New Iran Cinema in the 70s
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- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiPouri BaneaiNaser Malek MotieeA young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli NasirianAn old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsReza HashemiMehdi ShahravanfarA child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiNaser Malek MotieeSoghra ObeisiThere is an old saying in Farsi, "if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family". ...And that's what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is caught for keeps. A well respected uncle plans to marry a young woman who lives in a far away town. He asks his young nephew to bring the fiancée home to him. On the way back the young people fall in love, get married in secret, and return home with their secret. They're both afraid to tell the truth to the family. Eventually the uncle finds out, and to teach both his nephew and his fiancée a lesson he starts a bloody revenge.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianStarsAbdollah ButimarNilufarShilaA young guy falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her. But the problems prevent him from marrying the girl making her to commit suicide. After many troubles the young guy manages to rescue her and finally they get marry and live together.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsBehrouz VossoughiGoogooshFarrokh SajediSohrab 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 being the father so he pay for her abortion. But Sohrab falls in love and decide to marry his uncle's only daughter Leila while Taraneh is not leaving them alone. He has a quarrel with Taraneh in a boat which lead to her death and the arresting of him.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiFakhri KhorvashA man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsParviz SayyadKatayun Amir EbrahimiSadegh BahramiInspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned...
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiBahman MofidFariba KhatamiReza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so. Ultimately, Reza is killed when he collides with a truck on his way to meet his beloved. Received the best actor and best music prizes at the Third Iranian National Film Festival "Sepas" in 1971.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadNuri KasraiMinu ShafihAn archaeologist who is after an antique carpet comes to the village. The carpet belongs to Samad but he has sent it to Leila's house. The archaeologist tries to steal it from them but is unsuccessful and the police intervene which lead to the rest of the story.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSaeed RadZackaria HashemiVejestaNaser who is a smart and experienced young guy knows that his retirement time from crime is near. He decides to do his last robbery and then marry the girl he loves 'Shirin'. He robs a jewelry with the help of Jalal and Khosrow. Khosrow betrays them and steal the money and runs away. Naser and Jalal find him and take the money back, but then begin to fight each other.
- DirectorZackaria HashemiStarsNaser Malek MotieeBahman MofidMorvaridBorzoo is gambling and his wife is not happy with that. Finally he decides not to gamble anymore and takes an oath on himself not to do. But his friend Ali is in desperate need for money for his sister's marriage. Borzoo breaks his oath to gamble once more and brings money for his friend. But this time terrible consequences are waiting for him and other gamblers.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsBehrouz VossoughiDavoud RashidiNilufarMorteza who is recently freed from prison, promises Mehri to buy her out the debt she has to pay her husband. In order to do so, he commits a rubbery that won't turn out well.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsMohamad Ali FardinNaser Malek MotieeFourouzanBaba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsParviz SayyadZahra HatamiNozar AzadiMr. Khavari ,a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser.But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiBahman MofidMary ApickDash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.
- DirectorNosratollah KarimiStarsNosratollah KarimiIrenReza Karam RezaiAccording to the local religion, the number of divorces is limited to 3. If there is renewed interest, the woman will marry another man first.(4th is forbidden). It's about finding another man who meets the conditions of the first man.
- DirectorNosratollah KarimiStarsShahla RiahiNosratollah KarimiMasud AsadollahiA carriage driver who managed to become a taxi driver is in love with his sister-in-law. They were in love when they were young, but both married other people. Now that they are both widowed, they want to realize their dream and get married. The son of the sister-in-law is opposed to this marriage on principle, but he himself is in love with the carriage driver's daughter. The uncle and his nephew are going to challenge each other.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsSaeed RadHassan RazianiPunehMehdi Kafar gets released from the prison after six months. He goes after his friends and asks them to help him going after Hassan Tala's gang who caused him to be jailed to get revenge. Mehdi wants to help a poor girl her name Pouri who her family are cruel to her and is about to do his last burglary but Hassan Tala and his gang are after him.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsBehrouz VossoughiFourouzanHosein GilBanafsheh, a young prostitute who has fled with a man to the seaside in hope of starting a new life has to return to her profession as she learns about the betrayal of her lover. Penniless and emotionally broken, she also has to bear with the taunts of the other girls and the threats of the roughneck patron of the house, Mammad who unfailingly refer to his dagger to consolidate his supremacy. In fact it was Mammad who ordered the man to rob Banafsheh of her money and abandon her. Banafsheh apparently has not learnt her lesson, as she trusts her next customer and falls in love with him. Her new lover , Abbas, is a truck driver who received his nickname for his habit of constantly lying, but it seems that he gives it a break when promises Banafsheh to get a house of their own...
