The Best Iranian Movies

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.

L'histoire vraie de Hossain Sabzian, un cinéphile qui s'est fait passer pour le réalisateur Mohsen Makhmalbaf pour convaincre une famille de jouer dans son prétendu nouveau film.

Un réalisateur et son fils retournent dans une région ravagée par le tremblement de terre de Guilan, espérant retrouver les enfants qui figuraient dans son film tourné quelques années auparavant.

A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film Zendegi va digar hich (1992).

Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

Après qu'un garçon ait perdu la paire de chaussures de sa soeur, il part à leur recherche. Malgré diverses aventures, il n'y parvient pas et essaie d'en trouver une nouvelle paire.

Un Iranien conduit son camion et recherche quelqu'un qui l'enterrera tranquillement sous un cerisier après son suicide.

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.

When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.

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.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

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.

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

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.

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."

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?

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.

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.

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.

Après la mystérieuse disparition d'une institutrice de maternelle lors d'un pique-nique dans le nord de l'Iran, ses compagnons de voyage connaissent une série de mésaventures.

Lorsque sa femme le quitte, Nader engage une aide-soignante pour s'occuper de son père malade. Il ignore alors que la jeune femme est enceinte et a accepté ce travail sans l'accord de son mari, un homme psychologiquement instable

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.

Alors qu'un enseignant et sa femme participent à une production de « Mort d'un commis-voyageur », celle-ci est agressée dans leur nouvelle maison ; son mari est bien déterminé à retrouver le coupable en dépit des objections de sa femme traumatisée.