“Comedy” has the highest value (1,259) and “Children–musical” the lowest (0).

Most popular film genres in Iran, 1398 (2019/20)
Genre	Number of admissions
Comedy	1,259
Social	881
Comedy, social	97.5
Adventure	77
Animation	65.8
Drama–political	53.9
Comedy–social	46.4
Musical	34.9
Fantasy–mystery	24.7
Sacred Defense (Iran–Iraq War)	22.1
Children and young adults–family	18.1
Drama–social	17.9
Children	16.6
Children and young adults	3.5
Romance	2.7
Action	1.5
Art–social	1.2
Documentary	1.2
Political–comedy	0.9
Children–musical	0

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is about Iran. Figures come from Iranian sources as published, without adjustment.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: Iran Film and Cinema Sales Statistical Yearbook
Year: 1399 (2020/21)
Industry: Film and TV series
Published: Oct 21, 2020

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