Iranian Movies
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1. 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: 258,460 | Gross: $7.10M
2. 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
3. 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: 50,878 | Gross: $1.33M
4. 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
5. 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: 7,264
6. Invitation (2008)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
A film about how attitudes dissimilar families against abortion.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Siamak Ansari, Reza Babak, Behrooz Chaihel
Votes: 1,057
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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: 2,390
13. 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
14. Mother (1990)
108 min | Drama
How a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
Director: Ali Hatami | Stars: Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farimah Farjami, Amin Tarokh
Votes: 5,096
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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: 4,555
19. 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
20. As Simple as That (2008)
PG | 93 min | Drama
Tomorrow is an important day for Amir. He had participated in an international architecture competition to win the competition with foreign companies. His wife ,Tahereh (Hengameh Ghaziani),... See full summary »
Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Hengameh Ghaziani, Mehran Kashani, Safa Aghajani, Parvaneh Ahmadi
Votes: 1,526
21. 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: 80,673 | Gross: $0.93M
22. Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Family
Eight-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.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran Outari
Votes: 18,686
23. 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: 4,253
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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: 2,686
28. The Corridor (2013)
92 min | Drama
Shiva (Hanieh Tavassoli) is the family head and looks after her little son, Amir Ali; a witty and playful boy, in the absence of her husband, Behzad (Reza Attaran) who has committed a ... See full summary »
Director: Behrouz Shoaybi | Stars: Reza Attaran, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza Shirkhanloo, Shahrokh Foroutanian
Votes: 2,028
29. The Guidance Patrol (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Three fellows are gaining money by faking that they are Gashte Ershad (a special police for arresting guys and girls that wear clothes in a bad way).
Director: Saeed Soheili | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Poulad Kimiayi, Saed Soheili, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 3,724
30. The Changed Man (1998)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
Khosrow Paziresh who invented a magical washing powder goes to a washing powder factory to register his invention but.
Director: Mohamad Reza Honarmand | Stars: Afsaneh Bayegan, Akbar Ghadami, Mohammad Reza Haghgoo, Hamid Lolayi
Votes: 1,260
31. The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M (2012)
80 min | Drama, Family
Mohsen is improving his business life to higher levels, but when his wife gets involved in the business, he finds it difficult to tolerate the underlying conflicts.
Director: Rouhollah Hejazi | Stars: Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Yoosef Ghorbani, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Abolghasem Keramati
Votes: 598
32. 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
33. 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: 2,284
34. 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
35. Special Line (2014)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.
Director: Mostafa Kiaei | Stars: Mostafa Zamani, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mohsen Kiayee, Houman Seyyedi
Votes: 1,483
36. 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
37. In the Name of the Father (2006)
96 min | Drama, War
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahtab Nasirpour, Golshifteh Farahani, Kambiz Dirbaz
Votes: 1,831
38. 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
39. The Last Step (2012)
88 min | Drama
A dead man tells us about his feelings and his life.
Director: Ali Mosaffa | Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Alireza Aghakhani, Hamed Behdad
Votes: 1,490
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. White Dream (2002)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Living with his aged father, Reza works in a wedding accessories shop and is in Love with one of the bridal mannequins in the shop window. He falls into some kind of depression when the ... See full summary »
Director: Hamid Jebeli | Stars: Elizabet Amini, Hamid Jebeli, Soghra Karimi, Yousef Yousef Pashandi
Votes: 693
44. 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
45. The Postman Doesn't Knock 3 Times (2009)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.
Director: Hasan Fathi | Stars: Pantea Bahram, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Amir Jafari, Baran Kosari
Votes: 610
46. Ten (2002)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mania Akbari, Amina Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Akbari
Votes: 8,603 | Gross: $0.11M
47. 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
48. The Third Day (2007)
99 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During 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.
