Category
page 1Films set in Iran

Alexander
2004 film by Oliver Stone
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 film directed by Mike Newell

The Salesman
2016 Iranian film by Asghar Farhadi

White House Down
2013 film directed by Roland Emmerich

Syriana
Syriana is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on Robert Baer's 2003 memoir See No Evil. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig, and Mazhar Munir.

The Stoning of Soraya M.
2008 film by Cyrus Nowrasteh

Where is the Friend's Home?
1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami

About Elly
2009 film directed by Asghar Farhadi

Genghis Khan
1965 film by Henry Levin

The Color of Paradise
1999 film by Majid Majidi

Holy Spider
2022 film directed by Ali Abbasi

Wishmaster
1997 film directed by Robert Kurtzman

Close-Up
1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami

The Physician
2013 film directed by Philipp Stölzl

The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Kandahar
2023 film by Ric Roman Waugh

Through the Olive Trees
1994 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Offside
2006 film by Jafar Panahi

Blackboards
Blackboards (, Takhté siah; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."

The Song of Sparrows
2008 film by Majid Majidi

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 film by Ana Lily Amirpour

The Cow
1969 film by Dariush Mehrjui

In This World
2002 film by Michael Winterbottom

11'09"01 September 11
2002 anthology film by 11 different directors

Ten
2002 film by Abbas Kiarostami

The Cyclist
1987 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Life, and Nothing More...
1992 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Half Moon
2006 film directed by Bahman Ghobadi

And Then There Were None
1974 film by Peter Collinson
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966 television film directed by Terence Young and Georges Lampin

Desert Dancer
2014 film by Richard Raymond

One Sings, the Other Doesn't
1977 film by Agnès Varda

Circumstance
2011 film by Maryam Keshavarz

Closed Curtain
2013 film by Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi

Crimson Gold
2003 film by Jafar Panahi

Leila
1996 film by Dariush Mehrjui

No Bears
2022 film directed by Jafar Panahi

The Bread and Alley
1970 film by Abbas Kiarostami

The Adventures of Hajji Baba
1954 film by Don Weis

Marooned in Iraq
2002 film by Bahman Ghobadi

The Report
1977 film by Abbas Kiarostami

The Traveller
1974 Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Omar Khayyam
1957 film by William Dieterle

The Hunter
2010 film

Shirin Farhad
1956 film

A Wedding Suit
1976 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Bodyguard
2016 film by Ebrahim Hatamikia

The Exorcist: Italian Style
1975 film by Ciccio Ingrassia

Captain Khorshid
1987 film by Nasser Taghvai
On Suffocation
2013 short film

Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe
1978 film by Cesare Canevari, Leslie H. Martinson

Deadwater
2008 film by Roel Reiné

Winners
2022 film directed by Hassan Nazer

The Upside-down Triangle
2016 film by Hossein Rajabian

Che
2014 film directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia

Hit the Road
2021 film directed by Panah Panahi

Silver Bears
1978 film by Ivan Passer