My favorite Iranian movies
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- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare SeddiqiAfter a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMahdi PakdelSareh BayatMina SadatiThe events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe 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.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA 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.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsShahab HosseiniTaraneh AlidoostiMina SadatiWhile Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiBahram EbrahimiReza SaeediA recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsAlireza PhoenixMasoud RayeganAfshin HashemiDr. Alam, a very profiled specialist in neurology and a successful surgeon, is drowned in his professional and social work, in a way that he has totally forgotten all about his son Saman. Samantha the beautiful nights of desert with it starfull sky attracts Saman to itself and the young boy falls in love with night sky and observation of stars. Due to an event the doctor leaves his profession and work behind and goes through the desert to find his son.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiMahmoud AziziMaziar LorestaniDuring the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz FardtombekianThe tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiMaryam AkbariKamran DehghanWhen 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh FeyziThe story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsBahram RadanGolshifteh FarahaniMasoud RayeganNot being able to work because of the religious country's prejudice against music, a talented Santour player has to deal with poverty, addiction and the absence of his ex-wife.
- DirectorIraj TahmasbStarsMorteza AhmadiAkbar DoodkarFarokhlagha HushmandA boy travels a long way from his village to Tehran to work as a showman in a kid's show; but finds it harder than he thought.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsMasume EskandariJairan AbadzadeShirin BinaA small child and her elderly neighbor are having all kinds of small adventures in the streets of Tehran to get a sack of rice.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsHabib RezaeiMohammad Reza ForutanMehraveh SharifiniaA series of seven vignettes about different people dealing with their every day problems in modern day Iran, that are loosely related to each other.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiMerila Zare'iBabak HamidianA government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.
- DirectorNarges AbyarStarsMerila Zare'iMehran AhmadiGelareh AbbassiOlfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
- DirectorHatef AlimardaniStarsSaeed AghakhaniShabnam MoghadamiFatemah Motamed-AriaThe story is in Zanjan 1980s. It tells the life of people of that city and their problems in those years.
- DirectorReza DormishianStarsBaran KosariNavid MohammadzadehMilad RahimiI'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 not to lose his love, Setareh.
- DirectorShahram MokriStarsBabak KarimiSaeed EbrahimifarSiavash Cheraghi PourA number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant.
- DirectorNarges AbyarStarsMehran AhmadiPantea PanahihaSiamak SafariBreath 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.
- DirectorHadi MoghadamdoostStarsKhatereh AsadiFathollah GhaffariLeila HatamiThe story of life of a lonely girl who always writes her daily life in her blog till one day when her brother's friend propose to her. She who wasn't doing her ritual praying in her life begins to do so but is very shy to tell the guy about that. She continues this till end of the story when this secret is revealing.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMasud ZandbeglehHassan DarabiMostafa TariA grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli NasirianAn 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.
- DirectorRambod JavanStarsReza AttaranVishka AsayeshPegah AhangaraniThis movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsBahram RadanLeila HatamiNader FallahA 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.
- DirectorKiumars PoorahmadStarsKhosro ShakibaiAfsaneh BayeganParvindokht YazdanianTwo separated twins, each living with a single parent and unaware from other one's existence, meet each other and switch places.
- DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiAkbar AbdiMina LakaniNyatollah is a rich stingy guy who loves money. One day when he goes to the court to do a job for a friend he is thrown from the roof. This is the beginning of his acquaintance with Djin and the beginning of his adventure.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsParviz ParastuiRoya TeymourianSoghra ObeisiYoussef, 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?
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsShahab HosseiniFataneh MalekmohamadiLeila ZareAn arrogant movie star's life drastically changes when a teenage girl shows up.
- DirectorShahriar BahraniStarsAmin ZendeganiMahmoud PakniatHossein MahjoubSolomon, 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.
- DirectorBehnam BehzadiStarsAmir JafariAshkan KhatibiMehrdad SedighianThe Rule of Accident is about a group of theatre students who are trying to prepare and present a piece of theatre.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein LatifiStarsPouria PoursorkhBaran KosariHamed BehdadDuring the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province (in Southern Iran). Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.
- DirectorMostafa KiaeiStarsMahtab KeramatiBahram RadanFarhad AslaniIn 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.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsMahnaz AfsharMohammad Reza GolzarAtila PesianiThe domestic problems of a wealthy young couple goes through the scrutiny of an adroit psychologist to be solved.
- DirectorSaman MoghadamStarsMahnaz AfsharSepand AmirsoleimaniAfshin ArashtanabiehIt's about an Iranian man who tells his life story from childhood to now and his love.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaSaber AbarNegar JavaherianThe 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.
- DirectorNegar AzarbayjaniStarsShayesteh IraniGhazal ShakeriHomayoun ErshadiRana 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 transgender 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.
- DirectorMostafa KiaeiStarsBahram RadanMohsen KiayeeSahar DolatshahiAt a job interview, a conman recounts the recent events in his life that lead him to the meeting.
