My Persian Movies
by dreamdi | created - 04 Jul 2014 | updated - 07 Jan 2021 | Publicthe Iranian Movies which I have seen
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1. 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: 5,702
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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: 258,431 | Gross: $7.10M
5. Felicity Land (2011)
90 min | Drama
A look at the lives of 3 well-off Iranian couples who are ostensibly living an idyllic life and are going to have a get-together for a birthday party. Each couple bearing their own sordid ... See full summary »
Director: Maziar Miri | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Amir Aghaee, Hamed Behdad, Hengameh Ghaziani
Votes: 2,037
6. 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: 3,036
7. 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: 3,812
8. The Girl in the Sneakers (1999)
110 min | Drama, Family
In love with a teenage boy, Tadaei leaves home in the morning heading for school but decides not to go to school and instead starts wandering in the streets of Tehran. She makes up her mind... See full summary »
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Pegah Ahangarani, Majid Hajizadeh, Akram Mohammadi, Abdolreza Akbari
Votes: 886
9. 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: 57,139 | Gross: $0.11M
10. Shirin (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Votes: 2,844
11. 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: 5,230
12. Border Café (2005)
107 min | Drama, Romance
"Cafe Transit" depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop café.
Director: Kambuzia Partovi | Stars: Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Parviz Parastui, Nikos Papadopoulos, Svieta Mikalishina
Votes: 2,172
13. The Past (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
Votes: 50,875 | Gross: $1.33M
14. 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: 2,846
15. The Snow on the Pines (2012)
91 min | Drama
A piano teacher (Mahnaz Afshar) faced with a major event in her personal life, some secrets of her husband life is revealed ... In a two-way decision, she must either make her choice in ... See full summary »
Director: Payman Maadi | Stars: Saber Abar, Anahita Afshar, Mahnaz Afshar, Vishka Asayesh
Votes: 1,711
16. I Am a Mother (2012)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Ava is sentenced to capital punishment for the murder of saeed, the friend of his father and her lover who had raped her.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani, Habib Rezaei, Hengameh Ghaziani
Votes: 1,210
17. Barareh Nights (2005–2006)
PG | 60 min | Comedy
Set in late 40s in Iran. When a politically exiled man (Ansari) meets strange rural people with weird actions and accents in a village called Barareh.
Stars: Mehran Modiri, Siamak Ansari, Falamak Jonidi, Saeed Pirdust
Votes: 17,515
18. Bitter Coffee (2010– )
Comedy, History
Being transported into the past by drinking a cup of mysterious coffee, a man makes a living by predicting the future for the royal family.
Stars: Mohammad Reza Hedayati, Sahar Jafari Jozani, Sahar Zakaria, Reza Fieze Norouzi
Votes: 9,314
19. Love at 40 (2010)
88 min | Drama
Love at 40 is about a lost love re found. Negar is a married woman who works at a musical company. When she is given an assignment to collaborate with an Iranian expat Orchestra leader, she... See full summary »
Director: Alireza Raisian | Stars: Sahar Abdolahi, Farzan Athari, Seyyed Ebrahim Bahrololoumi, Ezzatolah Entezami
Votes: 489
20. 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: 7,296
21. 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
22. The Fish Fall in Love (2005)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant... See full summary »
Director: Ali Rafie | Stars: Reza Kianian, Roya Nonahali, Golshifteh Farahani, Maryam Saadat
Votes: 1,112
23. 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: 3,851
24. 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: 1,676
25. Mom's Guest (2004)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Golab Adineh, Parsa Pirouzfar, Amin Hayayee, Hassan Pourshirazi
Votes: 4,676
26. The Wooden Bridge (2012)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Wooden Bridge was a passage over the northern trench of old Tehran, connecting the capital to the countryside of Shemiran. A connection between old Tehran and modern Tehran.
Director: Mehdi Karampour | Stars: Bahram Radan, Mahnaz Afshar, Farhad Aslani, Mehran Modiri
Votes: 1,521
27. Mr. Yousef (2011)
96 min | Drama, Family
A man is living with his only daughter and does everything he can for a living and for his daughter's sake hoping she is his forever. But a misunderstanding makes everything really complicated for him.
Director: Ali Rafie | Stars: Mehdi Hashemi, Hanieh Tavassoli, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Ladan Mostofi
Votes: 885
28. 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
29. 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: 1,316
30. Mainline (2006)
77 min | Drama
Sara is addicted to drugs. Her fiance Arash is away in Canada studying and doesn't know about her addiction. One month before his returning to Iran Sara decides to quit her addiction but that will not be as easy as she thinks so.
