Popular From Iran, Islamic Republic of

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zar Amir Ebrahimi

An Iranian woman faces an impossible dilemma because lesbians aren’t allowed to give birth to a child.

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Cast: Elmira Dehghani

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Homayoun Ershadi

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amir Farrokh Hashemian

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Zar Amir Ebrahimi

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikohl Boosheri

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arash Marandi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Behzad Dorani

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Farhad Kheradmand

Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run...

Genre: Action

Cast: Payman Maadi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Payman Maadi

In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hossain Sabzian

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mohammadali Keshavarz

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Narges Rashidi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jafar Panahi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amir Jadidi

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shahab Hosseini