 6 | 12 | Persian | Qasem is a roadblock employee at the municipality, trying to improve his life while facing problems with his wife Narges. |
| Ice Age | 2,015 | Mostafa Kiaei | Drama | 6 | 10 | Persian | In the tenth year of marriage, Babak and Manizheh face the biggest challenge of their life. Financial problems and difficult social situation cause Babak to work very hard and this leads to a deep gap between him and his wife, in a way that Manizheh starts a new relation, the relation which leads her to addiction and immorality. On the verge of her complete collapse, she wakes up to the truth that she has lost her life. |
| Princess of Rome | 2,015 | Hadi Mohammadian | Romance, Animation, History, Drama | 5.9 | 18 | Persian | Princess of Rome, Mellika, granddaughter of Great Caesar. The story talks about her move from Byzantium in the 9th century, to avoid her marriage with Krytos, and brings her to Baghdad to become the mother of Imam Mahdi, the Savior. |
| Disappearance | 2,017 | Ali Asgari | Drama | 5.9 | 17 | Persian | On a cold winter’s night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital in search for help, but none of the hospitals will admit the young woman and provide her with the medical attention she desperately requires. While they try hard to find a way to solve the problem, they have to hide what is happening from their parents. Moreover, their relationship is facing a crisis and will suffer dire consequences. Caught between conservative traditions and modern day desires, the couple must face their uncertain future. |
| Secret Ballot | 2,001 | Babak Payami | Comedy | 5.9 | 15 | Persian | A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success. |
| The Corridor | 2,013 | Behrooz Shoeibi | Crime, Drama | 5.9 | 12 | Persian | Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be released. |
| Damascus Time | 2,018 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | War, Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 | 33 | Persian | Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission. |
| Pig | 2,018 | Mani Haghighi | Drama, Comedy, Horror | 5.8 | 30 | Persian | A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted? |
| Tambourine | 2,008 | Parisa Bakhtavar | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 23 | Persian | Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible. |
| Subdued | 2,017 | Hamid Nematollah | Drama, Family | 5.8 | 22 | Persian | After her divorce Mina is in need to financial and emotional supporting. She meets a guy and thinks that this is the man of her dreams. But things are not just as their first seem to be. |
| Sound and Fury | 2,016 | Houman Seyyedi | Drama | 5.8 | 17 | Persian | Khosro, a pop singer, lives a hectic life with his wife Tina and their son Moez. His life is further complicated when he begins a love affair with a female fan. A terrible event ensues obliging the lovers to each recount their side of the story in pursuit of the truth. |
| Absolutely Tame Is a Horse | 2,011 | Abdolreza Kahani | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 17 | Persian | A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night. |
| Carpet and Chaos | 2,016 | Nader T. Homayoun | TV Movie, Comedy | 5.8 | 14 | French | While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death. |
| Zalava | 2,021 | Arsalan Amiri | Drama, Horror | 5.8 | 12 | Persian | In 1978, the inhabitants of Zalava, a small village in Iran, claim that there is a demon among them. While investigating the strange case, Massoud, a young police sergeant, crosses paths with an exorcist. |
| Wednesday, May 9 | 2,015 | Vahid Jalilvand | Thriller, Drama | 5.8 | 12 | Persian | A man named Jalal publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news gathers a large group of people. At the end of the day, he receives many application forms, and he eventually decides to choose one by chance. Those who have applied insist that what's been advertised is the only solution to their problem. The police take charge of the situation by calming the people and having them dispersed. However, two women do not give up: Setareh, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and Leila, Jalal’s ex-fiancée… |
| Red Nail Polish | 2,016 | Seyyed Jamal Seyyed Hatami | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Persian | The little girl had just colored her nails and the world painted her face. |
| Two Solutions to One Problem | 1,975 | Abbas Kiarostami | Family, Drama | 5.7 | 38 | Persian | During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue. |
| Deportees | 2,007 | Masoud Dehnamaki | War, Comedy, Action, Drama | 5.7 | 22 | Persian | The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom. |
| Cold Sweat | 2,018 | Soheil Beiraghi | Drama | 5.7 | 17 | Persian | Iran's national women’s futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia. But at the airport on departure day, the team captain finds her husband hasn’t signed the document to permit her exit from the country. |
| Dash Akol | 1,971 | Masoud Kimiai | Drama | 5.7 | 14 | Persian | Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it. |
| 1st Born | 2,019 | Ali Atshani | Comedy | 5.7 | 10 | English | Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild. |
| We Will Not Get Used To | 2,016 | Ebrahim Ebrahimian | N/A | 5.7 | 10 | Persian | Mahtab is suspicious of her husband Ahmad, a university professor. As she tries to unravel the mystery instigated by Sima, a close friend of the family, by pressuring Farnoosh Kheirkhah, Ahmad's student, her husband tries to prove his innocence. But the sudden death of Farnoosh opens a new path before Ahmad, Mahtab, Sima, and her husband Mansoor. |
| The Night | 2,021 | Kourosh Ahari | Horror, Mystery | 5.6 | 113 | Persian | An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends. |
