Iranian series and films with English subtitles on K-Time

English subtitles on K-Time’s Iranian catalogue are a film feature, not a series feature. As of September 2026, 22 Iranian titles carry a selectable English subtitle track; 19 of them are films, one is a series (Amsterdam, 2023), and the rest are music programmes. Against 2,361 Iranian films and 459 Iranian series in the catalogue, that is a small, curated set rather than blanket coverage — and saying so up front is more useful than letting a household discover it after signing up.

Are there Iranian series with English subtitles on K-Time?

One series, as of September 2026: Amsterdam (2023), a drama-romance with 23 episodes on the service and both a Persian and an English subtitle track. Every other Iranian series in the catalogue — 458 of them — streams in Persian audio with no English subtitle file attached. That is the honest state of the library today, and it will change only as new titles arrive with an English track already produced.

If the household’s English-speaking half wants to watch along with the Persian-speaking half tonight, the practical answer is a film, not a series.

Which Iranian titles on K-Time have English subtitles?

These are the Iranian films and series that carry a selectable English subtitle track today, newest first:

Two more titles in our data carry an English track and an Iranian tag but are not Iranian films: F for Fake (1973) and The Other Side of the Wind (2018) are Orson Welles pictures with Iranian co-production money behind them. They are worth watching and they are on K-Time; they just should not be counted as Iranian cinema, and we would rather say that than pad the number.

Three of these titles are the ones a household with mixed reading habits usually starts with. A Hero (Ghahreman, 2021) won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and is a two-hour moral puzzle that plays perfectly in subtitles. There Is No Evil (Sheytan Vojoud Nadarad, 2020) won the Golden Bear at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and is built as four self-contained stories, which makes it unusually easy to watch across two evenings. Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy (Copy Barabar Asl, 2010) is in Italian, French and English as much as Persian, so a second-generation viewer often finds it the least demanding entry point of the three.

Two practical notes on the table before you pick. Five of the fourteen carry a Persian subtitle track as well as the English one, so a household can switch scripts mid-film without changing the title — useful when a parent reads Persian faster than English and a child reads the reverse. And the running times are worth reading: four of the fourteen are shorts of 7 to 22 minutes, which are the easiest possible first watch for a teenager who has never sat through an Iranian film, while There Is No Evil at 151 minutes and A Hero at 127 are the two that need a cleared evening.

Why do so few Iranian series carry English subtitles?

Because Iranian television is made for a domestic Persian-speaking audience and is not subtitled at source. A film that travels — to Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance — has an English subtitle file produced for the festival print, and that file follows the title through the rest of its life. A twenty-episode domestic drama has no equivalent moment where somebody pays for an English translation. The result is the pattern in the table: the Iranian titles with English tracks are almost all festival films, and the ratio is not a K-Time licensing decision, it is what exists.

The pattern runs the other way too, which is worth knowing if the household’s shared language is Persian rather than English: 11,500+ international titles on K-Time carry Persian subtitles, and 7,200+ carry a Persian dub. A Korean or Turkish series with Persian subtitles is often the easier shared-watch than an Iranian series with none.

What do mixed-language households actually watch together?

The pattern we see in second-generation households is a film on a weekend evening rather than a series across a month — a series demands the same two people be free twenty times, and the English-subtitle constraint makes that harder. A 95-to-127-minute film with a real English track, watched once, tends to survive contact with a family schedule.

The other pattern is the reverse direction: parents watching Iranian series in Persian on their own, and the whole household watching a dubbed or Persian-subtitled foreign film together. The Persian-dubbed catalogue and the Turkish series with Persian subtitles both exist for exactly that evening.

How do I turn English subtitles on?

In the browser. Open ktime.app/app on a phone, tablet or computer, start the title, and use the subtitle button in the player. Every available track is listed, plus Off. Safari on iPhone and iPad works the same way — there is no K-Time app for iOS or Apple TV and no AirPlay path, so Apple hardware watches in the browser.

On the TV. The Android TV, Fire TV, Google TV and Nvidia Shield app has a subtitle sheet in the player with the same track list. Our device-by-device setup guide covers each platform, and ktime.app/k is the short install address. Samsung and LG owners connect through an IPTV player instead — set that up at ktime.app/app/tv.

On an Android phone or tablet. The native app carries the same subtitle and audio sheet as the TV app.

The subtitles are separate WebVTT files sitting next to the video, not burned into the picture, so switching between English, Persian and Off mid-episode changes nothing about the video stream. One subscription covers one device at a time, so the phone and the living-room TV take turns on the same account and the same watch history.

What if the series I want has no English subtitles?

Use the request form in the app. Requests are reviewed against the six-hourly catalogue sync, and a title that has an English track available upstream can be picked up on the next pass. It is not a promise for any specific series — if no English subtitle file exists for a 2014 domestic drama, no amount of requesting will conjure one — but it is the honest route, and it is how several titles in the table above arrived.

Watching on K-Time

Browse the Iranian films with English subtitles collection, the full catalogue, or the Iranian drama collection if Persian is the shared language at home. K-Time also runs 300+ Persian live channels and a Turkish dizi library with Persian subtitles. For the wider question of watching from abroad, see how to watch Persian TV outside Iran.

Watch on Android TV, Fire TV, Google TV or Nvidia Shield, in a browser on any phone or computer, or on the native Android phone app — no VPN, no Iranian card. New to K-Time? Create an account, or get the TV app. If setup is the obstacle, the pre-configured K-Time دستگاه sold at Iranian shops in the Greater Toronto Area arrives ready to use.