Iranian Movies

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."

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 that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir emigrates back to Germany. When Taraneh discovers she is pregnant she decides against all advice and intense social pressure, to keep the baby.

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.

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 true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.

The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.

The story of a woman Rana who is 7 months pregnant. She has lost her child once in her last pregnancy and is suspicious of her husband about that. With the insisting of her husband Mehrdad she goes to visit her family in north but this time too has an accident.

Amangol's father cuts her hair and sends her to a village to work as a boy in a carpet weaving shop.

Il manovale turco Lateef lavora in un cantiere di Tehran. Un giorno scopre che Rahmat, il suo compagno afghano clandestino, da lui maltrattato, è in realtà Baran, una ragazza costretta a travestirsi da uomo per trovare lavoro.

After the execution of a man, his brother tries to find those responsible for the death of his brother.

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.

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 midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme.

Sara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years, it is Sara, labouring secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's manly pride. Until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.

A small schoolboy lives an austere life with his family in Northern coasts of Iran.

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.

Donne più diverse tra loro lottano per migliorare la propria condizione di vita nella società oppressivamente sessista dell'Iran attuale.

Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.

A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of street where some children are playing. He's cased and forced to take a new way home.

In Afghanistan, a young girl wants to go to school and learn to read and write, but is met with hostility or indifference.

The Deer is a typical Kimiai-style tale of friendship and honour. When a good man fallen on hard times meets his erstwhile protégé, fate puts their relationship to the ultimate test: will you die for me?

Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway there, the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.

The movie is about Golnar, a young teahouse girl who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now she is a grown woman. At the teahouse, she meets a young man called Jafar who has been sent to Lorestan by the Iranian government to deal with the problem of banditry in the area. They fall in love, and plan to escape together. Gholi Khan catches on to their plans and beats up Jafar. Jafar rejects Khan's offer to join the bandits, so he is kidnapped and imprisoned. Golnar helps him escape and the couple attempt to flee. Pursued by the bandits, Jafar and Golnar are nearly captured, but Jafar kills several bandits, including Gholi Khan himself. Fearing revenge from the remaining gang, the couple escape to India, living in Bombay to find security from the lawlessness of Iran at the time. They later return to their homeland when they learn that a new government has brought law and order back to the country.

A pensive taxi driver living the ordinary tedious life is little-by-little altered by one of his usual passengers: a talkative female doctor.