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1. The Salesman (2016)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi
Votes: 64,739 | Gross: $2.40M
2. The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama
A story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Navabi, Navid Negahban
Votes: 21,743 | Gross: $0.66M
3. There Is No Evil (2020)
151 min | Drama
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Zhila Shahi, Baran Rasoulof, Mahtab Servati, Ehsan Mirhosseini
Votes: 6,163
4. Timbuktu (2014)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, War
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed
Votes: 18,286 | Gross: $1.08M
5. The State (2017– )
Drama, Thriller
A look at the lives of four British citizens who join ISIS in Syria.
Stars: Ony Uhiara, Sam Otto, Jessica Gunning, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 1,602
6. The Infidel (2010)
TV-PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.
Director: Josh Appignanesi | Stars: Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi, Igal Naor
Votes: 6,960
7. Taxi (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
Votes: 16,548 | Gross: $0.32M
8. Beautiful City (2004)
98 min | Drama, Romance
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo Kheradmand
Votes: 6,205
9. 14 Tirmeh (2017)
146 min | Drama
In September 12 1980, Turkish state carries out a military coup suppressing struggle of Kurds for human rights and freedom.
Director: Hasim Aydemir | Stars: Ezel Akay, Furkan Bolukbasi, Furkan Bölükbasi, Sakine Cansiz
Votes: 423
10. Mr. Gullible (1970)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
Votes: 563
11. Afghan Star (2009)
Unrated | 110 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about the simultaneously unifying and divisive effects of Afghanistan's version of the TV talent show format on its society. It focuses on "Afghan Star" which airs on the Tolo TV channel in Afghanistan.
Director: Havana Marking | Stars: Rafi Naabzada, Lima Sahar, Hameed Sakhizada, Setara Hussainzada
Votes: 1,018 | Gross: $0.10M
12. One Night (2005)
78 min | Drama
On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories.
Director: Niki Karimi | Stars: Hanieh Tavassoli, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Nader Torkaman, Abdolreza Fakhar
Votes: 200
13. Born in Evin (2019)
95 min | Documentary
Filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, and her quest to find out the circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
Director: Maryam Zaree | Stars: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Maryam Zaree, Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Votes: 185
14. Fairy Out of Wedluck (2017)
87 min | Drama
Parinaaz's mother dies in an accident. The only relative to take care of Parinaaz is an aunt who despises her. Their relationship is to be challenged through different unnatural events.
Director: Bahram Bahramian | Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Mostafa Zamani, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Tannaz Tabatabaei
Votes: 148
15. Traveller of Rey (2001)
115 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of life of Abdol-azim Alhasani and his migration to Iran during the tenth Abbasid caliph's reign.
Director: Davood Mir-Bagheri | Stars: Amiryal Arjmand, Dariush Arjmand, Vishka Asayesh, Enayat Bakhshi
Votes: 212
16. Holy Wars (2010)
84 min | Documentary
Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which man will be left standing? Touching ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Marshall | Stars: Khalid Kelly, Aaron D. Taylor, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad Fostok, Sam Harris
Votes: 166
17. Parkway (2007)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Parkway is not just a bridge in Tehran,It's also a bridge for Koohyar to get to Raha.A bridge that Koobyar thinks by passing it in the opposite way he will get to love.
Director: Fereydoun Jeyrani | Stars: Bita Farahi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Ra'na Azadivar, Nima Shahrokh Shahi
Votes: 515
18. The Mongols (1973)
92 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Kimiavi | Stars: Fahimeh Rastkar, Parviz Kimiavi, Agha Seyed ali Mirza Sajadi, Ali Mirza
Votes: 220
19. Love Crimes of Kabul (2011)
TV-14 | 71 min | Documentary
Inside Afghanistan's Badam Baugh Women's Prison, where half of the inmates are locked up for 'moral crimes.
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Votes: 252
20. Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Reza Attaran, Habib Rezaei, Mahtab Keramati, Parsa Pirouzfar
Votes: 2,285
21. The Wall (2008)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A Man which does acrobatic with motorcycle, dies during an action. His children, Setareh and Shahab, decide to continue his work on "wall of death".
Director: Mohammad Ali Talebi | Stars: Mohammad Ali Dashti, Golshifteh Farahani, Azita Hajian, Mohammad Kasebi
Votes: 394
22. Afghan Alphabet (2002)
45 min | Documentary
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Ghafour Barahouyi, Maryam Ozbak, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Votes: 302
23. Ferestadeh (1983)
103 min | Drama
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai
Votes: 237
24. Africa (2011)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Three young criminals are ordered to keep a girl inside a house until her brother pays his debts.
Director: Houman Seyyedi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Amir Jadidi, Javad Ezati, Azadeh Samadi
Votes: 428
25. Day Break (2005)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on... See full summary »
Director: Hamid Rahmanian | Stars: Hosein Yari, Zabi Afshar, Hoda Nasseh, Atash Taghipour
Votes: 332
26. Three and a Half (2011)
80 min | Drama
Three women are traveling in a stolen car through Iran, hoping to make it the northern border so that they can flee the country. But things are not going as they were expecting.
Director: Naghi Nemati | Stars: Samaneh Vafaei, Shouka Karimi, Negar Hasanzadeh, Mehdi Pourmoussa
Votes: 47
27. Death and the Judge (2018)
50 min | Documentary, Crime, Family
The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years and issued about 4500 death sentences; ... See full summary »
Director: Hassan Khademi | Stars: Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi, Hassan Khademi
Votes: 21
28. Colors of Memory (2007)
102 min | Drama
The film relates the story of a surgeon Doctor Parsa who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Parsa performs a heart operation on the nephew of ... See full summary »
Director: Amir Shahab Razavian | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Shahbaz Noshir, Saber Abar, Reza Khamse
Votes: 270
29. Bride of Fire (2000)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Ahlam who is studying medicine in the college is in love with Dr. Parviz and wants to marry him. But according to her tribe's laws and traditions she must marry her cousin Farhan. She decides to face her family and find a solution.
Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Ghazal Saremi, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Salimeh Rangzan
Votes: 583
30. L'Iran: une révolution cinématographique (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and... See full summary »
Director: Nader T. Homayoun | Stars: Rakhshan Banietemad, Bahram Beyzaie, Farokh Ghafari, Bahman Ghobadi
Votes: 235
31. C.O.M.M.U.N.I.C.A.T.I.O.N. (2025)
Adventure, Biography, Comedy | Completed
They are the people running the country. They have a conversation but it's unclear if they understand each other or if the problems have been solved. When the music ends, they are still trying to talk desperately to each other.
Director: Nick Peterson | Stars: Thomas Black, Old-Nick, James Hogan, Alex Hall
32. Ocalan and the Kurdish Question (2014 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Kurdistan, which is split over Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, could play a major role in a Middle East that has been torn apart. Who are the Kurds? What influence do they have? Who exactly ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Miranda | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Parvin Boldan, Philippe Chemin, Süleyman Demirel
Votes: 9
33. The Blue-Veiled (1995)
85 min | Drama, Romance
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Golab Adineh, Afsar Asadi
Votes: 800
34. Private Party (1987)
Drama
After the coup of 1953, four convicts escape while they are being taken to jail and attack the home of a foreign ministry official and take everyone hostage. Guests decide to choose two to accompany the convicts so they can escape abroad.
Director: Hassan Hedayat | Stars: Hadi Eslami, Parviz Poorhosseini, Mohammad Barsoozian, Asghar Zamani
Votes: 21
35. Awakening Dreams (2010)
Drama, War
Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow. But ...
Director: Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar | Stars: Mehri Sadat Alagha, Amir Hossein Arman, Hamid Reza Azarang, Habib Dehghan Nasab
Votes: 114
36. The Silent King (2003)
Drama, History
Director: Homayoun Shahnavaz | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mahtab Keramati, Mohammad Sadeghi
Votes: 34
37. Holy Crime (1994)
Documentary, Short
Documentary on state terrorism of Islamic regime of Iran in Europe.
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, Shohreh Badie, Guy Bakhtiar, Shapour Bakhtiar
Votes: 9
38. Vores lykkes fjender (2006)
58 min | Documentary
The first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.
Director: Eva Mulvad | Star: Malalai Joya
Votes: 124
39. Chroniques d'un Iran interdit (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
While winds of freedom blow through the Arab world, the Iranian youth waits. They were the first to rise up against their leaders in 2009.
Director: Manon Loizeau | Stars: Neda Agha-Soltan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sohrab Arabi, Mehdi Chamran
Votes: 28
40.
Vee (2009– )
Episode:
Talking with DC Comics Artist @EthanVanSciver
(2018)
News
Stars: Vee, Ethan Van Sciver
41. Closer to the Sun (2016)
76 min | Drama
A New York insurance company is assessing a claim related to the accidental death of six workers on an oil platform off the coast of Nigeria.
Directors: Gianluca Spadafina, Nick Peterson | Stars: Old-Nick, Vincent X. Hall, Alex Hall, John Waterhouse
42. The Secret Fatwa (2017)
66 min | Documentary, History
Late July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran suddenly locked down its prisons where thousands of political prisoners were serving their sentences. For five months, families desperately ... See full summary »
Director: Delnaz Abadi | Stars: Delnaz Abadi, Mehdi Aslani, Monireh Baradaran, Saeed Esmati
43.
Vee (2009– )
Episode:
Liberalist Principles
(2018)
31 min | News
Vee summarizes the main points made in Sargon of Akkad's first livestream about the new liberalist movement.
Star: Vee
44.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Word of God
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An illegal Jordanian immigrant is found strangled in a meat locker with a page from the priceless "Golden Koran" is found on his person.
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Maggy Sherif, Khalid Laith, Sharon Small, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 292
45.
American Dad! (2005– )
Episode:
Stan of Arabia: Part 1
(2005)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
After embarrassing his boss at an award ceremony, Stan and his family are transfered to Somalia . At first hesitant, Stan quickly begins to enjoy the fascist ways of the country and even ... See full summary »
Directors: Rodney Clouden, Ron Hughart | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane
Votes: 1,003
46.
American Dad! (2005– )
Episode:
Stan of Arabia: Part 2
(2005)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
Cultures continue to clash, and the entire Smith family is arrested by the Vice and Virtue Police and sentenced to death by stoning.
Directors: Anthony Lioi, Ron Hughart | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane
Votes: 979
47.
Lupin the 3rd (1977–1980)
Episode:
The Girl Who Travels Through Time
(1979)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure
Lupin gets called out to New York by Fujiko, where he rescues a girl hunted by an organization called Red Spider. Lupin does everything he can to help the poor girl suffering from amnesia; ... See full summary »
Director: Hideo Nishimaki | Stars: Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue
Votes: 24
48.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
China Trade Deal, GND, Apology Tours, String Theory, Boycotts, Healthcare
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
49.
Frontline/World (2002– )
Episode:
Children of the Taliban
(2009)
Documentary
Director: Daniel Edge | Star: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
50.
Ask an Atheist (2017– )
Episode:
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime
(2020)
Talk-Show
Director: Bruce A. Johnson | Stars: Dan Barker, Leo Igwe, Ryan Jayne