My Favourite Cake / Keyk-e Mahbub-e Man
Movie202498 min
Comedy · Romance
At seventy, Mahin decides that companionship is still worth taking a chance on. An ordinary wish for company becomes the reason to change her routine.
One film for tonight
One film, one night – complete stories
Sometimes you want a full film rather than the next chapter of a series. Start with the mood and then check the running time: a quiet chance at companionship, a household in trouble or a family divided over its future make different evenings. These films offer three clear starting points without asking you to follow a season.
Explore the picksStory-based viewing guidance and practical catalogue instructions; these are not scored film reviews.
Choose the emotional scale of the evening
An intimate relationship story and a household comedy ask for different kinds of attention. Compare the premises beside the posters, then check each film’s current runtime to see which fits the time you have.
Zoodpaz
Movie2024109 min
Family · Drama
Cyrus and Shahin face the consequences of a fatal household accident in wartime Tehran. Their explanation becomes a question of loyalty and blame. A contained story about how a family tries to protect itself.
Leave room for a larger family argument
If you want several competing points of view, choose a story built around a family plan and the negotiations it creates. Check the running time before pressing play so that the film can have a full sitting rather than being squeezed into a short gap.
Leila's Brothers / Baradaran-e Leila
Movie2022154 min
Social drama · Drama
One woman has a plan to lift her family out of debt. Getting everyone to agree may be the harder task. The film stays close to the negotiations, arguments and compromises that follow.
Why choose a film tonight?
A film gives the evening one continuous viewing choice. The picks differ in scale and tone, so use the story hook and runtime together rather than treating a genre label as the whole decision. Open the full title page for cast, synopsis and the viewing options currently available.
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6 in the Morning / Saat-e 6 Sobh
Movie202488 min
Thriller · Social drama
A tense social drama developed from a story concept by Abbas Rafei and Ali Oji.
Alive / Jandar
Movie2019101 min
Drama
At Asma’s wedding, the brother of a former suitor arrives intending to disrupt the celebration. A fight ends in his death, drawing the families into a grave conflict.
Beautiful City / Shahr Ziba
Movie200498 min
Drama
Akbar’s eighteenth birthday means that the sentence for a killing committed two years earlier can now be carried out. His friend Ala and sister Firoozeh try to persuade the victim’s father to forgive him.
The Lizard / Marmoulak
Movie2004112 min
Action · Comedy
Repeat offender Reza Marmoulak is sent to a prison run by a strict warden. After an injury takes him to hospital, he steals the clothes of a cleric and sees a possible way out.
No Men Allowed / Vorood Aghayan Mamnoo
Movie2011107 min
Comedy · Drama
The head of a private girls’ school strongly opposes men entering her workplace. When the chemistry teacher takes maternity leave, the failure to find a female replacement forces her to employ a man.
Newcastle
Movie80 min
Comedy · Family
Farid learns that the owner of the old mansion where he lives will arrive that evening. He and the tenants he brought in without permission have twelve hours to clear the house.
The Year of Cat / Sal-e Gorbeh
Movie2024100 min
Comedy · Family
Born with a curse, Jahangir puts the people around him in danger whenever the Year of the Cat returns. This comedy combines an absurd predicament with ominous consequences.
Kamion
Movie2018100 min
Social drama · Drama
During attacks on Yazidis in Iraq, a truck driver agrees to take a Yazidi woman and her child to her husband in Tehran. Once in Iran, their search fails to reveal where he is.
Sometimes the right choice is a story that begins and ends tonight. The three films featured above show how much an Iranian feature can hold. Below are more complete stories from Pardeh's catalogue, sorted by the mood of the evening, with classics and recent releases side by side.
The classics
Dariush Mehrjui's Santouri (The Music Man) follows a gifted santour player from a religious bazaar family on a path from packed concerts to the edge of ruin. Rakhshan Banietemad's The Blue-Veiled (Roosari Abi) begins when a young woman comes to work on a widowed farm owner's land. In Ebrahim Hatamikia's The Glass Agency, a war veteran needs urgent surgery abroad and his former commander will do anything to get him there.
Tense, in one sitting
Shabi Ke Mah Kamel Shod (When the Moon Was Full) is about a young Tehran woman whose marriage takes her far from home. Saat-e 6 Sobh is a thriller built around a farewell party and a 6 a.m. flight to Canada. In Jandar, a fight at a wedding leaves one man dead and two families facing each other. Shahr-e Ziba is set in a juvenile correction centre on the night a young inmate turns 18.
Laughs, start to finish
Marmoulak (The Lizard) is Kamal Tabrizi's classic about an escaped thief disguised as a cleric. Vorood-e Aghayan Mamnoo (No Men Allowed) sends a male chemistry teacher into a girls' school with a strict no-men rule. Newcastle gives its characters twelve hours before a mansion's owner lands at the airport. Sal-e Gorbeh follows a man whose birth year brings danger to everyone around him.
Quiet and character-driven
Keyk-e Mahbub-e Man follows a 70-year-old widow in Tehran who decides she has waited long enough. In Kamion, an Iranian truck driver takes a Yazidi woman and her child to Tehran to find her husband. Parviz Shahbazi's Nafas-e Amigh (Deep Breath) follows three young people at a turning point.
Most of these films run between 90 and 120 minutes. Check the runtime on each title page before you press play.
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