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بهترین فیلم های ایرانی | Top iranian movies

by henus-98973 • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 year ago
The best movies in the history of Iran
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  • Leila Hatami and Payman Maadi in A Separation (2011)

    1. 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
  • Children of Heaven (1997)

    2. Children of Heaven

    19971h 29mPG77Metascore
    8.2 (86K)
    After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
    DirectorMajid MajidiStarsReza NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare Seddiqi
  • Leila's Brothers (2022)

    3. Leila's Brothers

    20222h 45m87Metascore
    7.9 (17K)
    Leila, who has spent her entire life caring for her family, makes a plan as her brothers are struggling to make ends meet.
    DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsSaeed PoursamimiTaraneh AlidoostiNavid Mohammadzadeh
  • Persepolis (2007)

    4. Persepolis

    20071h 36mPG-1390Metascore
    8.0 (103K)
    A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
    DirectorsVincent ParonnaudMarjane SatrapiStarsChiara MastroianniCatherine DeneuveGena Rowlands
  • Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)

    5. Where Is the Friend's House?

    19871h 23mNot Rated
    8.1 (21K)
    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.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek AhmedpoorAhmed AhmedpoorKhodabakhsh Defaei
  • Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, and Parinaz Izadyar in Life and a Day (2016)

    6. 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
  • Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Hossain Farazmand, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Hossain Sabzian in Close-Up (1990)

    7. Close-Up

    19901h 38mNot Rated92Metascore
    8.2 (25K)
    The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl Ahankhah
  • Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman (2016)

    8. 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)

    9. 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
  • The Past (2013)

    10. 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
  • Homayoun Ershadi in Taste of Cherry (1997)

    11. 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
  • Amir Jadidi in A Hero (2021)

    12. A Hero

    20212h 7mPG-1382Metascore
    7.5 (32K)
    Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.
    DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsAmir JadidiMohsen TanabandehSahar Goldoost
  • Parviz Parastui and Ra'na Azadivar in The Lizard (2004)

    13. 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
  • Ezzatolah Entezami in The Cow (1969)

    14. 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
  • Turtles Can Fly (2004)

    15. Turtles Can Fly

    20041h 38mPG-1385Metascore
    8.0 (22K)
    Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children, like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
    DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsSoran EbrahimAvaz LatifHiresh Feysal Rahman
  • Golshifteh Farahani in M like Mother (2006)

    16. M like Mother

    20061h 53mPG
    7.4 (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
  • The Color of Paradise (1999)

    17. The Color of Paradise

    19991h 30mPG80Metascore
    8.1 (19K)
    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.
    DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh Feyzi
  • Law of Tehran (2019)

    18. Law of Tehran

    20192h 11m
    7.8 (20K)
    The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
    DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz Izadyar
  • Jafar Panahi in Taxi (2015)

    19. Taxi

    20151h 22mNot Rated91Metascore
    7.3 (17K)
    Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
    DirectorJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiHana SaeidiNasrin Sotoudeh
  • Peyman Ghassemkhani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, and Amin Hayayee in Saint Petersburg (2010)

    20. Saint Petersburg

    20102h
    6.4 (4.8K)
    A newly released prisoner and an ostensibly rich youth become aware of the place of the Russian Tsar's long lost treasure by a twist of fate.
    DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsPeyman GhassemkhaniMohsen TanabandehBahareh Rahnama
  • Hediyeh Tehrani in Fireworks Wednesday (2006)

    21. 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
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

    22. The Wind Will Carry Us

    19991h 58mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.4 (13K)
    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.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam Elmi
  • Maryam Moghadam and Avin Poor Raoufi in Ballad of a White Cow (2020)

    23. Ballad of a White Cow

    20201h 45m
    7.1 (2.9K)
    Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
    DirectorsMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsMaryam MoghadamAlireza Sani FarPourya Rahimi Sam
  • Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)

    24. Muhammad: The Messenger of God

    20152h 42m
    7.2 (13K)
    The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.
    DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMahdi PakdelSareh BayatMina Sadati
  • Akbar Abdi, Alireza Osivand, Amin Hayayee, Kambiz Dirbaz, Arzhang Amirfazli, and Sepand Amirsoleimani in Deportees (2007)

    25. Deportees

    20071h 47m
    5.0 (10K)
    The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.
    DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsKambiz DirbazArzhang AmirfazliAkbar Abdi

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