| Che | 2,014 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | War | 5.6 | 21 | Persian | Two days in the life of Mostafa Chamran, Iran's first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he attempts to prevent the city of Paveh from falling to Kurdish separatists in 1979. |
| Atomic Heart Mother | 2,017 | Ali Ahmadzadeh | Comedy | 5.6 | 12 | Persian | On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night. |
| Trapped | 2,013 | Parviz Shahbazi | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 | 10 | Persian | This fascinating moral thriller is centered on the bristling relationship between two very different young women in contemporary Tehran. Nazanin (Nazanin Bayati) is a determined first year medical student. Since there is no free space in the university dorm and Nazanin does not have much money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Sahar (Pegah Ahangarani), a party lover who works in a fragrance shop. Sahar badly wants to migrate from Iran, so she’s borrowed money from a man in the bazaar. When this man makes an opportunistic complaint against Sahar, she is imprisoned. There have been some very some rocky times between the two roommates and their conflicting lifestyles, but Nazanin will now do everything she can to have her friend released. |
| Orderly or Disorderly? | 1,981 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama | 5.5 | 20 | Persian | A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in this educational short film in which the same action is first shown in an organised way and then in an anarchic one. The film crew, however, finds it difficult to organise disorder. |
| Saint Petersburg | 2,010 | Behruz Afkhami | Adventure, Comedy | 5.5 | 19 | Persian | A newly released prisoner and an ostensibly rich youth become aware of the place of Tsar's long lost treasure by a twist of fate. |
| Today | 2,014 | Reza Mirkarimi | Drama | 5.5 | 13 | Persian | A Tehran taxi driver becomes the impromptu protector of a desperate young pregnant woman after he rushes her to hospital, in this delicate, deceptively small-scale drama from award-winning Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi. |
| The Fifth Reaction | 2,003 | Tahmine Milani | Thriller | 5.5 | 13 | Persian | Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven. |
| Lovely Trash | 2,019 | Mohsen Amiryoussefi | War, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.5 | 11 | Persian | Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family. To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and immigrated sons are back to life in their picture frames. |
| So Can I | 1,975 | Abbas Kiarostami | Family | 5.5 | 10 | Persian | Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take off. |
| The Guidance Patrol | 2,012 | Saeed Soheili | Drama, Comedy | 5.4 | 18 | Persian | Three urban working poor young men who impersonate crew of a Guidance Patrol to earn money |
| Rhino Season | 2,012 | Bahman Ghobadi | Drama, Thriller, History | 5.3 | 51 | Persian | Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years. |
| Centipede | 2,018 | Abolhassan Davoodi | Comedy | 5.3 | 22 | Persian | The thief accidentally notices the secret of a girl and tries to exploit this position .... |
| The Snow on the Pines | 2,013 | Payman Maadi | Drama | 5.3 | 15 | Persian | Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantime she meets a young musician (Saber Abar) and has to make a painful choice. |
| Two-Legged Horse | 2,009 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | 5.3 | 14 | Persian | A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse. |
| Heartbroken | 2,009 | Ali Rooyintan | Romance, Drama | 5.3 | 13 | Persian | Heartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families. |
| Sensitive Floor | 2,014 | Kamal Tabrizi | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 | 11 | Persian | After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent. |
| The Actor | 1,993 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 | 10 | Persian | An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant. |
| 20 Fingers | 2,004 | Mania Akbari | Drama | 5.2 | 11 | Persian | The subject of the film is male-female relationships. Composed of 7 vignettes, "20 Fingers" features Mania Akbari and Bijan Daneshmand as a contemporary Iranian couple. The film is an intense, bumpy series of conversations and sometimes quarrels reflecting the problems facing Iranian men and women and the struggle between modernism and tradition, liberalism and conservatism. |
| K | 2,002 | Shoja Azari | Drama, Fantasy | 5.1 | 29 | English | Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting changes. A maid scrubs the floor. "In the Penal Colony": a man arrives at a penal colony where an officer demonstrates a bizarre apparatus, one that punches a message into the skin of a prisoner strapped beneath it. Who will be punished? In "Fratricide," a man is murdered at night by someone he knows well. A woman grieves. |
| The Guidance Patrol 2 | 2,017 | Saeed Soheili | Comedy | 5.1 | 19 | Persian | َAbbas and Hassan Got out of prison Afrer 5 years and go to Atta, Atta Has gotten out coma recently and back to normal life, These three friends go... |
| Dressage | 2,019 | Pooya Badkoobeh | Drama | 5.1 | 10 | Persian | Golsa is a 16-year-old girl living with her family in a small town near Tehran. She spends most of her time hanging out with a group of friends. One day the group decide on a course of action the consequences of which will have unexpected results and turn their little bit of fun into something far more complicated. |
| Bodyguard | 2,016 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5 | 27 | Persian | A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job. |
