10 Iranian Movies Everyone Must See

This list will help audiences who are inclined to become familiar with Iran’s cinema.

Hamid Jafari
Counter Arts

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10 Iranian Movies Everyone Must See. This list will help audiences who are inclined to become familiar with Iran’s cinema.

Despite restrictions, censorship, and other limitations that Iran’s cinema has encountered during the last four decades, it has always continued to amaze the world of cinema. Iran’s cinema has introduced influential filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and they have depicted an artistic image of Iran’s cinema to the world.

But the fact of the matter is that Iranian directors, like Jafar Panahi, try to show another image of Iran’s society through their movies, different from Iran’s governmental cinema.

Some filmmakers, like Asghar Farhadi, prefer to focus on people in Iran and even criticize them through their movies. Farhadi, the two-time Oscar winner, has been known as a director whose movies haven’t faced censorship by Iran’s government.

In the following, I will introduce the 10 greatest Iranian movies. This list will help audiences who are inclined to become familiar with Iran’s cinema. To prepare the…

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