Best Iranian fantasy movies

When a plane crashes at sea, dolphins rescue a little boy and raise him as family. He lives a carefree life beneath the waves until an evil monster seizes power over the underwater world. Banished to dry land, the boy is taken in by a kind-hearted captain. With his new companion's help, the boy embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of his true identity.

Breath is about an Iranian family who lives in Iran. It tells the story of Bahar, who is living with her father, Ghafour and Grandmother during the 70s.She is living in her childish and surreal world, filled with their dreams and fantasies.

Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family. To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and immigrated sons are back to life in their picture frames.

Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.

Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.

Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two children from the country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he returns upon realizing that he has fallen powerfully in love with her.

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.

The peaceful life of the members of the Rabbani family undergoes changes with the unexpected arrival of a snake, the discovery of an exquisite manuscript and a mysterious hole.

Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.

Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he is freed years later, he goes to his old love, Mahtab. Through conversations with his psychoanalyst and interrogations with the police, Farhad reveals the story of his life.

Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned…

The film introduces us to a father and his son; the older man is obese, unwell, and oppressive in his dealings with the younger, who is also deaf and mute. A series of cryptic, spellbinding episodes reveals a tyrannical paternalism at work that has long since hardened into a closed circuit of mutual pain. Enter a mysterious and beautiful woman of unspecified identity, who becomes an agent of change, embodying both an evolved consciousness and the power of the female as a rebuke to bankrupt patriarchy.

Death and love are sacrifices, which in principle, the woman's hero, takes the film to Paradise.

As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.

After learning to protect a truce among a community of animals, three young goats embark on an adventurous journey to keep a ceasefire intact throughout their society.

This film is a story of two bastards that after the death of their father, their wife has been tracked down and for the sake of doing business in China, they are betraying Pattaya, but their confrontation with the old friend mixes everything.

The story of a young deer which when gets far from the home faces many different challenges and troubles.

A poetic piece of work that tells the story of a projectionist, Hashem Hakemzadeh, as he drives up to the countryside with his son Reza in order to show films to poor villagers living in remote areas far away from the city. An emotional and essential piece of Iranian cinema by director Farhad Mehranfar; a film about the importance of cinema and the effect it has on audiences. Winner of several film festivals, Paper Airplanes celebrates life and nature in a unique and spectacular manner

In a faraway land, lives a community of little mice tyrannized by a cruel king with an insatiable appetite. Bahador, a mouse like no other, forcibly collects, under the king's orders, the peasants' provisions. Very quickly, Bahador discovers how hungry these poor little mice are... Touched by their misfortune, he disobeys. But unmasked by the soldiers, he is taken prisoner... Will he then be brave enough to face the great steward?

An Avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beizai about history of Kish island in south of Iran.

An actor goes to the cinema to watch his movie, but nobody likes the movie. Suddenly a magician appears to help him...

This film consists of three parts: The first part is called: The Parrot and the grocer, which is based on the poems of Rumi's Masnavi. The second part is called "Entering the world of the puppets". This section is a combination of puppetry, animation, and live action, showing how to make a puppet movie in a musical, fantasy style. The third part: In this part called "The Jewel Mountain", the story of an evil and greedy jeweler is shown.

The story of this series is about a long-handled doll named "Majid" who creates a beautiful and humorous story with his sweets in each episode.

There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is no escaping the mask, there is no escaping the resonating echoes of images and sounds that cross each other over time. There is no escaping the cinema. There is no escaping the terrors of the mind. “A mysterious loner, perhaps a poet, journeys through a series of uncanny surrealistic landscapes with an unclear purpose. His adventure is divided into three sections. The main theme of this experiment is to compare the eerier qualities of different landscapes and interpose the characters within them, elaborating the project’s ongoing preoccupation with extracting sinister moods from ordinary settings. In a way, these can be seen as experimental horror films in which an atmosphere of dread is evoked and sustained without the expected narrative trappings.”

MirNasir, who thinks that life has finally shown him a bright side by finding a genie, realizes that the genie has been imprisoned inside the glass for too long.

Unlike all other films of Cuneyt Arkin, this film picture is taken by a highly skilled team with quite a lot of preparations. The scenario is a fairy tale which is pleasantly supported by some high quality visual effects (prepared in a visual lab in England). The scenes are all supported with high quality decorations of the old times of the tale. Cuneyt Arkin with his athletic capabilities enables the hero of this tale to be brought to life in his act. It is really unlucky for the film team to prepare such a good film after a series of junk films which directly reduced the interest to this high quality film.

Shahr-e ghesse is perhaps the most popular of all Persian plays, was written in traditional rhythmic style that resulted in a kind of musical drama. Although it seems at first glance to have been written for children, its main audience, it is in fact a parable about contemporary socio political issues.

Golnar lives with her grandparents. One day she goes to the fountain to fetch water. The wind carries away her blue handkerchief. Golnar follows it into the forest and loses her way...

The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.

Domrol is a young and strong guy. He wins the title of “the champion of champions” after defeating all the other athletes. After a while though, he starts missing real fights and the fact that he has no opponents to fight anymore saddens him. As a result, he starts hurting people in order to satisfy his need for quarrel. He later finds a proper opponent, but he dies of a bee sting. This enrages Domrol no end, and he starts cussing at God. At that moment, the angel of death appears before him and informs him that should he fail to find a volunteer who would be willing to die for him before the sunrise, his own life will be taken. Domrol begs his parents, but they refuse to do such a sacrifice. Finally his wife accepts to surrender to the angel of death instead of Domrol, but after God sees their pure love, he forgives them.

In an elementary school, the students and teachers are dealing with the interruptions caused by a wizard named Jahel Khan. He has created three dolls named Atal, Matal and Tootoole to persuade kids to not study, and is behind the disappearances of books and backpacks that have been happening in the school. To stop him, a group of students backed by the faculty of the school are trying to unfold the mystery of the missing books.

Prince Arsalan who is in love with Farrokh-Lagha travels to the west to find her. He meets the two ministers of Petros Shah. With the aids of Shams Vazir and enmity of Qamar Vazir cause him to has many adventures which finally lead to the marriage of him with Farrokh-Lagha.

After being fired from his job, Hassan, a young daydreamer ekes out a living making masks of Haji Jabbar, the main character of 'Party in Hell'. Hassan is in love with a rich man's daughter, but when he asks for her hand, the rich man sends him and his friend away in a humiliating way. At night Haji Jabbar's apparition visits Hassan and takes him on an overnight trip to Paris...

A group of children flee from their homes using kites, to make a new adventure without their parents.

Rajab and his friend Ghorban accidentally enter the 20st century from ancient times and after a few events, decide to return to their time and period.

A teacher tells the story of Shangool and Mangool to her young students during a recreational outing. The lion, as the king of the jungle, organizes a competition between the wolf and the fox, where each must provide him with a delicious meal as quickly as possible to earn his employment. The wolf and the fox kidnap the kids of the goat ...

Zizigulu is a pink fictional character who is believed to have lived on the planet Ta-be-Ta before he came to Earth and was adopted by a newlywed couple. His full name is "Zizigulu Aasi Paasi Deraakutaa Taa-be-Taa", however he is sometimes referred to as "Aasi-Poolika" and "Zizinghuli"