List of Iranian films

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List of Iranian films

A list of films produced in Iran ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list of Iranian films see Category:Iranian films

1 1930s
2 1940s
3 1950s
4 1960s
5 1970s
6 1980s
7 1990s
8 2000s
9 External links

[edit] 1930s

Year	Title	Director	Actors	Notability
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1932	Lor Girl	Ardeshir Irani	Abdolhossein Sepanta, Roohangiz Sami-Nezhad	The first talkie film in Persian
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1936	Leyli va Majnun	Abdolhossein Sepanta	Abdolhossein Sepanta
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1965	Ganj-e Qarun	Siyamak Yasemi	Fardin
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1969	Gaav	Dariush Mehrjui	Ezzatollah Entezami	Drama	Considered as the beginning of Iranian New Wave
1969	Qeysar	Masoud Kimiai	Behrooz Vossoughi	Crime/Drama

[edit] 1970s

Year	Title	Director	Actors	Genre	Notability
1970	The Bread and Alley	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
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1972	Breaktime	Abbas Kiarostami		Drama / Short
1973	The Experience	Abbas Kiarostami		Short feature
1974	The Traveller	Abbas Kiarostami		Drama
1975	So Can I	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1976	Colors	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1976	A Wedding Suit	Abbas Kiarostami		Short feature
1977	Gozaresh	Abbas Kiarostami	Shohreh Aghdashloo	Drama	Abbas Kiarostami's first feature film
	How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
	Tribute to the Teachers	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1978	Solution	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
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1979	First Case, Second Case	Abbas Kiarostami		Short feature

[edit] 1980s

Year	Title	Director	Actors	Genre	Notability
1980	Dental Hygiene	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1981	Orderly or Disorderly	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1982	The Chorus	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1982	Hajji Washington	Ali Hatami	Ezzatollah Entezami	Drama / Comedy	Released in 1998
1983	Fellow Citizen	Abbas Kiarostami		Documentary
1983	Toothache	Abbas Kiarostami		Short
1984	Kamalolmolk	Ali Hatami	Ezzatollah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi	Biography/Drama
1984	First Graders	Abbas Kiarostami		Documentary
1985	Boycott	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Majid Majidi	Political drama
1985	Davandeh	Amir Naderi		Drama	The first post-revolution Iranian film to attract worldwide attention Won Golden Montgolfiere at Nantes Three Continents Festival
1986	Bashu, the Little Stranger	Bahram Bayzai	Susan Taslimi	Drama	Banned till released in 1989
1987	The Bicyclist	Mohsen Makhmalbaf		Drama	Won the Best Feature Film award at Hawaiian Film Festival
	Kelid	Ebrahim Forouzesh		Drama	Written by Abbas Kiarostami
	Where Is the Friend's Home?	Abbas Kiarostami		Drama	Won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival The first part of Kiarostami's Earthquake trilogy
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1989	Homework	Abbas Kiarostami		Documentary
1989	The Marriage of the Blessed	Mohsen Makhmalbaf		Drama

[edit] 1990s

Year	Title	Director	Actors	Genre	Notability
1990	Close Up	Abbas Kiarostami		Documentary
	Hamoun	Dariush Mehrjui		Psychological drama
	Time of Love	Mohsen Makhmalbaf			Shot in Turkey, Banned in Iran
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1992	Baduk	Majid Majidi			Adresses child slavery
	Nargess	Rakhshan Bani-Etemad		Drama
	Naser-ed-din Shah	Mohsen Makhmalbaf		Comedic
1993	Actor	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Akbar Abdi, Fatemeh Motamed-Aria	Drama
1993	Sara	Dariush Mehrjui	Niki Karimi	Drama
1994	Hello Cinema	Mohsen Makhmalbaf
1994	Through the Olive Trees	Abbas Kiarostami
1995	White Balloon	Jafar Panahi
1995	Pari	Dariush Mehrjui	Niki Karimi		An adaptation of J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
1996	Gabbeh	Mohsen Makhmalbaf			Title derived from a Persian rug Won Silver Screen award at Singapore
	Leila	Dariush Mehrjui	Leila Hatami	Drama
	Pedar	Majid Majidi		Drama	Won the Prize of the Jury at San Sebastián International Film Festival
1997	Children of Heaven	Majid Majidi	Majid Majidi		Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
	Taste of Cherry	Abbas Kiarostami	Homayon Ershadi		Awarded Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
	The Silence	Mohsen Makhmalbaf		Drama	Received CinemAvvenire Award, Sergio Trasatti Award, nominated for Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
1998
1999	The Wind Will Carry Us	Abbas Kiarostami			Silver Lion Award
1999	Two Women	Tahmineh Milani	Niki Karimi	Drama

[edit] 2000s

Year	Title	Director	Actors	Genre	Notability
2000	The Circle	Jafar Panahi		Drama	Won Golden Lion at Venice
	Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine	Bahman Farmanara	Bahman Farmanara	Drama
	A Time for Drunken Horses	Bahman Ghobadi		Drama	Won Caméra d'Or at Cannes Film Festival
	The Day I Became a Woman	Marzieh Meshkini		Drama
2001	Baran	Majid Majidi	Hossein Abedini	Drama	Won the Freedom of Expression Award at the National Board of Review (USA)
	Kandahar	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Nelofer Pazira	Drama	Won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival
	Raye makhfi	Babak Payami		Comedy
2002	Ten	Abbas Kiarostami		Documentary Drama
2003	Crimson Gold	Jafar Panahi		Drama	Screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami
	At Five in the Afternoon	Samira Makhmalbaf			Premiered at Cannes Film Festival First film shot in Kabul after invasion
	To Have or Not to Have	Niki Karimi		Documentary	Niki Karimi's directional debut
2004	Duel				Biggest budget in the history of the cinema of Iran
	Mehman-e Maman	Dariush Mehrjui		Comedy / Drama	Written by Houshang Moradi Kermani
	Turtles Can Fly	Bahman Ghobadi		Drama / War	The first film made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein Won Golden Seashell at San Sebastian International Film Festival
2005	One Night	Niki Karimi		Drama	Nominated for Prix un certain regard at the Cannes film festival
	Requiem of Snow	Jamil Rostami		Drama	The first film to represent Iraq in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars
	Tickets	Abbas Kiarostami Ken Loach Ermanno Olmi		Comedy / Drama
2006	A Few Days Later	Niki Karimi		Drama	Script won the Rotterdam festival's Hubert Bals Fund
2006	Offside	Jafar Panahi		Comedy/Drama/Sport	Won Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival

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