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Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami documents his experience with resilient children left orphaned by the Ugandan Civil War and AIDS crisis.
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- Iran • 2001
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Half Moon
(نیوه مانگ)
A legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran embarks on a long journey to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, France, Iran • 2007
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Golshifteh Farahani, Ismail Ghaffari, Farzin Sabooni, Kambiz Arshi, Mohamad Nahid, Sadiq Behzadpoor
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
The COVID-19 pandemic captured in seven diverse stories.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2021
- Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, David Lowery, Dominga Sotomayor, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal
- Cast
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Obit
(ارسال يك آگهی تسليت برای روزنامه)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2014
- Director Ebrahim Ebrahimian
- Cast Saber Abar, Nazanin Bayati, Parivash Nazarieh, Khosro Bamdad
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
No Date, No Signature
(بدون تاریخ بدون امضا)
One day at Kaveh he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him at work.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2017
- Director Vahid Jalilvand
- Cast Amir Aghaee, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakiyeh Behbahani, Saeed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
No One Knows About Persian Cats
(کسی از گربههای ایرانی خبر نداره)
Two young Iranian songwriters must find musicians for their underground band while trying to receive visas to perform in Europe.
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- Iran • 2009
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Babak Mirzakhani, Kosh Mirzahi
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
A Moment of Innocence
(نون و گلدون)
A teenager stabs a policeman at a protest. Twenty years later, he wants to make amends – and a movie.
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- Iran, France • 1996
- Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Cast Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ali Bakhsi, Ammar Tafti, Maryam Mohamadamini
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sun Children
(خورشید)
The film follows four children, including 12-year-old Ali, who are forced into child labor and petty crime to support their families.
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- Iran • 2021
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Ali Nasirian, Javad Ezzati, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Roohollah Zamani, Mahdi Mousavi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Beautiful City
(شهر زیبا)
While eighteen-year-old Akbar awaits execution for murder, his sister and friend attempt to convince the plaintiff to commute the sentence.
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- Iran • 2004
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Tarane Alidousti, Babak Ansari, Faramarz Gharibian, Ahoo Kheradmand, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, Farhad Ghaemian
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
Yalda
(یلدا)
Maryam accidentally kills her husband, and the only way to suspend her death sentence is if Nasser’s daughter forgives her on live television.
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- Iran, France, Germany • 2020
- Director Massoud Bakhshi
- Cast Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Forough Ghajebeglou
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Zero Day
(روز صفر)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2020
- Director Saeid Malekan
- Cast Amir Jadidi, Saed Soheili, Mahdi Ghorbani
- Genre Drama, Action
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Two Women
(دو زن)
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- Iran • 1999
- Director Tahmine Milani
- Cast Niki Karimi, Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Reza Khandan, Atila Pesyani, Merila Zarei
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Gardener
(Baghban)
A filmmaker and his son travel to Israel to investigate a religion which originated in Iran nearly two hundred years ago.
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- Korea, Israel, Iran • 2012
- Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Cast Ririva Eona Mabi, Paula Asadi, Bal Kumari Gurung, Ian David Huang, Maysam Makhmalbaf
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Circumstance
Everything wasn't perfect before, but now Atafeh and Shireen face even more obstacles for the sake of their relationship.
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- France, United States, Iran • 2011
- Director Maryam Keshavarz
- Cast Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho, Sina Amedson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
I'm Taraneh, 15
(من ترانه پانزده سال دارم)
A 15-year-old girl’s orderly life spirals into chaos when a young man courts her with an intensity that borders on stalking.
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- Iran • 2002
- Director Rasoul Sadrameli
- Cast Tarane Alidousti, Hossein Mahjoub, Mahtab Nasirpour, Milad Sadrameli, Negar Javaherian
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Blackboards
(Takhté siah)
A group of nomadic Kurdish refugees try to teach, learn, and survive during the Iran-Iraq War.
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- Iran, Italy, Japan • 2000
- Director Samira Makhmalbaf
- Cast Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati, Rafat Moradi, Mayas Rostami
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Che
(چ)
Forty-eight hours in the life of Iran’s first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he defends a city from anti-revolutionary forces.
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- Iran • 2014
- Director Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Cast Fariborz Arabnia, Saeed Rad, Merila Zarei, Babak Hamidian, Mehdi Soltani
- Genre War
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Cineverse, Plex, Plex Channel
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
(بوی کافور، عطر یاس)
A director working on a documentary on Iranian burial practices dreams of death.
