The Strengthening Sun

A wise man's job is to find young men with good lineage but no financial means, and after training them in various skills with masters, he introduces them to wealthy families with daughters, and after they are able to get married, he makes money in this way...

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...

A deaf mute, and his trained bear wind up on an old, narrow street in Tehran. The street's many children are instantly delighted by new arrivals.

Directed by Khosro Malekan.

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.

The leader of a criminal gang, a fugitive thief for whom the police have issued a shoot-to-kill order, encounters a young man named "Abdol," who bears a striking resemblance to him. The gang leader devises a plan to involve Abdol in various incidents and thefts, hoping that he will get caught by the police and be killed, allowing the leader to continue his activities freely. However, Abdol successfully returns from all missions, and during this time, a connection develops between Abdol and Maryam, the gang leader's lover...

A young girl named Azar is left alone after her parents' death. He witnesses Kowsar committing murder. Azar escapes from Kowsar; But it gets trapped. Kowsar promises to take care of Azar. Years pass and Azar grows up. Kowsar, who lives with his wife, accepts the offer of two men's cooperation to rob a jewelry store, and after carrying out the robbery, runs away with the jewelry. He entrusts Azar not to attend his funeral after his death to remain anonymous. Kowsar's accomplices take him off his feet and spy on Kowsar's wife and Azar to get the stolen jewels. The police detective calls Azar and warns him about the criminals. With the cooperation of Azar, the police manage to trap the group of criminals

Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most of his jobs are completed through the use of a customized, scoped M16 rifle. Golgo 13 is contracted to kill Boss Goa, the head of a worldwide crime syndicate responsible for drugs, weapons, and human trafficking.

Akbar, after completing his period of exile, goes to Tehran to attend the wedding ceremony of his brother Habib and Maryam. But when he arrives, he finds that a mourning chamber has been set up for his brother instead.

The people of Yazd are harassed by Qasim the extortionist, until Habib and Tahir force Qasim to change his ways. One night, Habib meets Shirin, Qasim's friend, in a notorious neighborhood and offers to marry her if she repents. Habib takes Shirin to Mashhad and gives his sister Maryam to Tahir. Qasim, who holds a grudge against Tahir, insults Maryam. The local baker, who witnesses the incident, remains silent, and Tahir marries Maryam to protect his reputation and that of his friend. Qasim's henchmen spread the rumor that Tahir married her after deceiving Maryam. They lock him in a room to silence the baker. Habib returns to Yazd with the intention of taking revenge; But the local confidants force him and Taher to face each other in the depths of the fort to prevent bloodshed. Before the fight begins, the baker escapes with a wounded body and, with Shirin's help, makes his way to the fort and reveals the truth. Habib and Taher go after Qasim and eventually hand him over to the police.

A relatively wealthy family takes a child from a village to the city to serve in their house. The child patiently and dedicatedly uses his minimal free time for education and becomes an active and valuable person in his youth. While Hamid, the eldest son of the family, who grew up in prosperity, becomes a delinquent youth. The two fall in love with a young girl.

Tahir and his student Jamal are truck drivers. Tahir is in love with Goli, who works at Karim's coffee shop. Tahir and Goli get married, making Karim jealous and...

A thief accidentally overhears a phone call in which the caller lies to his wife while cheating on her. Thief decides to blackmail him.

Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...

During the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution.

Ghasem is a young gambler who makes a living by stealing old women's purses. His mother treats him kindly. But his father, a police officer, ignores him. His father throws him out of the house and Qasim moves in with his friend Aziz. Qasim steals Zari's purse, and a few days later, Zari, upon seeing Qasim, chases him and faints in a car accident. Qasim takes her to a friend's house, and Zari, after regaining consciousness, starts a brawl. The two gradually become interested in each other. Qasim steals the guests' purses at a party at her house, and Zari's stepmother sees him. Zari leaves her stepmother's house and takes refuge with Qasim, and Qasim marries her. Qasim, unable to find a decent job, robs a jewelry store after discovering that Zari is pregnant and is killed by a bullet fired by his father while trying to escape.

