Top 250 Movies Like Queen Of Beggars
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A list of the best movies similar to Queen of Beggars. If you liked Queen of Beggars then you may also like: No Land's Song, Life, and Nothing More…, The Bear, Amish Abduction, My Father, My Kidnapper and many more great movies featured on this list.
Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara.
Life, and Nothing More…
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
Amish Abduction
Amish wife and mother Annie faces a crisis when her husband leaves the word of the Amish to live among “normal Americans,” or the “English” as the Amish dub them. But things turn even more dire when her husband returns, seeking custody of their son, and is willing to kill to achieve his goal…
My Father, My Kidnapper
When her mother Jane suddenly disappears, Casey must face the dark secrets of the past to find her before it's too late.
Law of Tehran
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
Desert Blue
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next few days with the various residents of the town which include a teenage girl who loves to blow things up and a boy trying to keep alive his fathers dream of building a beachside resort in the middle of the desert.
Leila's Brothers
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.
I'm Reed Fish
When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Reed's fiancee (Alexis Bledel) and the entire town to turn against him. This one-of-a-kind hilariously clever comedy features an up and coming ensemble cast and an unforgettably captivating original soundtrack.
Gholamreza Takhti
The story of life of Gholam Reza Takhti from his childhood till adulthood, his matches and finally his death.
A Moment of Innocence
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 decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
Sara
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Through the Olive Trees
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).
I Saw What You Did
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Sham
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
Tambourine
Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
5th & Alameda
Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery, Sara loses her child. Returning home, she is shocked to find Derek there with a gun, but things are not as they seem. Determined to do penance for a lifetime of bad choices, Derek places himself in Sara's power, and Sara, who has been viciously abused by men in the past, takes the opportunity for vengeance. As they grow to know each other, they both will form a lifesaving bond or kill each other first!
A Respectable Family
Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following the death of his father and the discovery of what his “respectable family” has become, he is forced to make choices.
The Tenants
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Heiran
During the rule of Taliban in Afghanistan, about 3 million illegal Afghani immigrants entered Iran and caused numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film depicts the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with Heiran, an Afghan student who has come to their village to work. However, Mahi's family being strictly against her marriage to Heiran, force Mahi to choose one between her family and an Afghan boy.
The Lead
Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence.
Standing in the Dust
Ahmad is an army commander who must confront the enemy at the gates of the Khorramshahr. But his fate is determined far from the Iranian border.
A Woman Called Sharab
A father and his son meet each other after many years. But there is always a woman in between.
Restoration
After the Iranian coup in 1953, Col. Takin is commissioned to find and recover 11 tons of gold from Russia. The subject of this film is the reclamation money that was supposed to be paid by England, America and Russia to Iran because of the World War II and is about the year 1951. This film is a historical drama about the War events and the issues that opened the door to Iran for the allies and axis forces, and points to the reclamation payment to Iran.
Davaro
Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out.
Sekke-ye shans
Two brothers fall in love with the same girl. Nevertheless, the girl likes the older brother. A guy tries to set these two brothers apart and make the younger one addicted to gambling. He wins everything the father of the girl has in a bet and says that he will give back all of it if he agrees to make his daughter marry him. The father accepts. But the younger brother finds out that you can't buy love, and lets the older brother to have her.
Water
Towfigh is a rich man who has a large number of barrels and carts to distribute water, and in order to protect his interests through the exclusive distribution of water, he prevents any attempt by others in this field. But a young man named Moslem stands up to him and tries to compete with him with his small cart.
The Lover
A man from a respectable and rich family is fascinated by a derelict woman. He intends to marry her, and despite his family’s disagreement, he does it. But the former lover of the girl remains intrusive, until she kills him to defend herself. She becomes imprisoned, but after being released from the prison, the family of her husband finally accept her.
Salaam Mumbai
Ali is an Iranian exchange student from Iran who is studying medicine as a cardio resident in Mumbai. By chance, he saves the life of one of his classmates Karishma, who has attempted suicide. Little by little he tries to talk to Karishma and give her hope and happiness, which eventually leads to the two of them falling in love.