Directors: Mohsen Abdolvahab, Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Farbod Masoud Vaziri, Bita Farahi, Baran Kosari, Bahram Radan
Votes: 904
31. The Martyr of Kufa (1997–2020)
Biography, Drama, History
The whole story about Imam Ali, the friend and companion of Prophet Muhammad.
Stars: Dariush Arjmand, Saeid Nickpour, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Parviz Parastui
Votes: 3,296
32. On Tiptoes (2002–2003)
40 min | Comedy
Lives of two men and their wives, their employees and employers and their unemployed friend living in their house.
Stars: Mehran Modiri, Sahar Zakaria, Siamak Ansari, Javad Razavian
Votes: 6,625
33. The Green House (1996– )
40 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A typical Iranian family living in Tehran during the 90's dealing with ordinary and extraordinary events of life in their own dramatic, romantic ways insisting on being and acting "green" in their daily struggles.
Stars: Mehraneh Mahintorabi, Rambod Javan, Ateneh Faghih Nasiri, Akram Mohammadi
Votes: 1,518
34. Turtles Can Fly (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, War
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Votes: 20,750 | Gross: $0.26M
35. 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: 7,242
36. The Glass Agency (1998)
114 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei, Ghasem Zare
Votes: 7,263
37. Che (2014)
125 min | Biography, Drama, War
An overview of the two-day doctor Mostafa Chamran life (commander of the Iran-Iraq War, who was educated in America and was expert in guerrilla warfare) this film about Defense for peace in the Paveh (city in Iran).
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Fariborz Arabnia, Saeed Rad, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian
Votes: 3,164
38. 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
39. 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: 7,825
40. 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
41. Twenty (2009)
85 min | Drama
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats ... See full summary »
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahtab Keramati, Alireza Khamseh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Votes: 969
42. Life with Closed Eyes (2010)
101 min | Drama
Parasto a young girl from a virtuous family, in absence of her brother and being alone, by her careless behavior leads the neighborhood and her family into some misunderstandings. But that changes by return of her brother when she tries to clear them up.
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Taraneh Alidoosti, Poulad Kimiayi, Farhad Aeesh
Votes: 572
43. Fairy Tale (2011)
107 min | Drama, Romance
A woman Hadith Masroor when reading her nephew's diaries find out that he has fall in love with an addicted girl. This changes her life too.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Mostafa Zamani, Mahnaz Afshar, Baran Kosari, Bijan Emkanian
Votes: 355
44. Facing Mirrors (2011)
98 min | Drama
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 transgender man prevented from living as his ... See full summary »
Director: Negar Azarbayjani | Stars: Shayesteh Irani, Ghazal Shakeri, Homayoun Ershadi, Maryam Boubani
Votes: 641
45. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,603 | Gross: $0.18M
46. 20 Fingers (2004)
72 min | Drama
A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of issues of men and women within confines of tradition and family life in Iran.
Director: Mania Akbari | Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Mania Akbari
Votes: 489
47. 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: 9,351
48. Superstar (2009)
103 min | Drama
An arrogant movie star's life drastically changes when a teenage girl shows up.
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Fataneh Malekmohamadi, Leila Zare, Afsaneh Bayegan
Votes: 3,496
49. Penniless (2009)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hamid Nematollah | Stars: Bahram Radan, Leila Hatami, Nader Fallah, Siamak Ansari
Votes: 2,685
50. The Book of Law (2009)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rahman falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She becomes a Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman.
Director: Maziar Miri | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Darine Hamze, Davood Fathali Beigi, Farideh Sepah Mansour
Votes: 2,039
51. Aquarium (2005)
90 min | Drama
The story of a young racing driver who dreams of going to USA to live there. He goes to Turkey so to travel to USA from there but faces many troubles and difficulties to do so.
