Best Iranian crime movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime films from Iran, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Killing the Eunuch Khan (2021)
Killing the Eunuch Khan (2021)
Thrown back into a dusty 1980s and the height of the Iran/Iraq war, the film is a meditation on the cycles of violence and war and their infectious qualities. Clean, architectural sets are washed over by rivers of blood, as historical grievances are played back like excerpts from a documentary.
The Paternal House (2014)
The Paternal House (2014)
A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continues to haunt the family as it reverberates through the following generations. Ayyari’s film is staged exclusively in this house and was banned several times in Iran.
Close-Up (1990)
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, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
When the Moon Was Full (2019)
When the Moon Was Full (2019)
In the market Abdolhamid meets Faezeh and falls in love with her. They get marry and begin their life. But after a while Faezeh becomes aware of Abdolhamid's family in Sistan and Baluchestan province and that they are doing illegals. Faezeh decides to escape with her husband to Pakistan but there they meet Abdolhamid's brother Abdolmalek Rigi who is a terrorist.
Walnut Tree (2020)
Walnut Tree (2020)
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
Invasion (2017)
Invasion (2017)
Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative.
Shahrzad (2015)
Shahrzad (2015)
When a windstorm happens in life, love is the first victim. In Iran, Tehran, 1953.
Parviz (2012)
Parviz (2012)
Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
Kalashnikov (2014)
Kalashnikov (2014)
The story is about the young soldiers who harassed his sister as an anonymous person Price action really tried to prepare her sister and in this way are new characters into the story. The final sequence of the boys killed his victim.
Negar (2017)
Negar (2017)
According to the police, Negar's father committed suicide. Having had a happy life, Negar suspects that his death has not happened the way it seems. She starts unfolding the truth through an unconventional investigation.
Anxiety (1962)
Anxiety (1962)
Behrouz - a criminal story writer - is married with Roxanne and is running the factory of Roxanne's cousin who was killed in an accident in his factory...
Mortal Wound (2021)
Mortal Wound (2021)
Maleki is one of the managers of a successful company run by Rizabadi. Rizabadi instructs him to negotiate a major oil deal with the Norwegians. After signing the contract, the Norwegians want to transfer the contract amount, which is several million dollars to the company's account.
Eghlima (2007)
Eghlima (2007)
A woman is suspicious of her husband that he has cheated on her with another woman but little by little she begins to doubt more about that and grows nervous.
The Corridor (2013)
The Corridor (2013)
Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be released.
Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories (2009)
Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories (2009)
Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.
Red (1998)
Red (1998)
Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
Bodiless (2024)
Third Floor (2010)
Third Floor (2010)
By the call of a stranger the police come and intervene in a party in the fourth floor of a building. A girl escapes and trapped in a balcony of the third floor. A woman helps her but this is only the beginning of the troubles.
Russian (2019)
Russian (2019)
Toomaj manages to escape from the prison but when get back home he finds that his wife has been raped by an unknown person. This is only the beginning of the troubles as Toomaj begins to search for that person.
The Loser Man (2022)
The Loser Man (2022)
Ahmad is a detective who is suspicious of the network behind a recently committed crime. When the investigation advances further, he finds out that he might be in danger too.
Asphyxia (2017)
Asphyxia (2017)
I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it.
Bridge of Sleep (2018)
Bridge of Sleep (2018)
Shahab who is about to get marry with his fiance is in desperate need for money. For bringing money he with the help of his friend participates in a bargain but loses all his money. Under all the pressures from his family and his fiance Shahab is force to go to the beyond.
Rhino Horn (2018)
Rhino Horn (2018)
Sadra, who has been living outside of Iran for many years, has provided her sister's education abroad, but her sister is abducted suspiciously on the way to the airport! Sadra goes to his old friend Reza, who is a professional airbag.
Out of Breath (1980)
Out of Breath (1980)
Nabi who suffers from Epilepsy is hired by Khosrow to follow his fiancé Golrokh in order to find out about the male lover Khosrow presumes she has. Nabi finds out that Golrokh has a suicidal car accident and tries to help her. However he is not aware of the whole truth.
No Where No Body (2013)
No Where No Body (2013)
A young couple need easy money. A few friends join them to plan a kidnap, but nothing goes right when some of them go after revenge and betray each other.
Unclean (1976)
Unclean (1976)
Habibollah Khan and his daughter Maliheh complain to Amir about his nephew Hashem. Hashem, a close friend of Amir and delaying his marriage to Maliheh, is involved in a devious plot. Amir, engaged to marry Azar and a driver for a mining company, carries the miners’ wages to the mine at the end of each month.
Tehroun (2010)
Tehroun (2010)
Ebrahim leaves his family and tries out his luck in Teheran. But in this urban jungle where everything's for sale and anything can be bought, dreams rapidly become nightmares. Caught up, in spite of himself, in a trafficking ring, will Ebrahim find an opportunity of escaping?
360 Degrees (2015)
360 Degrees (2015)
Javid takes the responsibility for the methamphetamine found in his car to save his wife from going to prison. After his release, many people come forward to use him for their own good.
When Did You See Sahar Last Time? (2018)
When Did You See Sahar Last Time? (2018)
A girl Sahar who is from a poor family of Tehran's suburbs is not coming back home one night. The mother goes to the police and informs about that. In that same day a body of a girl who is very look like Sahar is find. The parents are summon to recognize their girl's body but it turns out that it belongs to another girl. Major Saeed intervenes in the case and is after answers.