In south of Iran Farough who has a garage is not letting Sohrab to has his own job. They fight each other and in the fight Farough dies of an heart attack. His brothers are going after ...
Majid (Mohammad Reza Forutan) and Nasim (Mahtab Karamati) seem to be a perfect match but everything doesn't seem to work out as it appears
In south of Iran Farough who has a garage is not letting Sohrab to has his own job. They fight each other and in the fight Farough dies of an heart attack. His brothers are going after ...
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
Elham is a young, divorced Iranian woman. Seeking to find herself after a near-fatal beating by her husband, she finds solace and salvation in the water and soon makes her mark as a formidable endurance swimmer. In the fight of her life, Elham faces political, religious, and personal obstacles in search of her goal: the Guinness World Record for swimming the longest distance with hands bound.
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.
The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.
The story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.
Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Hamed is unemployed. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter immigrate to Europe for a better future. Missing his family, he imprisons himself and starts to revise his life in isolation.
A hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.
A man awakes to find substantial gaps in his long and short term memory, leaving him unsure of his identity and past. A therapist arrives to help him recollect his lost memories. As she ...
Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.
With his fiancé star, Aubak is seeking a license to release his cassette, but he does not succeed. Meanwhile, she is introduced to a girl named Yasman through her fiance whose father is the owner of Caste and Sidi. Jasmine loves Babak and tries to take her to Los Angeles to follow her musical activity. The star, along with her father, is trying to save her relationship with her fiancé, succeeds in obtaining permission to release Babak's album, thus preventing her from going to the United States.
The film tells the story of three young people, each of whom sets out from Bandar Abbas to Tehran to achieve a goal.
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
The film tells the story of an old tar maker who interacts with a group of young people who practice music at home. In his own mind, he sometimes imagines Iranian music masters instead of them, and we hear enduring Persian songs from those masters.
The narrator lives in a savior who lives in Mashhad, and his job is to steal from the pilgrims of the shrine of Imam Reza (AS), through which he has lost his life, but ultimately, those who lose this story will overcome the stories of the film...
A simple kind woman leads a hard, unsatisfactory life with her husband. She unintentionally caused her husband's death. But she begins a new life with his dead body.
'When Everybody was Asleep' is the story of Bibi, a well loved, elderly midwife in a small village. When Bibi married, her husband promised to take her on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and, although he never forgot his promise, he passed away before he could keep it. After years of waiting, Bibi finally has the chance to make the pilgrimage, but her advanced age makes the journey more difficult than it ever was before
Shahdokht who is the wife of the famous actor Parviz, accidentally enters the world of cinema by being cast as an actress in Parviz's last film and becomes a serious rival for him. He becomes jealous of her and their relationship becomes sour. Until their daughter who lives in Europe is suddenly return home without a notice.
In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it.
Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. Born in 1962 in Farmahin, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women's Prison (Zendān-e Zanān) in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has received seven prizes. Three Women (Seh Zan) is Hekmat’s second feature film made in 2007.
A young couple needs money to cross the border. They decide to kidnap a movie actor, and on a rainy day, they put their plan into action. They hold him captive in a house in the north of the country and tell him to call his mother and tell her to prepare fifty million Tomans.
Aida, a 17 year old girl, begins to suspect his dad is cheating on her mother.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother, a Mossad agent and trained assassin, is sent to Iran on a top-secret mission to kill a nuclear scientist, leaving Iran's intelligence service in a race against time to stop him.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
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