Une histoire provisoire

Romed Wyder Director

Sophie Mousel as Karen

Cléa Eden as Lise

Shiva Gholamianzadeh as mère de Marjan

Vincent Leittersdorf as Paul

In the middle of a midlife crisis, Sacha leaves his girlfriend and moves into his grandparents' Airbnb. There he meets Marjan, a married Iranian woman. The involuntary encounter becomes a moment of new possibilities.

It Was Just an Accident

2025

Persian

♡ 12

98%

Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eqbal enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognizes one of his former torturers.

For Neda

2010

English

7.8

♡ 6

presidential election

women's rights

Antony Thomas Director

Houda Echouafni as Arabic narrator

Shohreh Aghdashloo as Narrator

Neda Agha-Soltan as Self

On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Within hours, images of her dying moments, captured on cell phones, appeared on computer screens across the world, focusing the world's attention on mass protests against the rigged elections in Iran. Featuring previously unseen footage of Neda with friend and family, as well as exclusive video of her recorded the day she died, "For Neda" debuts just before the anniversary of her death.

The Runner

1984

Persian

♡ 20

100%

Amir Naderi Director

Abbas Nazeri as

Musa Torkizadeh as

Behrouz Maghsoudlou as

Madjid Niroumand as Amiro

A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running.

6 Days

2017

English

6.2

♡ 151

65%

47%

Action

based on a true story

Toa Fraser Director

Tim Downie as Jimmy

Abbie Cornish as Kate Adie

Mark Strong as Max Vernon

Jamie Bell as Rusty Firmin

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

And Life Goes On

1992

Persian

7.9

♡ 41

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Hocine Rifahi as

Ferhendeh Feydi as

Farhad Kheradmand as Film Director

Buba Bayour as Puya

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.

Women Without Men

2009

Persian

6.3

♡ 8

73%

Shirin Neshat Director

Bijan Daneshmand as Abbas

Navid Navid as Ali

Essa Zahir as Amir Khan

Nader Farman as Babak

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

The Badger

2020

Persian

5.3

♡ 2

Kazem Mollaie Director

Milad Ajoudani as

Idin Pezeshki as Peik

Ali Nouri as PEYMAN

Vishka Asayesh as Soodeh Sharifzadegan

The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.

A Dragon Arrives!

2016

Persian

6.6

♡ 2

73%

Mani Haghighi Director

Nader Fallah as Almas

Sepehr Sepi as Pianist

Lili Golestan as Self

Saeed Hajjarian as Self

On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?

Rosewater

2014

English

6.6

♡ 16

76%

Jon Stewart Director

Amir El-Masry as Alireza

Kim Bodnia as Javadi

Golshifteh Farahani as Maryam

Shohreh Aghdashloo as Moloojoon

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

Before Summer Ends

2017

French

6.5

♡ 1

Maryam Goormaghtigh Director Arash

Arash as Arash Ashkan

Ashkan as Ashkan

Charlotte as Charlotte Hossein

Hossein as Hossein

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return to Iran to live. Hoping to change his mind, his two friends Hossein and Ashkan convince him to take a last trip through France.

Opponent

2023

Swedish

6.3

♡ 8

94%

Milad Alami Director

Ardalan Esmaili as Abbas

Arvin Kananian as Ali

Peyman Moaadi as Iman

Joonas Saartamo as Tränaren

In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumors start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.

Fireworks Wednesday

2006

Persian

7.6

♡ 10

100%

Asghar Farhadi Director

Sarina Farhadi as

Behshad Sharifian as

Foad Hosseini as Ahmad

Taraneh Alidoosti as Roohi

Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.

All Three of Us

2015

French

7.2

♡ 1

Comedy

Drama

iran

Kheiron Director

Eriq Ebouaney as Adama

Kyan Khojandi as Barbe

Alaa Safi as Berouz

Soufiane Guerrab as Elyess

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

The Wind Will Carry Us

1999

Persian

♡ 37

97%

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Masoameh Salimi as

Ali Reza Naderi as

Frangis Rahsepar as

Masood Mansouri as

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.

Desert Dancer

2014

English

6.2

♡ 13

31%

teheran (tehran), iran

Richard Raymond Director

Davood Ghadami as Basij Leader

Freida Pinto as Elaheh

Nazanin Boniadi as Parisa Ghaffarian

Gino Picciano as (uncredited)

Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.

Empty Nets

2023

Persian

6.5

♡ 5

100%

Behrooz Karamizade Director

Mohammad Amin as

Mozhgan Hosseinzadeh as

Majid Fallah as

Razieh Mardani as

Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel realm that becomes ever more constricting and oppressive, endangering Amir’s relationship with Narges as well.

American Coup

2010

English

7.5

♡ 3

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

Joe Ayella Director

Ervand Abrahamian as Self

Ehsan Yarshater as Self

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coup's lingering effects on the present US-Iranian relationship. Includes a segment on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis and its relation to the 1953 coup. Concludes with a section on the recent Iranian presidential election. Contains interviews with noted Middle East experts and historians and prominent public figures such as Stephen Kinzer (author, All The Shah's Men), Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Trita Parsi, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ted Koppel and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. With Iranian cinematography by James Longley.

1st Born

2019

English

3.4

♡ 12

Ali Atshani Director

Denise Richards as Christine

Robert Knepper as Joe

William Baldwin as Saul

Tom Berenger as Tucker Jefferson

Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.

Life and a Day

2016

Persian

8.1

♡ 6

Saeed Roustayi Director

Navid Mohammadzadeh as Mohsen

Peyman Moaadi as Morteza

Shirin Yazdanbakhsh as Mother

Parinaz Izadyar as Somayeh

Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.

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Une histoire provisoire

It Was Just an Accident

For Neda

The Runner

6 Days

And Life Goes On

Women Without Men

The Badger

A Dragon Arrives!

Rosewater

Before Summer Ends

Opponent

Fireworks Wednesday

All Three of Us

The Wind Will Carry Us

Desert Dancer

Empty Nets

American Coup

1st Born

Life and a Day