Equator
"The Equator" is the humorous story of the president and vice president of the Football Federation, who are on their way to Malaysia to participate in the AFC annual meeting; But by going to the island of Bali in Indonesia to sign a contract with Zidane, funny things happen to them.
50 Kilos of Sour Cherry
When the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story begins.
The Mummy 3
Officer Ghorbani is a good and on time police officer but when a mummy corpse is find his troubles and adventures begin and he has to find a way to save the mummy from the thieves.
No End
Ayaz is an ordinary man who wishes for his own home. His brother-in-law left Iran for a long time due to his anti-government activities, but the news of his possible return reaches Ayaz. Concerned that he might have to leave home if his brother-in-law returns, Ayaz tells a small lie—that the secret police have searched their home. Ayaz’s lie becomes an excuse for the real secret police to track down his brother-in-law, and Ayaz finds himself in a situation where he is forced to report his neighbors and family.
A Man without a Shadow
The film A Shadowless Man in the Social Genre, produced in 1397 and filmed in Iran and Spain. The director of this work, Alireza Reisian, went on to make a film without shadows after the films "Forty Years" and "The Age of Love". A Shadowless Man was screened at the 37th Fajr Festival. The story of this film deals with the emotional and marital relationship of contemporary man, who has a special look at social problems these days. The film's synopsis states that filmmaker Mahan Koushiar decides to make a documentary about a serial murder, but his life is affected.
The Slaughterhouse
Amir, recently released from prison in France, finds himself back in Iran and in over his head when his father, a slaughterhouse worker, calls him to help him cover up a crime which has happened there.
Killing a Traitor
In coincidence with the Nationalization of Iranian Oil Industry, when the Iranian government faces budget deficits due to the fact that the entire world stops acquiring oil from the country, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh asks the people for support. So a group of university students decide to rob the National Bank of Iran for good, but simultaneously some robbers enter the bank and steal the money. It seems that the destiny would be marked in the confrontation of the student activists and the opportunist thieves…
Beautiful City
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of Akbar, tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar’s plaintiff so as to stop the execution.
Drunk on Love
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
Repression
After a long time, three sisters come back to their paternal house. They face a caretaker along with their mother struggling with Alzheimer's. But there is no trace of the father who has disappeared in an early morning. A dead body is found, but none of the sisters are going to identify the body due to the hatred rooted in their hearts. There is a dark secret in the family, but no one intends to talk about it.
Hush! Girls Don't Scream
Hours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically troubled. But as the dark secrets in her past are slowly revealed, exposing a childhood of neglect, abuse, and the tragic history of two previous failed marriages, the characters must face their own battles with justice, retribution and morality.
Bomb: A Love Story
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.
Fellow Traveler
A wealthy man who has a company deceive a naive girl Atefeh (Gogoosh) who thinks he wants to marry her. Atefeh goes to the north of Iran to find the wealthy man. Her father gives Ali (Behrouz Vossoughi) 70000 Tomans to go and returns her back home but a romance is merge between the two youngsters.
Fish & Cat
A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.
The White Meadows
Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of the Iran's political leadership emerges.
Final Exam
Farhad, a respected math teacher, is engaged to the mother of one of his pupils. But rather than embrace his new father figure, the angry young student spends his days riding around Tehran on a motorcycle with his rebellious friend, refusing to study—or even sit—for his big final exam.
Under the Smoky Roof
Shirin is a woman facing problems in her marriage and with her child. She's trying desperately for a way to connect with her son and her husband.
Risk of Acid Rain
When his mother passes away, Manouchehr, an unmarried retiree with no other relatives, sets off on a journey to find his one and only friend in Tehran.
The Villa Complex Residents
Vilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian's army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes here, all become tension that maybe he brings bad news about the army leaders who fight in the front lines. After a while Cima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her.
Suddenly a Tree
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.
