Ali Reza Zarrindast

Metropole Cinema (2025)

Set in early‑1980s Abadan under siege during the Iran–Iraq war, the film centers on a group striving to keep alive the Metropol Cinema, a beloved local theater now in ruins. Against the backdrop of conflict and nostalgia, characters recall their youth, ...

Gazelle (2023)

"Gazelle" is the story of the self-inflicted isolation of a girl who sees her dreams in vain but has not lost her hope yet. ...

Talking with Rivers (2023)

Talking with Rivers is a conversation between Iran and Afghanistan, two neighbouring countries that used to be one land. The two countries are now sharing their stories after they parted from each other, from the era of Soviet invasion to the civil war and ...

Cypress Under Water (2018)

The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the li ...

Feast of Sorrow (2018)

The film contains four different stories. In the first story Jahan is a 32 years old man who is dreaming of becoming famous. In the second story Afsaneh and Reza are a middle aged couple who are facing new problems and difficulties in their life. Third Lal ...

House of Paper (2017)

A famous journalist who was out of job for a few years after being arrested, is living with his only daughter in Iran . She is also a journalist. Death of a writer returns an old love from ... ...

Where Are My Shoes? (2016)

After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer. ...

Mazar Sharif (2015)

An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif (Afghanistan) narrates his 19 days of hide and escape to reach Iran's borders meanwhile on the other side, the Iranian troops are preparing for retaliat ...

Metropole (2014)

The story of two youngsters who one night meet a woman Khatoon who has take refuge in a billiard club. This put them on many challenges. ...

The Queen (2012)

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the s ...

Women Are From Venus, Men Are From Mars (2011)

Saeed who thinks that his wife is got killed in a trip to Europe marries another woman. But when his wife is found to be alive he has to face many troubles. ...

Son of Adam Daughter of Eve (2010)

Mina Bozorgmehr and Farhood Zandi are two young lawyers who start working at them same time. They share an apartment, but Mina thinks that Farhood is a author and Farhood thinks that Mina is a photographer. ...

The Boss (2007)

A young guy Siamak has a list of 25 youngsters in his pocket. He has to deliver drugs to them but his father Reza is coming from abroad after many years. He was a runaway but now wants to be a good father for his son. ...

Unknown (2007)

Rock, Paper, Scissors (2006)

Jahan is released from prison after 2 years and is searching for his fiance. At first, his friends don't tell him about what Mohsen has done to her, but Jahan eventually becomes aware and decides to get revenge. ...

Verdict (2005)

Sahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ... ...

The Fifth Reaction (2003)

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his g ...

The Devil's Dance (2001)

Special agent Major Hashemi is working on several terrorist cases. Meanwhile a news is received about a plan for bombing in Tehran. ...

Maturity (2000)

Naser Khavari and his fiancee ... ...

Cry (1999)

In south of Iran Farough who has a garage is not letting Sohrab to has his own job. They fight each other and in the fight Farough dies of an heart attack. His brothers are going after ... ...

The Sorceress (1998)

A man who lives in an old big house with his mother alone proposes to an actress. She agrees and they get marries but little by little, she begins to notice strange things happening in the house and becomes suspicious. ...

The Feast (1996)

Seven friends promise to meet each other in the future. On the promised day all come except Ramin who is now a lawyer working for a company. He is in danger so sends his wife instead and has hides himself in some unknown place. One of his friends Ali who i ...

Pari (1995)

Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she ...

That Which Remains (1995)

Based on Ghassan Kanafani's novel, 'Returning to Haifa,' this film, set in 1967, centres on a Palestinian couple who return to the war-torn city to search for their young son Farhan, whom they were forced to abandon when fleeing Zionist acts of terrorism i ...

Pakbakhteh (1995)

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The Quiet Home (1992)

Close-Up (1990)

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, id ...

The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990)

A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the accident & emergency department of a hospital, which is never empty of suicidal patients. The reason behind ea ...

Marriage of the Blessed (1989)

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives. ...

The Cyclist (1989)

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuou ...

The Peddler (1987)

The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second episode, a men ...

The Spell (1987)

A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On the way home from their wedding, they get lost in a dark forest on a stormy night. They take refuge in an eerie mansion, inhabited by an old man obsessed wit ...

Off-Limits (1986)

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him ...

The Weak Point (1983)

Before getting to the security office, the culprit is set up and left alone with his interrogator for an hour so that maybe they could get the information they need. That hour they spend together means something different to each of them and they both glim ...

The Red Line (1982)

During the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution. ...

Tall Shadows of the Wind (1979)

Based on a short story by Houshang Golshiri, this film centers on mysterious and chilling events that take place in a village. A group of superstitious inhabitants have erected a scarecrow for protection but soon find themselves terrorized by it. Made at t ...

Cat in the Cage (1978)

A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. ...

Along the Night (1978)

Parvaneh, a famous singer and movie star, has an affair with a married man. A student named Baabak, who suffers from leukaemia, falls in love with Parvaneh. They have a good time together for a while, until she hears about Baabak's disease and decides to s ...

Samad in the Way of Dragon (1977)

Samad is to be sent to the city courthouse for his fights where he points his finger at others, and he happens to be handcuffed to a male smuggler. Along the way, the smuggler manages to escape with the help of one of his accomplices, and since his hand wa ...

The Report (1977)

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home. ...

The Custodian (1976)

Davoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they have to bear her expenses too. Davoud loves film making and is in l ...

Hemmat (1975)

Maryam, Hemmat's wife, dies of cancer. Hemmat takes his son to another city and starts working in Gol-Agha's garage. He keeps his wife's death a secret from his son, until one day the boy meets a sex worker named Pari, who works in the garden for Ghasem. A ...

Shahrag (1975)

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Harmonica (1974)

Set on the southern coast of Iran, "Harmonica" begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as they compete for the privilege of holding the harmonica or even blowing a f ...

The sun in the swamp (1974)

Rad (Saeed Rad), who is suspicious of his sister's relationship with a man, burns them in a fire, and escapes on horseback into a deserted forest. Rad takes refuge in a forest hut, where a man named Schalko (Mohammad Ali Keshavarz) lives with his wife Sema ...

Experience (1973)

The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes. ...

Rashid (1972)

Rashid and his accomplice steal the jewelry of a paralyzed woman, who is killed during the incident. Rashid hides the jewelry in an abandoned mine and takes refuge in a cabin in the forest, where two fugitives—Hamed and Nazi—are living. Someone informs ...

Treasure of the Lost Desert (1971)

A Green Beret is sent to the Middle East to combat an Arab terrorist. ...

Goodbye, Friend (1970)

Three friends organize the burglary of a jewelry shop, but greed, betrayal, and revenge quickly overcome their friendship. ...

Shokooh-e ghahraman (1969)

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The Red Plain (1968)

With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bahram is preventing him. This put them to confront each other while Betty too falls in love with Bahram. ...

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report (2013)

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. ...