Director: Iraj Ghaderi | Stars: Amin Hayayee, Mahnaz Afshar, Iraj Ghaderi, Iraj Nozari
Votes: 392
52. No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
106 min | Drama, Music
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Babak Mirzakhani
Votes: 7,480 | Gross: $0.08M
53. The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama
A story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Navabi, Navid Negahban
Votes: 21,734 | Gross: $0.66M
54. Shahgoosh (2013–2014)
Comedy, Drama, Family
A man is murdered & the police investigates the murderer
Stars: Farhad Aslani, Marjaneh Golchin, Hamid Reza Azarang, Ahmad Mehranfar
Votes: 866
55. Frozen Heart (2010– )
Drama, Thriller
At the end of an adventurous night, Attila - a gang boss- is thrown to his death from a building in Tehran. Shahrokh, a famous archaeologist is arrested for Attila's murder. Upon conviction... See full summary »
Stars: Mehran Modiri, Elnaz Shakerdoost, Amir Aghaee, Reza Attaran
Votes: 677
56. Saint Petersburg (2010)
120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Behruz Afkhami | Stars: Peyman Ghassemkhani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Bahareh Rahnama, Shila Khodadad
Votes: 4,554
57. Verdict (2005)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Sahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ... See full summary »
Director: Masud Kimiai | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Khosro Shakibai, Leila Hatami, Bahram Radan
Votes: 737
58. Swan Song (2001)
87 min | Drama, Romance
After being unjustly expelled from university, a young couple return home to parents who are against their union. After the young man is arrested and subsequently breaks out of prison, the ... See full summary »
Director: Saeed Assadi | Stars: Jamshid Hashempur, Bahram Radan, Sareh Aryan, Dariush Moaddabian
Votes: 571
59. The Color Purple (2010)
97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An undercover Iranian intelligence officer investigates the political status of a college student, whose parents were active members of the mujahedin khalgh radical group.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Khazar Ma'soomi, Farhad Ghaemian, Kourosh Tahami
Votes: 1,915
60. Tabous - Zohre & Manouchehr (2004)
70 min | Documentary, Drama
Filmmaker Mitra Farahani portrays love and sex in today's Iran. One part fiction and one part documentary, the film was shot secretly and is banned in its native country. The fictional part... See full summary »
Director: Mitra Farahani | Stars: Coralie Revel, Stéphane Benrezzak
Votes: 138
61. Poopak and Mash Mashallah (2010)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
It's a funny social story about a family in Iran, see a few days of their life and clash of cases.
Director: Farzad Motamen | Stars: Amin Hayayee, Bahareh Rahnama, Farhad Aeesh, Mahnaz Afshar
Votes: 693
62. Chahar changooli (2008)
85 min | Comedy
Two twin brothers Shahram and Bahram are stuck together from their birth. But they are totally different from each other. One is religious and the other not and they try to influence on each other which make many funny situations.
Director: Saeed Soheili | Stars: Javad Razavian, Reza Shafi' Jam, Fathali Oveisi, Bahareh Rahnama
Votes: 929
63. Under the Moonlight (2001)
96 min | Drama
Hassan is a student of Religious /Islamic school and is about to be dressed as a missioner .In such a time when his other mates are excited and are getting ready to be formally dressed and ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Hossein Parastar, Hamed Rajabali, Mehran Rajabi, Mahmoud Nazaralian
Votes: 1,135
64. So Close, So Far (2005)
121 min | Drama
Dr. 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Alireza Phoenix, Masoud Rayegan, Afshin Hashemi, Farbod Masoud Vaziri
Votes: 2,844
65. Orange Suit (2012)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him ... See full summary »
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Abedini, Hamed Behdad, Homayoun Ershadi, Kianoosh Gerami
Votes: 1,312
66. 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
67. Baran (2001)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
In 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.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub
Votes: 8,960 | Gross: $0.13M
68. Women's Prison (2002)
106 min | Drama
Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young ... See full summary »
Director: Manijeh Hekmat | Stars: Roya Nonahali, Roya Teymourian, Pegah Ahangarani, Golab Adineh
Votes: 1,002
69. 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: 2,389
70. Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)
162 min | Biography, Drama, History
The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mahdi Pakdel, Sareh Bayat, Mina Sadati, Ali Reza Shoja'noori
Votes: 12,036
71. Lady (2014)
85 min | Drama
Khanoom is an episodic movie focusing on three women from three different social classes who has to suffer for the sake of their beloved men.
Director: Tina Pakravan | Stars: Pantea Panahiha, Shaghayegh Farahani, Andisheh Fouladvand, Amin Hayayee
Votes: 160
72. Metropole (2014)
88 min | Drama
The story of two youngsters who one night meet a woman Khatoon who has take refuge in a billiard club. This put them on many challenges.
Director: Masud Kimiai | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Poulad Kimiayi, Shaghayegh Farahani
Votes: 468
73. 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
74. 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: 5,445
75. 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
76. Gold and Copper (2010)
97 min | Drama, Romance
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-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's... See full summary »
Director: Homayoon Ass'adian | Stars: Negar Javaherian, Behrouz Shoaybi, Javad Ezati, Sahar Dolatshahi
Votes: 3,770
77. A Cube of Sugar (2011)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The story happens in an old house in an old city of Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother.
Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Reza Kianian, Negar Javaherian, Farhad Aslani, Saeed Poursamimi
Votes: 4,254
78. Good to Be Back (2013)
96 min | Comedy
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his ... See full summary »
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Mahnaz Afshar, Reza Attaran, Roya Teymourian
Votes: 416
79. 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: 22,439
80. Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Reza Attaran, Habib Rezaei, Mahtab Keramati, Parsa Pirouzfar
Votes: 2,283
81. Hard Makeup (2014)
99 min | Drama
A young man steals a smuggler's goods and tries to sell them in a trip with his beloved girl to the Iranian borders.
