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Hit the Road
(جاده خاکی)
A family bonds on a road trip through northwestern Iran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Panah Panahi
- Cast Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar, Masoud Tosifyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Showtime, Showtime Amazon Channel, Hoopla, fuboTV, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Paramount+ Showtime, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین)
When Nadar refuses to leave his sickly father behind in dangerous Tehran, Simin, Nadar's wife, files for divorce.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2011
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV
Chess of the Wind
(شطرنج باد)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1976
- Director Mohammad Reza Aslani
- Cast Fakhri Khorvash, Mohammadali Keshavarz, Akbar Zanjanpour, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Shahram Golchin, Hamid Taati
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Taxi
(تاکسی)
An exiled filmmaker posing as a cab driver captures incisive portraits of diverse passengers in present-day Tehran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2015
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Jafar Panahi
- Genre Comedy, Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Kino Now, Kanopy, Metrograph, YouTube, Apple TV
This Is Not a Film
(این فیلم نیست)
If we could tell a film, then why make a film?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2011
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan, Sima
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Metrograph
Manuscripts Don't Burn
(دستنویسها نمیسوزند)
Two Iranian agents search for a manuscript that reveals government secrets — leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2014
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Ramin Parham
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, Metrograph, YouTube, Apple TV
Leila's Brothers
(برادران لیلا)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Saeed Roustaee
- Cast Tarane Alidousti, Saeed Poursamimi, Navid Mohammadzade, Payman Maadi, Farhad Aslani, Nayereh Farahani
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
About Elly
(درباره الی)
A woman vanishes during a vacation with friends, causing them to blame each other for the disappearance.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2009
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Golshifteh Farahani, Tarane Alidousti, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zarei, Mani Haghighi, Peyman Maadi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Topic, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
F for Fake
(Vérités et Mensonges)
Orson Welles' final film sheds light on the lives of infamous 20th century fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Iran, West Germany • 1973
- Director Orson Welles
- Cast Orson Welles, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Oja Kodar, Laurence Harvey, Joseph Cotten
- Genre Documentary
- Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Apple TV, HBO Max
No Bears
(خرس نیست)
Lovers in two parallel love stories are thwarted by hidden obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Vahid Mobaser, Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ten
(ده)
Hear her speak.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2002
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Arabshahi
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube, Apple TV
The Wind Will Carry Us
(باد ما را خواهد برد)
A city man has more to learn than he thinks from the townspeople where his dying relative lives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 1999
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Shahpour Ghobadi, Reihan Heidari
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Vudu
Marooned in Iraq
(بەجێهێڵدراو لە عێراق)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2002
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Shahab Ebrahimi, Rojan Hosseini, Saeed Mohammadi, AllahMorad Rashtiani, Faegh Mohamadi
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Turtles Can Fly
(لاکپشتها هم پرواز میکنند)
In 2003 at the Iraqi-Turkish border, Kurdish refugees await invasion by American soldiers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France, Iraq • 2005
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Amazon Video, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel
Starless Dreams
(رویاهای بدون ستاره)
This gentle, honest documentary takes the viewer within the walls of an Iranian center of correction and rehabilitation for women.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2017
- Director Mehrdad Oskouei
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Topic, Kanopy, Apple TV
The Salesman
(فروشنده)
Emad and Rana move into a new flat, but an incident with the previous tenant dramatically changes their life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2016
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Koushki, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video
Offside
(آفساید)
Two Iranian women dress up as men to watch a soccer game.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2006
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
The Circle
(دایره)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, Italy, Switzerland • 2000
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Monir Arab, Maede Tahmasbi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sunless Shadows
The lives of Iranian girls imprisoned for murdering male family members.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, Norway • 2022
- Director Mehrdad Oskouei
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
Fireworks Wednesday
(چهارشنبه سوری)
A dissatisfied wife enlists her housekeeper’s help to gather information on the woman she suspects is having an affair with her husband.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2006
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Hamid Farrokhnejad, Hedie Tehrani, Tarane Alidousti, Pantea Bahram, Sahar Dolatshahi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Topic, Kanopy, Tubi TV, Apple TV
The Day I Became a Woman
(روزی که زن شدم)
Following three interconnected stories that depict different stages of life, the film explores what it means to be a woman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2000
- Director Marziyeh Meshkiny
- Cast Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand, Shabnam Toloui
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
There Is No Evil
(شیطان وجود ندارد)
Four stories concerning the impact of the death penalty on the citizens of Iran, addressing the moral strength inherent to resistance.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Iran, Czech Republic • 2020
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Mahtab Servati, Shaghayegh Shourian, Baran Rasoulof, Darya Moghbeli, Kaveh Ahangar
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
A Hero
(قهرمان)
A good deed turns a man into a local celebrity, and also raises the suspicions of those closest to him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Iran • 2021
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video
Ava
Coming-of-age in Tehran—a strict, traditional society—a young girl starts to rebel against an unfair system.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, Canada, Qatar • 2017
- Director Sadaf Foroughi
- Cast Mahour Jabbari, Vahid Aghapoor, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimoradi, Mona Ghiasi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, Topic, Kanopy, Apple TV
Closed Curtain
(پرده)
A reclusive writer finds his sheltered life upended by a mysterious stranger.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2013
- Director Kambuzia Partovi, Jafar Panahi
