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Persian-Language Films

Name: Persian-Language Films
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Top 256 Persian-language films from a catalog of 256, ranked by TMDB rating.

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From Iran, a Separation	2,011	Kourosh Ataee	Documentary	8.5	11	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Life, and Nothing More…	1,992	Abbas Kiarostami	Drama, Adventure	7.7	167	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Seven Winters in Tehran	2,023	Steffi Niederzoll	Documentary, Drama	7.7	20	Persian	France	After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
Redhat and Cousin	1,994	Iraj Tahmasb	Comedy, Family, Music	7.7	13	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
There Is No Evil	2,020	Mohammad Rasoulof	Drama	7.5	154	Persian	Germany	Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.
The White Balloon	1,995	Jafar Panahi	Drama, Family	7.5	103	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
In the Land of Brothers	2,024	Alireza Ghasemi	Drama	7.5	12	Persian	France	Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".
Willow and Wind	2,003	Mohammad Ali Talebi	Drama, Family	7.5	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Holy Spider	2,022	Ali Abbasi	Thriller, Drama, Crime, Horror	7.3	493	Persian	Denmark	A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
A Hero	2,021	Asghar Farhadi	Drama	7.3	369	Persian	France	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. Is he truly a hero?
My Favourite Cake	2,024	Behtash Sanaeeha	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.3	134	Persian	France	Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.
Ten	2,002	Abbas Kiarostami	Drama	7.3	133	Persian	Iran	A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Reading Lolita in Tehran	2,024	Eran Riklis	Drama	7.3	53	Persian	Israel	As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)	2,020	Carol Dysinger	Documentary	7.3	43	Persian	Afghanistan	The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.
Bashu, the Little Stranger	1,991	Bahram Beyzai	Drama, War	7.3	32	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference....
The Witness	2,025	Nader Saeivar	Drama	7.3	20	Persian	Austria	In Iran, the retired dance teacher Tarlan witnesses her friend Rana's murder by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must decide whether to bow to political pressure or risk her reputation and livelihood in pursuit of justice.
Here Without Me	2,011	Bahram Tavakkoli	Drama, Family	7.3	20	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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...
Law of Tehran	2,019	Saeed Roustaee	Action, Crime, Drama	7.2	265	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Bab'Aziz	2,006	Nacer Khemir	Drama	7.2	43	Persian	United Kingdom	The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.
The Runner	1,984	Amir Naderi	Drama	7.2	34	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Stray Dogs	2,004	Marziyeh Meshkiny	Drama	7.2	11	Persian	Afghanistan	In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night, they join their imprisoned mother.
The Wind Will Carry Us	1,999	Abbas Kiarostami	Drama	7.1	190	Persian	Iran	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.
Tehran Taboo	2,017	Ali Soozandeh	Drama, Animation	7.1	99	Persian	Germany	The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame	2,007	Hana Makhmalbaf	Drama, War	7.1	37	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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...
Empty Nets	2,024	Behrooz Karamizade	Drama	7.1	15	Persian	Germany	Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel realm that becomes ever more constricting and oppressive, endangering Amir’s relationship with Narges as well.
Taxi	2,015	Jafar Panahi	Comedy, Drama	7	464	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Universal Language	2,024	Matthew Rankin	Comedy, Drama	7	41	Persian	Canada	Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.
Hamoon	1,990	Dariush Mehrjui	Drama	7	37	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha	2,019	Sahraa Karimi	Drama	7	12	Persian	Afghanistan	Three Afghan women from different social background, living in Kabul, are facing a big challenge in their lives. Hava, a traditional pregnant woman whom no one cares about, is living with her father- and mother-in-law. Her only joy is talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband that finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, accepts to marry her cousin because she is pregnant from her boyfriend who disappears after hearing her pregnancy news. Therefore, she needs to find a doctor to get an abortion and regain her virginity. Each of them has to solve her problem by herself for the first time.
Boutique	2,003	Hamid Nematollah	Drama	7	12	Persian	Iran	A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Under the Skin of the City	2,005	Rakhshan Banietemad	Drama	7	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Ballad of a White Cow	2,021	Behtash Sanaeeha	Drama	6.9	50	Persian	France	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.
Leily is with Me	1,996	Kamal Tabrizi	War, History, Comedy	6.9	27	Persian	Iran	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.
Sonita	2,015	Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami	Documentary, Music	6.9	25	Persian	Germany	If 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she'd be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000.
The Red Suitcase	2,022	Cyrus Neshvad	Thriller	6.9	23	Persian	Luxembourg	A veiled 16 year old Iranian teenager is terrified to take her red suitcase from the carosel at the Luxembourg Airport, and go through the exit doors. Her fear grows with every second in the face of what awaits her beyond the gate.
Qeysar	1,969	Masoud Kimiai	Crime, Drama	6.9	20	Persian	Iran	A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.
Closed Curtain	2,013	Jafar Panahi	Drama	6.9	19	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
So Close, So Far	2,005	Reza Mirkarimi	Drama	6.9	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
A Man of Integrity	2,017	Mohammad Rasoulof	Drama	6.8	67	Persian	Czech Republic	Reza, residing in the wilderness with his wife and son, lives a retired life and devotes himself to freshwater fish farming. A private company that has targets on his land is ready to do anything to force him to sell.
World War III	2,023	Houman Seyyedi	Drama	6.8	34	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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…
Pari	2,020	Siamak Etemadi	Drama	6.8	13	Persian	Bulgaria	Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son.
Gholamreza Takhti	2,019	Bahram Tavakkoli	Drama	6.8	13	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Shayda	2,023	Noora Niasari	Drama	6.7	16	Persian	Australia	Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
Drown	2,020	Mohammad Kart	Drama, Mystery	6.7	16	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home.
