Top 10 awesome movies like The Cyclist that you will enjoy watching

You just finished watching The Cyclist and you can't get over how good this movie was. Now you want to watch more of such masterpieces. We have curated a list of similar movies which are created by the likes of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mahshid Afsharzadeh and Firouz Kiani . Here goes the list -

Through the Olive Trees
The Mirror
The Wind Will Carry Us
The Apple
The Circle
The Willow Tree
Taste of Cherry
Ten
So Close, So Far
Bashu, the Little Stranger

1. Through the Olive Trees

   The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got ...

   This movie, created by Abbas Kiarostami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz and Farhad Kheradmand, scores 7.8 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

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2. The Mirror

   When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself. In this ingenious and daringly original feature, ...

   This movie, created by Jafar Panahi, Mina Mohammad Khani and Aida Mohammadkhani, scores 7.6 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

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3. The Wind Will Carry Us

   Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

   This movie, created by Abbas Kiarostami, Behzad Dorani and Noghre Asadi, scores 7.6 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

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4. The Apple

   After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

   This movie, created by Samira Makhmalbaf, Massoumeh Naderi and Zahra Naderi, scores 7.3 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

5. The Circle

   Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

   This movie, created by Jafar Panahi, Nargess Mamizadeh and Maryiam Palvin Almani, scores 7.5 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

6. The Willow Tree

   Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

   This movie, created by Majid Majidi, Parviz Parastui and Roya Taymourian, scores 7.5 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

7. Taste of Cherry

   An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

   This movie, created by Abbas Kiarostami, Homayoun Ershadi and Abdolrahman Bagheri, scores 7.7 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

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8. Ten

   A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

   This movie, created by Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari and Amin Maher, scores 7.5 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

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9. So Close, So Far

   Dr. Alam, a very profiled specialist in neurology and a successful surgeon, is drowned in his professional and social work, in a way that he has totally forgotten all about his son Saman. ...

   This movie, created by Reza Mirkarimi, Afshin Hashemi and Elham Hamidi, scores 7.6 on IMDb.

   Genres - Drama

10. Bashu, the Little Stranger

    Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.

    This movie, created by Bahram Beizai, Susan Taslimi and Parviz Poorhosseini, scores 8.1 on IMDb.

    Genres - Drama