Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran, France • Language: Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Majid Majidi
Writer
Majid Majidi
Cast
Reza Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
Babek Ahmedpoor, Ahmed Ahmedpoor, Khodabakhsh Defaei
Plot
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.
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: Iran, France • Language: Persian, English
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati
Plot
While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, Azerbaijani
Director
Majid Majidi
Writer
Majid Majidi
Cast
Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran, France • Language: Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sahar Goldoost
Plot
Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Dariush Mehrjui
Writer
Dariush Mehrjui, Gholam-Hossein Saedi
Cast
Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahin Shahabi, Ali Nasirian
Plot
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Iran, Turkey • Language: Turkish, Persian
Director
Hasan Fathi
Writer
Hasan Fathi, Farhad Tohidi
Cast
Parsa Pirouzfar, Shahab Hosseini, Hande Erçel
Plot
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, Azerbaijani
Director
Majid Majidi
Writer
Mehran Kashani, Majid Majidi
Cast
Reza Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan
Plot
An ostrich-rancher, Karim, embarks on a journey to Tehran, a bustling city, to replace his daughter's hearing aid, a pivotal moment in his family's struggle for independence and cultural exchange.
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 diff...
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, English
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Sugerland is a Tv series that tells the stories of a land with more than 180 characters from a crazy person who knows a lot but acts like wise people to a wise man who acts like a crazy.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Iran • Language: Kurdish, Persian
Director
Majid Majidi
Writer
Majid Majidi
Cast
Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Hossein Rahimi
Plot
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.
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.
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Mehran Modiri, Hamid Lolayi, Nader Soleimani
Plot
Regarding the misery of government employees, it was the coercion of the landlord and the like, and they insisted on giving a moral message in every part. They only expressed a sense of humor.
Category: TV • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Mostafa Zamani, Katayoun Riahi, Mojtaba Makhdoumi
Plot
The story follows Joseph's journey from being sold by his brothers to Egypt, his trials in Potiphar's house, imprisonment, rise to power interpreting dreams, reunion with his family after proving his brothers' remorse.
Category: TV • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Ali Nasirian, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi
Plot
A corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the ro...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Mehran Modiri, Sa'ed Hedayati, Pejman Bazeghi
Plot
Because of him being in strange positions and situations, a man is several times mistaken as other, usually famous people; and now must explain himself to a judge as he has been arrested for impersonation.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Writer
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Cast
Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei
Plot
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 standard social norms are not in harmony wi...
A hilarious satire revolving around a complex family headed by an eccentric patriarch, nicknamed "Dear Uncle Napoleon," who rules over his relatives with an iron fist and constant wisecracks.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Musical • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Dariush Mehrjui
Writer
Dariush Mehrjui, Vahidéa Mohammadi
Cast
Bahram Radan, Golshifteh Farahani, Masoud Rayegan
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, Arabic
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Writer
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian
Plot
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.
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."
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran, Czech • Language: Persian, German
Director
Mohammad Rasoulof
Writer
Mohammad Rasoulof
Cast
Baran Rasoulof, Zhila Shahi, Mahtab Servati
Plot
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Dariush Mehrjui
Writer
Dariush Mehrjui
Cast
Akbar Abdi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Faramarz Fardtombekian
Plot
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.
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 it is collapsed creates a crisis in their...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Javad Abedi, Ali Abolhosseini, Tayebeh Ebrahim
Plot
In each part of this series, Mehran Modiri, make the owners of different jobs talk from a humorous point of view. In addition, the satirical item is mainly broadcast in connection with the same jobs during the conversation.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Kamal Tabrizi
Writer
Reza Maghsoodi, Kamal Tabrizi
Cast
Parviz Parastui, Mahmoud Azizi, Maziar Lorestani
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Crime • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh
Plot
In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
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 chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Soroush Jamshidy, Reza Attaran, Ali Sadeghi
Plot
Hashem migrates to Tehran with his family because of a heart problem, his wife's insistence, and the hope of a better job. But living in Tehran puts him and his family in a lot of trouble.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, English
Director
Panah Panahi
Writer
Panah Panahi
Cast
Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak
Plot
Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Dariush Mehrjui
Writer
Mahnaz Ansarian, Dariush Mehrjui
Cast
Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi
Plot
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.
In Iran, Tehran, 1953, Shahrzad and Farhad love each other and intend to get married, but the great mafia Bozorg Agha has decided another fate for them.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Writer
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian
Plot
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 miller, his wife and his daughter but al...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran, France • Language: Persian, English
Director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast
Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut
Plot
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami, Hassan Rafi'i
Cast
Masud Zandbegleh, Hassan Darabi, Mostafa Tari
Plot
A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
Writer
Jafar Panahi
Cast
Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat
Plot
It's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian ci...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Majid Majidi
Writer
Majid Majidi, Fouad Nahas, Nasser Hashemzadeh
Cast
Parviz Parastui, Roya Teymourian, Soghra Obeisi
Plot
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?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Ebrahim Golestan
Writer
Ebrahim Golestan
Cast
Taji Ahmadi, Zackaria Hashemi, Goli Bozorgmehr
Plot
Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Has...
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.
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Mohammad Kart
Writer
Hosein Amiri Doumari, Pedram Pour Amiri, Mohammad Kart
Cast
Javad Ezati, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Amir Aghaee
Plot
A film of a woman swimming in a pool is distributed through the internet. Now her husband and her brother are after finding the one who is responsible for that and taking revenge on him.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: Iran, France • Language: Persian
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Writer
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Writer
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hedayatollah Navid
Plot
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.
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 proposal. Within four months the couple realize ...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy • Country: Iran • Language: Persian
Director
Mehran Modiri
Writer
Peyman Ghassemkhani, Mehrab Ghassemkhani
Cast
Shadi Ahadifar, Mehran Modiri, Javad Ezati
Plot
Hilarious comedy highlighting, most amongst other issues, the class difference in parts of Iran, especially Tehran. The son of an old-fashioned 'Khan' falls in love with the daughter of the 'common' owner of the company he works f...
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 have solved the big difference with the mira...
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.
