Iran is known for its film industry, which is behind some of the world’s most visually poetic films. More recently, Iranian cinema has given us Oscar-recognised movies that give Hollywood a run for its money. Here are the best movies featuring the Persian language to stream now.
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
This earnest documentary is about filmmaker and actress Maryam Zaree’s journey to unravel the truth about her birth. Her parents…
A road trip movie with an unknown destination, Hit the Road plays with our expectations by avoiding any obvious questions…
Hassan Fazili and Nargis Fazili are two filmmakers who, faced with death threats, escape their home in Afghanistan and start…
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs his attention towards the ongoing refugee crisis, the biggest displacement of people since World War…
This incredible documentary is about the elusive Iranian artist Bahman Mohassess, whose work has the uniqueness of a Picasso or…
Horror movies have always been creepier to me when they play on our fear of the “unknown” rather than gore.…
Whether because of absent family or nefarious criminals, there are children around the world that have to work, sometimes in…
A War (Krigen) is a Danish war drama that focuses on Commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) as he leads a…
Also known as Just 6.5 or Six and a Half per Meters, this police procedural follows the hunt for a…
Everything about This Is Not a Film revolves around state censorship. Documentarian Mojtaba Mirtahmasb records Iranian cinema giant Jafar Panahi’s…
Retrograde takes place in early 2021 and captures the exact moment when the US troops exited Afghanistan, effectively leading to…
The lives of a single mother forced into prostitution and another woman who needs an operation to restore her virginity…
This excellent British detective drama is from Sally Wainwright, writer and creator of Happy Valley. It premiered back in 2011…
We’ve heard of films within a film, but it’s crazy how many layers Through the Olive Trees operates in. Writer-director…
Life can easily get hectic in a moment. A hearing aid can get broken, debts can add up, a snafu…
What does a filmmaker do when you’re banned from making movies? For their safety, they might move abroad or switch…
Baran is a romantic drama, though unlike the grand gestures and declarations of love that are common in the West,…
The Wind Will Carry Us depicts a city engineer whose visit in a Kurdish town draws curiosity from the locals.…
Before Birdman and 1917 popularized the technique, this experimental film was shot entirely in one take, requiring four attempts before…
A residential dispute spirals out of control into full, xenophobia-fueled tragedy in this straightforward and elegantly made film that comes…
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