Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Life and a Day
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Morteza loves Zari but Zari's bankrupt father agrees to wed her to a wealthy man who will pay all his debts. Zari suicides in the night of the wedding and Morteza leaves the city (Jahrom) ...
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
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After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
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In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
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Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
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This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.
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Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname "Roofman." After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.
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An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
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Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
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Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.
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Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar must plan an operation that will place everyone dear to her in jeopardy.
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The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.
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Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
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A small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.
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An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
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Driven by the fact that there are few things more dangerous than a prisoner who has just escaped, and tired of following protocol and resorting to outdated methods of law enforcement, veteran U.S. Marshals Charlie Duchamp and Ray Zancanelli are taking an unorthodox approach to their work: using former fugitives to catch fugitives.
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A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
A rich guy's driver who wants to help a poor girl who work in a cabaret introduces her as his master's fiance. She falls in love with the master without knowing his real identity. This leads all of them to face many funny adventures.
In the Turkmen desert region, Artaq (Nasser Malek Motiei) sends his mother several times to propose to Qalich Khan's daughter; but the girl's father does not consent. Artaq kidnaps the girl from the riverbank and takes her to a shrine. Qalich and his sons forgive her. At night, Farid (Iraj Qaderi) and his friend (Rafi Madadkar) enter the shrine to steal the holy tablet. The thieves leave Farid behind and his people capture and imprison Artaq. The two escape and after a chase and escape, they reach Ebad, the main thief.
A young rich guy because of bad companies becomes alcoholic and loses all his fortune in gambling and even loses his wife. He goes wandering the streets alone with his son. But in an accident he loses his son too and eventually becomes blind. But finally after many years he manages to find his son and they begin together a new life.
Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of the local brothel. Too shy to identify himself, Nazim sends her love letters, signing as Orhan, one of his employees - and a man with not many scruples... When Aysel arrives on the construction site, the deception does not last long. It all ends in a happy marriage. Only, it's not the end yet.
Nayyer after killing a woman takes over Sha'ban's lands and accused him of the killing causing him to be imprisoned. A young guy known as Red-Haired is protecting her. But Sha'ban is back and this time in a quarrel gets killed by Nayyer's men. Meanwhile, a young girl Ahou is coming in the middle which causes Red-Haired to fall in love with her. This changes everything and leads Red-haired to face Nayyer and her men.
During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not ...
Sima attempts suicide by taking an overdose of medication and, before the drugs take effect, informs Dr. Ali Behrouzi of what she has done. With the help of the police and the telecommunications department, Ali locates Sima’s address and manages to save her. Ali becomes attached to Sima, a cabaret dancer. Safdar, the café owner, assigns his men to keep an eye on the two of them. Ali marries Sima on the condition that she gives up her job at the café. However, with the help of one of Sima’s colleagues, a woman named Akhtar, Safdar attempts to turn Ali against Sima.
Ghalandar feels bothered by the suitors wooing for his sister Eshrat. But for a secret reason he does not want to marry her off. As a way out, he asks his trusted friend Sadegh to marry his sister, but warns him about making love with her. Sadegh tries to keep his promise, but when he leaves his wife immediately after the wedding ceremony for the capital, Eshrat follows and joins him and his mother. Unable to bear with the taunts of mother, Sadegh eventually breaks his oath and takes his legal wife to bed. Informed of this betrayal, Ghalandar waylays Sadegh at a dark night and stabs him to death. Eshrat, suspecting who is behind this murder, flees and joins a whorehouse, intent to exact her revenge by staining the name of his so-far respectable brother...
Ali and Hassan are two intimate friends but when a woman Aghdas is intervening in between everything is change.
Fatemeh and Pouran, two widows, meet each other in the zoo and decide to live together. Later, one becomes a famous singer and the other a servant. Their two daughters grow up and problems begin.
Rajab and his friend Ghorban accidentally enter the 20st century from ancient times and after a few events, decide to return to their time and period.
Four men: Akbar, a taxi driver, Mansour, a government employee, Mustafa, a boxer, and Qasem, a smuggler, return a man's stolen wallet, and the man issues a check for forty thousand tomans in their names as a reward. The next day is a holiday, and they, who do not trust each other, move into Mansour's house. Mansour lives with his wife and daughter Marzieh, and Mustafa falls in love with the girl, who has already been deceived. Mustafa defeats his opponent in the Asian qualifying match, which is held on Friday. In the meantime, Qasem arranges with his friends to be ready on Saturday when the check is collected and to steal the wallet. Qasem's accomplices intervene, and Mansour is killed in a fight with Qasem's bullets. Qasem is arrested, and Mansour, at the last moment, hands his daughter over to Mustafa.
The Night-prowler, a mute man, rescues Showkat, a cabaret singer, from a group of men and takes her to his humble home…
Abbas and his brother Jamal live next door to Haj Mustafa, who has a young daughter named Leila..
Hossein the fabric seller, before dying, bequeaths to Mr. Kamal, a pious and ascetic man, to accept the guardianship of his daughter Golrokh. Mr. Kamal takes the girl to his home. Gradually, both Mr. Kamal and his young son become fond of Golrokh.
The daughter of a wealthy man marries a young Black man against her father's wishes. Shortly after, the woman dies during childbirth, and her husband is killed during a police chase. A little Black boy is the result of this marriage. The little boy meets a young man named "Reza," through whom he comes face to face with his grandfather.
Nayyer after killing a woman takes over Sha'ban's lands and accused him of the killing causing him to be imprisoned. A young guy known as Red-Haired is protecting her. But Sha'ban is back and this time in a quarrel gets killed by Nayyer's men. Meanwhile, a young girl Ahou is coming in the middle which causes Red-Haired to fall in love with her. This changes everything and leads Red-haired to face Nayyer and her men.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not ...
Shares 3 cast members · Same director
In the Turkmen desert region, Artaq (Nasser Malek Motiei) sends his mother several times to propose to Qalich Khan's daughter; but the girl's father does not consent. Artaq kidnaps the girl from the riverbank and takes her to a shrine. Qalich and his sons forgive her. At night, Farid (Iraj Qaderi) and his friend (Rafi Madadkar) enter the shrine to steal the holy tablet. The thieves leave Farid behind and his people capture and imprison Artaq. The two escape and after a chase and escape, they reach Ebad, the main thief.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
Fatemeh and Pouran, two widows, meet each other in the zoo and decide to live together. Later, one becomes a famous singer and the other a servant. Their two daughters grow up and problems begin.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
Ali and Hassan are two intimate friends but when a woman Aghdas is intervening in between everything is change.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
Sima attempts suicide by taking an overdose of medication and, before the drugs take effect, informs Dr. Ali Behrouzi of what she has done. With the help of the police and the telecommunications department, Ali locates Sima’s address and manages to save her. Ali becomes attached to Sima, a cabaret dancer. Safdar, the café owner, assigns his men to keep an eye on the two of them. Ali marries Sima on the condition that she gives up her job at the café. However, with the help of one of Sima’s colleagues, a woman named Akhtar, Safdar attempts to turn Ali against Sima.
Shares a lead actor · Same director
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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