Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven 1997

7.91

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 one pair of shoes. School awaits.

1997

Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry 1997

7.70

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 seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

1997

Law of Tehran

Law of Tehran 2019

7.20

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 thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...

2019

A Separation

A Separation 2011

7.89

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 after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

2011

About Elly

About Elly 2009

7.44

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 travelers.

2009

Muhammad: The Messenger of God

Muhammad: The Messenger of God 2015

6.69

Muhammad: The Messenger of God is an 2015 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around the childhood of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The film marks Iran's biggest-budget production to date and is the first part of the planned trilogy on the life of the Prophet. Barring a few scenes filmed in South Africa, the majority of the filming was done at a colossal set created in the city of Qom near Tehran. The film was officially announced in October 2011 and its filming was completed by 2013. The cinematography is done by Vittorio Storaro and film score is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film was selected for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Oscar ceremony in 2016, but was excluded from the short list.

2015

Universal Language

Universal Language 2024

7.45

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

2024

Iron Island

Iron Island 2005

7.22

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

2005

Where Is The Friend's House?

Where Is The Friend's House? 1987

7.93

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

1987

Paper Dream

Paper Dream 2022

6.50

The story of a young albino boy who has been hidden from the public because of him being an albino. A young girl takes advantage of his pure heart to make him a social media influencer. Meanwhile, the young albino boy falls in love with the girl.

2022

The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us 1999

7.20

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 efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

1999

The Salesman

The Salesman 2016

7.24

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 incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

2016

The Color of Paradise

The Color of Paradise 1999

7.55

Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.

1999

Intoxicated by Love

Intoxicated by Love 2024

7.25

Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.

2024

Holy Spider

Holy Spider 2022

7.28

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.

2022

Taxi

Taxi 2015

7.05

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

2015

My Favourite Cake

My Favourite Cake 2024

7.35

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.

2024

Offside

Offside 2006

6.89

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 gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.

2006

Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More… 1992

7.65

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 there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

1992

Close-Up

Close-Up 1990

7.90

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

1990

Shahrzad

Shahrzad 2015

9.10

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

2015

Barareh Nights

Barareh Nights 2005

6.10

The show stars Mehran Modiri, as Shir Farhad, the son of Lower Barare's khan, or leader. He lives with his sister, Saharnaz; mother, Shadone; and father, Salar Khan. The show begins when a journalist, Kiyanush, from Tehran is arrested for writing an article criticizing the government, escapes capture, and then is bitten by a snake. Shir Farhad finds him collapsed and brings him to the village of Barare, nurtures him to health, and gradually introduces him to the town and the other characters in the show, such as the families of Upper and Lower Barare's Khans, as well as the flamboyant village poet, Baguri, and village doctor. Later in the series, new characters such as the village gendarme and Upper Barare's Khan's son and daughter, Keivun and Leilun, join the cast. Davune doesn't appear in this.

2005

Tasian

Tasian 2025

10.00

Set in October 1977, on the brink of the Iranian Revolution, a forbidden love story unfolds between Khosrow, a SAVAK officer, and Shirin, a young woman accused of political activism. Amidst growing political unrest, their passion blooms in secrecy, forcing them to confront dangerous choices. Torn between loyalty to their homeland and their love, they must navigate a path of betrayal, survival, and defiance as the revolution looms. A powerful tale of love, freedom, and sacrifice in a time of turmoil.

2025

Dorehami

Dorehami 2016

4.90

Dorehami is an Iranian Telecast currently directed by Mehran Modiri. It aired on cable network IRIB Nasim on Thursdays at 21:00 and Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 from March 18 to October 1, 2016 and continue from November 4.

2016

Aghazadeh

Aghazadeh 2020

6.60

About the child of a well-known character who performs his sinister goals by performing deceptive actions such as holding an art exhibition, investing, and helping charity.

2020

Rhino

Rhino 2019

1

Five youngsters enter the Hippo Challenge because of their skills, and this is the beginning of a friendship between them, unaware that the Hippo Challenge is designed by a big, powerful Mafia and unpredictable adventures ...

2019

I Want To Be Alive

I Want To Be Alive 2021

5.70

Homa Haghi and her love are preparing with the Haghi family to surprise Homayoun, the father of her family on his birthday night. But when the father arrives, the whole family is surprised.

2021

Made In Iran

Made In Iran 2012

4.10

Koroush Afsharjam (Behnam Tashakor) is an unpopular Iranian scientist that invents a new powder that can turn dirty liquid into drinkable water. He gets a call from Paris indicating that he could come to Paris and announce his new invention to the world. After he gets in a car crash, laying on the ground, Gholam (Amin Hayaei) decides to still his samsonite bag without any idea of what it holds. After Gholam becomes wanted by the police, he decides to use Koroosh's passport to go to Paris. After finding out what the powder does, he decides to sell it and get the money at any cost. His stupid brain and not knowing anything about English or Europe make this Hilarious character even better.

2012

Postgraduate Students

Postgraduate Students 2016

5.50

The story of three friends and their problems in life and marriage.

2016

Viper of Tehran

Viper of Tehran 2024

7.80

The adventures of a movie director who gets involved in a murder case.

2024

Romance

Romance 2017

5.40

Several young couples' calm marriages are disturbed when a woman enters their lives.

2017

Imam Ali

Imam Ali 1997

7.40

series focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq.

1997

Azaazil

Azaazil 2025

7.00

On the night of his wife's birthday, Dr. Shoka Mehrjui encounters mysterious events, including the disappearance of one of their neighbors. A major named Behrouz Sharifi notices the connection between this story and the disappearance of other people and comes up with clues that gradually lead the case to a complicated and unusual path.

2025

The Yellow Status

The Yellow Status 2021

10.00

Saeed is a centrifuge designer who was fired from the Atomic Energy Organization; The dismissal of this nuclear scientist has a plot that drags the audience with it until the end of the work.

2021

Lily's Turn

Lily's Turn 2022

8.00

Through a mysterious book, Lily discovers that she and her family have lived in many times and places, and now it is Lily's turn to decipher the book and find a valuable painting of her ancestors to make a choice that gives meaning to all these lives and...

2022

Prophet Joseph

Prophet Joseph 2009

7.71

This story basically follows the most important happenings in Prophet Josephs life, from the view of muslims. The most important happenings are: 1. his travel to egypt 2. his rise and growing up in Egypt 3. his life problems when his "owner" Zuleikha falls in love with him and wants him to return the love to him. 4. his stay in prison, and how he reforms the prisoners. 5. his return by the side of the Pharao. 6. his uprising to the side of the pharao as his advisor. 7. his brothers coming to egypt, and how he decides to make them regret their mistakes so they can receive forgivness, and peace. 8. his reunion with his family after more than 20 years.

2009

The Enigma of the Shah

The Enigma of the Shah 2016

1.00

It is when Reza Shah forcefully leaves Iran to an unknown destination. Who will be the next Shah? who has the power and authority to keep Iran's sovereignty and independence?

2016

Aban

Aban 2025

10.00

The series 'Aban' is a psychological and social drama that follows the story of a genius in artificial intelligence named Aban, who has developed an algorithm for profitable investments in financial markets. However, Aban faces a critical situation with his former investor and now must quickly settle a multi-billion-dollar debt; otherwise, he will go to prison.

2025

Men of Anjolos

Men of Anjolos 1997

7.80

The story of six nobles and one sheepman who become Christian, run away from Romans to a cave where they will sleep 309 years, from Islamic view

1997