# 🇮🇷 FILMS - IRANIAN CINEMA ❗= letterbox ⓒ = criterion 🔪 = horror 🌏= foreign ♻️ = rewatch 🔕 = silent 🎄= holiday ⭐= priority 🤪= psychotronic ❤️ = liked 💧=solo - [x] The House Is Black (1963) 21m 7.8 ❗ⓒ 💧 - [x] The White Balloon (1995) 85m 7.6 ❗ - [x] The Bread and Alley (1970) 10m 💧 - [x] Where is the Friend's House? (1987)❗83m 8.1 ⓒ ❤️ - [x] Homework (1989) ❗78m 7.8 - [x] The Cow (1969) 7.8 105m ⭐❗❤️ - [x] Bag of Rice (1996) ⭐ 80m 7.3 ❤️ - [x] Children of Heaven (1997) 8.2 89m ❗ - [x] The Runner (1984) 94m 7.6 ⓒ - crit - [x] A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) 80m 7.7 💧 - [x] Offside (2006) ⭐ 93m 7.3 1 - [x] Under the Shadow (2016) 6.8 84m ⭐🔪 - [x] Taste of Cherry (1997) 99m 7.7 ⓒ ❗💧 - [x] It Was Just an Accident (2025) 103m 7.4 ❗ⓒ 💧 - [x] A Separation (2011) 123m 8.3 ❗💧 - [x] The Cyclist (1989) 79m 7.2 💧 - [x] Holy Spider (2022) 7.3 118m 💧 - [x] About Elly (2009) 119m 7.9❗💧 - [x] Gabbeh (1996) 72m 6.9 ❗ - [x] A Moment of Innocence (1996) 78m 7.7 ❗ - [x] Close-Up (1990) 8.2 98m❗ⓒ - [x] Salaam Cinema (1995) 75m 7.6 ❗ - [x] Persepolis (2007) 8.0 96m ♻️ - [x] The Lizard (2004) 8.4 110m ❤️ - [ ] Still Life (1974) 90m 7.6 - A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness. - [ ] The Circle (2000) - 91m 7.4 various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran. - [ ] Crimson Gold (2003) 96m 7.4 Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran - [ ] The Brick and Mirror (1964) - 131m 7.5 iranian taxi driver - [ ] The Traveler (1974) 7.3 75m - A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play. - [ ] The Salesman (2016) 124m 7.7 - [ ] The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) ⓒ 119m 7.4 about a journalist who poses as a city engineer in a Kurdish village to document mourning rituals for a dying woman, who unexpectedly refuses to die. - [ ] The Mirror (1997) 94m 7.5 - When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself. - [ ] Taxi (2015) 7.3 83m Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. - [ ] Willow and Wind (1999) 7.7 81m A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm - [ ] The Willow Tree (2005) 7.3 96m - [ ] No Bears (2022) 106m 7.2 - Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power. - [ ] The Tenants (1987) 109m 7.7 ⭐ A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord. - [ ] A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) 6.9 101m ♻️ - [ ] Death of Yazdgerd (1982) 110m 8.3 - the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. - [ ] Fish & Cat (2013) 142m 7.0 ⭐ 🔪 midnight pulp - [ ] Hit the Road (2021) 7.2 94m Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet. - [ ] The Song of Sparrows (2008) 96m 7.9 An ostrich-rancher, Karim, embarks on a journey to Tehran, a bustling city, to replace his daughter's hearing aid, a pivotal moment in his family's struggle for independence and cultural exchange. - [ ] Hamoun (1989) 120m 7.8 - [ ] Thief of Dolls (1990) دزد عروسک ها ⭐ - horror movie for kids - [ ] Mr. Gullible or Mr.Naive (1971) آقای هالو - [ ] City of Mice/(1986) شهر موش ها - kid musical - [ ] Postman Doesn’t Knock Three Times/(2009) پستچی سه بار در نمیزند - [ ] Turtles Can Fly (2004) - depressing - [ ] The Colour of Paradise (1999) - [ ] Baran (2001) - [ ] Ballad of Tara (1979) چریکه ی تارا - [ ] A Cube of Sugar (2011) یک حبه قند - [ ] Under the Skin of the City (2001) زیر پوست شهر - [ ] Pari (1995) پری - [ ] Hasan the Bald (1970) حسن کچل Most Persian movies are realistic dramas about poverty, social issues, or war /language/persianfarsi/ https://blog.termehtravel.com/top-50-iranian-movies-of-all-time/ * Pre-New Wave narrative films (up to 1968) * A new wave of short documentay and experimental films (1960s) * New Wave until the Revolution (1969-1979) * Post-Revolution cinema: A period of transition (1980s) * Auteurs and festival darlings (1990s) * Post-Kiarostami/contemporary era (2000s) * Current films (2009 onwards) Abbas Kiarostami: The poet of minimalism. Asghar Farhadi: The moral philosopher. Jafar Panahi: The rebel with a camera. Majid Majidi: The child whisperer. Dariush Mehrjui: The pioneer. Rakhshan Bani-Etemad: The feminist lens. [‎Iranian Cinema, a list of films by Cormac Jones • Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/cormacjones/list/iranian-cinema/by/popular/) [‎Top 100 Iranian Films, a list of films by Official Lists • Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-100-iranian-films/) The Cow The Runner - one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally; sets the tone for many of the films that followed: realism, children's perspective of the world, innocence, gentleness, set in poor neighbourhoods, exposing great disparities in wealth, resting much of the film on the shoulders of one young actor, using children's lives as analogies for, or explicit expositions of, the problems of the adult world