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1. 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: 907
2. 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
3. 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: 18,738
4. Hell, Purgatory, Paradise (2009)
Drama
Directors: Bijan Mirbagheri, Bizhan Mirbaqeri, Bizhan Mirbaqeri | Stars: Amir Aghaee, Sahar Jafari Jozani, Masoud Karamati, Mahtab Keramati
Votes: 39
5. 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: 5,643
6. Sperm Whale 2 (2017)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
It's a sequel to the first Sperm Whale. This movie is set at Arzhang (Reza Attaran) 's wedding day. It includes lots of flashbacks to the time of of friendship of him with the bride, Roya (Mahnaz Afshar).
Director: Saman Moghadam | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Vishka Asayesh, Reza Attaran, Mohammad Amir Naji
Votes: 2,741
7. What's the Time in Your World? (2014)
101 min | Drama, Romance
A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
Director: Safi Yazdanian | Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Mohammad Dezfulizadeh, Mohammad Fathi
Votes: 2,571
8. My Brother Khosrow (2016)
90 min | Drama
Khosrow (Shahab Hosseini) who is a bi-polar man is forced to live in his brother's house Nasser, as his guardian and sister goes abroad for a while. The brothers soon find themsleves in friction due to the challenging behavior of Khosrow and quesrionable moral decisions by Nasser.
Director: Ehsan Biglari | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Hengameh Ghaziani, Naser Hashemi, Bita Farahi
Votes: 2,719
9. Hamoun (1990)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar, Bita Farahi
Votes: 7,248
10. 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: 1,464
11. Inversion (2016)
84 min | Drama
With fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.
Director: Behnam Behzadi | Stars: Sahar Dolatshahi, Ali Mosaffa, Alireza Aghakhani, Setareh Pesyani
Votes: 649
12. Death of the Fish (2015)
101 min | Drama, Mystery
An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.
Director: Rouhollah Hejazi | Stars: Niki Karimi, Ali Mosaffa, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Rima Raminfar
Votes: 272
13. 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: 694
14. Resident of the Middle Floor (2014)
88 min | Drama, Fantasy
'Resident of Middle Floor' tells the quirky tale of a depressive writer (Shahab Hosseini) struggling for inspiration. He immerses himself into each new idea, playing the roles of his ... See full summary »
Director: Shahab Hosseini | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Farhad Aslani, Shima Akbarzade, Alin Bagheri
Votes: 607
15. 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: 3,499
16. 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: 258,705 | Gross: $7.10M
17. Time to Love (2015)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Bita is a successful lawyer and her specialty is women's rights. A curious case is brought to her that changes lives of everybody involved.
Director: Alireza Raisian | Stars: Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, Farhad Aslani, Mina Vahid
Votes: 898
18. 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
19. A Girl Named Tondar (2000)
Drama
Azar hates to be a girl, so she does not get tired of learning men's skills. As a subject of her dissertation, she decides to work on a story by her aunt, which is about a man who wishes to... See full summary »
Director: Hamid Reza Ashtianipoor | Stars: Ladan Mostofi, Khosro Shakibai, Parsa Pirouzfar, Mahaya Petrossian
Votes: 139
20. The Mummy 3 (2000)
98 min | Comedy, Crime
Officer Ghorbani is a good and on time police officer but when a mummy corpse is find his troubles and adventures begin and he has to find a way to save the mummy from the thieves.
Director: Mohamad Reza Honarmand | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahtab Keramati, Rambod Javan, Sirous Ebrahim Zadeh
Votes: 568
21. Beautiful City (2004)
98 min | Drama, Romance
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo Kheradmand
Votes: 6,207
22. 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: 1,493
23. Hajji Washington (1983)
98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction.
Director: Ali Hatami | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Richard Harrison, Russel Case, Mario Donatone
Votes: 769
24. Beautiful City (2004)
98 min | Drama, Romance
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo Kheradmand
Votes: 6,207
25. 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: 1,660
26. 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: 2,040
27. 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: 3,668 | Gross: $0.27M
28. African Violet (2019)
93 min | Drama
When Fereydoun's children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve.
Director: Mona Zandi Haqiqi | Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Saeed Aghakhani, Reza Babak, Mehdi Hosseininia
Votes: 459
29. Nabat (2019)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Saeed is a middle aged man who has lost his wife in an accident and lives with his girl Nabat peacefully. Until a woman enters their life which change everything for them and their life.
Director: Pegah Arzi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Nazanin Farahani, Setayesh Mahmoudi, Tina Asadi
Votes: 438
30. The Longest Night (2001)
85 min | Drama
Hamed is unemployed. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter immigrate to Europe for a better future. Missing his family, he imprisons himself and starts to revise his life in isolation.
Director: Kiumars Poorahmad | Stars: Elham Charkhandeh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Hilda Hashempour, Maryam Poorahmad
Votes: 672
31. The Blue-Veiled (1995)
85 min | Drama, Romance
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Golab Adineh, Afsar Asadi
Votes: 800
32. Bomb: A Love Story (2018)
96 min | Drama, Romance, War
The film is based on the Tehran's Bombardment conditions in 1988.
Director: Payman Maadi | Stars: Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Siamak Ansari, Habib Rezaei
Votes: 3,465
33. Dance with Me (2019)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
As Jahaan is going to die in a few months, Bahman, his brother, arranges for his closest friends to gather in Jahaan's farm house in north, to celebrate his (probably) last birthday together...
Director: Sorush Sehhat | Stars: Ali Mosaffa, Javad Ezati, Hanieh Tavassoli, Pejman Jamshidi
Votes: 2,906
34. 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: 22,482
35. 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: 5,037
36. Suddenly a Tree (2019)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist.
Director: Safi Yazdanian | Stars: Payman Maadi, Mahnaz Afshar, Zohreh Abbasi, Shaghayegh Dehghan
Votes: 616
37. 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: 8,964 | Gross: $0.13M
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