Iranian films and about Iran
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1. Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Thriller
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...
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Anonymous, Anonymous, M. Ali Nazarian, Ramin Parham
Votes: 1,211
2. Parviz (2012)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Parvis, a fifty-year-old man who has lived his entire life with his father and never held a job, is suddenly, kicked out from his home, as his father decides to remarry.
Director: Majid Barzegar | Stars: Levon Haftvan, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Homeyra Nonahali, Ali Ramez
Votes: 1,006
3. Crimson Gold (2003)
Unrated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri
Votes: 5,297 | Gross: $0.15M
4. Fish & Cat (2013)
134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant.
Director: Shahram Mokri | Stars: Babak Karimi, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Siavash Cheraghi Pour, Mohammad Berahmani
Votes: 2,879
5. Deep Breath (2003)
86 min | Drama, Romance
This is about two guys who are departed from their family in totally different ways, they are anti social and try to live in a large city without any money, one of them fall in love and another one got addicted.
Director: Parviz Shahbazi | Stars: Mansour Shahbazi, Maryam Palizban, Said Amini
Votes: 919
6. Nothing (2010)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Ahmad Mehranfar, Mehran Ahmadi, Nayereh Farahani, Marzieh Boroomand
Votes: 1,146
7. Navel (2004)
85 min | Drama
When god created man from clay put his finger on his belly and a mark was created there.
Director: Mohammad Shirvani | Stars: Khosro Hassanzadeh, Reza Hassanzadeh, Ali Hooshmand, Aboozar Javanmard
Votes: 68
8. White Nights (2003)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Bright Nights is the story of the lives of two lonely people. The film tells the story of how the two characters met, became attached and separated from the language of a university professor.
Director: Farzad Motamen | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mohsen Shah-Ebrahimi, Hilda Hashempour
Votes: 1,458
9. Hamoun (1990)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
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.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar, Bita Farahi
Votes: 7,243
10. Modest Reception (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmaeel Khalaj
Votes: 2,190
11. A Dragon Arrives! (2016)
105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime ... See full summary »
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Amir Jadidi, Ehsan Goodarzi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Nader Fallah
Votes: 2,869
12. The Runner (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
Director: Amir Naderi | Stars: Madjid Niroumand, Abbas Nazeri, Musa Torkizadeh
Votes: 2,335
13. Lantouri (2016)
111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Girl, Maryam, is attacked with Acid by Pasha, a young man who is madly in love with her.
Director: Reza Dormishian | Stars: Baran Kosari, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Maryam Palizban, Reza Behbudi
Votes: 3,802
14. A Walk in the Fog (2010)
87 min | Drama
Amin is in coma and has forgotten almost everything about the past, but he remembers some of his misty memories. He decides to make a new past for himself with recollection of these memories.
Director: Bahram Tavakoli | Stars: Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, Masoud Rayegan
Votes: 950
15. Tranquility in the Presence of Others (1972)
86 min | Drama
A former army colonel comes from a village to live in the city with her daughters where he finds it hard to adapt with the modern life.
Director: Nasser Taghvai | Stars: Akbar Meshkin, Soraya Ghasemi, Leila Baharan, Ali Naraghi
Votes: 450
16. There Are Things You Don't Know (2010)
92 min | Drama
A pensive taxi driver living the ordinary tedious life is little-by-little altered by one of his usual passengers: a talkative female doctor.
Director: Fardin Saheb-Zamani | Stars: Ali Mosaffa, Leila Hatami, Mahtab Keramati, Siamak Adib
Votes: 1,486
17. The Warden (2019)
87 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Major Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.
Director: Nima Javidi | Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Setareh Pesyani, Mani Haghighi
Votes: 7,552
18. Sheeple (2018)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of a gang of drug dealers in the south of Tehran who has sheltered many youngsters and orphans from the streets. Shahin and Shakoor who are brothers are leading the gang but when ... See full summary »
Director: Houman Seyyedi | Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Farhad Aslani, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Marjan Ettefaghian
Votes: 7,443
19. Sound and Fury (2016)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Khosrow is a famous married singer involved with a troublesome affair and consequences of fame.
Director: Houman Seyyedi | Stars: Tannaz Tabatabaei, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Saeed Changizian, Behnaz Jafari
Votes: 4,217
20. Life and a Day (2016)
112 min | Drama
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.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Shabnam Moghadami
Votes: 17,519
21. Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
135 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own.