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- Iran • 2000
- Director Bahman Farmanara
- Cast Bahman Farmanara, Parivash Nazarieh, Reza Kianian, Roya Nownahali, Mohammad Khatami
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Nocturnal
(شبانه)
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- Iran • 2006
- Director Keivan Alimohammadi, Omid Bonakdar
- Cast Hedie Tehrani, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Setare Eskandari, Hamidreza Pegah, Bahare Rahnama
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Zalava
(زالاوا)
While investigating claims of a demon inhabiting a small village, a skeptical young sergeant crosses paths with an exorcist.
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- Iran • 2021
- Director Arsalan Amiri
- Cast Navid Pourfaraj, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeynolabedin, Fereydoun Hamedi, Shahoo Rostami, Baset Rezaei
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Amazon Video
Beyond the Clouds
A teenage drug dealer is forced to take responsibility for the family when his elder sister is imprisoned.
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- India, Iran • 2018
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Ishaan Khattar, G. V. Sharada, Malavika Mohanan, Gautam Ghose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mia Maelzer
- Genre Bollywood, Drama, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Pretty One
(خوشگله)
khoshgele
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1972
- Director Esmaeil Poorsaeid
- Cast Pouri Banaei, Mohsen Mahdavi, Lili, Gholamhossein Bahmanyar, Mina, Shahrzad
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Cow
(گاو)
An old villager is driven mad by the loss of his beloved cow.
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- Iran • 1969
- Director Dariush Mehrjui
- Cast Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahin Shahabi, Ali Nasirian, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Firouz Behjat-Mohamadi, Jafar Vali
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel
10 on Ten
In this self-portrait of an artist, Kiarostami looks to his own work for inspiration and reflects on his filming techniques.
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- Iran, France • 2004
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Abbas Kiarostami
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Men at Work
(کارگران مشغول کارند)
The story of four ordinary guys and one big rock.
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- Iran • 2006
- Director Mani Haghighi
- Cast Mahnaz Afshar, Ahmad Hamed, Mahmoud Kalari, Reza Kianian, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Low Heights
(ارتفاع پست)
- Iran • 2002
- Director Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Cast Hamid Farrokhnejad, Leila Hatami, Gohar Kheyrandish, Amir Aghaei, Mohammad Ali Inanloo, Mehdi Saki
- Genre Thriller, Action, Drama, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Last Fiction
(آخرین داستان)
Watch out for the orphan child whose father’s life you took – he will be your downfall.
- Iran • 2019
- Director Ashkan Rahgozar
- Cast Leila Hatami, Parviz Parastouei, Hamed Behdad, Ashkan Khatibi, Akbar Zanjanpour, Baran Kosari
- Genre Animation, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Filmzie, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Bleeding Heart
(دلخون)
- Iran • 2009
- Director Mohamad Reza Rahmani
- Cast Elnaz Shakerdoust, Hamed Behdad, Pouria Poursorkh, Houshang Tavakkoli, Habib Dehghan Nasab
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Expectation
(Entezar (انتظار))
What do you expect?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2016
- Director Danial Hajibarat
- Cast Danial Hajibarat, Raheleh Manouchehri
- Genre Drama, Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ability
(Bezaat)
What is wealth?
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- Iran • 2018
- Director Danial Hajibarat
- Cast Arash Soleimani, Farzaneh Soltani, Abbas Rashidi, Saeed Alijani, Peyman Yavari
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fath Al-Andalus
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- Iran • 2022
- Creator Dragan Sisa
- Cast Suhail Jabaei, Taiseer Edris, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Akef Najem, Pierre Dagher, Marah Hijaz
- Genre War & Politics, Reality
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Uncle Napoleon
(دایی جان ناپلئون)
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- Iran • 1976
- Director
- Cast Saeed Kangarani, Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Parviz Sayyad, Nosratallah Karimi, Mohammadali Keshavarz
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hezar Dastan
(هزار دستان)
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- Iran • 1988
- Creator Ali Hatami
- Cast Jamshid Mashayekhi, Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mohammadali Keshavarz, Davoud Rashidi, Jahangir Forouhar
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
No End
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Iran, Turkey • 2022
- Director Nader Saeivar
- Cast
- Genre Mystery, Thriller, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mother
(مادر)
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- Iran • 1990
- Director Ali Hatami
- Cast Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad, Mohammadali Keshavarz, Farimah Farjami, Amin Tarokh, Akbar Abdi, Hamid Jebeli
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Barareh Nights
(شب های برره)
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- Iran • 2005
- Creator Mehran Modiri
- Cast Mehran Modiri, Siamak Ansari, Mohammad Shiri, Falamak Joneydi, Saeid Pirdoost, Fatemeh Hashemi
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Lizard
(مارمولک)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2004
- Director Kamal Tabrizi
- Cast Parviz Parastouei, Bahram Ibrahimi, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Farideh Sepah Mansour, Maede Tahmasbi, Ali Abedini
- Genre Action, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Death of Yazdgerd
(مرگ یزدگرد)
Death of Yazdgerd
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1982
- Director Bahram Beyzai
- Cast Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh, Yasaman Arami
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Melody
Melody and Mango go on a musical quest to find thirty birds to compose a birdsong for the children.
