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- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsTim RothPruitt Taylor VinceMélanie ThierryA baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne MooreJeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAlain DelonRenato SalvatoriAnnie GirardotHaving recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsLuigi OrnaghiFrancesca MoriggiOmar BrignoliPeasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsDavid HemmingsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniJohn VernonTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsMarcello MastroianniJacques PerrinSylvieA man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsEdmund MoeschkeErnst PittschauIngetraud HinzeA young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz FardtombekianThe tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsBehrouz VossoughiDavoud RashidiReza Karam RezaiRecently have been released from jail, Ebi makes a bet with his Friend that he goes and drinks in seven bars without even paying any money.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsDariush ArjmandAli NasirianSaeed PoursamimiKhaje Majed informs the authorities about Captain Khorshid smuggling with his ship. The authorities take the smuggling and burn it. Farhan is a new arriver in the port. He wants to smuggle some political exiled people to some Arab countries. He asked Captain Khorshid to help him. At first Captain is refusing but finally due to financial problems he agree to help them. But the exiled ones have plans to rub Khaje Majed. They kill him and steal some pearls and jewels and bring it with themselves to the ship. Captain is forced by gun to obey them. In the middle of the way he manages to kill one of them. Then a brutal fight between him and the rest of the gang is occur which lead to the kill of all of them.
- 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?
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiHoma RustaJamileh SheikhiA young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service? The film is transcendental in its resolution.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaJamileh SheikhiThe story of a semi-modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation, but is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
- DirectorFarzad MotamenStarsMehdi AhmadiHanieh TavassoliMohsen Shah-EbrahimiBright Nights is the story of the lives of two lonely people. The film tells the story of how the two characters met, became attached and separated from the language of a university professor.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsJamshid MashayekhiJalal MoghadamHadi EslamiTehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence. But Yezghel is also on a personal mission of seeking Danial and Munes. At the same time, a gang of Zionist gunmen are sent to gun down the witnesses and Nuri....
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsKazem AfrandniaManijeh AghaiNasser AghayiA scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenTracey UllmanHugh GrantA loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenPenélope CruzJesse EisenbergThe lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.
- CreatorIrvine WelshDean CavanaghStarsDougray ScottJoanna VanderhamKen StottWhen an Edinburgh schoolgirl is abducted, DI Ray Lennox investigates her disappearance whilst confronting his own past trauma.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMonica BellucciGiuseppe SulfaroLuciano FedericoAmidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaSady RebbotAndré S. LabartheTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsLeonardo DiCaprioBrad PittMargot RobbieA faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames CagneyHorst BuchholzPamela TiffinIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWill FerrellVinessa ShawChiwetel EjioforTwo alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
- StarsDomingo AntoineRoy BosierAntonio CasaleBased on the Lucky Luke comic books; Lucky Luke (Terence Hill) arrives into a tiny western town, Purgatory, and is asked to escort 12 mail order brides from another town, where some bandits get on their trail.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartArthur KennedyDonald CrispNewcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsHeinz LievenDorothea MoritzIngrid DomannHerbert is a civil engineer who has quit his job, changed his behavior and become very indifferent and apathetic against people and to most things. His wife convinces him to go to a clinic, but will it change him?
- DirectorMohsen JafaribalengahThe narrative of ten years of the life of a man who tortures his two wives and his family mentally and physically, so that both wives get Alzheimer's and die.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsMehdi HashemiShahab HosseiniMehran RajabiThe consequences of a father and son's violent act reverberate through three generations of their family.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiMehdi HashemiMahmoud BehrouzianDeath of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the miller, his wife and his daughter but all the stories are different from each other.
- DirectorAbolhassan DavoodiStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaBahram RadanBijan EmkanianThe effects and consequences for those involved and in the world at large, when a widow and her teenage son, and two young women, one of whom is pregnant, are involved in a car accident which kills the two women.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsEzzatolah EntezamiReza KianianHediyeh TehraniA surrealist story about Dr. Sepidbakht who one night when driving hit an angel with his car and his hand is injured deeply by touching that angel's fingers. He has several problems in his life that during the story are unfolds. His past relationships with some women colleagues, his old father, his addicted son who returned home from the west and some unknown guys who chase him and want to kill him.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsSaeed AghakhaniSiamak SafariNasrin MoghanlooFazli (Saeid Aghakhani) is back to his family after so many years in jail. He tries to gather all his family members in the parental house but in this way he has lots of troubles and stories.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsPoulad KimiayiHamed BehdadShabnam DarvishBetween years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.
- DirectorManouchehr AnvarStarsParvaneh MassoumiSina SuzaniZohreh AslanpoorShahr-e ghesse is perhaps the most popular of all Persian plays, was written in traditional rhythmic style that resulted in a kind of musical drama. Although it seems at first glance to have been written for children, its main audience, it is in fact a parable about contemporary socio political issues.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
- DirectorReza AttaranStarsMark AnsariReza AttaranSoheil BostaniAn Iranian man with high hopes of becoming a professional actor arrives in Can,France to meet Spielberg but his expectations and the reality are not so much alike.
- DirectorMohammad Ali SajjadiStarsAmin HayayeeKhosro ShakibaiHanieh TavassoliAsiri (yoruba for Secrets) is a tale of three childhood friends who reconnect after a very long time away from each other only to find out that they all share secrets that interconnect them in dubious ways.
- DirectorMehdi SabbaghzadehStarsFaramarz GharibianBijan EmkanianEnayat BakhshiHegg's firm discovers a large amount of heroin embedded in a truck.The root of the story reaches a senator who is allegedly in court.