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiJaleh SamAn impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. When the educated nephew of the master comes back from Europe, complications occur which result to bad events for postman and his wife.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsParviz SayyadShahnaz TehraniFarokhlagha HushmandSamad burns an ogre's hair which cause an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The ogre eat a goat and also kidnapped Leila for Samad which cause 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.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsSirous Ebrahim ZadehHosein AmirfazliEnayat BakhshiKadkhoda and Mash Bagher decide to marry Leila to Einollah but Samad intervenes. He takes Leila and together they escape to the city. There they meet a couple Sami and Leili who look just like them and switch places. Now Samad and Leila are in the city dressed like them and the other couple return to their village to lice there. This cause some more funny adventures for both couples.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiIrenBaharakTwo gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsNaser Malek MotieeFourouzanBahman MofidGhalandar 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...
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsSiroos HassanpoorA boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of street where some children are playing. He's cased and forced to take a new way home.
- DirectorHajir DariushStarsGoogooshEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiBita is a young girl who lives with her parents. She loves her ill father very much but her mother is reckless about them. Bita is in love with an open minded young reporter Korush and wants to convince him to marry her, but he is refusing. When her father dies and Kurosh dumps her, the world is becoming dark for her and she is agreeing to a compulsory marriage. Accidentally she finds Korush but he rejects her again. This put her even in a more difficult situation.
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsMohammad Jazayeri TabasAgha Seyed ali Mirza SajadiAn old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children regularly go there to play. What makes the hermit happiest however, is when he comes to the letter P (for "Pedarsag", or "Puppy"). When a child proposes he use the word "Pelican" instead, the hermit goes to the nearby park looking for this animal he has never heard of.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSirus Hasan PourAbbas DastranjJamshid LayeghThe story is about two poor boy's search for their father through a "Journey" from downtown to uptown.
- DirectorKamran ShirdelStarsSaeed RadVejestaJalal PishvaianAmir is 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.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsSaeed RadEzzatolah EntezamiMohamad Ali KeshavarzSadegh 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.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAkbar MeshkinSoraya GhasemiLeila BaharanA former army colonel comes from a village to live in the city with her daughters where he finds it hard to adapt with the modern life.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsParviz FanizadehMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid LayeghA well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother. In an environment where commitments and social problems often stand in the way between people and their dreams.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiFarzaneh TaidiFaramarz GharibianAfter the death of the landlord of the village, his European wife demands the land of Baba Sobhan but his two sons who farm there are refusing. They promise to pay the rent on the right schedule but the landlord's men attack them and during that one of the two brother is getting killed and the other is injured. Although injured he decides to take revenge and goes after them.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossein YarmohammadiAndre GovalovishParviz NaderiThe hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsBehrouz VossoughiParviz FanizadehJafar ValiThis 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.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsJamshid MashayekhiMohammad Taghi KahnemouiFakhri KhorvashAn old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little the wife begins to love the young worker which lead to the landlord's jealousy and terrible consequences.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadHosein AmirfazliNozar AzadiIn Samad's village there is newly a class for the illiterate people to come and learn to write and read and Samad is one of the class mates. Meanwhile Sarkar Ostovar is after a smuggling gang and manage to arrest one of them. He sends this criminal to the class so that his other friends come and he can arrest them all but when they come Samad is intervening causing some more funny adventures.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSaeed RadNuri KasraiEnayat BakhshiNaderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. He runs for his life, eventually taking refuge in the home of a young woman. The victim's brothers continue the chase, and finally close in on him. Following the murder, streets, alleys and houses that were all part of Ali's everyday world suddenly become dangerous and hostile. Although in many ways a classic tale of revenge, Naderi uses this story to imply that an underlying violence pervades society, ready to burst forth with or without justification.
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsFahimeh RastkarParviz KimiaviAgha Seyed ali Mirza SajadiA director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsMorteza AghiliSusan GilberMehri VadadianIn one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem 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 Ghassem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is 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....
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMasud ZandbeglehHassan DarabiMostafa TariA grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiFaramarz GharibianNosrat PartoviThe Deer is a typical Kimiai-style tale of friendship and honour. When a good man fallen on hard times meets his erstwhile protégé, fate puts their relationship to the ultimate test: will you die for me?
