Payman Maadi Babak Karimi Dariush Farhang Amin Tarokh Jamshid Hashempour Akbar Abdi Abolfazl Pourarab Mohammad Ali Fardin Saeed Rad Rouhollah Zamani Sirous Gorjestani Babak Hamidian Amir Jadidi Parsa Pirouzfar Actresses Susan Taslimi Shohreh Aghdashloo Zar Amir Ebrahimi Hamideh Kheirabadi Leila Hatami Hedieh Tehrani Taraneh Alidoosti Golshifteh Farahani Sareh Bayat Gohar Kheirandish Jamileh Sheikhi Farimah Farjami Homa Rousta Bita Farahi Googoosh Parvaneh Massoumi Golab Adineh Niki Karimi Parinaz Izadyar Elnaz Shakerdoost Merila Zarei Pantea Bahram Baran Kosari Negar Javaherian Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee Fatemah Motamed Aria Shabnam Moghaddami Sara Bahrami Mahtab Keramati Katayoun Riahi Tannaz Tabatabaee Mahnaz Afshar Hanieh Tavassoli Sahar Dolatshahi Pegah Ahangarani Nazanin Boniadi Contemporary Iranian cinema Today, the Iranian box office is dominated by commercial Iranian films. Western films are occasionally shown in movie theaters. and contemporary Hollywood productions are shown on state television. Iranian art films are often not screened officially, and are viewable via unlicensed DVDs which are available. Some of these acclaimed films were screened in Iran and had box office success. Examples include Rassul Sadr Ameli's "I’m Taraneh, 15", Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's "Under the skin of the City", Bahman Ghobadi's "Marooned in Iraq" and Manijeh Hekmat's "Women's Prison". Commercial cinema in Iran The internationally award-winning cinema of Iran is quite different from the domestically oriented films. The latter caters to an entirely different audience, which is largely under the age of 25. This commercial Iranian cinema genre is largely unknown in the West, as the films are targeted at local audiences. There are Three categories of this type of film: Films before the revolution. Lor Girl, A Party in Hell, Qeysar, Dar Emtedade Shab, Amir Arsalan, and Ganj-e Qarun. Films about the victory of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran–Iraq war and Action filled with strong religious and national motifs. Eagles, Barzakhiha, The Viper, Dadshah, Boycott, Duel, Taraj, Ekhrajiha, The Glass Agency, Kani Manga, Ofogh, Bashu, the Little Stranger, Leily Ba Man Ast, M as in Mother and The Night Bus. Formulaic films starring popular actors. With 130 Iranian films looking for a screening each year, cinema managers tend to prefer crowd-pleasing comedies, romantic melodramas, and family comedies over the other genres. The Lizard, The Blue-Veiled, Ghermez, Leila, Outsiders, Char Changooli, Kolah Ghermezi and Pesar Khaleh, Kolah Ghermezi and Bache Naneh, Actor, Ejareh-Nesheenha, Shokaran, Dayere Zangi, Aquarium, Cease Fire, No Men Allowed, The Changed Man, Charlatan, The Kingdom of Solomon, Guidance Patrol, Killing