House of Paper
A famous journalist who was out of job for a few years after being arrested, is living with his only daughter in Iran . She is also a journalist. Death of a writer returns an old love from ...
Fairy Out of Wedluck
Parinaaz's mother dies in an accident. The only relative to take care of Parinaaz is an aunt who despises her. Their relationship is to be challenged through different unnatural events.
District Terminal
As junkie poet Peyman attempts to finish a poem, his city of Tehran falls prey to pollution and a lethal virus.
Residents of Nowhere
A young man suddenly enters a guest house (hostel) ; at first It is not known where the strange guest house (hostel) is, but the more he ponders on the coordinates of the guest house, the more it becomes clear that the young man is somewhere between life and death.
Forbidden Womanhood
The simple question: “How does a woman get pregnant?” forever shatters the childhood of a pre-teen girl entering into an innocent love triangle.
Time to Love
Bita (Hatami), a successful lawyer specializing in championing the cause of women’s rights in divorce cases, is blind to the trouble brewing in her own marriage. A snatch of gossip and a problem client with an unwanted pregnancy unexpectedly bring Bita’s problems home. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
The Nameless Alley
Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
Atabai
Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his unexpected love for his colleague....
Pari
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Absence
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he had about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir's fall from the window.
Baba Shamal
Baba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...
Ice Age
In the tenth year of marriage, Babak and Manizheh face the biggest challenge of their life. Financial problems and difficult social situation cause Babak to work very hard and this leads to a deep gap between him and his wife, in a way that Manizheh starts a new relation, the relation which leads her to addiction and immorality. On the verge of her complete collapse, she wakes up to the truth that she has lost her life.
The Readhead
Farhad's younger brother gets killed right in front of his eyes. Now Farhad along with his brother, the 'dead man', steps to the woods of spirits for revenge. This journey though, is to the past and the future.
Domrol
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.
Shirin and Farhad
A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor.
Sheyda
Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.
Battle of the Persian Gulf II
After a US missile strike on an Iranian nuclear plant, armed conflict erupts in the Persian Gulf between the forces of America and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, led by Qassem Soleimani.
The Color Purple
An undercover Iranian intelligence officer investigates the political status of a college student, whose parents were active members of the mujahedin khalgh radical group.
Separate Beds
Hamid, who has a dispute with his wife "Mehri", leaves his wife and daughter "Mahtab" and goes to a cafe. Hamid meets a dancer named Mina, who tries to trap him in a smuggling gang led by Ahmad.
Rings
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 them. The police fail to find any evidence leading to the anonymous offender. It seems the further they investigate, the less they know. Is it possible that the whole town is in danger? An intense and captivating horror that is filled with suspense.
Wooden Bridge
It is about life of a young couple who want to migrate from their country. But the arrival of Nazli makes problems...
The Blue-Veiled
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
Saray
There is an old chant from old times between Azerbaijani tribes that tells the story of a girl named Saray. Saray was a beautiful girl from Moghan and was in love with the head of the shepherds of the tribe, Aydin. Just a few days after the engagement of Saray and Aydin, Soltan Beig (leader of tribe) took advantage of Aydin's absence to seize and force Saray to marry him.
3 Degrees of Fever
Elham is about to marry a young rich guy. But the guy's mother tells her that she doesn't like her nose and before the marriage she should make a plastic surgery and fix it. Elham does the ...
Inadvertent
Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.
Enlightened
It is a story of five different episodes and is about a valentine's day present which rounds from hand to hand till finally.
Parallel Shadows
Based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - A Gentle Creature - written in November 1876. Farhad is an isolated antiques dealer who has no communications with the outer world but his few customers. After he gets into a relationship with Nazanin, one of his customers, suddenly everything falls apart.
A Revolution on Canvas
In this hybrid political thriller and verité portrait documentary, Sara Nodjoumi, working with co-director and husband, Till Schauder, makes her directorial debut with this personal film, diving into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of more than 100 “treasonous” paintings by her father, seminal Iranian modern artist Nickzad Nodjoumi.
No Land's Song
In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?