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadMinu ShafihTooti SalimiA group of fake filmmakers come to Samad's village. The whole crowd is excited about the event specially once they find out that the actors will be chosen from the village itself. The race to become the main actor and the presence of the sexy "New Face" among the villagers creates one of Samad's funniest adventures.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMasoud GudarziMehdi JavadiShahla DarvishiSet on the sun-drenched southern coast of Iran, "Harmonica" begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as they compete for the privilege of holding the harmonica or even blowing a few notes. No one is more obsessed than Amiroo, gentle and heavy-set, who seems willing to do anything to get close to the harmonica and its owner.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSoheila AhmadiRasool ChamaniZohreh GhahremaniOne of Naderi's most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy's daily chore: bringing an elegant glass bowl to get filled with ice, and then returning home. The simplicity of this ritual stands in contrast to a world in which every glance and every gesture seems loaded with hidden meaning.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashValiyollah ShirandamiPrince 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.
- DirectorEbrahim GolestanStarsParviz SayyadMary ApickShahnaz TehraniAli (Parviz Sayyad) who is a poor farmer when plowing his farm finds a treasure. He secretly begins to sell some of this treasure in the city and making a luxurious life for himself. By the encouragements of some customers of his treasure in the city he decides to divorce his rural wife and marry a girl from the city. But some of the villagers are after his treasure and his big marriage will not be without problems.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsHedayatollah NavidHibibollah SafarianAne Mohammad TarikhiA small schoolboy lives an austere life with his family in Northern coasts of Iran.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsZadour BonyadiMohammed KaniHedayatollah NavidThe daily life of Mohammad Sardari(Zadour Bonyadi) , a railway switchman on the verge of retirement, who lives with his wife and soldier son near the railway track.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsParviz SayyadCihan AnasaiMuhammet TemizkanThis drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany.
- DirectorShapur GharibStarsAbdollah YaghutiHossein HajarSimin MosaferiWooden Pistols revolves around the simple life of children who live in a train station, until the family buys a TV set, which leads to several problems.
- DirectorShapur GharibStarsBehrouz VossoughiGoogooshHamideh KheirabadiA Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).
- DirectorKioumars DerambakhshStarsParviz FanizadehFarshid FarshoodNovin GhiasiThe uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. In order to offer him some refreshments, he goes to bring a bottle of wine. Through the crevice of the wall which happens to be there, he sees an ethereal girl offering a lotus flower to an old man who bursts into a hair-raising laughter. Surprisingly, this is exactly the picture he keeps drawing on pen cases as a calling. He is then jolted into realities. The thought of the old man gradually begins to loom over his life and sow the seed of anxiety. The narrator embarks on a journey in search of the ethereal girl and the old man. His journey, however, takes him into a study of history and myths. The narrator comes back and realizes that his uncle has left, leaving the door agape like the mouth of a dead man. Desperately he goes out to look for the ethereal girl. But upon returning he finds the girl sitting on the front stairs. The girl enters the house as if she knows the way and lies in bed. But she is dead. In the morning the narrator cuts the body into pieces and puts them in a trunk. Then an odds-and-ends man appears out if the blue to help him with burial. While digging the ground they find an ancient pottery which the old man takes as his wages. The pottery bears the same picture he keeps painting on his pen-cases. In the second section, the narrator finds himself bedridden in a room with two small windows to the outside world. Through the small window he can see a butcher and an odds-and-ends man. He recalls his past; his mother leaves him and goes to India and entrusts him to the care of a nanny. Later the narrator marries his cousin who does not love him and instead sleeps with the rabbles. He gradually wastes away and approaches death even more. The only communication in his small world is his nanny who evokes his feeling of hatred for old beliefs and superstitions. Feeling the sharp fangs of death on his neck, he decides to the take his wife with him. So he disguises himself as the odds-and-ends man and kills her. And he becomes the odds-and-ends man himself. In fact, the narrator becomes one of the rabbles whom he holds in great abhorrence.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsAli NasirianPouri BaneaiDariush Iran NezhadAli's land which he inherited is usurped by his aunt. He sells flowers for living but one night outside the city he meets a strange woman who seems to running away from some people. She introduces herself as Mehri and rides in Ali's car. This leads to a relationship to bond between the two but one day she disappears and Ali is unable to find her.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsHosein AmirfazliEnayat BakhshiAli IzadpanahSamad is been sent to the city to work at the house of a rich guy Mr. Maghami. The rich guy wins in a lottery but doesn't want his name to be revealed so he introduces Samad as the winner. Samad receives the prize but some greedy people are after him to steal it from him. This lead to the rest of the story.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsKiumars NuriSaeed MolaeeAzim EzaziThe boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.
