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The Spouse

1999 Movie Drama Family

The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss.

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Hamid Afshari, the secretary at the courthouse (Parviz Parastui), is running out of money to buy a computer for his son. Desperate, he plans to kidnap Farzan, the son of Mr. Zare, a rich party that had a trial in court. For this, he takes for accomplice Asghar, a gangster already condemned. Asghar locks Farzan in a villa in the suburbs. To catch the kidnappers, Mr. Zare feigns a state of emergency and is hospitable. Hamid Afshari rushes to the hospital to inquire about his state of health. Roya, the nurse who informs her (Fatemeh Motamed-Arya), seems very welcoming and helpful. Finding her to his liking, Hamid feels very quickly in love with her...

Azizam, Man Kook Nistam

2002 Comedy
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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?

Canary Yellow

1989 Comedy
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A 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.

Gilaneh

2005 Drama
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Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down

Niloofar

2008 Drama
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In a remote village, there lives a contortionist who gives away his most precious belonging, that is, his wife's necklace, to a strange man in exchange for a unique cobra snake who later steals it back, but the man who is now facing villagers' accusation that the snake has run away is expelled from the village. After a while of wandering around, he meets an old shepherd who teaches him the correct way of life. The man who has gained new opportunities now starts a new life with his wife.

The Snake

1991 Drama

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In a remote village, there lives a contortionist who gives away his most precious belonging, that is, his wife's necklace, to a strange man in exchange for a unique cobra snake who later steals it back, but the man who is now facing villagers' accusation that the snake has run away is expelled from the village. After a while of wandering around, he meets an old shepherd who teaches him the correct way of life. The man who has gained new opportunities now starts a new life with his wife.

The Snake

1991 Drama

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