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- DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiValiyollah ShirandamiThe body of an English man who is been killed with a scythe is found in the Bakhtiary's area. Khoda Morad whose job is making stony lions with another man Kohyar bury the body. An officer A'meri with an English diplomat guiding him come to investigate in the murder case and arrest the murderer. They accuse Kohyar of the murder causing a dispute between people there.
- DirectorMohsen AmiryoussefiStarsSaber AbarAkbar AbdiAli AraghchiIt is about a family who one night got the opportunity to solve their mother's problem.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsHossein ParastarHamed RajabaliMehran RajabiHassan is a student of Religious /Islamic school and is about to be dressed as a missioner .In such a time when his other mates are excited and are getting ready to be formally dressed and to become a spiritual missioner Hassan's doubts and incoherences starts and he begins to have a struggle with himself. Therefore he postpones his ceremony, yet for the sake of his father and to respect him he buys the dress. Meanwhile a young boy steals his formal clothes. Hassan goes after the boy and through this path he gets to know about the poverty of the people and the poor neighborhood where the young boy lives. He communicates with this community and gets familiar with their life style. This event gives him a motivation to become a spiritual missioner because he realizes that in this way he can serve these people. At the end, the young boy ends up in a rehabilitation center for children and is going to start a new life.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAkbar MeshkinSoraya GhasemiLeila BaharanA former army colonel comes from a village to live in the city with her daughters where he finds it hard to adapt with the modern life.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsLeila ZareFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyShahab HosseiniStory of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsParviz SayyadKatayun Amir EbrahimiSadegh BahramiInspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned...
- DirectorParisa BakhtavarStarsBaran KosariSaber AbarMehran ModiriMohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsFahimeh RastkarParviz KimiaviAgha Seyed ali Mirza SajadiA director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsHouman SeyyediAmin TarokhSiroos HematiYahya is a young man who chose a strange place to complete his service. A quarantine for those who has fatal diseases. While trying to help them he finds answers for his questions and meanings of life too.
- DirectorMehdi FakhimzadehStarsHadi EslamiSoraya GhasemiEsmaeel MehrabiAn old man which have several children and grandchildren decides to marry an old woman.His desire have some compliants and some dissidents.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsMehdi HashemiShahab HosseiniMehran RajabiThe consequences of a father and son's violent act reverberate through three generations of their family.
- DirectorHamid RahmanianStarsHosein YariZabi AfsharHoda NassehSince the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison - revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, Mansour's execution is postponed again and again. Stuck inside the purgatory of his own mind, he waits as time passes on without him, caught between life and death, retribution and forgiveness.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsFarimah FarjamiAbolfazl PoorarabAtefeh RazaviAdel is a young criminal who frequently teams up with his middle-aged wife Afagh in order to carry out the most audacious schemes. But when Adel falls in love with Narges, he realises he is quite prepared to start a new life on the right side of the law. Posing as his mother, Afagh assures the bride's family that Adel is reliable, but his criminal record closes most doors in his attempts to secure a legitimate career path. Trapped in a love triangle and in the limbo of a double life, can Adel ever achieve the better future for which he is striving ?
- DirectorAbdolreza KahaniStarsAhmad MehranfarMehran AhmadiNayereh FarahaniA man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
- DirectorBehrouz ShoaybiStarsReza AttaranHanieh TavassoliMohammad Reza ShirkhanlooShiva (Hanieh Tavassoli) is the family head and looks after her little son, Amir Ali; a witty and playful boy, in the absence of her husband, Behzad (Reza Attaran) who has committed a murder in a fight on a parking space with another man. Now he is in prison and waiting for his verdict. Amir Ali is a first grader and thinks his father is dead, but after visiting him in the prison he gets depressed. Shiva visits the murdered man's brother-in-law everyday and asks him to talk to his family in order to get their approval to be paid the Blood money. The victim's twin sister is very persistent on doing the Equal retaliation and they can't get her satisfaction. Mr. Izadi (Shahrokh Foroutanian), the warden and his wife (Afsaneh Chehreh Azad) who is a social worker also try to help Behzad. Meanwhile, the visits between Amir Ali and Behzad becomes more and more intimate after Behzad gives his son a wooden horse which he has made in prison. Behzad is a former English teacher and teaches one of the guards privately to make him ready for the entrance exams. Because of his good behavior, Behzad gets a three day permission to go home. This out-of-prison visits improves Amir Ali's self-confidence and he becomes calmer and even his grades are better now. Finally Mr. Izadi takes Amir Ali to the victim's house where his mother is speechless for five years because of her son's death. Amir Ali apologizes for his father's action in a childish way and makes the mother cry. But we don't know whether her response is to forgive or to execute Behzad.
- DirectorAbdolreza KahaniStarsReza AttaranHabib RezaeiMahtab KeramatiA corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
- DirectorReza DormishianStarsBaran KosariNavid MohammadzadehMilad RahimiI'm not Angry. is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in the society, and does all he can not to lose his love, Setareh.
