Best Iranian fantasy movies
A curated collection of popular fantasy movies from Iran.
Digeh Che Khabar!? (1992)
Digeh Che Khabar!? (1992)
The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.
Fat Shaker (2013)
Fat Shaker (2013)
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.
HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)
HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)
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.”
City in the Hands of Children (1991)
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.
The Green Fire (2008)
The Green Fire (2008)
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.
Domrol (1994)
Domrol (1994)
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.
Ballad of Tara (1979)
Ballad of Tara (1979)
Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two young children from country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa’s 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 present time 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.
Suddenly a Tree (2019)
Suddenly a Tree (2019)
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.
We Like You Miss Yaya (2018)
We Like You Miss Yaya (2018)
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.
Magic in cinema (2025)
Magic in cinema (2025)
An actor goes to the cinema to watch his movie, but nobody likes the movie. Suddenly a magician appears to help him...
Dialogue with the Wind (1998)
Dialogue with the Wind (1998)
An Avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beizai about history of Kish island in south of Iran.
Haji Jabbar in Paris (1960)
Haji Jabbar in Paris (1960)
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 Star Twinkled (1963)
A Star Twinkled (1963)
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.
The renowned Prince Arsalan (1955)
The renowned Prince Arsalan (1955)
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.
Atal Matal Tootoole (1992)
Atal Matal Tootoole (1992)
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.