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

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024

7.59

An investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife and their two daughters, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise. Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended.

2024

Muhammad: The Messenger of God

Muhammad: The Messenger of God 2015

6.70

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

Where Is The Friend's House?

Where Is The Friend's House? 1987

7.92

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

My Favourite Cake

My Favourite Cake 2024

8.10

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

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

Holy Spider

Holy Spider 2022

7.31

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

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

Close-Up

Close-Up 1990

7.91

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

No Bears

No Bears 2022

6.86

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

2022

The Patience Stone

The Patience Stone 2013

7.00

In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

2013

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

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

The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us 1999

7.10

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

Shayda

Shayda 2023

6.40

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.

2023

Blackboards

Blackboards 2000

6.60

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

2000

Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More… 1992

7.60

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

Hidden

Hidden 2020

6.40

Jafar Panahi sets out to find a Kurdish young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.

2020

About Elly

About Elly 2009

7.45

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

World War III

World War III 2023

6.90

Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib’s scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

2023

Prophet Joseph

Prophet Joseph 2009

7.55

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

Iranian Dinner 3

Iranian Dinner 3 2024

6.00

Synopsis: In this program, actors and well-known figures in groups of four invite their friends to their homes for dinner and a friendly gathering. The host tries to surprise his guests by performing a special program or inviting another guest. At the end of each night, guests give points to their host for dinner and reception. At the end of four nights, one person will be chosen as the best host...

2024

Father's Coffee

Father's Coffee 2024

1

The story is about a family who decide to import coffee in order to gain a lot of financial profit, and they happen to be very successful in this work, so much so that the main character is known as the "Father of Coffee".

2024

Shahrzad

Shahrzad 2015

9.20

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

2015

Paytakht

Paytakht 2011

5.60

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

2011

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

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

Mozaffar's Garden

Mozaffar's Garden 2006

4.70

Mozaffar's Garden is a 2006 Iranian satire television series. It was directed by Mehran Modiri, who also narrates and stars as the title character. It ran from 1 September to 15 October 2006, with reruns continuing through 2007

2006

Normal People

Normal People 2021

1

It tells the story of a man named "Bardia Barazandeh" who owns a beauty center and is rich and miserly. But soon, with the revelation of the secret of Berdia's wealth, the situation of his family will improve.

2021

Postgraduate Students

Postgraduate Students 2016

5.50

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

2016

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

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

Barareh Nights

Barareh Nights 2005

6.31

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 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

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

The Forbidden Fruit

The Forbidden Fruit 2007

1

Story of a devout individual called Haj Younis (Ali Nasirian), a merchant who believes in the principles of religion and is a haram and lawyer, but something happens in his life that involves him in adventures...

2007

Shahgoosh

Shahgoosh 2013

4.30

A man is murdered & the police investigates the murderer

2013

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

Father

Father 2018

6.50

Haj Ali has always tried to live a righteous life and be the best father he can be for his children, but when his son decides to marry a girl who comes from a family with a different belief system, will Haj Ali be able to welcome her into their lives and be like a father to her as well?

2018

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