- DirectorFarokh GhafariStarsParviz SayyadNozar AzadiPouri BaneaiDuring an attack in a caravansary in which all the soldiers die, three people manage to flee. After that they accidentally encounter in different places and help each other out.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKamalAhmadIn this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsSaeidHamidWhen one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
- DirectorMohammad Reza AslaniStarsFakhri KhorvashMohamad Ali KeshavarzAkbar ZanjanpourThe first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance.
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsDarvish Khan EsfandiarpoorDarvish Khan a deaf and mute man who is a shepherd lives with his family in the desert. One day when sleeping in the desert he has a strange dream. When awake he finds a stone and carry it home and hangs it on a tree. Little by little he finds more stones carry them and hanging them on the trees until his garden of stones is becomes famous absorbing people from all around.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsBehrouz VossoughiGoogooshJamshid MashayekhiReza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohamad Ali FardinFaramarz GharibianPouri BaneaiTwo brothers Hojjat and Zein-Ala'bedin are the guards of the jungle and live alone by themselves. One day they are notice that some people are cutting the trees illegally. Hojjat chases them but returns home with a girl her name Ghazal. Zein-Ala'bedin falls in love with her but Hojjat too feels love for Ghazal. To avoid further problems they decide to get rid of the girl. They kill the girl and bury her body in the jungle and then burn their house and run away together.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsKiumars NuriGilda KimiaiAkbar MoazeziA Turkmen boy is very fond of his horse which he himself has raised. A merchant wants to buy the horse. The boy accepts on condition that he remains with the horse himself. They come to Tehran and win a race but the boy feels lonely and decides that he wants to return back to his home. He returns back while his horse is accompanying him.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsShahinA vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohammad FassihMassoud ZandMehdi NekoueïA woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.
- StarsGholamhossein NaghshinehParviz FanizadehParviz SayyadAn uproarious adaptation of a popular novel of the same name by Iraj Pezeshkzad. set in around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran. Shows characters that are marvelously rich in personality. The title character, so-called because of his constant invocation of the general, rules over a wonderfully complex extended family. A hilarious series which makes fun of just about everything.
- DirectorKhosrow HaritashStarsAli NasirianSaeed KangaraniNassrin GhadiriDavoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they have to bear her expenses too. Davoud loves film making and is in love with Nahid. He brings a camera and tries to steal the company while filming himself. They fired his father Rahman and he too throws Davoud out of the house.
- DirectorKhosrow HaritashStarsEzzatolah EntezamiBehrouz VossoughiJaleh SamMr. Mavadat in a party in his garden gets poisonous and his friends have to take him to doctor Hatam. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little.
- DirectorKhosrow HaritashStarsBehrouz BehnejadIrenAkbar Jannati ShiraziA young man who has killed his creditor is coerced into cutting his ties with his fiancé and marrying the woman who witnessed his crime.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsParvaneh MassoumiKhosrow ShojazadehManuchehr FaridIn a remote Iranian village, a boat arrives with a wounded man, Ayat, who has amnesia. Widow Ra'na is interested in him, causing family tensions. Villagers ask Ayat to marry, but he chooses Ra'na, leading to trouble.
- DirectorFereydoun RahnemaStarsSadegh MoghaddasiEsmaeel KhalajAhoo KheradmandA young script and play writer tries to find finance to perform his newest play in the modern society of Iran at 70s.
- DirectorShapur GharibStarsBehrouz VossoughiJamshid MashayekhiNeginAli with the help of Jafar convinces some maids to steal from their lord's house. He meets a rich girl who lives with her grand father alone and decides that he wants to steal her house too. But this changes when romance grew between them. Together they go to the north but Jafar and his villain friends are after them which lead to terrible consequences.
- DirectorMarva NabiliStarsFlora ShabavizA young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKurosh AfsharpanahShohreh AghdashlooMostafa TariThe life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIn this short subject from the early part of Kiarostami's career, he interviewed schoolteachers in Iran to pay tribute to the role of education in that country's society.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute.
