01 Twin girls kept locked indoors for years experience the outside world for the first time on camera.
10 More Best Iranian Movies
By Vlad Zakh · November 27, 2025
Iran Arthouse slow and atmosphericthought provoking
Iranian filmmakers keep working under censorship that would stop most industries cold, and the films below, several made by directors who were formally banned from filmmaking at the time, are proof of how much can still get said.
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02 A famous actress and a director investigate a video of a girl who says she's about to end her life.
03 A filmmaker directing remotely from a border village gets pulled into a real local scandal.
04 Girls disguised as boys try to sneak into a World Cup qualifying match banned to women.
05 Several women navigate a single day of Iran's restrictions on their freedom, one handing the story to the next.
06 A pizza delivery driver's humiliations build toward one desperate, doomed robbery.
07 An ostrich-farm worker's life changes after a job in the city exposes him to a very different Iran.
08 Four linked stories examine ordinary Iranians forced into carrying out the death penalty.
09 A working daughter tries to hold her family together as her brothers chase a doomed inheritance scheme.
10 A prisoner's good deed turns into a viral scandal that unravels under public scrutiny.
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