Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies
- 2004
Osama
Osama6.9542004HD
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to...
- 2002
11’09”01—September 11
11’09”01—September 116.52002HD
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
- 1990
Close-Up
Close-Up7.9041990HD
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...
- 1996
A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence7.6571996HD
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two...
- 1996
Gabbeh
Gabbeh6.6231996HD
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping...
- 2001
Kandahar
Kandahar6.2072001HD
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to...
- 1998
The Silence
The Silence6.3751998HD
Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as...
- 2009
Two-Legged Horse
Two-Legged Horse5.62009HD
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
- 2017
Plankton Salesmen
Plankton Salesmen02017HD
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company...
- 1998
The Apple
The Apple6.2551998HD
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...
- 2014
The President
The President6.9212014HD
The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and...
- 2003
At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon6.42003HD
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of...
- 2000
The Day I Became a Woman
The Day I Became a Woman6.12000HD
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...
- 1998
The School That Was Blown Away
The School That Was Blown Away5.31998HD
A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several...
- 2000
Tales of an Island
Tales of an Island4.22000HD
An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)
- 1995
Salaam Cinema
Salaam Cinema6.31995HD
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...
- 2024
Here Children Do Not Play Together
Here Children Do Not Play Together02024HD
To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of...
- 2013
Ongoing Smile
Ongoing Smile0.52013HD
Documentary about Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho.
- 1992
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Once Upon a Time, Cinema6.3331992HD
The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically...
- 1989
The Cyclist
The Cyclist6.6381989HD
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...