#1 of 117 Highest-grossing Persian-language movie ever
2004 · Drama
$86.5M worldwide
$43.7M US & Canada · 51% $42.7M elsewhere · 49%
Persian box office · All time
Highest-Grossing Persian Movies of All Time, Page 3
Daughters of the Sun (2004) is the highest-grossing Persian-language movie in our database, with $86.5M worldwide, ahead of A Separation (2011) at $22.9M and It Was Just an Accident (2025) at $10.5M. 117 Persian-language films in our database report a worldwide gross, $176.6M in all, 34% of it from the US & Canada. By genre, Drama leads with $175M across 95 Persian releases.
- films with a reported gross
- 117
- combined worldwide
- $176.6M
- Daughters of the Sun (2004), the #1
- $86.5M
- earned in the US & Canada
- 34%
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All 117 Persian Movies, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 101 to 117 of 117. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 101
Feb 1, 2014 US and Canada: $10.7K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $10.7K - 102
Feb 1, 1997 US and Canada: $5.3K Rest of the world: $2.9K Worldwide: $8.2K - 103
Aug 10, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $7.6K - 104
Feb 5, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $7.5K - 105
May 1, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $7.5K - 106
Nov 21, 2025 US and Canada: $7.1K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $7.1K - 107
Feb 24, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $6.6K - 108
Jun 13, 2014 US and Canada: $6.3K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $6.3K - 109
Sep 5, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $6K - 110
Jan 20, 2017 US and Canada: $5.9K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $5.9K - 111
Jan 7, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4.2K - 112
Oct 18, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4.2K - 113
Feb 1, 1990 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.5K - 114
Feb 1, 2000 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.4K - 115
Sep 7, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $557 - 116
Oct 5, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $107 - 117
Nov 21, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $9
Archive
Persian Box Office Year by Year
Every year from 1984 to 2025 with its total and its biggest film. 2004 leads with $86.5M, led by Daughters of the Sun (2004).
2020s 6 years · $33.6M
2010s 10 years · $42M
- 2019 $4.6M #1 3 Faces (2019)
- 2018 $611.5K #1 Tehran Taboo (2018)
- 2017 $1M #1 A Man of Integrity (2017)
- 2016 $1.5M #1 Take Off (2016)
- 2015 $1.7M #1 Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)
- 2014 $4.2M #1 Time to Love (2014)
- 2013 $726.3K #1 The Patience Stone (2013)
- 2012 $2.8M #1 Any Day Now (2012)
- 2011 $22.9M #1 A Separation (2011)
- 2010 $1.9M #1 Women Without Men (2010)
2000s 10 years · $96.3M
- 2009 $827K #1 Seven Minutes to Fall (2009)
- 2008 $67.3K #1 Shirin (2008)
- 2007 $3.3M #1 Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)
- 2006 $147.1K #1 Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
- 2005 $538.7K #1 Hayat (2005)
- 2004 $86.5M #1 Daughters of the Sun (2004)
- 2003 $1.1M #1 At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
- 2002 $122.9K #1 Secret Ballot (2002)
- 2001 $557.2K #1 The Hidden Half (2001)
- 2000 $3.1M #1 The Color of Paradise (2000)