This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny.

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 ...

Bram Chakhan (Saeed Rad), who was in a car accident during his teenage years that caused the death of his friend Bijan, is tormented by a guilty conscience...

Sadegh and his wife manage a tea house in the way between Ahvaz and Andimeshk south of Iran. One night in his absence a friend of him who is a truck driver comes to his place and the wife is getting killed. The police are after the murderer but Sadegh who seeks revenge begins to kill the truck drivers on the way. This put him in fronting the law.

A free adaptation from Godard's Breathless that follows Amir, a foul guy who has killed a man in Abadan. He returns to Tehran and continuing his misdeeds trying to convince his girlfriend Zarry to escape with him to the south of Iran.

Prince 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.

A girl pretends to be Mitra, the fiancée of Morteza Khan, the owner of a coffee shop. After some time of them socializing and wedding preparations being made, the real Mitra arrives in Tehran from Europe. The embarrassed girl leaves Morteza's house, but Morteza, who has fallen in love with her, follows her, finds her, and marries her.

The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and robs the bank's safe. But he fails to execute the plan and gets caught by the police.

Reza lives with his mother, sister, and younger brother. He suffers from severe headaches, and doctors diagnose him with a brain tumor. Meanwhile, Mr. Maleki is murdered. The victim’s brother offers a reward of two hundred thousand tomans to anyone who finds the killer.

A man suddenly comes into a lot of money and from then on tries to get everything he's ever wished for: glory, status, cars, houses, women, and good times.

An elderly man whose daughter has many suitors sets the condition for marriage to her as finding his other daughter. He, who is in shock, recovers from his illness.

Firooz is a fun-loving man who cheats on his wife, Parvin. When Parvin discovers that Firooz is having an affair with Leila, her friend, she tries to get back at him to make him angry. She tells Firooz that she will return to his house only if she is allowed to cheat on him.

Parvin meets a young man named Jalal Agha-Balakhan on the street and takes him to his friend Azar's birthday party. Jalal, who is a mechanic, introduces himself as a engineer Omidvar. Parvin also pretends that his father is a police colonel. Azar is also interested in Jalal; But soon Bahram, Azar's friend, seeing Jalal in the mechanical workshop, doubts Jalal's job and social status and discusses the matter with Azar and Parvin.

A boy, due to his father's inattention, drops out of school and falls in with bad company. The father, who is busy carousing and drinking with promiscuous women, becomes so oblivious to his son that he joins a group of criminals, and as he becomes more and more entangled, the love of a woman comes to his aid.

Abbas gets hired as a rich woman's driver.

Samad burns an ogre's hair which causes an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The ogre eats a goat and also kidnapped Leila for Samad which causes her father to complain against Samad and sends him to jail but the ogre saves him and takes him to the city. There they have more adventures.

Jafar Barmaki, the vizier of Harun al-Rashid's government, and Abbasa, Harun al-Rashid's sister, who love each other, secretly get married. Zubaida, Harun al-Rashid's wife, finds out about this and causes the death of Jafar Barmaki and his two children.

Haji Jabbar is a wealthy man, who is chided constantly by his family for avarice. Haji intends to marry off his daughter, Parvin, to a wealthy old man. He has no regard for the love existing between Parvin and her cousin. He does not care for his son, Hamid, who, due to negligence, is on the verge of a breakdown. In an elaborate fantasy sequence which makes up the last third of the film, Haji finds himself in hell, witness to all sorts of macabre and elaborate tortures and horrors. The film is noted for its elaborate set pieces which recall Méliès. There is even a sequence involving Hitler in hell!

Sha'ban meets Fereshteh in a film studio. Director of the studio, rejects Fereshteh for avoiding nudity in the film scenes. They hire in a nightclub. Sha'ban's clumsiness causes them to be fired that night.

Tehran's untold sociopolitical history through rare, unseen film archives spanning over a century.

Two days in the life of Mostafa Chamran, Iran's first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he attempts to prevent the city of Paveh from falling to Kurdish separatists in 1979.