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1. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,211 | Gross: $4.45M
2. Holy Spider (2022)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Alice Rahimi, Diana Al Hussen, Soraya Helli, Mehdi Bajestani
Votes: 25,471
3. Under the Shadow (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes: 30,133 | Gross: $0.03M
4. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Navabi
Votes: 38,656
5. Winners (2022)
85 min | Drama, Family
In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, ... See full summary »
Director: Hassan Nazer | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Parsa Maghami, Martine Malalai Zikria, Mir Taher Mazloomi
Votes: 93
6. Ava (V) (2017)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
The life of a high school girl in Iran becomes more complicated after her mother catches her in an act of rebellion.
Director: Sadaf Foroughi | Stars: Vahid Aghapour, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimardani, Mona Ghiasi
Votes: 368 | Gross: $0.02M
7. The Charmer (2017)
100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Esmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
Director: Milad Alami | Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann, Susan Taslimi
Votes: 1,240 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Kandahar (2001)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri
Votes: 7,065 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Guests of Hotel Astoria (1989)
124 min | Drama
Tale of a group of Iranian families, fleeing from Iran to Turkey in order to seek asylum from Turkey to some Western European country or USA. The movie shows the hardship and very sad days ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marshall Manesh, Mohsen Marzban, Alan Desatti
Votes: 92
10. Tehran Taboo (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic
Votes: 4,985 | Gross: $0.07M
11. Shayda (2023)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women's shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).
Director: Noora Niasari | Stars: Leah Purcell, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mojean Aria, Jillian Nguyen
Votes: 773
12. The Persian Version (2023)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a large Iranian-American family gathers, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand
Votes: 3,472
13. Tomorrow We Are Free (2019)
96 min | Drama, History
Iran 1979. The true story of a young mother and her Iranian-born husband from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who move to Iran with their little daughter in the wake of the Islamic ... See full summary »
Director: Hossein Pourseifi | Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Katrin Röver, Damon Zolfaghari, Reza Brojerdi
Votes: 219
14. Doomsday Machine (2009)
60 min | Documentary
DOOMSDAY MACHINE (Mashine Rooze Ghiamat) deals with the mentally disabled war veterans in one of the permanent sanatoriums in Tehran. One of the patients "Mahmood" is under the illusion ... See full summary »
Director: Soudabeh Moradian | Stars: Majid Amraii, Abbas Habibi, Alireza Mahmoudian, Ebrahim Karami Saham
Votes: 87
15. We've Got Time (2014)
77 min | Drama
Iranian student Emad and a French girl Caroline have been living together for a few weeks in a borrowed flat in Besançon, where the girl has a job taking tourists round the Victor Hugo ... See full summary »
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Adrien Maleki, Ariane Gangi, Armand Gangi, Marielle Chauvet
Votes: 19
16. Polaris (2016)
90 min | Drama, Family
A psychologically traumatized war photographer is locked in a desperate struggle to protect her secrets and escape her inevitable return to the Middle East.
Director: Soudabeh Moradian | Stars: Alicja Bachleda, Bahram Radan, Coby Ryan McLaughlin, Elisabeth Röhm
Votes: 164
17. The Silence (1998)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Music
Every day, 10-year-old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop, and every day something unexpected happens.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva, Araz M. Shirmohamadi
Votes: 1,890 | Gross: $0.03M
18. The Pot and the Oak (2017)
72 min | Drama
After finding out that he has no sperm and can't impregnate his wife, an Iranian man suffers an existential crisis.
Director: Kiarash Anvari | Stars: Mahvash Afsharpanah, Sadaf Foroughi, Mahan Khorshidi, Mehran Nael
Votes: 74
19. Radio Dreams (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan's first rock band.
Director: Babak Jalali | Stars: Lars Ulrich, Bella Warda, Larry Laverty, Mohsen Namjoo
Votes: 316 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Tehranto (2022)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Enemies to Lovers story of a Canadian-Iranian girl and Iranian-Canadian boy.
Director: Faran Moradi | Stars: Sammy Azero, Mo Zeighami, Navid Negahban, Mahsa Ghorbankarimi
Votes: 105
21. My Tehran for Sale (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself ... See full summary »
Director: Granaz Moussavi | Stars: Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi, Mobina Karimi
Votes: 1,713
22. Maryam (2002)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.
Director: Ramin Serry | Stars: Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 299 | Gross: $0.10M
23. Virginity (2014)
73 min | Drama
Three women struggle in their social and cultural environments and face unforeseeable crises. Based on true events.
Director: Sam Khoze | Stars: Michelle Farivar, Jessica Hendrickson, Bobak Bakhtiari, Farhad Barahmand
Votes: 56
24. Frontier Blues (2009)
95 min | Drama
In this debut feature written and directed by Iranian born Babak Jalali, Frontier Blues features 4 intertwined stories all set in Irans northern frontier with Turkmenistan, a region that ... See full summary »
Director: Babak Jalali | Stars: Khajeh Araz Dordi, Mahmoud Kalteh, Abolfazl Karimi, Karima McAdams
Votes: 175
25. The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama
A story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Navabi, Navid Negahban
Votes: 21,744 | Gross: $0.66M
26. Tehran (2009)
95 min | Drama
Ibrahim left his family to try his luck in Tehran. But in this asphalt jungle where everything can be bought and sold a dream can easily become a nightmare. Involved into the traffic of ... See full summary »
Director: Nader T. Homayoun | Stars: Ali Abdali, Sara Bahrami, Farzin Mohades, Missagh Zareh
Votes: 160
27. I Love Vienna (1991)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Houchang Allahyari | Stars: Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Dolores Schmidinger, Hanno Pöschl, Kouros Allahyari
Votes: 134
28. Baba Joon (2015)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
The son of a family of Iranian farmers in Israel rebels against his strong-willed father.
