Best Iranian war movies

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him from arriving in time. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing as Taliban fighters. They tear her school book to pieces and threaten to stone their female captives.

It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.

The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.

During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.

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...

During the Iran-Iraq war, a television cinematographer, having financial problems, needs to get a loan from the TV to complete his half-built flat so one of his colleagues suggests him going to the war zone under the pretext of making a documentary about the Iraqi captives for the sake of accompanying another man who is so influential in TV's treasury, so that he can take his loan more easily. However he doesn't want to get to the line of fire, his sanctimonious demeanor leads him to something more precious than what he started his journey for.

Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.

The story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.

Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

The resistance of Ammar battalion in Abughoraib strait at the last days of Iran-Iraq war.

Two days in the life of Mostafa Chamran, Iran's first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he attempts to prevent the city of Paveh from falling to Kurdish separatists in 1979.

During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province. Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.

The story of Asman Gharb deals with the early days of the war and the role of Ali Akbar Shiroudi. In this movie starring Milad K. Maram, Ali Akbar Shiroudi's personality and lofty thinking are well displayed.

Young veteran Saeed, who is suffering from visual problems due to injuries sustained during the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatment and recuperation. Once there, he is reunited with his sister Leyla, who is now married to a German citizen. The siblings struggle to reconnect in a foreign land, while Saeed prepares himself for surgery that could change his life. A tragic exploration of the horrific repercussions of war.

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.

the final days of Iran International Naft Radio during the siege of Khorramshahr and imminent siege of Abadan in Iran-Iraq war and the resistance people showed to make sure Iraq won't capture Abadan.

Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.

The story of 23 young Iranian warriors who were captivated by Iraqi army.

The life and times of IRGC officer Ahmad Motevaselian, who served as a commander during the Iran-Iraq War and ultimately disappeared in Lebanon in 1982.

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

Mehdi Bakeri asks his younger brother Hamid to return to the war zone and be by his side despite the problems and issues that have happened to him. Hamid accepts his request and goes with his brother. After the Operation Kheibar.

The First Tale, "Goodbye Friend": Years after the Iran-Iraq war, a midnight, Moslem, a chemically poisoned veteran, decides to go to the Behesht-e Zahra. In Behesh-e Zahra, Moslem meets his martyred friends and rides around the city on a motorcycle with them. In the morning, his mother finds the Moslem’s dead body on his bed. The Second Tale, "The Momentary Rainbow": A film crew is filming the memorials of the war. Suddenly two Basij members demand the crew to listen to their memories of the war. The crew made an appointment for tomorrow but they don’t show up. The crew goes on a search to find them. They were martyrs. The Third Tale, "The Glass Flower": A young girl spends hours in the train station with a lantern and a bouquet of flowers. She is waiting to hand the flowers to one of the soldiers on their way to the war. Later, everyone finds out that she only hands her flowers to a soldier that will soon become a martyr.

Vilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian's army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes here, all become tension that maybe he brings bad news about the army leaders who fight in the front lines. After a while Cima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her.

A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.

Jonas (Saeed Aghakhani), a former Iranian soldier during the Iran-Iraq War, sets out to search for his fallen brother's bodies years after they were killed in action.

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.

When the Tehran rain rocket launches from the winter of 1366, members of the crowded family, almost all of whom are violent and dissent, to prevent hostile attacks by their mothers living in the villages in the outskirts of Tehran. A village whose main source has become a place of residence for warlords. Establishing this family in the garden and its neighbors to the peoples living in the climax, makes families understand families and understand them about each other's problems and the roots of their differences. They find out during the adventures that they are capable of helping each other and ... But the central core and the role of the story of an adolescent called Amir is that many things are happening to him and different stories that the other members of each other in parallel to the story before win ...

The story of Zeinal, a man who after 20 years of being a POW, tries to clear up his past.

The story shows a different point of view of Iraq's invasion since it's narrated by self sacrificing fearless women who reach the army fortress in order to bring back weapons and ammunitions to stand against the enemy.