Circumstance	2,011	Maryam Keshavarz	Drama	6.6	89	Persian	France	A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.
Muhammad: The Messenger of God	2,015	Majid Majidi	History, Drama	6.6	72	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Until Tomorrow	2,022	Ali Asgari	Drama	6.6	27	Persian	France	Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are.
Raving Iran	2,016	Susanne Regina Meures	Documentary	6.6	16	Persian	Iran	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.
Beyond The Wall	2,023	Vahid Jalilvand	Drama	6.6	15	Persian	Germany	Ali, a blind man, is attempting to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the concierge of his building. He is informed that the police is in search of a woman who has escaped and hidden somewhere in the building. Little by little, Ali finds out that the fugitive woman, Leila, is inside his apartment. After participating in a workers’ protest that led to chaos, she is distraught about her four-year-old son who was lost when she was taken in a police van. Gradually, Ali becomes emotionally attached to her. Wishing to flee reality, helping Leila becomes a refuge in his own world of imagination.
Mainline	2,011	Rakhshan Banietemad	Drama	6.6	13	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Under the Shadow	2,016	Babak Anvari	Drama, Horror, War	6.5	716	Persian	Jordan	After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
Salaam Cinema	1,995	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Documentary, Drama, Comedy	6.5	41	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Hidden	2,020	Jafar Panahi	Documentary	6.5	25	Persian	France	Jafar Panahi sets out to find a Kurdish young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.
Tales	2,014	Rakhshan Banietemad	Drama	6.5	22	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Midday Event	2,017	Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian	Action, Crime, History	6.4	22	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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?
The Apple	1,998	Samira Makhmalbaf	Drama	6.3	55	Persian	Iran	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.
Yalda	2,020	Massoud Bakhshi	Drama	6.3	49	Persian	France	Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.
Women Without Men	2,009	Shirin Neshat	Drama	6.3	49	Persian	Austria	Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Melbourne	2,014	Nima Javidi	Drama	6.3	31	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	A doctor graples with family difficulties while trying to find a cure for cancer.
Shirin	2,009	Abbas Kiarostami	Drama	6.2	36	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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?
A Tale of Shemroon	2,023	Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi	Drama	6.2	10	Persian	France	After his mother's untimely death, Amir, who sees his father as the only one responsible for their ruined life, is desperate to leave the family home and take Ali, his younger brother. Taking advantage of his connections with Tehran's golden youth, he embarks on a lucrative business. But one night, a simple delivery turns into chaos and upsets the destiny of the two brothers.
Unruled Paper	2,002	Nasser Taghvai	Drama, Family, Mystery	6.2	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult.
Facing Mirrors	2,012	Negar Azarbayjani	Drama	6.1	21	Persian	Germany	Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Lantouri	2,016	Reza Dormishian	Romance, Drama	6.1	16	Persian	Iran	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’.
Superstar	2,009	Tahmine Milani	Drama	6.1	14	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Close-Up Long Shot	1,996	Moslem Mansouri	Documentary	6.1	12	Persian	France	Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
The Colours	1,976	Abbas Kiarostami	Documentary, Family	6.1	12	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Blockage	2,017	Mohsen Gharaie	Drama	6	12	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Zalava	2,021	Arsalan Amiri	Drama, Horror	5.8	12	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Five Dedicated to Ozu	2,003	Abbas Kiarostami	Documentary	5.7	19	Persian	France	Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.
Cold Sweat	2,018	Soheil Beiraghi	Drama	5.7	17	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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.
We Will Not Get Used To	2,016	Ebrahim Ebrahimian	N/A	5.7	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
In Her Hands	2,022	Marcel Mettelsiefen	Documentary	5.6	16	Persian	United Kingdom	As Western forces withdraw, Afghanistan's youngest female mayor braves mortal danger to lead a fight for education for the next generation of Afghans.
Atomic Heart Mother	2,017	Ali Ahmadzadeh	Comedy	5.6	12	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Scream of the Ants	2,006	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Drama, Adventure	5.5	11	Persian	India	A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...
So Can I	1,975	Abbas Kiarostami	Family	5.5	10	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Confiscation	2,018	Mehran Ahmadi	Comedy, Drama	5.2	13	Persian	Unknown	The film starts in the 1970s and is the story of a SAVAK's member (Reza Attaran) who involves in many different adventures and challenges.
A Hairy Tail	2,019	Homayoun Ghanizadeh	Comedy, Crime, Fantasy	5.2	11	Persian	Unknown	Danesh works in a barbershop and dreams about becoming an actor. Manfered is an agent who would introduce Danesh to a famous director if he collects enough long hairs to be used as wigs. At the same time a series of murders have worried everyone. Who is the killer and is the barbershop in any way related?
20 Fingers	2,004	Mania Akbari	Drama	5.2	11	Persian	Iran	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.
The Guidance Patrol 2	2,017	Saeed Soheili	Comedy	5.1	19	Persian	Iran	َ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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Dance With Me	2,019	Soroush Sehhat	Comedy, Drama	4.8	13	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it.
Two Women	1,999	Tahmine Milani	Drama	4.7	14	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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.
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection	2,017	Saman Moghaddam	Comedy	3.8	16	Persian	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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	Iran	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
Red Carpet	2,014	Reza Attaran	N/A	3	11	Persian	Unknown	Reza is an artist who dreams of traveling to Cannes and meeting the gratest living figures of cinema. He travels to Paris to meet Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen and give his screenplay to them. In the end, Reza who has lost his money because of a fellow countryman, without meeting Spielberg, awaits in a corner of Cannes dreaming he's returning to Iran.

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