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Whimsical

1973 Movie Drama

Two brothers: Taghi the Butcher and Reza have been separated since childhood. Taghi has become a neighborhood's mobster with Hassan and Mohammad, and Taghi, who lives with his mother, helps the poor people with his friend Esmal. Taghi falls in love with a dancer named Eshrat Shirazi...

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Ali a port worker, and Hossam, a head worker, propose to Goli, the daughter of Mesh Mohammad. Morteza, Hossam's nephew, who pretends to be friends with Ali, is also interested in Goli. Goli marries Ali away from her father's eyes, and Ali, according to a plan devised by Hossam and Morteza, engages in smuggling to earn a living and is pursued by the gendarmes. Ali escapes to Tehran and Goli follows him; but he cannot find him. Some time later, Ali returns to his hometown and proves his innocence, and at Mesh Mohammad's request, he goes to Tehran to find his wife. Ali's efforts are in vain. In a short time, he becomes the owner of a large company through hard work and diligence, and Goli, who has set up a tailoring shop, raises her daughter Zari with the help of a local prostitute named Jalal. Jalal is interested in Goli; But he doesn't say anything until Ali comes across Zari and falls in love with her. Jalal, who is aware of the situation, opposes,

The Cry of Love

1977 Drama
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In one of his daily wanderings, Ghasem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghasem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is about to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....

Under the Skin of the Night

1974 Drama
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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.

The Doctor and the Dancer

1974 Drama
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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...

Ghalandar

1972 Drama
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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.

Friday

1977 Drama
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Hojjat kills a depraved man and his own wife, then heads south. With the help of a man named Rahman, he plans to cross the water border by boat at night, but the authorities pursue him. Hojjat escapes into the darkness of the night. Rahman kills the boatman—who is being taken to the station for interrogation by a sergeant—as well as the sergeant himself. Sergeant Mokhtar, the successor of the murdered sergeant and Hojjat’s uncle, persuades Hojjat not to cross the border. Hojjat then arranges to marry Maryam, the sergeant’s daughter...

The Master Sergeant

1972 Drama

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A Lost Persian Film. Javad Shadi, who is in charge of a joy caravan, murders his wife Setareh because of her secret lifestyle and association with a vagrant and is sentenced to life imprisonment. He gives his daughter Roya to a traveling singer named Gholam Hossein. Javad is released after fifteen years and returns to his hometown of Rudbar. Gholam Hossein, who entrusts Roya to a wealthy family a year after Javad's imprisonment, gives Javad the address of Amir Afzal. Javad goes to Amir Afzal and his wife and agrees to give up his paternal rights in exchange for his daughter's happiness. Javad finds out that Jamshid Mehrdad, Roya's fiancé, is an unemployed young man with a wife and two children. Javad arranges for Roya to marry Kamran, Roya's music teacher; But Roya hurts Javad due to a misunderstanding, and Javad continues his life in anonymity. Kamran tells Roya the truth of the incident, and the two find Javad and bring him back home.

Tears and Laughters

1964

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