From the birth of the Iranian cinema in 1931 until the end of the Pahlavi era in 1979, Iranian women directed four films which titled Marjan (1956), The House is Black (1962), The Sealed Soil (1978) and Maryam & Mani (1979). The movie Marjan was the first feature film directed by a woman in the history of Iranian cinema. The movie The House Is Black was the second movie directed by an Iranian female poet. It was also the first documentary movie directed by an Iranian woman. In this article the first two films were chosen to be studied comparatively.