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian, Mitra Hajjar
Votes: 2,947
22. The Ransomer (2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Farzad Motamen | Stars: Fariborz Arabnia, Niki Karimi, Mehdi Ahmadi, Shahed Ahmadloo
Votes: 82
23. Boutique (II) (2004)
113 min | Drama
Eti, a 17-year-old girl from a poor family, wants to escape her infernal class boundaries with the help of Jahan, a young man.
Director: Hamid Nematollah | Stars: Mohammad Reza Golzar, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Rooygari, Ali Alaei
Votes: 2,576
24. Poet of the Wastes (2005)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A man whose job collecting garbage from the streets. But from this work he becomes aware of the secrets of those houses he collecting garbage from and that lead him to involve in some troubles.
Director: Mohammad Ahmadi | Stars: Saber Abar, Mohammad Ali Dashti, Mohammad Eskandari, Leila Hatami
Votes: 261
25. Season Salad (2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Leila, a girl from a poor family, who has no choice but to pick pocket in order to make ends meet. Leila meets Hamid Doosdar, an investor Businessman, while riding Metro that changes her ... See full summary »
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Leila Hatami, Khosro Shakibai, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Mahnaz Afshar
Votes: 608
26. Red (1999)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Hediyeh Tehrani, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Turan Mehrzad
Votes: 1,468
27. Nights of Tehran (2001)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Best friends Shirin and Mina are sociology students who spend their time analyzing crime and violence in Tehran in an attempt to understand the dark side of society. One day Mina goes ... See full summary »
Director: Dariush Farhang | Stars: Farhad Aeesh, Maryam Amirjallali, Shaghayegh Farahani, Mitra Hajjar
Votes: 163
28. Subdued (2017)
103 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Hamid Nematollah | Stars: Hamidreza Saeedikhah, Hosein Abadi, Shokoufeh Hashemian, Leila Hatami
Votes: 2,494
29. Flaming (2018)
97 min | Drama
The story of a man who feels that he has not become anything in his life which is affecting all his life.
Director: Hamid Nematollah | Stars: Amin Hayayee, Zahra Hatami, Dara Hayayee, Mozhgan Saberi
Votes: 593
30. About Elly (2009)
TV-PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,145 | Gross: $0.11M
31. Bitter Dream (2004)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
For forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial service, he's taken ill. Might he too be mortal ?
Director: Mohsen Amiryoussefi | Stars: Yadollah Anvari, Abbas Esfandiari, Delbar Ghasri, Mohsen Rahimi
Votes: 433
32. Dancing in the Dust (2003)
100 min | Drama
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive ... See full summary »
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Yousef Khodaparast, Baran Kosari, Jalal Hadpor Seraj
Votes: 2,267
33. Beautiful City (2004)
98 min | Drama, Romance
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo Kheradmand
Votes: 6,199
34. Prince Ehtejab (1974)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of... See full summary »
Director: Bahman Farmanara | Stars: Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami, Nuri Kasrai
Votes: 293
35. A House Built on Water (2002)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy
A surrealist story about Dr. Sepidbakht who one night when driving hit an angel with his car and his hand is injured deeply by touching that angel's fingers. He has several problems in his ... See full summary »
Director: Bahman Farmanara | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Reza Kianian, Hediyeh Tehrani, Jamshid Mashayekhi
Votes: 1,260
36. Law of Tehran (2019)
131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani
Votes: 18,490
37. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War
Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini
Votes: 8,828 | Gross: $0.70M
38. Cafe Setareh (2006)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story is about lives of three women living in an old neighborhood; one has a cafe, one is the landlady and the youngest one is engaged and waiting to get married. They somehow link together with their problems.
Director: Saman Moghadam | Stars: Afsaneh Bayegan, Pejman Bazeghi, Hamed Behdad, Shahrokh Foroutanian
Votes: 906
39. The Lizard (2004)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Bahram Ebrahimi, Reza Saeedi, Shahrokh Foroutanian
Votes: 22,445
40. Still Life (1974)
93 min | Drama
The daily life of Mohammad Sardari(Zadour Bonyadi) , a railway switchman on the verge of retirement, who lives with his wife and soldier son near the railway track.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless | Stars: Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hedayatollah Navid, Hibibollah Safarian
Votes: 1,324
41. Wake Up, Arezoo! (2005)
90 min | Drama
Moments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues has died in the quake. She sets out for... See full summary »
Director: Kianoush Ayari | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Mehran Rajabi, Mohammadhosein Akbari, Mehdi Jafari
Votes: 123
42. A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (2006)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Two desperate men watching a wrecked petrol station for government, whilst looking for their strange loves.