- DirectorEhsan BiglariStarsShahab HosseiniHengameh GhazianiNaser HashemiKhosrow (Shahab Hosseini) who is a bi-polar man is forced to live in his brother's house Nasser, as his guardian and sister goes abroad for a while. The brothers soon find themsleves in friction due to the challenging behavior of Khosrow and quesrionable moral decisions by Nasser.
- DirectorEbrahim ForouzeshStarsAmir Mohammad PourhassanMahnaz AnsarianAbbas JafariA young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartment.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsHadi HejazifarYousef AghaeiMehrdad AhmadiAhmad is an army commander who must confront the enemy at the gates of the Khorramshahr. But his fate is determined far from the Iranian border.
- DirectorDavood Mir-BagheriStarsAkbar AbdiDariush ArjmandParviz ParastuiA Iranian man (Akbar Abdi) stuck in Turkey, desperately wants to get a VISA to go to America. He starts dressing up as a woman in hopes of marrying an American man to get American citizenship, but he starts having doubts and...
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiMani HaghighiSaeed ChangizianAn Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSaeed RadNuri KasraiEnayat BakhshiNaderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. He runs for his life, eventually taking refuge in the home of a young woman. The victim's brothers continue the chase, and finally close in on him. Following the murder, streets, alleys and houses that were all part of Ali's everyday world suddenly become dangerous and hostile. Although in many ways a classic tale of revenge, Naderi uses this story to imply that an underlying violence pervades society, ready to burst forth with or without justification.
- DirectorAbolhassan DavoodiStarsTannaz TabatabaeiSaber AbarSaed SoheiliA group of people who met on social media are forced to work together when one of them commits a crime which if not solved, will concern all of them.
- DirectorAli RafieStarsReza KianianRoya NonahaliGolshifteh FarahaniAfter 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsShaghayeh DjodatHossein MoharamiRogheih MoharamiWhen an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMohammad NikbinAtila PesianiAn official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsFaramarz GharibianYousef KhodaparastBaran KosariWhen forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh (Kosari). When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man (Gharibian) who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsSaid MohamadiBehnaz JafariBahman GhobadiItinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiJaleh SamAn impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. When the educated nephew of the master comes back from Europe, complications occur which result to bad events for postman and his wife.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsMohammad Reza GolzarGolshifteh FarahaniReza RooygariEti, a 17-year-old girl from a poor family, wants to escape her infernal class boundaries with the help of Jahan, a young man.
- DirectorSaman MoghadamStarsAfsaneh BayeganPejman BazeghiHamed BehdadThe story is about lives of three women living in an old neighborhood; one has a cafe, one is the landlady and the youngest one is engaged and waiting to get married. They somehow link together with their problems.
- DirectorKiumars PoorahmadStarsKhosro ShakibaiMohammad Reza ForutanAmir Mohammad ZandTwo young Iranian soldiers guard a bus load of prisoners of war on a trip to prison.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsKhosro ShakibaiHediyeh TehraniJamshid Mashayekhi"Royaa", mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and relationship with her shady architect husband "Jahaan", gets into some serious drama; which leads to question if everything is really what it seems to be?
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsEzzatolah EntezamiFatemah Motamed-AriaGolab AdinehAn elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
- DirectorAmir Shahab RazavianStarsEzzatolah EntezamiShahbaz NoshirSaber AbarThe film relates the story of a surgeon Doctor Parsa who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Parsa performs a heart operation on the nephew of the family friend Mr Ghanati. Mr Ghanati urges him to travel with him to his home town, Bam. On the trip, they drive past the rubble and destruction and Parsa remembers back to his childhood.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiFarzaneh TaidiFaramarz GharibianAfter the death of the landlord of the village, his European wife demands the land of Baba Sobhan but his two sons who farm there are refusing. They promise to pay the rent on the right schedule but the landlord's men attack them and during that one of the two brother is getting killed and the other is injured. Although injured he decides to take revenge and goes after them.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsAkbar AbdiAzita HajianHamideh KheirabadiIt is about a burly film actor who wants to act only in art films but is forced by his family's economic demands to do a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, infertile and obsessed with having a baby, insists that her husband marry and impregnate a second wife, a deaf-mute Gypsy, to provide them with a child.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashValiyollah ShirandamiPrince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days of his ancestors as well as days of degradation. Among the latter are the gruesome manner in which his cruel grandfather murdered his mother and brother, and the way that he himself caused the death of his wife.
- DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsFariborz ArabniaHediyeh TehraniMohammad Saleh AlaA middle-class family man (Mahmoud) starts a relationship with a female nurse (Sima). When Sima gets Pregnant, things go complicated.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsNiki KarimiAli NasirianJafar DehghanGhafoor is a Taxi Driver whose son is saying to be killed during war but he is refusing to believe it. Although all the evidences proves that his son is dead and everyone believe so, he still is waiting for his beloved son Yousef. Then one day in the airport Ghafoor encounters a strange woman Shirin.