Director: Yuval Delshad | Stars: Navid Negahban, Asher Avrahami, David Diaan, Rafael Eliasi
Votes: 414
29. Salami Aleikum (2009)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
To save the family's butchery from insolvency smallish, sensitive Mohsen heads to Poland to buy low-priced sheep. On his way he lands somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Germany ... See full summary »
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi | Stars: Navid Navid, Anna Böger, Michael Niavarani, Wolfgang Stumph
Votes: 733
30. Hitler's Grave (2010)
R | 90 min | Drama
Young Islamic woman whose brother is tortured to death during the Iranian elections goes to Berlin to fulfill two promises made to her brother on his deathbed.
Director: Daryush Shokof | Stars: Hossein Daryani, Mahnaz Talebitari, Hasan Demirci, Farnoud Farzad
Votes: 370
31. Circumstance (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes: 8,011 | Gross: $0.44M
32. Ferestadeh (1983)
103 min | Drama
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai
Votes: 237
33. Iran Zendan (2010)
R | 70 min | Drama
Portrays the situation of Iranian political prisoners under the Islamic Republic Regime of Iran.
Director: Daryush Shokof | Stars: Daryush Shokof, Mahnaz Talebitari, Hossein Daryani, Farnoud Farzad
Votes: 233
34. Damn Foreigners (2015)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hard-working Middle Eastern man learns the bitter truth about what it means to be an American citizen as a foreigner.
Director: Sam Khoze | Stars: Ali Afshar, Estrella Nouri, David Golshan, Beejan Land
Votes: 29
35. Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
The story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohamed Grayaâ
Votes: 3,759
36. Hus i helvete (2002)
100 min | Drama
Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
Director: Susan Taslimi | Stars: Melinda Kinnaman, Hassan Brijany, Caroline Rauf, Meliz Karlge
Votes: 430
37. Shah Bob (2015)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At 40, the road less traveled is narrowing for Bob who struggles to write his next screenplay while dealing with eccentric tenants, unclogging drains and collecting rents, for his father's ... See full summary »
Director: Babak Shokrian | Stars: Mantha Balourdou, Bahar Barkzi, Venna Bidasha-kaur, DeeDee Bigelow
Votes: 20
38. Red Rose (I) (2014)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Tehran. June 2009. The uproar of a city swinging with the "Green Wave" of protest to the rigged presidential election. An apartment as a shelter. A man and a woman who belong to two ... See full summary »
Director: Sepideh Farsi | Stars: Javad Djavahery, Darya Djavahery-Farsi, Babak Farahani, Mina Kavani
Votes: 289
39. Women Without Men (2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Directors: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | Stars: Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Orsolya Tóth
Votes: 2,716 | Gross: $0.18M
40. Ein Augenblick Freiheit (2008)
110 min | Drama
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Director: Arash T. Riahi | Stars: Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari, Elika Bozorgi, Sina Saba
Votes: 682
41. Far from Home (1975)
91 min | Drama
This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan, Hüsamettin Kaya
Votes: 215
42. Surviving Paradise (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Adventure
Surviving Paradise follows the adventures of 10-year-old Sam and 8-year-old Sara, Iranian children lost in Los Angeles, as they struggle to search for an uncle and elude the hit man who ... See full summary »
Director: Kamshad Kooshan | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kian Abedini, Lauren Parissa Abedini, Joe Alvarez
Votes: 57
43. Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017)
90 min | Drama
A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female ... See full summary »
Directors: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | Stars: Neda Rahmanian, Yasmin Raeis, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Kais Nashif
Votes: 278
44. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Kamran is a 12-year-old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and poet of Persia Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in ... See full summary »
Director: Kayvan Mashayekh | Stars: Adam Echahly, Bruno Lastra, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 805 | Gross: $0.22M
45. Cul de sac (2010)
98 min | Drama
Kiana, an Iranian lesbian who had left Iran to avoid getting arrested, tries to start a new life in the UK, but her application is turned down by the Home office. She has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Directors: Ramin Goudarzi Nejad, Mahshad Afshar | Stars: Mahshad Afshar, Ala Amirshahi, Kiana Firouz, Mahshid Torkan
46. Mitra (I) (2021)
107 min | Drama
37 years after her daughter was executed in Iran, Haleh finds the woman who betrayed her. The traitor, now a loving mother herself and just arrived in the Netherlands, does not recognize ... See full summary »
Director: Kaweh Modiri | Stars: Jasmin Tabatabai, Mohsen Namjoo, Shabnam Toloui, Avin Manshadi
Votes: 202
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