- DirectorShapur GharibStarsAbdollah YaghutiFariba DavoodiThe story of a three-month holiday is a summer holiday for boys who are unemployed and during the summer there is an emotional relationship between a student and a family that has come to their city for a vacation.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsParvaneh MassoumiHossein ParvareshAnik ShefrazianWhen Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a teacher and at home she writes his mother's diary. When he searches for the address in that advertisement, he finds that it belongs to 30 years ago. Asieh is becoming interested in the missing girl too.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsSaeed KangaraniEzzatolah EntezamiFourouzanAli and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadAbdolali HomayoonFarokhlagha HushmandThis spoof of Kung Fu movies begins with Samad, the obtuse troublesome bumpkin boy, busted for the villagers' numerous complaints. Handcuffed to a rough drug smuggler, he is driven to the city by Sarkar Ostovar. They stop at the scene of a girl lying on the road who feigns her distraught and claims to be attacked. She in fact is the daughter of the man who, under the guise of a karate club, runs a drug dealing gang of which the arrested man is a member. The girl uses her karate skills to knock the police down, but she and the smuggler can not find the keys for the handcuffs and take Samad with themselves to the city, where they dump him in a theater showing Kung fu flicks. Immensely impressed by the endless action in the movie, Samad learns some fighting skills by watching it several times in a row. Back at the village, he begins teaching karate to villagers. Meanwhile Sarkar Ostvar coaxes Samad into going back to the city in order to collect some information for him.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsMary ApickParviz BahadorApick YoussefianA young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. The young woman notices that a man standing in the street stares into her room every day. After a while, she gets used to his presence and falls in love with him. As the mysterious man slowly enters the girls household and becomes a friend. However the girl finds that the man is a government agent sent to arrest her brother who is a political activist hiding from the government.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsSaeed RadFarzaneh TaidiReza FazeliFor years the only windmill in the village is The Landlord's and he uses it to nobble the people. He also prevents people from building another mill. They are have ready a big stone to build the mill but because of the landlord and his men never succeeded to carry it inside the village. One day a Gypsey is coming to the village. He decides to help them carry the big stone to the village but they are scared and not listening to him. Finally he manages to convince some people -one of them a blacksmith- to help him carry the big stone to the village.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashDesiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiShot amid spectacular mountain scenery north of Tehran during the Iranian revolution, this whimsical road movie follows a young man trying to hitch a ride with an unwieldy tire. After being repeatedly passed, he rolls his companion down the mountain in this lyrical journey filmed far from the instability of Iran's capital.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsAhmad AghaeiShokoofeh BarazandehCandy BergenAli is a young boxer pursuing his dream of becoming a champion, but he's soon approached by a gangster. He gets involved--agreeing to follow their terms. He wins boxing matches and everything is going okay until they order him to lose a match.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsManoucher AhmadiAfshid AzimnejadMahmoud BasiriREQUIEM begins as Nasrollah, just released from prison, returns home to discover that his mother has died while he was incarcerated. Nasrollah hits the streets looking for work, but finding none he resumes his previous life as a street peddler. Casting his lot with two other peddlers, with whom he becomes roommates, for a while Nasrollah seems to achieve once again a sense of community and belonging.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadHosein AmirfazliHossein DarvishiSamad by his mother's advise goes to the city with his donkey to find a job but there they steal his donkey. Then he begins to work at various jobs and faces many adventures and many challenges till he manages to afford some money but that too is stolen by a woman so he becomes penniless again.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsGoogooshSaeed KangaraniMahbubeh BayatBabak who suffers from Leukemia falls in love with a famous singer named Parvaneh. Although at first she takes him for granted, but gradually a relationship begins that changes their lives.
- DirectorZackaria HashemiStarsBahman MofidZackaria HashemiFereshte JenabiHashem and Bahman are two intimate friends who spend their time in the notorious neighborhood. One day there they meet a girl Tuti. Hashem falls in love with her and this is the beginning of the troubles for them.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsFaramarz GharibianSaeid NickpourHossein KasbianTwo villagers go mad when they encounter the scarecrow in the field. Gradually others start to worship the scarecrow till the driver decides to destroy it in order to put an end to the panic.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMehdi AzadbakhtMohammadreza BaratiHedayat Matin DaftariWhile the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiManuchehr FaridReza BabakTara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. In her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa's belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one accepts. One day on the road, she meets an old-time warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to present time to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he comes back saying that he has fallen in love with her.
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsErika MaazFarokh GhafariYadolla ShirandamiIn a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Knox D'Arcy. To enact his plan for exploiting the wealth and the natural resources of this land, he sends after his cronies who descend upon the village in a big balloon. Among them is Cindrella a lady of electrifying beauty who is enlisted to keep the illiterate and lecherous villagers under her charm and make them follow D'Arcy's plans...
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadHosein AmirfazliAli ZahediSamad once again travels to the city but this time a gang of smugglers are in his way. Because of his innocent look they decide to use him to smuggle drugs for them but this not will be easy as it looked at first.