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- Tajikistan, Iran, United Kingdom • 2023
- Director Behrouz Sebt Rasoul
- Cast Diman Zandi, Alireza Ostadi, Meghdad Eslami, Safar Hakadodov, Zulfiya Sadikova
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Desiderium
(Sooteh Delan)
Is love the solution to all the problems?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1978
- Director Ali Hatami
- Cast Behrouz Vossoughi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Akbar Meshkini
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Life and a Day
(ابد و یک روز)
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of a poor family, is getting married. But as the wedding date draws closer, it seems that the groom may not be what he appears.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2016
- Director Saeed Roustaee
- Cast Payman Maadi, Parinaz Izadyar, Navid Mohammadzade, Shabnam Moghadami, Rima Raminfar, Mahdi Gorbani
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Video
The Manchador
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway, Iran, Germany • 2021
- Director Kaveh Tehrani
- Cast Reza Brojerdi, Narges Rashidi, Sarina Ashkpour, Jasmin Tabatabai, Mohammad-Ali Behboudi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Lion Skin
(پوست شیر)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Creator Jamshid Mahmoodi
- Cast
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Where Is the Friend's House?
(خانهی دوست کجاست؟)
After accidentally taking his friend's notebook, an 8-year-old boy sets out to return it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1987
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari, Sadika Taohidi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Redhat and Cousin
(کلاه قرمزی و پسرخاله)
Kolah Ghermezi and Pesar Khale
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1994
- Director Iraj Tahmasb
- Cast Iraj Tahmasb, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Hamid Jebeli, Hamide Kheyrabadi, Morteza Ahmadi, Akbar Doudkar
- Genre Comedy, Music, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Frog
(قورباغه)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2021
- Creator Houman Seyyedi
- Cast Saber Abar, Navid Mohammadzade, Fereshteh Hosseini, Houman Seyyedi, Sahar Dolatshahi
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
(دانه انجیر معابد)
A judge watches his family turn against him as political protests erupt in Iran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France, Germany • 2024
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Misagh Zare, Soheila Golestani, Setareh Maleki, Mahsa Rostami, Niusha Akhshi, Reza Akhlaghirad
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bashu, the Little Stranger
(باشو غریبه کوچک)
During the Iran-Iraq War, a young boy and a mother on her own form a unique bond.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1989
- Director Bahram Beizai
- Cast Susan Taslimi, Parvis Pourhosseini, Adnan Afravian, Bashu, Akbar Dudkar, Farrokhlaqa Hushmand
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Shahrzad
(شهرزاد)
Around the time of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, an Iranian mafia boss disrupts a young couple’s plans for marriage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2015
- Creator Hassan Fathi
- Cast Tarane Alidousti, Shahab Hosseini, Mostafa Zamani, Parinaz Izadyar, Mehdi Soltani, Parviz Fallahipour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Hamoun
(هامون)
After his wife asks for a divorce, Hamoun tries to piece together what went wrong in their life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1990
- Director Dariush Mehrjui
- Cast Khosro Shakibai, Bita Farrahi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Sedigheh Kianfar, Turan Mehrzad, Fathali Oveisi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Deer
(گوزنها)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1974
- Director Masud Kimiai
- Cast Behrouz Vossoughi, Faramarz Gharibian, Garshasb Raoufi, Enayat Bakhshi
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Imam Ali
(امام علی)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1997
- Creator داوود میرباقری
- Cast Sirous Gorjestani, Vishka Asayesh, Parviz Parastouei, Mohammadreza Sharifinia, Siavash Shakeri, Dariush Arjmand
- Genre Drama, Reality, Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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