Crimson Gold (Persian: طلای سرخ Talâ-ye Sorx) is a 2003 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, and written by Abbas Kiarostami.

The movie opens with a scene inside a jeweler's shop, which the main character, Hossein, appears to be attempting to rob.

He also empties a purse he has snatched, whose contents are meager save a slip of paper with the address of a jeweler's shop and a figure of 75 million tomans.

Hossein, naturally sensitive to his social status, is somewhat offended by the con artist's automatic classification of him and Ali as mere pickpockets.

When The Jeweler actually shows up, he treats the three with the same condescension and contempt as before, suggesting that they go to a pawnshop to buy handcrafted gold that can be easily liquidated in an emergency, a not-so-subtle reminder of their social status.

He is awakened by an arrest in a building close to his, and observes the police drag out a man who loudly and continuously protests his innocence.

The destroyed motorbike and sprawled remains of the pizza warmer box are a grim reminder of the dangers of Tehran's freeways at night.

This is exemplified by the fact that as Hossein is on his way up, two young women come down, dressed in essentially Western clothing, something that would not be found in less affluent neighborhoods.

Hossein Emadeddin, who plays the lead role, was not a professional actor but an actual pizza delivery man with paranoid schizophrenia, who made filming very difficult by destructiveness and noncooperation.