Director: Saman Salur | Stars: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Nader Fallah, Mohsen Namjoo, Mahmoud Nazaralian
Votes: 1,231
43. Day and Night (2010)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Feminine and romantic melodrama that women are the main target audience. The story of four intersecting narratives are intertwined and linked together. Foojan released the designer has to ... See full summary »
Directors: Keivan Alimohammadi, Omid Bonakdar | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Khatereh Asadi, Farzan Athari, Behnoosh Bakhtiari
Votes: 145
44. The Wet Dream (2006)
100 min | Drama, Romance
16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.
Director: Pouran Derakhshandeh | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Homayoun Ershadi, Majid Moshiri, Sharareh Dolat Abadi
Votes: 309
45. The Feast (1996)
84 min | Action, Drama
Seven friends promise to meet each other in the future. On the promised day all come except Ramin who is now a lawyer working for a company. He is in danger so sends his wife instead and has hides himself in some unknown place. One of his friends Ali who is now a police decides to help him.
Director: Masud Kimiai | Stars: Fariborz Arabnia, Behzad Khodaveisi, Parsa Pirouzfar, Ramin Parchami
Votes: 491
46. Shallow Yellow Sky (2013)
90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Ghazal suffers her parent's recent death. She was in the car when the accident happened. Now her fiance is the only one left for her, but he can't trust Ghazal's mental health.
Director: Bahram Tavakoli | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Saber Abar, Hamid Reza Azarang, Sahar Dolatshahi
Votes: 704
47. The Crime (2003)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Frustrated writer-student Siavash stabs his sister's suitor, a wealthy antique dealer/money lender, to death. But cleaning woman Mahtaj witnesses the murder. Something about her rigid, ... See full summary »
Director: Mohammad Ali Sajjadi | Stars: Amir Reza Delavari, Shahram Haghighat Doost, Mitra Hajjar, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 43
48. Hello Cinema (1995)
75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Behzad Dorani, Feizola Gashghai, Maryam Keyhan
Votes: 2,183
49. The Monster (1987)
110 min | Drama
A scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.
Director: Kianoush Ayari | Stars: Kazem Afrandnia, Manijeh Aghai, Nasser Aghayi, Jahangir Almasi
Votes: 125
50. Downpour (1972)
128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Parviz Fanizadeh, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Layegh, Parvaneh Massoumi
Votes: 980
51. Rokhsareh (2002)
91 min | Drama
Director: Amir Ghavidel | Stars: Mitra Hajjar, Shahab Hosseini, Areyan Khalaj, Mahsa Mahjour
Votes: 199
52. Strait (1973)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Naderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. He runs for ... See full summary »
Director: Amir Naderi | Stars: Saeed Rad, Nuri Kasrai, Enayat Bakhshi, Mohammad Eskandari
Votes: 289
53. Mr. Gullible (1970)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
Votes: 563
54. Snow on a Hot Tin Roof (2011)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
By the time of a famous poet's doubtful death, his last poem is found. The indication of its code would help to find out about the mysterious parts of his life and death. Any of his ... See full summary »
Director: Mohammad Hadi Karimi | Stars: Amir Hossein Arman, Khatereh Asadi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 324
55. An Umbrella for Two (1999)
100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Ahmad Amini | Stars: Reza Kianian, Hediyeh Tehrani, Shaghayegh Farahani, Bita Tavakoli
Votes: 169
56. She Doesn't Talk (2002)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Ahmad Amini | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Lale Eskandari, Zandish Hamidi, Mohamad Hatami
Votes: 65
57. Around the Autobahn (2011)
97 min | Drama
The story of a young couple who their life changes when an older woman enters in their life.
Director: Siavash Asadi | Stars: Sepideh Alaei, Saeed Ghareh Khan Lou, Noora Hashemi, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 162
58. The End of the Game (2001)
Crime
Director: Homayoon Ass'adian | Stars: Lida Abbasi, Akbar Ahmadi, Hamed Behdad, Shahrouz Ebrahimi
Votes: 33
59. Nowhere, Nobody (2013)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young couple need easy money. A few friends join them to plan a kidnap, but nothing goes right when some of them go after revenge and betray each other.
