Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the...

In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to summon...

The silence of this sleepy little town is soon disturbed when the residents begin to receive threatening phone calls. No one knows who is making...

Nogreh is a young Afghan woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar,...

A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...

Les Vanarrates tells the story of those old men and women who dwell alone in cold relationships and die in the summer heat of Paris.

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...

The story is about an immigrant Iranian news anchor who works for a Persian TV channel in UK. His nude pictures going viral on social media and he is...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred...

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with...

A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

An Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Haifa, Israel to investigate a religion that originated a hundred and seventy years ago. Youth from...

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

The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled...

Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

A rural young man comes to the capital under the pressure of his peers, to acclaim some fortune for himself

To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of...

When Hana’s aunt goes to the hospital to have a nose job, grandpa comes to take care of the kids. The kids go play in the alley, but to be on...

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which...