- DirectorMehdi SabbaghzadehStarsEzzatolah EntezamiNiku KheradmandFatemeh GoudarziJalal, who was a columnist in the press in the past, is not ready to adapt to their new way of writing and gets into trouble. The insistences of his wife and a young writer also do not lead anywhere and he stops writing for the press.
- DirectorMajid JavanmardStarsDariush ArjmandMohammad Saleh AlaChangiz VossoughiThree centuries ago, a normal day is sent into chaos when a mysterious black horse, dragging the dead body of an old man, interrupts a bunch of nomad children playing around a firepit. The terrifying discovery sends reverberations around the area, triggering a fierceful tide of skirmishes and murders between warring tribes of the desert.
- DirectorMajid JavanmardStarsJamshid HashempurAli SabetHassan RezaiCrime, drugs, murder, and revenge: 'Ghafeleh' tells the story of two men on both sides of the law and the war they rage within the barren Iranian desert. The players take their marks as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds: the ruthless drug dealer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and the detective tasked with bringing him in and avenging the death of his predecessor. This is a game with no rules, no boundaries, and no forgiveness for the one who loses. As it builds to a bloody climax, people on both sides of the struggle get drawn into the fray - and not everyone will make it out.
- DirectorIraj GhaderiStarsFaramarz GharibianFatemeh GoudarziFathali OveisiAslan divorces his wife Mah Monir and marries Farangis. Barbod, Aslan's 11-year-old boy from Mah Monir, is very lonely. One day, Farangis calls Aslan with a scream. Aslan encounters the bloody body of his son at bathroom.
- DirectorAli Sajjadi HosseiniStarsAkbar AbdiAhmad Reza AsadiReza BanafshekhahThe film tells the story of an old man named Paknahad, whose sons hid him in a nursing home to seize their father's property.
- DirectorYadollah SamadiStarsAlireza KhamsehJamshid EsmailkhaniKatayoun RiahiMashallah Iranmanesh is coming to Tehran from his city Kerman to sell apartment no. 13 which he has inherited. With its money he wants to marry the girl he is in love with and also buy a work shop so he can work in it. But because of the bad neighbors and their problems things are not going as he desires to.
- DirectorMohamad Reza AalamiStarsJavad GolpayganiHossein ParvareshJamshid HashempurA person with the Nickname of Mosafer (Passenger/Traveller), who is Suspected of Working in an Anti-Government Organization, is Arrested, and on the Pretext that he Needs to be Taken to the Security Organization to Confront One of His Comrades, They Wander Along the Road With Two Agents. The Mosafer's Companion Was Killed by the Officers While Fleeing, and the Two Officers Hope that the Mosafer's Actions and Words Will Reveal Important Points Along the Way.
- DirectorEbrahim VahidzadehStarsMehdi FathiSaeed PoursamimiHamid JebeliHeshmat is a poor worker in Shiraz who, thanks to his diligence, has gathered a small fortune. After the World War I, he becomes prosperous by hoarding sugar and selling it to S.P.R (South Persia Rifles). Then he moves to Tehran, buys a title for himself, and becomes well known among affluent families, To make his dreams come true, he builds a prison around himself in which all his relatives, including his son, are held captive. Although his son initially behaves to please his father, he will soon put this life behind and goes to live a simple but peaceful and genuine life.
- DirectorEbrahim VahidzadehStarsAmin HayayeeMohammad Reza GolzarNiki KarimiTwo youngsters from rich families fall in love and decide to get marry but they don't know that both their parents are broke. This creates funny situations for them and the two families.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsJamshid MashayekhiEzzatolah EntezamiAli NasirianThe movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
- StarsAli NasirianMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid MashayekhiA corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsFariborz ArabniaBehzad KhodaveisiParsa PirouzfarSeven friends promise to meet each other in the future. On the promised day all come except Ramin who is now a lawyer working for a company. He is in danger so sends his wife instead and has hides himself in some unknown place. One of his friends Ali who is now a police decides to help him.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiRichard HarrisonRussel CaseA loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction.
- 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....
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsFaramarz GharibianArash YaghmaiKatarina WolterA man who is a news reporter is going to Germany from America to meet his son who is living there. There he tells his son that he is divorced now. The father is pick pocket by two guys. The son Siavash goes after them and after a fight manages to get the money back. On the airport he joins his father to return to Iran together.
- StarsKatayoun RiahiMahmoud PakniatHamideh KheirabadiThe story is about a middle aged father, Asadullah. He believes his sons should live in his home after marriage however he hasn't followed the same trend when it comes to his daughters...
- StarsElham HamidiParviz ParastuiNegar JavaherianTwo good old friends who work in a same factory, are marring their son and daughter , while some conflicts rise.
- DirectorMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsMaryam MoghadamAlireza Sani FarPourya Rahimi SamMina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
- DirectorSorush SehhatStarsAli MosaffaJavad EzatiHanieh TavassoliAs Jahaan is going to die in a few months, Bahman, his brother, arranges for his closest friends to gather in Jahaan's farm house in north, to celebrate his (probably) last birthday together...
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsFariborz ArabniaHediyeh TehraniHassan JoharchiIn his last moments Mr. Baheri gives his janitor Mr. Koohsari a small piece of land but his sons are after that piece of land. Soltan who is a thief, pick pocketing the janitor's daughter Maryam in the air port. She had the documents of that piece of land in her stolen wallet, so she searches after Soltan and find him. A love story is evolved between them.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMadjid NiroumandA young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling through an amazingly bleak and desolate landscape. Primarily an essay on the issue of humans vs. nature, the film is of interest for technical and cultural reasons.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAhmad ShamluThis documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the Jinn from people who believe to be possessed by evil.