Director: Ebrahim Sheibani | Stars: Mohammad Reza Forutan, Reza Kianian, Mahnaz Afshar, Saber Abar
Votes: 181
60. Everything for Sale (2014)
83 min | Drama
A young man is badly injured in a football stadium. His older brother does anything, even risks his life, to earn enough money for the operation.
Director: Amir Hossein Saghafi | Stars: Saber Abar, Saed Soheili, Mazdak Mirabedini, Mahmoud Nazaralian
Votes: 230
61. The Cycle (1977)
101 min | Drama
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Saeed Kangarani, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fourouzan, Bahman Forsi
Votes: 825
62. The Custodian (1976)
124 min | Drama
Davoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they ... See full summary »
Director: Khosrow Haritash | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Saeed Kangarani, Nassrin Ghadiri, Esmail Davarfar
Votes: 70
63. Iran Is My Land (1999)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
Director: Parviz Kimiavi | Stars: Behzad Khodaveisi, Saeed Poursamimi, Parviz Shahinkhou, Mehdi Faghih
Votes: 172
64. Tales (2014)
88 min | Drama
A series of seven vignettes about different people dealing with their every day problems in modern day Iran, that are loosely related to each other.
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Habib Rezaei, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mehraveh Sharifinia, Golab Adineh
Votes: 1,519
65. Tehran 7:00 a.m. (2003)
85 min | Drama
Director: Amir Shahab Razavian | Stars: Nazanin Farahani, Ali Golzadeh, Mohammad Haj Hosseini, Behnaz Jafari
Votes: 56
66. Death of Yazdgerd (1982)
110 min | Drama, History
Death of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh
Votes: 1,232
67. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks -- a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Pantea Bahram
Votes: 13,488
68. Off-Limits (1988)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is ... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Jafari, Jamshid Layegh, Parvaneh Massoumi
Votes: 93
69. Here Without Me (2011)
100 min | Drama
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.
Director: Bahram Tavakoli | Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Saber Abar, Negar Javaherian, Parsa Pirouzfar
Votes: 4,622
70. Close-Up (1990)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes: 22,999 | Gross: $0.00M
71. Night of the Hunchback (1965)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights and set in a popular theatre troupe, the story follows the death of an actor in a farcical accident and the brilliantly elaborate gags and misunderstandings that abound in subsequent attempts to dispose of his body.
Director: Farokh Ghafari | Stars: Farhang Amiri, Farokh Ghafari, Paria Hakemi, Zackaria Hashemi
Votes: 255
72. The Pear Tree (1998)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Esteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for beautiful tomboy "M".
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri, Nematollah Gorji
Votes: 1,657
73. The Postman (1972)
107 min | Drama
An impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. When the educated nephew of the master comes back from Europe, complications occur which result to bad events for postman and his wife.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jaleh Sam, Ahmad Reza Ahmadi
Votes: 435
74. Through the Olive Trees (1994)
G | 103 min | Drama
A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai
Votes: 9,989 | Gross: $0.04M
75. Taste of Cherry (1997)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Votes: 36,730 | Gross: $0.31M
76. The Abadanis (1993)
93 min | Drama, War
The car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him ... See full summary »
Director: Kianoush Ayari | Stars: Saeed Poursamimi, Hassan Rezai, Saeed Sheikhzadeh, Behrooz Razavi
Votes: 149
77. The Morning of the Fourth Day (1972)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Amir is a foul guy who has killed a man in Abadan, he returns to Tehran and continuing his misdeeds trying to convince his girlfriend Zarry to escape with him to the south of Iran.
Director: Kamran Shirdel | Stars: Saeed Rad, Vejesta, Jalal Pishvaian, Shahrzad
Votes: 105
78. Along the Night (1977)
123 min | Drama, Romance
Babak who suffers from Leukemia falls in love with a famous singer named Parvaneh. Although at first she takes him for granted, but gradually a relationship begins that changes their lives.
