Best Iranian Movies
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- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli NasirianAn 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.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiPouri BaneaiNaser Malek MotieeA young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiFakhri KhorvashA man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiJaleh SamAn impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. When the educated nephew of the master comes back from Europe, complications occur which result to bad events for postman and his wife.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossein YarmohammadiAndre GovalovishParviz NaderiThe hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMasud ZandbeglehHassan DarabiMostafa TariA grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiFaramarz GharibianNosrat PartoviThe 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?
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohammad FassihMassoud ZandMehdi NekoueïA woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKurosh AfsharpanahShohreh AghdashlooMostafa TariThe life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsSaeed KangaraniEzzatolah EntezamiFourouzanAli and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashDesiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiAmrollah SaberiStudents of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz FardtombekianThe tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-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.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan AfravianAn 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon'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.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsRogheyeh Chehreh-AzadMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarimah FarjamiHow a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiYassamin MaleknasrFaramarz RoshanayiSara 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.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsAli DehkordiHoma RustaHans NoimanSaeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to re-establish the close relationship that they had long time ago.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiKhosro ShakibaiAli MosaffaHaunted by a book found in her dead brother's room, Pari wanders around to find answers for a meaningful life.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad KasebiParivash NazariehHassan SadeghiMehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.