The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.

The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...

This movie narrates a romance in the heart of turmoil

According to the true story of Abdolrasoul Zarrin, he was the Iranian sniper of the Iran-Iraq war, who is known as the best sniper in the contemporary world wars with a record of 3,000 successful shootings with Dragunov weapons.

Based on true events, this movie depicts of the sacrifices made by the Iranian Air Force at the unset of the Iran-Iraq war. In particular the story of the fighter pilot Yadi Sharifirad based in second tactical airbase of Tabriz.

This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.

Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.

A soldier is struggling to obey his duty or listen to his heart during a military operation.

The story of life of an Iranian army leader who has faults in his life and now in purgatory wants to retaliate for his faults.

A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.

َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.

A beautiful girl named Afsaneh who is living in Downtown has economic problems and her family offers to marry her to their landlord whose wife had pass away. At a night she went to a clergyman and...

The cute family travel to turkey for fun but when they were using balloon. Accidentally they went to the syria and they fight with isis to rescue theire life .

All birds in the sky in human wars.

Vahid is making a movie about the war. He invites a musician friend of himself Ali to compose a theme music for this film. But Ali can not make his mind. So they go to visit the real places...

Takes place in the early 2000s, during a period when the country's political situation is heavily influenced by the US military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the years that have passed since the end of the war, the shadow of fear and terror has once again reminded people of the dark days of the past. The plot revolves around New Year's Eve in a not-so-wealthy family living in Abadan. The father of the family is an addict and is desperate for drugs, which has disrupted the household atmosphere. However, the sudden occurrence of a catastrophic event changes everything, and the family realizes that in the short distance between life and death, they need each other more than ever.

After the Iranian coup in 1953, Col. Takin is commissioned to find and recover 11 tons of gold from Russia. The subject of this film is the reclamation money that was supposed to be paid by England, America and Russia to Iran because of the World War II and is about the year 1951. This film is a historical drama about the War events and the issues that opened the door to Iran for the allies and axis forces, and points to the reclamation payment to Iran.

An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif (Afghanistan) narrates his 19 days of hide and escape to reach Iran's borders meanwhile on the other side, the Iranian troops are preparing for retaliation.

When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.

Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.

The camera of Janet Petrosi a christian girl who studies photography is stolen when she is in the flower market trying to take a photo. Amir a young guy who sells flower with his father ...

In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.

A filmmaker named Hadi is sent to Croatia to complete his research for a film. Aziz, Hadi’s friend, gives him a cassette tape, a piece of image, and a half a piece of plaque in order to find a girl named Fatima. Alongside a Farsi-speaking Bosnian woman, Hanifa, Hadi begins his quest for Fatima.

Heeva Akbari after 15 years of the disappearance of her husband Hamid in the war decides to visit the old house she was living there by her husband.

A Zanjani pilot receives a mission to identify enemy bases at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. He gets wounded and his plane is shot. He manages to enter Iran's border and lands at an abandoned airport in Abadan. He successfully lands the plane on the runway that local Basiji forces have cleared for him, but ...

A Green Beret is sent to the Middle East to combat an Arab terrorist.

This film was the first feature film about the Iran-Iraq war that was made and released.

The car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him and his son Borna is too after his missing eyeglasses.

An old couple decide to bring home their war veteran son from the hospital. Reza (their son) is angry to be home but something comes up to surprise them all.

During the Second World War and the occupation of Iran by the Allied army, Dr. Rastan goes to Ih Qashqai to treat his sister's husband. There, he is introduced to Amir Houshang, the elders of the tribal elders, and Ghobad's rebels. He returns to Shiraz. His younger brother, Ali, has been thrown into the city, and ...

Nosrat and Ahmed are two security surveillance divers. The latter is lost during an operation, while his wife is waiting for him in Ahari hospital. The movie takes a look at the mutual relationships and the moods of those who are directly affected by war.