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The Greatest Iranian Movies You Should See.

by roozbeh_gh • Created 6 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
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  • The Past (2013)

    1. The Past

    20132h 10mPG-1385Metascore
    7.7 (52K)
    An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsBérénice BejoTahar RahimAli Mosaffa
  • Leila Hatami and Payman Maadi in A Separation (2011)

    2. A Separation

    20112h 3mPG-1395Metascore
    8.3 (270K)
    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.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh Bayat
  • Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman (2016)

    3. The Salesman

    20162h 4mPG-1385Metascore
    7.7 (67K)
    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.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsShahab HosseiniTaraneh AlidoostiMina Sadati
  • Golshifteh Farahani in About Elly (2009)

    4. About Elly

    20091h 59mTV-PG87Metascore
    7.9 (59K)
    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.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab Hosseini
  • Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, and Parinaz Izadyar in Life and a Day (2016)

    5. Life and a Day

    20161h 52m
    8.2 (19K)
    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.
    DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz Izadyar
  • No Date, No Signature (2017)

    6. No Date, No Signature

    20171h 39m71Metascore
    7.2 (7.2K)
    When Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.
    DirectorVahid JalilvandStarsNavid MohammadzadehAmir AghaeeHediyeh Tehrani
  • Hediyeh Tehrani in Fireworks Wednesday (2006)

    7. Fireworks Wednesday

    20061h 42mNot Rated84Metascore
    7.6 (14K)
    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.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsHediyeh TehraniTaraneh AlidoostiHamid Farrokhnezhad
  • Hanieh Tavassoli and Farhad Aslani in For Pooneh's Sake (2013)

    8. For Pooneh's Sake

    20131h 31m
    5.7 (320)
    Majid is a middle aged man from a middle class family .He is traditional, addicted to drugs and doubts his wife Pooneh. On the contrary, Pooneh is from a different family with different perspectives. The contrasts between perspectives lead this couple to problems and make them face each other.
    DirectorHatef AlimardaniStarsFarhad AslaniHanieh TavassoliTarlan Parvaneh
  • Mahtab Keramati in Ice Age (2015)

    9. Ice Age

    20151h 46m
    6.1 (1.4K)
    In the tenth year of marriage, Babak and Manizheh face the biggest challenge of their life. Financial problems and difficult social situation cause Babak to work very hard and this leads to a deep gap between him and his wife, in a way that Manizheh starts a new relation, the relation which leads her to addiction and immorality. On the verge of her complete collapse, she wakes up to the truth that she has lost her life.
    DirectorMostafa KiaeiStarsMahtab KeramatiBahram RadanFarhad Aslani
  • Reza Attaran in The Corridor (2013)

    10. The Corridor

    20131h 32m
    6.8 (2.1K)
    Shiva (Hanieh Tavassoli) is the family head and looks after her little son, Amir Ali; a witty and playful boy, in the absence of her husband, Behzad (Reza Attaran) who has committed a murder in a fight on a parking space with another man. Now he is in prison and waiting for his verdict. Amir Ali is a first grader and thinks his father is dead, but after visiting him in the prison he gets depressed. Shiva visits the murdered man's brother-in-law everyday and asks him to talk to his family in order to get their approval to be paid the Blood money. The victim's twin sister is very persistent on doing the Equal retaliation and they can't get her satisfaction. Mr. Izadi (Shahrokh Foroutanian), the warden and his wife (Afsaneh Chehreh Azad) who is a social worker also try to help Behzad. Meanwhile, the visits between Amir Ali and Behzad becomes more and more intimate after Behzad gives his son a wooden horse which he has made in prison. Behzad is a former English teacher and teaches one of the guards privately to make him ready for the entrance exams. Because of his good behavior, Behzad gets a three day permission to go home. This out-of-prison visits improves Amir Ali's self-confidence and he becomes calmer and even his grades are better now. Finally Mr. Izadi takes Amir Ali to the victim's house where his mother is speechless for five years because of her son's death. Amir Ali apologizes for his father's action in a childish way and makes the mother cry. But we don't know whether her response is to forgive or to execute Behzad.
    DirectorBehrouz ShoaybiStarsReza AttaranHanieh TavassoliMohammad Reza Shirkhanloo
  • Standing in the Dust (2016)

    11. Standing in the Dust

    20161h 38m
    6.8 (2.4K)
    Ahmad is an army commander who must confront the enemy at the gates of the Khorramshahr. But his fate is determined far from the Iranian border.
    DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsHadi HejazifarYousef AghaeiMehrdad Ahmadi
  • Golshifteh Farahani in M like Mother (2006)