Director: Mohammad Hossein Latifi | Stars: Pouria Poursorkh, Baran Kosari, Hamed Behdad, Borzou Arjmand
Votes: 1,387
49. Sensitive Floor (2014)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's dead wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Reza Attaran, Pantea Bahram, Bahareh Rahnama, Hootan Shakiba
Votes: 1,763
50. Coma (2004)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young doctorate graduate and son of a religon-exploiting rich man, in the verge of leaving Iran for the United States is confronted with events and accidents, hindering while educating him of the other classes in Iranian society.
Director: Arash Moayerian | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Hadis Foladvand, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Amin Hayayee
Votes: 1,479
51. I Feel Sleepy (2012)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Reza is a naive and honest middle age teacher that has difficulties in communicating with women. He meets a gummies saleswoman.
Director: Reza Attaran | Stars: Reza Attaran, Merila Zare'i, Akbar Abdi, Reza Abedini
Votes: 1,414
52. 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: 1,729
53. 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
54. Thief of Dolls (1990)
77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Leila and Bahram's mother wants to get a loan to buy a house for her children to live in. But the villain old lady sends her son Ganjo to steal the money. The children decide to sell their ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamad Reza Honarmand | Stars: Ebrahim Abadi, Akbar Abdi, Mehri Sadat Alagha, Manouchehr Azari
Votes: 1,244
55. Kolah Ghermezi and Sarvenaz (2002)
95 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
Two bandits kidnap a boy who in the same time is helping a girl who has been a prisoner in her room for whole life.
Director: Iraj Tahmasb | Stars: Iraj Tahmasb, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Reza Fieze Norouzi, Reza Attaran
Votes: 2,570
56. When We Are All Sleep (2009)
107 min | Drama
Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the ... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Mozhdeh Shamsai, Alireza Jalali-tabar, Hesam Navab Safavi, Shaghayegh Farahani
Votes: 1,031
57. 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
58. Gabbeh (1996)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas Sayah
Votes: 3,665 | Gross: $0.27M
59. The Scent of Joseph's Shirt (1995)
100 min | Drama, War
Ghafoor is a Taxi Driver whose son is saying to be killed during war but he is refusing to believe it. Although all the evidences proves that his son is dead and everyone believe so, he ... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Niki Karimi, Ali Nasirian, Jafar Dehghan, Shirin Bina
Votes: 1,738
60. 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
61. 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
62. 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: 2,848
63. 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
64. Sperm Whale (2015)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
It's about an Iranian man who tells his life story from childhood to now and his love.
Director: Saman Moghadam | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Sepand Amirsoleimani, Afshin Arashtanabieh, Vishka Asayesh
Votes: 5,630
65. 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
66. The Actor (1993)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
It is about a burly film actor who wants to act only in art films but is forced by his family's economic demands to do a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, infertile ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Azita Hajian, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Votes: 710
67. 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
68. 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: 7,827
69. 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: 8,604 | Gross: $0.18M
70. 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
71. 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
72. Tambourine (2008)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who ... See full summary »
Director: Parisa Bakhtavar | Stars: Baran Kosari, Saber Abar, Mehran Modiri, Amin Hayayee
Votes: 4,596
73. The Willow Tree (2005)
PG | 96 min | Drama
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Roya Teymourian, Soghra Obeisi, Mohammad Amir Naji
Votes: 4,526 | Gross: $0.03M
74. 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: 3,852
75. 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
76. The Color of Paradise (1999)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family
The 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.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari
Votes: 18,196 | Gross: $1.81M
77. Crazy Rook (2015)
110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Abolhassan Davoodi | Stars: Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar, Saed Soheili, Nazanin Bayati
Votes: 2,644
78. Track 143 (2014)
94 min | Drama, War
Olfat 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... See full summary »
Director: Narges Abyar | Stars: Merila Zare'i, Mehran Ahmadi, Gelareh Abbassi, Javad Ezati
Votes: 2,176
79. Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz and Others (2014)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
Shahdokht who is the wife of the famous actor Parviz, accidentally enters the world of cinema by being cast as an actress in Parviz's last film and becomes a serious rival for him. He ... See full summary »
Director: Behruz Afkhami | Stars: Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Gohar Kheirandish, Marjan Shirmohammadi, Rambod Javan
Votes: 558
80. Life Is Elsewhere (2014)
83 min | Drama
Davood is a nurse's aide who helps emergency's patients. Now he himself is going to die by cancer. Meanwhile, his ex-wife's husband is going to be executed because of drug smuggling.
