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

Black Scarf

Black Scarf 2024

1

A conscript teacher is leaving the village as his military service is over. But...

2024

My Favourite Cake

My Favourite Cake 2024

7.40

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

Holy Spider

Holy Spider 2022

7.30

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

Law of Tehran

Law of Tehran 2019

7.15

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

Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven 1997

7.92

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

Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More… 1992

7.63

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

Where Is The Friend's House?

Where Is The Friend's House? 1987

7.90

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

Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees 1994

7.40

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

1994

About Elly

About Elly 2009

7.50

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

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran 2024

6.70

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

2024

The Salesman

The Salesman 2016

7.30

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

Hit the Road

Hit the Road 2021

6.90

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

2021

Leila's Brothers

Leila's Brothers 2022

7.70

At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.

2022

A Separation

A Separation 2011

7.90

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

A Time for Drunken Horses

A Time for Drunken Horses 2000

7.60

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

2000

Tehran Taboo

Tehran Taboo 2017

7.10

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

2017

Close-Up

Close-Up 1990

7.92

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

A Hero

A Hero 2021

7.37

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 against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

2021

Prophet Joseph

Prophet Joseph 2009

7.68

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

Jeyran

Jeyran 2022

7.00

The young Naser'eddin Shah recently ordered the assassination of his beloved Prime Minister Amir Kabir, and the court, the shrine, the government, and the country underwent significant changes. At the same time and in the village of Kuhsar Tajrish, Khadijeh, the daughter of Mohammad Ali Najjar, hid the joyful love of a young man named Siavash in her chest.

2022

Medical Center

Medical Center 2011

7.10

The story revolves around Nima Afshar a psychologist, getting underestimated by his family and colleagues constantly,and failing at all his attempts to have a place amongst doctors and society.

2011

The Beheading

The Beheading 2024

10.00

Gard Zani series is the story of the fate of Baran and Nima on their wedding night, which changed with the release of a criminal named Shahrokh, which led to the revelation of many family secrets about them and each member of their families.

2024

Loser

Loser 2024

10.00

Detective Kiani gets involved in a complex case that reveals great secrets of a family. As it turns out, we are dealing with a criminal and mysterious series that a police officer is going to find out the secret of this story.

2024

Shahrzad

Shahrzad 2015

9.20

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

2015

Paytakht

Paytakht 2011

5.80

Paytakht is a popular Iranian TV series portraying the life a Mazandarani family.

2011

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

Postgraduate Students

Postgraduate Students 2016

5.50

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

2016

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

Bitter Coffee

Bitter Coffee 2010

4.67

The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.

2010

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

Barareh Nights

Barareh Nights 2005

6.30

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

The Octopus

The Octopus 2024

7.00

In the Hashtpa series, while investigating the murder of a rich man, detective Kianfar reaches the main accused in the case, Saeed, and tries to discover the complex and mysterious mystery of this crime, but...

2024

Relic

Relic 2020

1

The comedy-historical series, which dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, tells the story of a man who seeks the underground. Throughout the story, he engages in issues such as; Arrested for distributing anti-Shah leaflets, helping his brother repair military missiles, etc. It is interesting that in all these cases, he is unaware of the adventures that are taking place around the evolution of Iran and is working on his own.

2020

Iranian Dinner

Iranian Dinner 2024

1

It is a program where cultures and famous artists from all over the world cook and cultures fuse.

2024

Queen of Beggars

Queen of Beggars 2021

6.50

Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara.

2021

Once Upon a Time in Iran

Once Upon a Time in Iran 2021

7.80

It is the story of a family on the first of September 1941, which undergoes changes during the occupation of Iran by the Allies.

2021

Tattersall

Tattersall 2007

4.00

Mansour and Shokouh are a mid-aged couple who own a 4 units apartment and live with their two daughters in it. After a while a Afghan worker named Shanbe comes there and makes some interacts with one of grooms of the family.

2007