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- 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
- 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
- DirectorAli MosaffaStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaAlireza AghakhaniA dead man tells us about his feelings and his life.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam ElmiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsHedayatollah NavidHibibollah SafarianAne Mohammad TarikhiA small schoolboy lives an austere life with his family in Northern coasts of Iran.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsBita FarahiFathali OveisiSima TirandazMaryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.
- DirectorEbrahim GolestanStarsTaji AhmadiZackaria HashemiGoli BozorgmehrHashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorForugh FarrokhzadStarsForugh FarrokhzadEbrahim GolestanHossein MansouriSet in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
- 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiYassamin MaleknasrKhosro ShakibaiSara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years, it is Sara, labouring secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's manly pride. Until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
- DirectorIda PanahandehStarsPejman BazeghiHediyeh TehraniHoda ZeinolabedinWhen Mahi's son dies in a car accident, Behrouz who has returned to Iran to sell his properties, attends the funeral. Their old romance catches up while Behrouz has planned to marry Sara and go back to Canada with her.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsKhosro ShakibaiHediyeh TehraniJamshid Mashayekhi"Royaa", mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and relationship with her shady architect husband "Jahaan", gets into some serious drama; which leads to question if everything is really what it seems to be?
- DirectorParviz KimiaviStarsBehzad KhodaveisiSaeed PoursamimiParviz ShahinkhouSohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsAmin HayayeeZahra HatamiDara HayayeeThe story of a man who feels that he has not become anything in his life which is affecting all his life.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAlireza DavoudnejadStarsMohammad Reza DavoudnejadTarahom FathiShojaoddin HabibianTwo boys compete for one job they both need desperately. This movie portrays their rivalry.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsHamidreza SaeedikhahHosein AbadiRana CheshmazarAfter her divorce Mina is in need to financial and emotional supporting. She meets a guy and thinks that this is the man of her dreams. But things are not just as their first seem to be.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsKazem AfrandniaManijeh AghaiNasser AghayiA scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.
- DirectorMorteza FarshbafStarsKiomars GitiSharareh PashaAmir Hossein MalekiA violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative,s house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
- DirectorAsghar YousefinejadStarsMohadeseh HeyratRamin RiaziGholamreza BagheriThe story is about a will. A man has passed away and everybody is gathering around his body. His last will was that after his death his body will be give to the medical university to be used in their medical researches. But his daughter who has returned home after many years is not agreeing with that.
- DirectorKarim LakzadehStarsMilad AkbarnejadAli BagheriBehzad DoraniFarhad's younger brother gets killed right in front of his eyes. Now Farhad along with his brother, the 'dead man', steps to the woods of spirits for revenge. This journey though, is to the past and the future.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsSaeed PoursamimiHassan RezaiSaeed SheikhzadehThe car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him and his son Borna is too after his missing eyeglasses.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsMehdi HashemiShahab HosseiniMehran RajabiThe consequences of a father and son's violent act reverberate through three generations of their family.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMadjid NiroumandAbbas NazeriMusa TorkizadehAfter enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
- DirectorEbrahim GolestanStarsMyron KinleyAn oil well is on fire near Ahvaz in the south of Iran and firemen are trying hard day and night to put it out.
- DirectorHadi MohagheghStarsYadollah ShadmaniMeysam FarhoumandFatemeh BahadorAyaz, a lonely seventy-year-old man, detests his life. He's constantly in search of ways of ending his life. Some years back, on the way back from a family wedding party, the minibus which he was driving, falls in the bottom of a valley and people on board -all his own family- are killed. Now, Ayaz lives with his teenager grandchild, Ebrahim - who is the last remainder of his family- and his wife's voice on a cassette tape. He loathes being alive.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsHomayoun ErshadiGolshifteh FarahaniMohammad Reza Shahbani NouriEsteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for beautiful tomboy "M".
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMohammad Reza AslaniStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahtab KeramatiMehdi AhmadiBased on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsBehnaz JafariMehran RajabiMohammadhosein AkbariMoments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues has died in the quake. She sets out for the town of Bam to get rescue aid for the villagers, but to her amazement, she discovers that the main tragedy has occurred there. Cries of help are heard from every side and the hospital is filled with the injured and the dead. On the recommendation of a cleric, she goes to the mortuary to help with the washing of the dead bodies of women. A prisoner, who managed to get out after the prison building is destroyed asks the teacher to wash the bodies of his dead mother, wife and child, Arezu.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsAsal BadeeiFarhad SharifiHossein IlbeygiAnik a young girl is in desperate need to heart implement. She with the help of her doctor goes to a hospital where a young guy Amir is in a coma. On his wedding night he had an accident and is half dead in a coma. The doctor wants to use this young man's heart for Anik but his father is refusing. Meanwhile another customer for the heart is coming to the hospital and proposes a lot of money to the father. Finally the doctor manages to convince them to use the heart for Anik.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan AfravianAn Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
- DirectorSoheil BeiraghiStarsLeila HatamiAmir JadidiBehnoosh BakhtiariA woman with a breaking the norm spirit who falls in love .
- DirectorBehruz AfkhamiStarsFariborz ArabniaHediyeh TehraniMohammad Saleh AlaA middle-class family man (Mahmoud) starts a relationship with a female nurse (Sima). When Sima gets Pregnant, things go complicated.
- DirectorAli MosaffaStarsHomayoun ErshadiLeila HatamiZahra HatamiAn old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This brings him to face a challenge.
- 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.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsJamshid MashayekhiEzzatolah EntezamiAli NasirianThe movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
- DirectorIda PanahandehStarsSareh BayatSahar AghiliPayam AhmadiniaA woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved in a new relationship with a man.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- 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.
- 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.