Cinema

Cinema Of Iran

The Cinema of Iran , also known as the Cinema of Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following. Iranian films are usually written and spoken in the Persian language. Iranian cinema has had many ups and downs.Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank Iran as the world’s most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neorealism and similar movements in past decades.A range of international film festivals have honoured Iranian cinema in the last twenty years. Many film critics from around the world have praised Iranian cinema as one of the world’s most important artistic cinemas.

Best Iranian Films

Salamcinama, one of the most reputable cinema websites in Iran, launched the Film  campaign in 2020. In this campaign, 140 films selected by cinema critics were put to a vote and more than 14,000 people participated in order to introduce the best films in the history of Iranian cinema. In this section, we introduced the first forty  best Iranian films from the mentioned list as follows.

Lizard 

Kamal Tabrizi

2003

6.5 per meter

Saeid Rustaei

2017

Mother

Ali Hatami

1989

Forever & a day

Saeid Rustaei

2015

Rusty little brains

Human Seyedi 

2016

Indian

Nima Javidi

2018

Qeysar

Masud Kimiaei

1970

Dance with me, world 

Sorush Sehat

2019

Separation

Asghar Farhadi

2010

Seller

Asghar Farhadi

2015

Deers

Masud Kimiaei

1975

M as Mother

Rasul Mollaqolipur

2006

Children of Sky

Majid Majidi

1997

King of Hearts

Mohammad Ali Fardin

1969

Centipede

Abolhassan Davudi

2017

No men allowed

Rambod Javan

2010

Confession

Shahab Hosseini

2017

Butterfly swimming

Mohammad Kart

2019

Santuri

Dariush Mehrjoui

2006

About Eli

Asghar Farhadi

2008

Parviz

Majid Barzegar

2013

Blue as sky

Amir Rafiei

2017

Without everything

Mohsen Gharayi

2020

Benjamin

Mohsen Enayati Nooshabadi

2017

Walnut tree

Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian

2020

Glass Agency

Ebrahim Hatami Kia

1997

Redhat and Cousin

Iraj Tahmasb

1995

Abu Ghoraib Strait

Bahram Tavakoli

2017

Lily is with me

Kamal Tabrizi

1995

Painting pond

Maziar Miri

2012

I’m not angry

Reza Dormishian

2013

Hamun

Dariush Mehrjoui

1989

Nabat

Pegah Agzi

2018

Sutedelan

Ali Hatami

1978

Father’s house

Kianoosh Ayari

2010

cow

Dariush Mehrjoui

1970

Hush! Girls Don’t Scream

Pouran Derakhshandeh

2012

St. Petersburg

Behrooz Afkhami

2009

Mom’s guest

Dariush Mehrjoui

2003

where is the friend’s house?

Abbas Kiarostami

1987

The most popular Iranian Films

One of the most popular VOD platforms in Iran is the “FILIMO” application. In the “Top All Time ” section, the first 100 films based on the most voted by the audience for all eras are introduced, which you can find  these films  for free on this platform in the following link.

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