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Googoosh, Saeed Kangarani, Mahbubeh Bayat, Jahangir Forouhar
Votes: 789
79. Under the Skin of the Night (1974)
95 min | Drama
In one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without ... See full summary »
Director: Fereydun Gole | Stars: Morteza Aghili, Susan Gilber, Mehri Vadadian, Arash Taj
Votes: 78
80. Beehive (1975)
103 min | Drama
Recently have been released from jail, Ebi makes a bet with his Friend that he goes and drinks in seven bars without even paying any money.
Director: Fereydun Gole | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Davoud Rashidi, Reza Karam Rezai, Jalal Pishvaian
Votes: 977
81. Tehran Taboo (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic
Votes: 4,974 | Gross: $0.07M
82. We Only Live Twice (2008)
100 min | Drama
Siamak who is a minibus driver decides that he wants to die and chose his birth day to do so. Before that he wants to do all the things which he was wishing to do in his life. But one day he meets a girl which change his life.
Director: Behnam Behzadi | Stars: Alireza Aghakhani, Negar Javaherian, Ebadollah Karimi, Raya Nasiri
Votes: 554
83. Bad Kids (2000)
82 min | Drama
When best friends Reza and Siavash pick up a mysterious, deadly young woman on the north road out of the city, they cannot hope to comprehend the chilling events that are to follow them on ... See full summary »
Director: Alireza Davoudnejad | Stars: Reza Davoudnejad, Zahra Davoudnejad, Ehteram-Sadat Habibian, Siavash Hekmat-Shoar
Votes: 106
84. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Navabi
Votes: 38,615
85. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,137 | Gross: $4.45M
86. Circumstance (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes: 8,005 | Gross: $0.44M
87. Gholam (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
Haunted by his past and with an uncertain future, Gholam gets involved in the conflict of a total stranger and sees it through to the very end.
Director: Mitra Tabrizian | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Behrouz Behnejad, Nasser Memarzia, Corinne Skinner-Carter
Votes: 463
88. Soheila No. 17 (2017)
78 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a middle aged woman Soheila who has genetic problems and over weighting so she decides to get marry as soon as possible and have a baby.
Director: Mahmoud Ghaffari | Stars: Zahra Davoudnejad, Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Ehsan Amani
Votes: 241
89. Wander About Me (2017)
75 min | Drama
It is the story of a 30 years old girl Sayeh who in the middle of the big city is pursuing her dreams and ideals.
Director: Ghazaleh Soltani | Stars: Mehraveh Sharifinia, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Ghaderi, Foozhan Ghobadian
Votes: 46
90. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.
Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher
Votes: 72,586 | Gross: $13.01M
91. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 638,961 | Gross: $136.03M
92. Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Thriller
Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody, Alon Aboutboul
Votes: 5,801
93. Rosewater (2014)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Director: Jon Stewart | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
Votes: 10,964 | Gross: $3.13M
94. The Persian Connection (2016)
103 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
After being wrongly accused of stealing from his former boss, an Iranian gangster with girl problems must hunt down stolen drugs in this neon-noir fever dream set in the bizarre Persian and Russian Los Angeles underworld where obscene reigns supreme.
Director: Daniel Grove | Stars: Reza Sixo Safai, Helena Mattsson, Parviz Sayyad, Julian Sands
Votes: 345 | Gross: $0.01M
95. Under the Shadow (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes: 30,108 | Gross: $0.03M
96. 6 Days (I) (2017)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action-thriller dramatizes a six-day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack.
Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Martin Shaw
Votes: 24,650
97. Women Without Men (2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
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.
Directors: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | Stars: Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Orsolya Tóth
Votes: 2,715 | Gross: $0.18M
98. Guests of Hotel Astoria (1989)
124 min | Drama
Tale of a group of Iranian families, fleeing from Iran to Turkey in order to seek asylum from Turkey to some Western European country or USA. The movie shows the hardship and very sad days ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marshall Manesh, Mohsen Marzban, Alan Desatti
Votes: 92
99. Shirin in Love (2014)
TV-14 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Love has no borders and therein lies the premise of the charming, new Iranian-American romantic comedy "Shirin in Love." Nazanin Boniadi plays Shirin, an absent-minded, young ... See full summary »
Director: Ramin Niami | Stars: Nazanin Boniadi, Riley Smith, Amy Madigan, Marshall Manesh
Votes: 916
100. Rhino Season (2012)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
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 him dead for over twenty years.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk
Votes: 7,297
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