| Cease Fire | 2,006 | Tahmine Milani | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5 | 13 | Persian | A couple (Golzar & Afshar) who have been bickering & fighting from day one, are contemplating divorce until by chance they both end up visiting a therapist (Pesiani) who dishes them the secrets of a good relationship. Various episodes from the couple's married life are represented as flashbacks in a lighthearted manner. |
| Sperm Whale | 2,015 | Saman Moghaddam | Comedy | 4.9 | 27 | Persian | Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya. |
| Hemlock | 2,000 | Behruz Afkhami | Drama | 4.9 | 12 | Persian | When his business partner is hurt in a car accident, happily married Mahmoud (Fariborz Arabnia) must travel to Tehran, where he falls for the beautiful Sima (Hedye Tehrani). The two agree to a "temporary marriage," but problems arise when Sima doesn't want the arrangement to end. Sima's reluctance to play her expected role in this common Islamic practice soon turns to obsession in this smash hit from Iran. |
| ABC Africa | 2,001 | Abbas Kiarostami | Documentary | 4.8 | 24 | English | Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda. |
| Dance With Me | 2,019 | Soroush Sehhat | Comedy, Drama | 4.8 | 13 | Persian | A reunion of old friends for Jahangir's birthday when everyone is informed of his fatal illness - An inevitable confrontation with the current situation and the past - Series of the tensions and the reconciliations leading to a road to the life - however, death is knocking on the door. |
| Asphyxia | 2,017 | Fereydoun Jeyrani | Crime, Drama | 4.8 | 10 | Persian | I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it. |
| Two Women | 1,999 | Tahmine Milani | Drama | 4.7 | 14 | Persian | A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject. |
| Red Rose | 2,014 | Sepideh Farsi | Drama, Romance | 4.7 | 10 | Persian | A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution. |
| The Color Purple | 2,010 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 4.7 | 10 | Persian | An undercover Iranian intelligence officer investigates the political status of a college student, whose parents were active members of the mujahedin khalgh radical group. |
| Midday Event: Trace of Blood | 2,019 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama | 4.4 | 10 | Persian | The narrative of this film is about the events after the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1367 and the Mersad Operation . The Iranian security forces a... |
| 50 Kilos of Sour Cherry | 2,016 | Mani Haghighi | Family, Drama, Comedy | 4.3 | 18 | Persian | When the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story begins. |
| Barcode | 2,016 | Mostafa Kiaei | Action, Comedy | 4.2 | 21 | Persian | Behind each person is a story , behind each story is a person , so we have to be patient before any judgment |
| 5 PM | 2,017 | Mehran Modiri | Drama, Comedy | 4.2 | 13 | Persian | The film follows the story of a man in Tehran, from 7 am to 5 pm, when he must do a job because it is his last chance. |
| Time of Love | 1,991 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Drama | 4.2 | 10 | Persian | Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men. |
| Deportees 2 | 2,009 | Masoud Dehnamaki | Comedy | 4.1 | 15 | Persian | Deportees is a 2007 Iranian film, written and directed by Masoud Dehnamaki, narrating a story during Iran--Iraq War. |
| Rahman 1400 | 2,019 | Manouchehr Hadi | Drama, Comedy | 4.1 | 11 | Persian | Rahman is the custodian of a company and the doctor has told him that he will die soon. He decides to with the help of his friend Anush make a plan and inherit some money for his family. |
| Lottery | 2,018 | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 3.9 | 17 | Persian | Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans. |
| Oxidan | 2,018 | Hamed Mohammadi | Comedy | 3.9 | 12 | English | Aslan's fiance Negar is going abroad the country illegally and without informing him at all. Now he is after a way to get a visa and go gets her back. |
| Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection | 2,017 | Saman Moghaddam | Comedy | 3.8 | 16 | Persian | Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united states with her family due to some social restrictions of 1980s. Arjang who has never forgotten Roya, meets her different times later but each time he fails to marry her again. He has 50 now and is a wealthy man, so he insists Roya to stay in Iran and marry him. |
| Deportees 3 | 2,011 | Masoud Dehnamaki | Comedy | 3.7 | 14 | Persian | The war is over and the deportees are back to their homes and each is after his life. A TV-show is trying to meet some old veterans of war. One of them who is very sick should go to hospital but they late and he is near to meet death. This cause his other friends (the deportees) who now are each with a different look to come visit him. |
| Wing Mirror | 2,017 | Manouchehr Hadi | Comedy, Drama | 3.7 | 11 | Persian | Accidentally, a poor couple and a rich one meet each other. These young couple have some difficulties. |
| Dracula | 2,016 | Reza Attaran | Comedy, Adventure, Horror | 3.3 | 13 | Persian | An 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. |
| I Am Not Salvador | 2,016 | Manouchehr Hadi | Comedy | 3.1 | 14 | Persian | Mr. Naser Izadi and Mrs. Izadi were invited to Brazil by an agent from tourism agency. Angela (a Brazilian woman) misunderstood Naser as her ex-fiance and this make a challenging event for their trip. |
| The Singer | 2,020 | Mostafa Kiaei | Comedy, Music, Drama | 3.1 | 11 | Persian | An Iranian family who goes to Istanbul, Turkey. Ibrahim is a nightclub singer who, like other singers of that era, is being removed from the scene with the 1979 revolution. But since Abraham was not well-known at the time, he cannot become a Los Angeles singer. Eventually he becomes the singer of various ceremonies. They just don't agree with us and tell us Motreb |
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