Director: Manouchehr Hadi | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Hossein Dalman, Niki Karimi, Yekta Naser
Votes: 323
81. Ascending People (2014)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Mohammad a young man is eager to go participate in war but his father is strongly refusing and makes alibis not to let him go. But one night Mohammad escapes from the home and goes there. ... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Dehnamaki | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Bahare Afshari, Pendar Akbari, Borzou Arjmand
Votes: 571
82. Deportees 2 (2009)
114 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In this sequel the deportees are now captured by the Iraqis and are living in a camp. On the other hand their families who are going to Mashad are imprisoned when their airplane is hijacked... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Dehnamaki | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Hamid Ahadi, Arzhang Amirfazli, Sepand Amirsoleimani
Votes: 5,945
83. 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
84. Kalashnikov (2014)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A young guy who has murdered his sister's husband in taking revenge on him is looking for a hide out in Tehran while carrying a gun and his mute sister with himself. Until he meets a local driver (Reza Attaran) who decides to help him.
Director: Saeed Soheili | Stars: Saed Soheili, Reza Attaran, Setayesh Esmaeili, Farhad Aslani
Votes: 498
85. 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
86. 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
87. The Rule of the Game (2007)
95 min | Comedy
The secret of a man who has had a double life for many years is reveled. His two families engage in a conflict.
Director: Ahmad Reza Mo'tamedi | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Anoshirvan Arjmand, Dariush Arjmand, Shahram Ghaedi
Votes: 281
88. Deportees (2007)
107 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Dehnamaki | Stars: Kambiz Dirbaz, Arzhang Amirfazli, Akbar Abdi, Alireza Osivand
Votes: 9,767
89. The Pastry Girl (2002)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Saeed and Niloo loves each other and want to get marry for 20 years but each time their families intervene and prevent them from getting marry. Until they decide to commit suicide together.... See full summary »
Director: Iraj Tahmasb | Stars: Iraj Tahmasb, Soraya Ghasemi, Hamid Jebeli, Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Votes: 749
90. Heart Broken (2009)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Heartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families.
Director: Ali Rooyintan | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Bita Baadraan, Khosro Shakibai, Habib Bakhtiari
Votes: 1,486
91. A Petition for Allah (2008)
90 min | Drama
A man seeks to collect an affidavit in order to die in peace.
Director: Alireza Amini | Stars: Ahmad Mehranfar, Jamshid Hashempur, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sarvenaz Mostofi
Votes: 151
92. Bulletproof (2012)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Salim - who sells governmental forbidden western music and film tapes in the streets- discovers he has a fatal brain tumor, he decides to join the army and get killed defending his ... See full summary »
Director: Mostafa Kiaei | Stars: Mehdi Hashemi, Jaleh Sameti, Masoud Karamati, Saeed Aghakhani
Votes: 532
93. Old Men's School (1991)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The film tells the story of an old man named Paknahad, whose sons hid him in a nursing home to seize their father's property.
Director: Ali Sajjadi Hosseini | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Ahmad Reza Asadi, Reza Banafshekhah, Jafar Bozorgi
Votes: 246
94. Bread and Love and Motor 1000 (2002)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Abolhassan Davoodi | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Bahareh Rahnama, Gohar Kheirandish, Sorush Sehhat
Votes: 648
95. 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: 892
96. The Fifth Reaction (2003)
102 min | Drama, Thriller
Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced ... See full summary »
Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Ali Ghorbanzadeh, Zandish Hamidi, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 649
97. The Extraordinary Journey (1990)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director: Abolhassan Davoodi | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Azita Hajian, Saeed Sheikhzadeh, Farhang Mehrparvar
Votes: 237
98. 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
99. 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
100. 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
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