    12. M like Mother

    20061h 53mPG
    7.5 (5.9K)
    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. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
    DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHosein YariJamshid Hashempur
  • Baran Kosari, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, and Farhad Aslani in The Nameless Alley (2015)

    13. The Nameless Alley

    20151h 23m
    5.8 (1.2K)
    Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
    DirectorHatef AlimardaniStarsFarhad AslaniBaran KosariPantea Bahram
  • Mom's Guest (2004)

    14. Mom's Guest

    20041h 43m
    7.2 (4.9K)
    A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsGolab AdinehParsa PirouzfarAmin Hayayee
  • Leila Hatami in Felicity Land (2011)

    15. Felicity Land

    20111h 30m
    6.4 (2.1K)
    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 secrets attend the party to find out what follows on the hills of the cold welcome of their host.
    DirectorMaziar MiriStarsMahnaz AfsharAmir AghaeeHamed Behdad
  • Leia Zanganeh, Hanieh Tavassoli, and Farhad Aslani in Private Life (2012)

    16. Private Life

    20121h 30m
    5.7 (603)
    It is about a man who claims to be religious but uses religion to do against morals and his martial life and his affair with another woman.
    DirectorHossein FarahBakhshStarsAmir AghaeeAmir AmiriHossein Araghi
  • Seven Minutes to Fall (2010)

    17. Seven Minutes to Fall

    20101h 31m
    5.7 (362)
    Domestic drama charting the course of a self-effacing Iranian couple as their ordered lives begin to fracture under the strain of work commitments, money troubles and the responsibility of family. Mitra and Nima are struggling to make ends meet, their relationship in desperate need of rekindling. But when Mitra's sister Maryam shows up on their doorstep, on the run from her estranged husband, their lives are tipped over the edge by the ensuing scandal. As Mitra and Nima reflect on their own lives and take sides against one another, events will come to a head as the weight of disloyalty begins to unravel a once perfect relationship.
    DirectorAlireza AminiStarsHediyeh TehraniMohsen TanabandehHamed Behdad
  • Naser Hashemi, Shahab Hosseini, and Hengameh Ghaziani in My Brother Khosrow (2016)

    18. My Brother Khosrow

    20161h 30m
    6.8 (2.9K)
    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.
    DirectorEhsan BiglariStarsShahab HosseiniHengameh GhazianiNaser Hashemi
  • Step Place (2004)

    19. Step Place

    20041h 40m
    5.8 (188)
    When sees a dream Rahman gets back to his village to find the truth about his life and his family but the villagers are not willing to tell him the truth.
    DirectorMohammad Mehdi AsgarpourStarsReza KianianFaramarz SadighiMohammad Reza Davoudnejad
  • Leila Hatami in Leila (1997)

    20. 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
  • Hemlock (1999)

    21. Hemlock

    19991h 24m
    6.6 (972)
    A middle-class family man (Mahmoud) starts a relationship with a female nurse (Sima). When Sima gets Pregnant, things go complicated.
    DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsFariborz ArabniaHediyeh TehraniMohammad Saleh Ala
  • Pejman Bazeghi and Sareh Bayat in Nahid (2015)

    22. Nahid

    20151h 45m
    6.3 (2.1K)
    A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved in a new relationship with a man.
    DirectorIda PanahandehStarsSareh BayatSahar AghiliPayam Ahmadinia
  • Inadaptable (2016)

    23. Inadaptable

    20161h 28m
    5.4 (678)
    Mahtab is suspicious of her husband Ahmad, a university professor. As she tries to unravel the mystery instigated by Sima, a close friend of the family, by pressuring Farnoosh Kheirkhah, Ahmad's student, her husband tries to prove his innocence. But the sudden death of Farnoosh opens a new path before Ahmad, Mahtab, Sima, and her husband Mansoor.
    DirectorEbrahim EbrahimianStarsMohammad Reza ForutanSareh BayatHediyeh Tehrani
  • Sheida (1999)

    24. Sheida

    19991h 40m
    6.3 (444)
    Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.
    DirectorKamal TabriziStarsLeila HatamiParsa PirouzfarBehzad Farahani
  • Beautiful City (2004)

    25. Beautiful City

    20041h 38m69Metascore
    7.6 (6.5K)
    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."
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsFaramarz GharibianTaraneh AlidoostiBabak Ansari

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