- DirectorMohsen AbdolvahabRakhshan BanietemadStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaBahram RadanBaran KosariA mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsJavad EzatiMahdi PakdelMehrdad SedighianThe story is about the terrorism of People's Mujahedin of Iran group in 1981. After the dismissal of president Bani-Sadr by the Iranian parliament the tensions became high. The terrorist groups began to Assassinate Iranian's officials. The Iranian government and the revolutionary guards were after these terrorists to arrest them. Meanwhile a young member of the revolutionary guard and a woman of the terrorist groups are known each other. They were classmate in the college.
- DirectorSabine El GemayelStarsAmir AghaeeMobina AynehdarBadrossadat BeranjaniForced into marriage, a thirteen year old Iraqi girl battles with her femininity in search for freedom.
- DirectorRambod JavanStarsReza AttaranVishka AsayeshPegah AhangaraniThis movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsReza KianianRentarô MikuniTakaaki EnokiA Japanese designer wants to have a custom woven Persian carpet to take part in a splendid Art Festival held in her hometown, Takayama. However, the weaver suddenly dies before the rug is ready.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsLeila HatamiShahab HosseiniMasoud RayeganAmin is in coma and has forgotten almost everything about the past, but he remembers some of his misty memories. He decides to make a new past for himself with recollection of these memories.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsNelofer PaziraHassan TantaiIke OgutAfter an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsEzzatolah EntezamiReza KianianHediyeh TehraniA surrealist story about Dr. Sepidbakht who one night when driving hit an angel with his car and his hand is injured deeply by touching that angel's fingers. He has several problems in his life that during the story are unfolds. His past relationships with some women colleagues, his old father, his addicted son who returned home from the west and some unknown guys who chase him and want to kill him.
- DirectorAlireza RaisianStarsLeila HatamiNezam ManouchehriMehran RajabiOn a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiBahman MofidFariba KhatamiReza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so. Ultimately, Reza is killed when he collides with a truck on his way to meet his beloved. Received the best actor and best music prizes at the Third Iranian National Film Festival "Sepas" in 1971.
- DirectorMohsen GharaieAfshin HashemiStarsRoya AfsharFarzad BagheriGhogha BayatA Canadian couple, Roman (Jalal Fatemi) and Maria (Ghogha Bayat) visit Shahdad, an Iranian desert in Kerman province. They have an uneasy relationship over the death of their son but they are hoping to mend it on this trip. They hire two young men to guide them but have a car breakdown. The situation gets complicated when Roman separates from the group and disappears into a Qanat well.
- DirectorSeyed Jamal Seyed HatamiStarsPardis AhmadiehPantea PanahihaBehnam TashakkorAkram is a sixteen years old girl who should struggle with financial and social problems in her life when the world shows her it's ugly face.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiAlireza Jalali-tabarHesam Navab SafaviChakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.
- DirectorSaeed MotalebiStarsMohamad Ali FardinPouri BaneaiAmin AminiAli and Hassan are two intimate friends but when a woman Aghdas is intervening in between everything is change.
- DirectorMohsen AbdolvahabRakhshan BanietemadStarsFarbod Masoud VaziriBita FarahiBaran KosariSara is addicted to drugs. Her fiance Arash is away in Canada studying and doesn't know about her addiction. One month before his returning to Iran Sara decides to quit her addiction but that will not be as easy as she thinks so.
- DirectorMasud AsadollahiStarsBehrouz VossoughiGoogooshHamideh KheirabadiA wealthy man who has a company deceive a naive girl Atefeh (Gogoosh) who thinks he wants to marry her. Atefeh goes to the north of Iran to find the wealthy man. Her father gives Ali (Behrouz Vossoughi) 70000 Tomans to go and returns her back home but a romance is merge between the two youngsters.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMerila Zare'iMohammad Reza ForutanA sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsAlireza GoudarziMahoor AlvandBehnoosh TabatabaeiThe story of life of Gholam Reza Takhti from his childhood till adulthood, his matches and finally his death.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAmir JadidiEhsan GoodarziHomayoun GhanizadehAn orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMahnaz AfsharPegah AhangaraniTaraneh AlidoostiWomen's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiKhosro ShakibaiAli MosaffaHaunted by a book found in her dead brother's room, Pari wanders around to find answers for a meaningful life.
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsMitra HajjarAli NicksaulatSaid OrkaniThe struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
- DirectorAlireza DavoudnejadStarsPardis AhmadiehKooshan BahramiAli DavoudnejadThe story is about a family who their only interest is money and fortunes, so they forget about family relationships and respect.
- DirectorPayman MaadiStarsSaber AbarAnahita AfsharMahnaz AfsharA piano teacher (Mahnaz Afshar) faced with a major event in her personal life, some secrets of her husband life is revealed ... In a two-way decision, she must either make her choice in accordance with the common law or break the tradition ...
- DirectorBehtash SanaeehaStarsMohammad Taghi Shams LangroudiMaryam MoghadamPourya Rahimi SamManoucher is a sixty-year-old single man. His mother always wished to see his marriage when she was still alive but he didn't even have a friend except Khosro.
- DirectorPayman MaadiStarsLeila HatamiPayman MaadiSiamak AnsariThe film is based on the Tehran's Bombardment conditions in 1988.