Best Iranian music movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch music films from Iran, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for No One Knows About Persian Cats

    No One Knows About Persian Cats 2009

    Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.

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  • Poster for The Music Man

    The Music Man 2007

    Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.

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  • Poster for The Silence

    The Silence 1998

    Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.

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  • Poster for Redhat and Cousin

    Redhat and Cousin 1994

    Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.

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  • Poster for Sonita

    Sonita 2015

    If 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she'd be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000.

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  • Poster for Crawling

    Crawling 2023

    a black and white Performance video-art

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  • Zaz: I Have Two Loves 2019

    Video art about Paris and France.

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  • Poster for The Singer

    The Singer 2020

    An Iranian family who goes to Istanbul, Turkey. Ibrahim is a nightclub singer who, like other singers of that era, is being removed from the scene with the 1979 revolution. But since Abraham was not well-known at the time, he cannot become a Los Angeles singer. Eventually he becomes the singer of various ceremonies. They just don't agree with us and tell us Motreb

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  • Poster for Redhat and Sarvenaz

    Redhat and Sarvenaz 2002

    This entertaining real action, puppets movie narrates the adventures of a stouthearted boy who is kidnapped by two bandits. During the abduction, he will help a girl, he meets, who has been held prisoner in her room for her entire life. After failing a course for several times, Kolah Ghermezi finally passes it and enters a higher level. He returns home and happily shows his marks to Aghaye Mojri and Narges; who are supposed to be his parents now. Aghaye Mojri promises to buy a bicycle for him as a gift. However, he does not have adequate money to buy that. The news of Kolah Ghermezi’s success is broadcasted on TV, then his uncle calls him and invites all of them to his luxurious house. He gives a nice and huge bicycle to Kolah Ghermezi as a gift.

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  • Poster for Maxx

    Maxx 2005

    An invitation for a famous Iranian bandmaster, Maxx, living in a foreign country, is accidentally sent to a young cabaret singer with the same name.

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  • Poster for Love-Stricken

    Love-Stricken 1992

    A group of Iranian classical musicians in the Ghajar era try to release their first record, which takes them on a journey to France.

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  • Poster for City of Mice 2

    City of Mice 2 2014

    Three little mice found a kitten in a mice town... All the mice in the town scared except the little mice...

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  • Poster for Duo Song

    Duo Song 2023

    It portrays the story of two young people whose lives go parallel and they accompany each other along the way.

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  • Poster for Vagabonds

    Vagabonds 2005

    A young man in the village spends a few days in a garden instead of his uncle. On a rainy night, strange creatures mistake the garden for grandma's house and take refuge there.

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  • Poster for Bitter Memories

    Bitter Memories 1977

    Emel works at Osman's club. There she meets Kemal and they fall in love. They decide to get married. Kemal's man Mahmut, gets Kemal into a pretended drugs business and causes Kemal to go to Tehran. Kemal writes letters to Emel but they are kept by Mahmut and Emel never sees them. Mahmut calls Kemal to Istanbul.

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  • Shadow Cafe 2018

    Enjoying coffee in a cafe that takes you to your dreams ...

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  • Poster for Sweet Jam

    Sweet Jam 2001

    The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.

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  • King of the Hearts 1968

    A young couple lives apart for years during an accident, each assuming that their spouse has died. The man becomes a famous singer and the woman loses her sight in an accident. Years later, the man happens to meet a girl and, without knowing what the girl has to do with him, treats the girl's mother and his wife. The man intends to marry a wealthy woman, but on the wedding night, the wife and child come to thank him, and thus the old couple find each other again after a long time and start a new life together.

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  • Poster for Shiraz 70

    Shiraz 70 1970

    A short documentary about the 4th Shiraz Arts Festival and its series of performances that took place in September 1970.

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  • Poster for The City of Tales

    The City of Tales 1968

    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.

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  • Poster for Golnar

    Golnar 1988

    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...

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  • Poster for Ey Iran

    Ey Iran 1990

    Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.

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  • Poster for Mashdi Ebad

    Mashdi Ebad 1953

    The title character is a tight-fisted rich old man who has recently fallen in love with "Golnar", the beautiful daughter of "Rustam-Beik", a bankrupt tradesman. The father who is looking for a way to pay his debts, concedes to their marriage. But Golnar loves a young beau named "Sarvar". Mashhadi Ebad finally wins the day and prepares for the wedding ceremony. On the wedding day, however, the tides turn and Sarvar manages to make Mashhadi Ebad not only disappointed by the union, but also bound to paying back all his debts to Rustam-Beik.

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  • Poster for King of Hearts

    King of Hearts 1968

    A little girl with a blind mother accidentally becomes friends with a rich and famous singer who decides to help her.

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  • Poster for City in the Hands of Children

    City in the Hands of Children 1991

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

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  • Poster for Firecracker of Tehran

    Firecracker of Tehran 1961

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