best iranian films
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1. The Last Supper (2002)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Katayoun Riahi, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Soraya Ghasemi
Votes: 891
2. From Karkheh to Rhein (1993)
93 min | Drama, War
Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister ... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Ali Dehkordi, Homa Rusta, Hans Noiman, Sadegh Safaie
Votes: 3,032
3. Snowman (1995)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Iranian man (Akbar Abdi) stuck in Turkey, desperately wants to get a VISA to go to America. He starts dressing up as a woman in hopes of marrying an American man to get American citizenship, but he starts having doubts and...
Director: Davood Mir-Bagheri | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Dariush Arjmand, Parviz Parastui, Azita Hajian
Votes: 2,387
4. Doubt (2009)
131 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Siavash Roozbehan is a young man and he has lost his father after his mysterious suicide.His uncle is managing his father's wealth. He is in love with his cousin Mahtab whose father is his ... See full summary »
Director: Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Stars: Hamed Komaily, Bahram Radan, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mahtab Keramati
Votes: 716
5. 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: 2,574
6. Under the Skin of the City (2001)
92 min | Drama
A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works ... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari, Ebrahim Sheibani
Votes: 1,675
7. Cease Fire (2006)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
The domestic problems of a wealthy young couple goes through the scrutiny of an adroit psychologist to be solved.
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Atila Pesiani, Elsa Firouz Azar
Votes: 2,844
8. The Painting Pool (2013)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference. They must try to prove to others they ... See full summary »
Director: Maziar Miri | Stars: Seyed Mahmoud Chaharsoughi, Siamak Ehsaii, Sepahrad Farzami, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 5,441
9. 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: 2,944
10. Two Women (1999)
95 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Merila Zare'i, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Atila Pesiani
Votes: 1,727
11. Low Heights (2002)
115 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A domestic Iranian flight is taken hostage by a man Ghasem who is a refugee of war and has financial problems. He will go any distance for his family and wants to find a better place for living.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Leila Hatami, Gohar Kheirandish, Amir Aghaee
Votes: 3,850
12. A Separation (2011)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
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.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 258,325 | Gross: $7.10M
13. 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: 2,330
14. 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
15. 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: 2,188
16. Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013)
106 min | Drama
Shirin is supposed to get married in a couple of hours, but she unexpectedly murders a man. The cause of the crime, rooted in her nightmarish childhood, unravels gradually and the real question emerges: Who is the REAL criminal?
Director: Pouran Derakhshandeh | Stars: Tannaz Tabatabaei, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 5,227
17. Leily Is with Me (1996)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During 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.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahmoud Azizi, Maziar Lorestani, Rahman Bagherian
Votes: 5,034
18. No Men Allowed (2011)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
Director: Rambod Javan | Stars: Reza Attaran, Vishka Asayesh, Pegah Ahangarani, Mani Haghighi
Votes: 7,821
19. I'm Taraneh, 15 (2002)
110 min | Drama
Fifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Negar Javaherian, Hossein Mahjoub, Mahtab Nasirpour
Votes: 3,809
20. The Music Man (2007)
107 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Not being able to work because of the religious country's prejudice against music, a talented Santour player has to deal with poverty, addiction and the absence of his ex-wife.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Bahram Radan, Golshifteh Farahani, Masoud Rayegan, Roya Teymourian
Votes: 9,352
21. Leila (I) (1997)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The story of a semi-modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation, but is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
Votes: 4,109 | Gross: $0.05M
22. Children of Heaven (1997)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Family, Sport
After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi
Votes: 80,616 | Gross: $0.93M
23. 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: 13,485
24. The Broke (2011)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Three poor youngsters decide to be Iranian Robin Hoods. They decide to steal from riches who are usurious or with illegal and dirty money.
