Iran Movies

Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly...

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could...

The heroic deeds of the dolphin boy made him a legend among the sea creatures and the inhabitants of the island, but despite his fame, he feels...

selected by critics international Cannes film festival 1999

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in...

A solitary man earns his living by making the dead disappear. When he learns he has terminal pancreatic cancer, he embarks on one final journey,...

The revolution has taken place and the profession of Ebi and Vali is the antiques of the pre-revolutionary depression, but the door of the shrine...

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and...

Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in...

A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades...

Meysam and Parisa discover that a mistake has been made during the burial of a family member in a village; an incident that soon draws everyone into...

During a drive to a shoot, Babak persuades his assistant Amir to share the details from a script.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his...

Two teenagers are trying to get rich in an unusual way.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based...

Trapped caring for her aging parents in a remote village, an unmarried middle-aged woman hears her own stifled longing for freedom echo in the...