A man with a wife and children often spends his time carousing and gambling with a cabaret woman.
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
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John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
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A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
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A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
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Rahmat, an unemployed young man, befriends a woman forced into prostitution after being deceived by a womanizer named Parviz. Later, during a trip to Isfahan, he meets Zohreh, another of Parviz's victims. Pregnant with Parviz's child, Zohreh asks Rahmat to pose as her husband before her parents ...
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Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
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An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as winning Meltem's love. However, this is not to the liking of his cousin Cihangir and his father, who instead are totally broke and want to get their revenge on Ali.
After spending all his money buying a piece of land that was already sold to someone else, Nasrallah Madadi finds himself in trouble. To solve his money problems, he then decides to be the offender of fraud rather than its victim. Getting himself involved with a pair of criminals, he begins a crooked business selling a same yellow taxi to different buyers, only to steal it back from them and sell it again. In a fascinating portrayal of human nature, Canary Yellow follows Nasrallah through the ups and downs of his double-sided experience of crime. But will it all end with the better life for his family he hopes for?
A professor who found out a formula to make diamonds from oil is killed in Tehran and his nephew who is a spy is sent to Tehran by Interpol in order to find the formula.
A Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).
Baba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...
Hamid and his wife Maryam are getting ready to throw a birthday party for their daughter Parvin.
Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Amir, Mansour, and Nader get interested in private detective work after watching crime TV shows.
Hamid takes money from his father's pocket at the request of his brother Mohsen to go to the cinema.
A criminal group intends to murder a girl, but a young man saves her. The girl is the daughter of a wealthy man, and after his wife's death, the father married a widow. The girl's stepmother, a young woman, plotted the girl's murder to inherit her husband's wealth herself. With the young man's presence in the girl's life, the stepmother's plan becomes impossible to execute until the family's father is killed in an accident, and the woman stages the scene to make it appear that the young man committed the murder. The police, based on the evidence, pursue the young man and his friend. The girl decides to help the young man. Eventually, it turns out that the killer is the victim's brother, whom everyone thought had died. With the discovery of the truth, the young man's innocence is proven, and he begins a life together with the girl.
Nasser Fadakar and Taghi Bi-Azar work for Kousheh at an institute. Kousheh is not satisfied with their work and behavior and sends both of them on forced leave. The two go on a trip in their landlady's old car and meet Mina on the road. Mina is a famous singer whose aunt and her managers, Sousoul and Abdullah Booghi, are watching over her so that she doesn't think about claiming her wealth, which her aunt, with the help of Saeed and by forging documents, has taken possession of. Saeed wants to marry Mina and receive half of her wealth. Mina asks Nasser for help. The aunt, by hypnotizing Mina, arranges the wedding ceremony of Saeed and Mina, and Nasser, with the help of a man who pretends to be able to put people to sleep and make them talk, and with Taghi's antics, who is dressed in women's clothes, disrupt their wedding ceremony. Taghi kidnaps Mina and Nasser hands Saeed over to the police. Finally, Nasser starts a life with Mina and Taghi with Mina's friend.
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar 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. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man 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.
Nasrin, a doctor named Ahmad's wife, dies in the operating room.
A lecherous man divorces his wife even though they have two children.
Reza, a young truck driver at a truck stop, falls for a girl. His brother, a teacher in the literacy corps, also becomes smitten with her. Unaware of Reza's feelings, the teacher asks his brother to propose to the girl on his behalf. Reza agrees, but a wicked and lustful man who also desires the girl pits the two brothers against each other. He sabotages the truck stop in an attempt to eliminate them. Reza thwarts the lustful man's plan, but the younger brother is killed by him. Eventually, Reza captures the killer, and the police arrest him.
The village headman's daughter and the landlord's daughter are both smitten with a young engineer. After some drama, the landlord's daughter finally puts an end to the problem. She pretends to be frivolous so that the young engineer distances himself from her and gets closer to the headman's daughter, even though she loves the engineer and suffers from losing him.
Rahmat, an unemployed young man, befriends a woman forced into prostitution after being deceived by a womanizer named Parviz. Later, during a trip to Isfahan, he meets Zohreh, another of Parviz's victims. Pregnant with Parviz's child, Zohreh asks Rahmat to pose as her husband before her parents ...
After years of suspecting his wife of having an affair with a young painter, the man finally abandons her.
A Lost Persian Film.
With Mohsen Khan's death, his brother Asadullah Khan and his wife decide to get rid of Mohsen's daughters and seize Mohsen Khan's inheritance.
A young couple who want to get married are facing opposition from the boy's parents.
A young wrestler becomes a champion in his sport. He's into a girl and dreams of getting married. Meanwhile, a criminal woman enters his life and pushes him towards partying all night and addiction. The gym owner, who's his friend, tries to help him but can't. The champion is rejected by the public and plans to end his life, but the girl he likes helps him get back his past victories.
A bankrupt businessman and his wife attempt a rail suicide, but the wife's change of heart make it fail. They have already abandoned their newborn daughter who is picked up by a street sweeper and raised in his family. Years later, she runs away from the home searching for a better life and a job...
A rich man who is very greedy for money owns a cabaret and always humiliates his loyal servant until he finds out that his servant has inherited a large fortune.
After being discharged from the military service, four friends decide to establish a boarding house in Tehran, and each of them undertakes a task: one is a waiter, another is a cook, the third is a doorman, and the last one is elected as the director of the boarding house.
Two musicians, when they can't find work for themselves, dress up in women's clothes and enter the house of a wealthy woman whose servants are all female; because the lady of the house intensely dislikes men.
Mahmoud stumbles upon a corpse in his humble home. He takes the body to the forest to hang it, but a man named Jabbar shows up and, threatening Mahmoud, takes him to a farm, introducing him as Farhad, the lost son of the farm owner. Mahmoud, who has fallen for Nahid, the landlord's daughter, reveals the truth, and Nahid, thinking Mahmoud intends to deceive her father, pushes him away. Mahmoud reads in the newspaper that the police have found a corpse in the forest that had previously been stolen from the morgue. Mahmoud breaks off his partnership with Jabbar, but Jabbar takes him to Sohrab Khan's estate and shows him Farhad. Sohrab locks Mahmoud in a small room. Farhad rescues Mahmoud, and Mahmoud takes Farhad to his real father and marries Nahid.
A cousin and his female cousin love each other, but the girl's father marries his daughter to a man of his own choosing.
A young boy and girl meet at university and after a while decide to get married, but the girl's father, who is a greedy man, decides to marry his daughter to his nephew Jamshid, who claims to own a large fortune.