Director: Mohammad Reza Arab | Stars: Pejman Bazeghi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Hanieh Tavassoli, Behrang Alavi
Votes: 166
25. Seven Minutes to Fall (2010)
91 min | Drama
Domestic drama charting the course of a self-effacing Iranian couple as their ordered lives begin to fracture under the strain of work commitments, money troubles and the responsibility of ... See full summary »
Director: Alireza Amini | Stars: Hediyeh Tehrani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Hamed Behdad, Khatereh Asadi
Votes: 344
26. Retribution (2010)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the execution of a man, his brother tries to find those responsible for the death of his brother.
Director: Hasan Fathi | Stars: Hooman Barghnavard, Amirhossein Fathi, Jamshid Hashempur, Amir Jafari
Votes: 331
27. Born Under Libra (2000)
94 min | Drama, War
Daniel who is from the south of Iran is studying in Tehran university. His classmate Mahtab is in love with him and they want to get marry. She tells her mother to tell the father that ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Reza Darvish | Stars: Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mitra Hajjar, Mahmoud Azizi, Hossein Razi
Votes: 341
28. A Little Kiss (2005)
100 min | Drama
Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.
Director: Bahman Farmanara | Stars: Payam Dehkordi, Babak Hamidian, Hushang Harirchiyan, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 687
29. Pink (2003)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
When a recently divorced man decides to marry a new woman, things get hard for his little son and still-in-love Ex-wife.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Mitra Hajjar, Rambod Javan, Parham Karami, Mehran Rajabi
Votes: 345
30. Cease Fire 2 (2014)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A young couple try to fix their marriage troubles with the help of a psychiatrist.
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Bahram Radan, Mitra Hajjar, Atila Pesiani, Amir Arsalan Alebouyeh
Votes: 769
31. Gilane (2005)
80 min | Drama, War
A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, ... See full summary »
Directors: Mohsen Abdolvahab, Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Bahram Radan, Baran Kosari, Jaleh Sameti
Votes: 734
32. Needlessly and Causelessly (2012)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple are moving in to a house with a lot of boxes to start their married life, but the former residents are still there with their wrapped up furniture and boxes too! They also have a small wedding ceremony to host that very night.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Reza Attaran, Pantea Bahram, Negar Javaherian, Mohammad Kart
Votes: 1,315
33. 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: 1,466
34. 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
35. Unruled Paper (2002)
110 min | Drama, Mystery
"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; ... See full summary »
Director: Nasser Taghvai | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Hediyeh Tehrani, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Niku Kheradmand
Votes: 1,110
36. The Tenants (1987)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
The tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Faramarz Fardtombekian, Farimah Farjami
Votes: 2,746
37. 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: 22,427
38. M like Mother (2006)
PG | 113 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Rasool Mollagholi Poor | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Hosein Yari, Jamshid Hashempur, Sahar Dolatshahi
Votes: 5,699
39. Son of Adam Daughter of Eve (2010)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
Mina Bozorgmehr and Farhood Zandi are two young lawyers who start working at them same time. They share an apartment, but Mina thinks that Farhood is a author and Farhood thinks that Mina is a photographer.
Director: Rambod Javan | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Hamed Komaily, Rambod Javan, Shila Khodadad
Votes: 686
40. What's Up? (1992)
110 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Mahaya Petrossian, Danial Hakimi, Jahangir Almasi, Rashid Aslani
Votes: 247
41. 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: 57,117 | Gross: $0.11M
42. Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
120 min | Drama, War
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian, Golshan Anooshe
Votes: 3,198
43. Bride of Fire (2000)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Ahlam who is studying medicine in the college is in love with Dr. Parviz and wants to marry him. But according to her tribe's laws and traditions she must marry her cousin Farhan. She decides to face her family and find a solution.
Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Ghazal Saremi, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Salimeh Rangzan
Votes: 583
44. She Doesn't Talk (2002)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Ahmad Amini | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Lale Eskandari, Zandish Hamidi, Mohamad Hatami
Votes: 65
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: 490
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