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  • Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in Everybody Knows (2018)

    1. Everybody Knows

    20182h 13mR68Metascore
    6.9 (40K)
    Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPenélope CruzJavier BardemRicardo Darín
    File
  • Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy (2010)

    2. Certified Copy

    20101h 46mNot Rated82Metascore
    7.2 (28K)
    In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam ShimellJean-Claude Carrière
    File
  • This Is Not a Film (2011)

    3. This Is Not a Film

    20111h 15mNot Rated90Metascore
    7.4 (5.8K)
    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 cinema.
    DirectorsMojtaba MirtahmasbJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiIgiMrs. Gheirat
    File
  • The Circle (2000)

    4. The Circle

    20001h 30mNot Rated85Metascore
    7.4 (6.9K)
    Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
    DirectorJafar PanahiStarsMaryiam Palvin AlmaniNargess MamizadehMojgan Faramarzi
    File
  • Parviz Parastui and Ra'na Azadivar in The Lizard (2004)

    5. The Lizard

    20041h 55m
    8.4 (24K)
    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.
    DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiBahram EbrahimiReza Saeedi
    File
  • Shirin (2008)

    6. Shirin

    20081h 32mNot Rated
    6.7 (3K)
    Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMahnaz AfsharPegah AhangaraniTaraneh Alidoosti
    File
  • Ayoub Ahmadi and Madi Ekhtiar-dini in A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

    7. A Time for Drunken Horses

    20001h 20mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.7 (9.3K)
    Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
    DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsAyoub AhmadiRojin YounessiAmaneh Ekhtiar-dini
    DVD
  • The Song of Sparrows (2008)

    8. The Song of Sparrows

    20081h 36mPG74Metascore
    7.9 (12K)
    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.
    DirectorMajid MajidiStarsReza NajiMaryam AkbariKamran Dehghan
    DVD
  • Leila Hatami in Leila (1997)

    9. Leila

    19971h 42mNot Rated
    7.5 (4.3K)
    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.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaJamileh Sheikhi
    DVD
  • The Actor (1993)

    10. The Actor

    19931h 28m
    6.7 (730)
    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 and obsessed with having a baby, insists that her husband marry and impregnate a second wife, a deaf-mute Gypsy, to provide them with a child.
    DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsAkbar AbdiAzita HajianHamideh Kheirabadi
    DVD
  • Homayoun Ershadi and Golshifteh Farahani in The Pear Tree (1998)

    11. The Pear Tree

    19981h 35m
    7.4 (1.8K)
    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".
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsHomayoun ErshadiGolshifteh FarahaniMohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri
    DVD
  • Hamoun (1990)

    12. Hamoun

    19902hNot Rated
    7.9 (7.5K)
    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.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein Sarshar
    DVD
  • Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)

    13. Once Upon a Time, Cinema

    19921h 32m
    7.3 (1.3K)
    An abstract retelling of the history of Film in Iran.
    DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMehdi HashemiMohamad Ali Keshavarz
    DVD
  • Ten (2002)

    14. Ten

    20021h 34mNot Rated86Metascore
    7.4 (8.9K)
    A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMania AkbariAmina MaherKamran Adl
    DVD
  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)

    15. Bashu, the Little Stranger

    19892h
    8.0 (3.4K)
    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.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan Afravian
    DVD
  • And Life Goes On (1992)

    16. And Life Goes On

    19921h 35mNot Rated
    7.9 (8.4K)
    A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz Abedini
    DVD
  • Nadereh Abdelahyeva and Tahmineh Normatova in The Silence (1998)

    17. The Silence

    19981h 16mNot Rated
    6.9 (2K)
    Every day, 10-year-old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop, and every day something unexpected happens.
    DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsTahmineh NormatovaNadereh AbdelahyevaGoibibi Ziadolahyeva
    DVD
  • Homayoun Ershadi in Taste of Cherry (1997)

    18. Taste of Cherry

    19971h 35mNot Rated80Metascore
    7.7 (40K)
    An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
    DVD
  • Crimson Gold (2003)

    19. Crimson Gold

    20031h 35mUnrated82Metascore
    7.4 (5.5K)
    An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
    DirectorJafar PanahiStarsHossain EmadeddinKamyar SheisiAzita Rayeji
    DVD
  • Maybe Some Other Time (1988)

    20. Maybe Some Other Time

    19882h 39m
    7.1 (794)
    Dubber Mr. Modaber spots spouse Kian with an unfamiliar man while working. After tracking him down, he realizes it's Kian's twin sister Vida, separated in childhood after their father's death.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiDariush FarhangSimin Ansari
    DVD
  • Mozhdeh Shamsai in Killing Mad Dogs (2001)

    21. Killing Mad Dogs

    20012h 15m
    7.7 (3.1K)
    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.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiMajid MozaffariReza Kianian
    DVD
  • Ezzatolah Entezami in The Cow (1969)

    22. The Cow

    19691h 44mNot Rated
    7.8 (8.4K)
    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.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli Nasirian
    DVD
  • Niki Karimi in Pari (1995)

    23. Pari

    19951h 55m
    6.5 (989)
    Haunted by a book found in her dead brother's room, Pari wanders around to find answers for a meaningful life.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiKhosro ShakibaiAli Mosaffa
    DVD
  • Shaghayeh Djodat in Gabbeh (1996)

    24. Gabbeh

    19961h 15mNot Rated
    6.9 (3.8K)
    When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
    DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsShaghayeh DjodatHossein MoharamiRogheih Moharami
    DVD
  • Mozhdeh Shamsai, Hesam Navab Safavi, and Alireza Jalali-tabar in When We Are All Sleep (2009)

    25. When We Are All Sleep

    20091h 47m
    6.6 (1.1K)
    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 arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiAfshin HashemiAlireza Jalali-tabar
    DVD

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