A group of old college friends reunite for a weekend by the Caspian Sea. Sepideh has brought along Elly, her daughter's kindergarten teacher, hoping to set her up with recently divorced Ahmad. Then Elly disappears. What follows is a slow, suffocating unraveling — finger-pointing takes over as the group's friendliness fades, and one small lie triggers a moral collapse that leaves no one clean. Farhadi at his most Hitchcockian.

Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and their daughter for a better life abroad. Nader refuses — he won't abandon his father, who has Alzheimer's. When Simin moves out, Nader hires a deeply religious woman to care for his father. He doesn't know she is four months pregnant. What begins as a domestic dispute becomes a collision of class, faith, and moral ambiguity that implicates everyone. One of the greatest films of the 21st century.

Emad and Rana are performing in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in Tehran when their apartment building begins to collapse. In their new flat — previously occupied by a woman the neighbors speak about in low voices — someone enters one night while Rana is alone. What the film is really about is how one man's damaged self-image drives him to the brink of destroying the very thing he most wants to protect: his marriage.

A man running a small fish farm refuses to yield to a powerful local company that has effectively bought the police, the courts, and every institution around him. Director Mohammad Rasoulof — who would later be sentenced to prison and flee Iran — builds a quietly escalating portrait of what it costs to remain decent in a system designed to grind you down.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers help, but the father refuses. A few days later, the boy dies under suspicious circumstances. A precisely constructed moral thriller about guilt, class, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.

Based on the true story of a serial killer who targeted street prostitutes in the holy city of Mashhad — and a city that viewed him as a vigilante purifying the streets. Shot in secret outside Iran. Ali Abbasi builds a chilling thriller where morality turns against justice. Zar Amir Ebrahimi won Best Actress at Cannes.

Iranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam travel to the World Judo Championships. Midway through, the Islamic Republic orders Leila to fake an injury and withdraw — or face being branded a traitor. Shot in black and white, in secret, by co-directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv — the first Iranian-Israeli cinematic collaboration. Sport as political resistance.

An investigating judge in Tehran is on the verge of a promotion when his gun goes missing at home. Paranoia sets in. He begins to suspect his own wife and daughters — all against the backdrop of the 2022 protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison and fled Iran days before the film's Cannes premiere. One of the most important films of the decade.