- Cast Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi, Maryam Moqadam, Azadeh Torabi, Abolghasem Sobhani, Zeynab Kanoum
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A lonely vampire preys on the depraved residents of Bad City — but finds love in another tortured soul.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, United States • 2014
- Director Ana Lily Amirpour
- Cast Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo
- Genre Horror, Romance, Western
- Available on Hoopla, Criterion Channel, Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex
Crimson Gold
(طلای سرخ)
A delivery driver is a daily witness to Iran’s unjust distribution of wealth, eventually driving him to crime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2003
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri, Ehsan Amani, Pourang Nakhael
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Colour of Paradise
(رنگ خدا)
How far will a widowed father go to deny his blind son in order to find a new wife?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1999
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi, Behzad Rafi
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Vudu
Taste of Cherry
(طعم گيلاس)
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii, seeks someone to bury him after he commits suicide.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 1997
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori, Ahmad Ansari
- Genre Drama
- Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Kanopy, HBO Max
Rain
(باران)
An unlikely kinship is found between two workers on a building site in Tehran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2001
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub, Abbas Rahimi, Gholam Ali Bakhshi
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, , Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Zamani barayé masti asbha)
Courage and hardships of a family of Kurdish orphans forced to support themselves.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2000
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Kanopy, Eventive
The Other Side of the Wind
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Iran, United States • 2018
- Director Orson Welles
- Cast John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Robert Random
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
A Man of Integrity
(لرد)
How far will you go to defend the right side?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2017
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Bayzai, Nasim Adabi, Misagh Zare, Zeinab Shabani
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Children of Heaven
(بچههای آسمان)
A brother and sister swap one worn pair of shoes to avoid burdening their already troubled parents.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1997
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Reza Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi, Fereshte Sarabandi, Kamal Mirkarimi
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, , Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Under the Skin of the City
(زیر پوست شهر)
One woman must support her problematic family single-handedly.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2001
- Director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Cast Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Golab Adineh, Baran Kosari, Ebrahim Sheibani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Djomeh
(جمعه)
Djomeh, a young Afghan man living in Iran, faces discrimination on all sides as he plans a proposal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Iran • 2000
- Director Hassan Yektapanah
- Cast Rashid Akbari, Mahmoud Behraznia, Valiollah Beta, Mahbobeh Khalili, Jalil Nazari
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
24 Frames
An experimental project in which filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami combines photography and filmmaking.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2017
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Hunter
(شکارچی)
The boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, Germany • 2010
- Director Rafi Pitts
- Cast Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Malek Jahan Khazai, Ali Nicksaulat, Ismaïl Amani, Amir Ayoubi
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Kandahar
(Safar e Ghandehar)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2001
- Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Cast Ike Ogut, Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri, Hoyatala Hakimi, Noam Morgensztern
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
3 Faces
(سه رخ)
Actress Behnaz Jafari and director Jafar Panahi take a road trip to rural Iran in hopes of saving a missing girl.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2018
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei, Narges Del Aram
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, Metrograph, YouTube, Apple TV
Secret Ballot
(رأی مخفی)
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, Italy, Canada • 2001
- Director Babak Payami
- Cast Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi, Farrokh Shoja, Gholbahar Janghali
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video, Apple TV
The Deserted Station
(Istgah-Matrouk)
A woman's life is changed when she becomes a teacher in an isolated village.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2002
- Director Alireza Raisian
- Cast Leila Hatami, Nezam Manouchehri, Mehran Rajabi, Mohsen Behdaneh, Mohammad Beigy
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
The Song of Sparrows
(آواز گنجشکها)
Karim motorbikes into the incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence thrill and challenge him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2008
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Mohammad Amir Naji, Hamid Aghazi, Kamran Dehghan, Maryam Akbari, Hamid Aghazi, Schabnam Akhlaghi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Iron Island
(جزیره آهنی)
A film about the lives of squatters living on an abandoned oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2005
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Ali Nasirian, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
The Willow Tree
(بید مجنون)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2005
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Parviz Parastouei, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi, Reza Naji, Melika Eslafi, Mahmoud Behraznia
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Divorce Iranian Style
A look inside an Iranian divorce court.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, United Kingdom • 1998
- Director Ziba Mir-Hosseini
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on realeyz, Kanopy
ABC Africa
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami documents his experience with resilient children left orphaned by the Ugandan Civil War and AIDS crisis.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2001
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
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, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, Kanopy
Half Moon
(نیوه مانگ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, France, Iran • 2007
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Golshifteh Farahani, Ismail Ghaffari, Farzin Sabooni, Kambiz Arshi, Mohamad Nahid, Sadiq Behzadpoor
- Genre Music, Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2009
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Babak Mirzakhani, Kosh Mirzahi
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, AMC+ Amazon Channel, YouTube, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, Apple TV
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
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
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