- DirectorAli Mollagholi PoorStarsSaber AbarNegar JavaherianAkbar AbdiAta and Masoumeh are living in a rented house. Their lease time is over and they can not pay the rent added. But they like to stay and live in this house...
- DirectorMostafa KiaeiStarsMostafa ZamaniHanieh TavassoliMohsen KiayeeA hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon'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.
- DirectorParviz Sheikh TadiStarsHamid FarrokhnezhadHengameh GhazianiKarim Akbari MobarakehThe story of a couple who during the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, are working in a field hospital. Amir Ali and his wife because of many years which they spent there, are very fond of that place. But the news of cease fire between the two countries and then the attack of Iraqi army on their hospital put them on a difficult test.
- DirectorKazem Rast GoftarReza AkbariStarsFarhad AeeshHomayoun ErshadiShahrokh EstakhriDespite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check. Although they contradict each other in every possible way, each of them has to respect the others for at least thirty hours. But there is something else going on: everyone is looking for a way to take the whole money!
- DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsPeyman GhassemkhaniMohsen TanabandehBahareh RahnamaA newly released prisoner and an ostensibly rich youth become aware of the place of the Russian Tsar's long lost treasure by a twist of fate.
- DirectorMaziar MiriStarsParviz ParastuiDarine HamzeDavood Fathali BeigiRahman falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She becomes a Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsBabak HamidianHadi HejazifarPierre DagherTwo Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a small Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.
- DirectorHomayoon Ass'adianStarsShirin YazdanbakhshRabe'e MadaniSheida KhalighStory of two old women Ehteramossadat and Forugh being closely related and neighbors for more than 40 years awaiting the return of their sons' bodies who martyred at Iran-Iraq war 20 years ago and the self-sacrifice done by Ehteramossadat.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiMani HaghighiSaeed ChangizianAn 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.
- DirectorMahshid AfsharzadehStarsBehnoosh BakhtiariShirin BinaLeila BolukatIn order to pay the university's tuition, Maryam starts working in a hotel in which she gets accused of having stolen an expensive watch.
- DirectorAbolhassan DavoodiStarsTannaz TabatabaeiSaber AbarSaed SoheiliA group of people who met on social media are forced to work together when one of them commits a crime which if not solved, will concern all of them.
- DirectorMajid TavakoliStarsHengameh HamidzadehPedram SharifiEhsan AmaniThis romantic drama tells the story of dreams and ambitions for a generation of young Iranians who often find those things difficult to come by. In this unique tale of a familiar theme, a young couple assume the role of a much wealthier couple in order to spend their days with Tehran's nouveu riche. The adventure begins with playful games that take the audience on a comic ride but it ends in horror when the young couple find themselves locked up in an apartment, facing a case of mistaken identities. At whole twisted, unpredictable, funny and thrilling, Tavakkoli's film is a masterful, beautifully acted, cleverly composed exercise in building suspense.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsYasna MirtahmasbAmir JadidiAzadeh SamadiA drama about Bemani, a reticent and monosyllabic 13-year-old boy. His parents are separated and he's being bullied at school. His world is falling apart. A gang whose leader is a lovely-looking girl is his safe haven. Or so it seems.
- DirectorParviz ShahbaziStarsNazanin BayatiPegah AhangaraniBehrang AlaviThis fascinating moral thriller is centered on the bristling relationship between two very different young women in contemporary Tehran. Moving to the city for her studies and desperate for a place to live, the quiet, scholarly Nazanin (Nazanin Bayati) rents a room from vivacious shop girl Sahar (Pegah Ahangarani). The two become unlikely companions as Sahar coerces Nazanin into joining her circle of friends. But when Sahar ends up in trouble, Nazanin is drawn into a complex web of debt and deception that surrounds her roommate. With pitch-perfect performances by the two female leads, 'Trapped' draws an intelligent portrait of the subtleties of inter-personal power dynamics.
- DirectorEbrahim IrajzadStarsParinaz IzadyarAli MosaffaMina SadatiA couple's son, Parham disappears in the babysitter's house. Complications arise as the babysitter claims Parham hasn't been to their house.
- DirectorAbolhassan DavoodiStarsReza AttaranJavad EzatiSara BahramiReza and his friend Mansoor are pickpockets. When Reza by his mother becomes aware that a rich girl has take an oath to marry a war injured person he decides to get close to her and find a way to marry her and inherit her fortune.
- DirectorAzita MoguieStarsBahram RadanMerila Zare'iPejman JamshidiIran and Spain are about to lunch a big project in the Hendurabi Island in the south of Iran. Meanwhile many companies are trying to win the rights of this project at it's auction. Engineer Saeed Parsa who has divorced his wife Roya is one of them and others are trying to win the auction too. But in the way to do so many obstacles and difficulties are ahead of all of them.