Iranian Most Valuable Movies Part 2: Post-revolution era: 20th. century
by pshahkar | created - 04 Feb 2019 | updated - 28 May 2019 | PublicBest Iranian films officialy made in Iran after the islamic revolution (from 1979 to 1999) and not banned by the goverment are listed here
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1. Children of Heaven (1997)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Family, Sport
After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi
Votes: 80,606 | Gross: $0.93M
2. Through the Olive Trees (1994)
G | 103 min | Drama
A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai
Votes: 9,968 | Gross: $0.04M
3. Close-Up (1990)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes: 22,945 | Gross: $0.00M
4. Hamoun (1990)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Ezzatolah Entezami, Hossein Sarshar, Bita Farahi
Votes: 7,239
5. And Life Goes On (1992)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Behrouz Abedini, Shahin Abzan
Votes: 7,435
6. Leila (I) (1997)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The story of a semi-modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation, but is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
Votes: 4,109 | Gross: $0.05M
7. The Color of Paradise (1999)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family
The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari
Votes: 18,186 | Gross: $1.81M
8. The Glass Agency (1998)
114 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei, Ghasem Zare
Votes: 7,258
9. The Runner (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
Director: Amir Naderi | Stars: Madjid Niroumand, Abbas Nazeri, Musa Torkizadeh
Votes: 2,330
10. The Pear Tree (1998)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Esteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for beautiful tomboy "M".
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri, Nematollah Gorji
Votes: 1,654
11. In the Alleys of Love (1991)
87 min
We follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the ... See full summary »
Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Mehdi Ahmadi, Yousef Jokar, Bahram Zandi, Levon Haftvan
Votes: 28
12. Captain Khorshid (1987)
118 min | Crime, Drama
Khaje Majed informs the authorities about Captain Khorshid smuggling with his ship. The authorities take the smuggling and burn it. Farhan is a new arriver in the port. He wants to smuggle ... See full summary »
Director: Nasser Taghvai | Stars: Dariush Arjmand, Ali Nasirian, Saeed Poursamimi, Parvaneh Massoumi
Votes: 1,233
13. Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Family
Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran Outari
Votes: 18,628
14. Leily Is with Me (1996)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahmoud Azizi, Maziar Lorestani, Rahman Bagherian
Votes: 5,033
15. Nightingales (1988)
720 min | Action, Drama, History
A corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and... See full summary »
Stars: Ali Nasirian, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Ezzatolah Entezami
Votes: 1,642
16. The White Balloon (1995)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Family
Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska
Votes: 8,236 | Gross: $0.47M
17. Maybe Some Other Time (1988)
159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the ... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Susan Taslimi, Dariush Farhang, Simin Ansari, Siamak Atlassi
Votes: 757
18. The Last Act (1991)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
"Gaslight" as Farsi farce. Kamran and Moluk, middle-aged siblings, live penniless in the family's Tehran mansion, selling furniture to pay expenses. Their brother, who owns the house, has ... See full summary »
Director: Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Stars: Farimah Farjami, Dariush Arjmand, Niku Kheradmand, Shahin Alizadeh
Votes: 521
19. The Mirror (1997)
95 min | Drama
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.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Mina Mohammad Khani, Kazem Mojdehi, Naser Omuni, M. Shirzad
Votes: 3,134 | Gross: $0.04M
20. The Tenants (1987)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
The tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Faramarz Fardtombekian, Farimah Farjami
Votes: 2,745
21. 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: 799
22. Season Five (1997)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an ... See full summary »
Director: Rafi Pitts | Stars: Roya Nonahali, Shah Ali Sarkhani, Parviz Poorhosseini, Ghorban Najafi
Votes: 199
23. Narges (1992)
95 min | Drama
Adel is a young criminal who frequently teams up with his middle-aged wife Afagh in order to carry out the most audacious schemes. But when Adel falls in love with Narges, he realises he is... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Farimah Farjami, Abolfazl Poorarab, Atefeh Razavi, Reza Karam Rezai
Votes: 351
24. The Spouse (1994)
100 min | Drama, Family
The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss.
Director: Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | Stars: Mehdi Hashemi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Nasrin Moghanloo, Parastoo Golestani
Votes: 274
25. Snake's Fang (1990)
105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Reza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over the home beyond bearing, he departs to ... See full summary »
Director: Masud Kimiai | Stars: Faramarz Sadighi, Golchehre Sajadieh, Ahmad Najafi, Fariba Kowsari
Votes: 285
26. The Need (1992)
82 min | Drama
Two boys compete for one job they both need desperately. This movie portrays their rivalry.
Director: Alireza Davoudnejad | Stars: Mohammad Reza Davoudnejad, Tarahom Fathi, Shojaoddin Habibian, Maziar Lorestani
Votes: 294
27. Willow and Wind (1999)
81 min | Drama, Family
A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.
Director: Mohammad Ali Talebi | Stars: Hadi Alipour, Amir Janfada, Majid Alipour, Mohammad Sharif Ebrahimi
Votes: 496
28. The Inner Beast (1983)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
the movie is about a Savak agent who come to a village for escaping from revolutionaries punishment. Afterwards he comes mad and killed himself when he hallucinatly think to kill someone else.
Director: Khosrow Sinai | Stars: Davoud Rashidi, Shahla Mir Bakhtiar, Esmail Mohammadi, Ahmad Kashani
Votes: 18
29. The Red Ribbon (1999)
110 min | Drama, War
A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Azita Hajian, Reza Kianian, Parviz Parastui
Votes: 1,201
30. The Spell (1987)
90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After the wedding the bride, [Sogand Rahmani] the groom [Atila Pesiani] and their relatives set out for the village where they will be living. A severe storm comes, the bride and groom lose... See full summary »
Director: Dariush Farhang | Stars: Jamshid Mashayekhi, Mahmoud Jafari, Malihe Nasiri, Malihe Nikjumand
Votes: 176
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