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15 Iranian Movies to watch before travelling to Iran
#1 Maman’s guest 2004

#2 About Elly (2009)
Another remarkable work of Asghar Farhadi, this Iranian movie is about a group of young people heading to the Caspian region for holidays – pretty much like most Tehranis would do. Until one of them mysteriously disappears…

#3 A Separation (2011)
Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning movie is about a young couple in the process divorce. The woman wants to immigrate to Australia while the husband doesn’t want to leave his sick father behind and their daughter is left to pick sides. It’s a touching story of a middle-class family in Tehran with a great performance by both leading actors.

#4 A Cube of Sugar (2011)
This is a sweet story of a family preparing the wedding of their youngest daughter. It’s a great representation of how an Iranian family communicates and reacts to certain events and its big cast gives you a great insight into different social interactions in Iran.

#5 What’s the time in your world? (2014)
An ambiguous tale of an Iranian woman’s return to the hometown she has little memory of.  Leila Hatami as the leading role finds herself stalked by a man who seems to know lots about her while she’s convinced they have never met.

The movie takes place in Rasht, one of my favourite northern cities in Iran. It explores its narrow allies and gives you the scenery of its daily fresh market.

#6 The Pear Tree (1998)
A writer in search of inspiration looks back on his early life when he lived in a grand mansion and played in the extensive surrounding orchard of fruit trees. The movie setting is a gloriously beautiful Iranian village, full of gardens, mountains and golden afternoons.

The movie also offers surprising dashes of comedy to complement its nostalgic, somewhat trite main plot about a man remembering an unrequited love he had in his boyhood for an older girl.

#7 The Fish Fall in Love (2005)
An ex-political prisoner returns to his Caspian sea coastal village after 20 years and finds that his former love and sisters have turned their old house into a restaurant.

Every shot of this movie is a postcard of its own. There’s so much Iranian food, the stunning scenery of northern Iran and long images of local specialities.

#8 Café Transit (2005)
A story of a couple that owns a cafe at the Iranian side of Iran-Turkey border. The woman is soon left widowed and decides to run the cafe on her own.

She’s left with a lot of prejudice and a battle to prove herself right in a small village where a woman running a cafe is not a familiar scene.

Through her struggles, she meets foreigners making stops in her cafe and eventually starts a relationship with a Greek man…

#9 Gilaneh (2004)
This Iranian movie is a story of a mothers love through times of war. Her struggles, courage, and hardship combined with her deep love for her children whom their lives have been severely affected by the Iran-Iraq war.

While the family strives to overcome the tragedies, America is about to attack Iraq. This is a sad story that could have easily happened in any other post-war country but it’s also the story of numerous Iranians living in a battle with the circumstances of Iran-Iraq war up to this day.

#10 Inversion (2016)
I specifically wanted my list of Iranian movies to include a film about Iranian women and their struggles living in a yet male-dominant society. Inversion is a story of a 30-year-old unmarried woman living with her sick mother in hazy Tehran.

Due to Tehran’s thermal inversions in the colder months, the mother is forced to move out of the city for her survival. The rest of the family selfishly believes that their youngest sister, Niloofar, should leave her life and business behind and move with her.

#11 Night bus (2007)
A monochrome movie relating to the story of two Iranian soldiers transporting 38 Iraqi prisoners of war to a prison. The film depicts the huge inhumanity of war and the conversations between the two nations unfold the humanity of combatants on both sides.

#12 From Karkheh to Rhine (1993)
This is a story of an Iran-Iraq war victim named Saeed who goes to Germany for further eye treatments where he stays with his sister and her German husband.

He is able to get his vision back and just as he is almost ready to move back home, they realize that he has other health issues which were caused due to being exposed to chemical gas during the war.

This movie is tragic, heartbreaking and almost every Iranian has seen it.

#13 The white Nights (2003)
This movie is praise for love and literature. It’s a love story but a subtle and poetic one. It’s about a university professor who’s busy with his quiet life of books and literature until he meets a girl who has come to Tehran to meet his once former lover for 4 consecutive nights…

#14 The Wind Carpet (2003)
This movie is a collaboration between Iran and Japan. It’s about a carpet which was supposed to be woven to be shown in a festival in Japan but the weaver dies before he even starts weaving.