Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies

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

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will...

At the age of 74, many people retire themselves or go and spend the rest of their life in elderly’s house. But Kim Dong-Ho has made the...

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to...

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.

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...

22-year-old Claudia is a single mother who lives with Marghe, her sixyear-old precocious daughter. When Claudia is kicked out of her house for...

A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the...

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay...

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

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...

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...

Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

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...

A group of friends embark on a magical journey through amazing nature to meet a poet who has spent a lifetime in prison for his poems. It’s a...

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

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,...

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

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...