Director: Hamid Nematollah | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Habib Rezaei, Ali Omrani
Votes: 808
82. At the End of 8th Street (2012)
90 min | Drama
Niloufar (Taraneh Alidoosti) lives with her family. After an incident happened, her family exposed to a deep trouble: they have to provide a large amount of money to save a family member's life while they have only three days ...
Director: Alireza Amini | Stars: Saber Abar, Hoda Ahangar, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamed Behdad
Votes: 883
83. 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
84. 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: 5,036
85. 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
86. Fire Keeper (2009)
82 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Based on Dante's The Divine Comedy Fire Keeper tells the story of a laborer who is planning on getting a vasectomy to avoid having children, but his father's ghost is against this idea.
Director: Mohsen Amiryoussefi | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Mehrdad Jelokhani, Hosein Karkheiran, Mohammad Mahvash
Votes: 234
87. 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
88. Parkway (2007)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Parkway is not just a bridge in Tehran,It's also a bridge for Koohyar to get to Raha.A bridge that Koobyar thinks by passing it in the opposite way he will get to love.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Bita Farahi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Ra'na Azadivar, Nima Shahrokh Shahi
Votes: 515
89. Protest (2000)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Amir who was in jail for a murder gets free after twelve years behind bars and finds that now there is a huge gap between his generation and his brothers'.
Director: Masud Kimiai | Stars: Dariush Arjmand, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mitra Hajjar, Parsa Pirouzfar
Votes: 858
90. Reign of Love (2000– )
45 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is a story about the journey of a philosopher/ religous figure/thinker Imam Ali Reza of the prominent Islamic world at a time when the entire islamic territory was ruled by tyranny. ... See full summary »
Stars: Akbar Ahmadi, Abbas Amiri, Ali Amjadi, Saideh Arab
Votes: 445
91. Canaan (2008)
100 min | Drama
Mina has decided to leave her older husband Morteza after ten years of marriage. Next Monday will be her divorce date, which means her first step towards her goal; immigration. However, the... See full summary »
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Mohammad Reza Forutan, Taraneh Alidoosti, Afsaneh Bayegan, Bahram Radan
Votes: 1,838
92. The Yellow Rose (2003)
85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Davood and Leili in their wedding night travel to the north. In the way they meet another couple Mahshid and Arash and accompany them to the north. But Arash had an accident with a black ... See full summary »
Director: Dariush Farhang | Stars: Amin Hayayee, Bahram Radan, Marjan Mohtasham, Hadis Foladvand
Votes: 287
93. Octopus1: White forehead (2011)
90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The story of a young deer which when gets far from the home faces many different challenges and troubles.
Director: Seyed Javad Hashemi | Stars: Tarlan Parvaneh, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Amin Hayayee, Gohar Kheirandish
Votes: 130
94. The Sorceress (1998)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man who lives in an old big house with his mother alone proposes for an actress. She agrees and they get marry but little by little she begins to notice strange things happening in the house and becomes suspicious.
Director: Davood Mir-Bagheri | Stars: Vishka Asayesh, Enayat Bakhshi, Sirus Gorjestani, Majid Jafari
Votes: 155
95. 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: 2,946
96. 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
97. Grey (2001)
Drama, Romance
Director: Mehrdad Mir Fallah | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Afsaneh Bayegan, Behzad Farahani, Soraya Ghasemi
Votes: 92
98. Maryam and Mitil (1993)
100 min | Drama, Family
Maryam is a six-year-old girl, living in an orphanage who wants to experience life in a family to fill out the emptiness of her life. She has to face a lot of difficulties in order to depend to a great extent on her own determination...
Director: Fathali Oveisi | Stars: Niaz Taremi, Afsaneh Bayegan, Hamid Jebeli, Hamideh Kheirabadi
Votes: 174
99. Redhat and the Brat (2012)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Its a story about Pesar Amezah's troubles and how Kolah Ghermezi finds a newborn in the jungle and the struggles they go through.
Director: Iraj Tahmasb | Stars: Iraj Tahmasb, Hamid Jebeli, Mohammad Reza Hedayati, Khosro Ahmadi
Votes: 892
100. Redhat and Cousin (1995)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A 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.
Director: Iraj Tahmasb | Stars: Morteza Ahmadi, Akbar Doodkar, Farokhlagha Hushmand, Hamid Jebeli
Votes: 4,913
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