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- 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.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsShahab HosseiniTaraneh AlidoostiMina SadatiWhile Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
- DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarSomaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
- DirectorPouran DerakhshandehStarsTannaz TabatabaeiMerila Zare'iBabak HamidianShirin is supposed to get married in a couple of hours, but she unexpectedly murders a man. The cause of the crime, rooted in her nightmarish childhood, unravels gradually and the real question emerges: Who is the REAL criminal?
- DirectorHatef AlimardaniStarsFarhad AslaniBaran KosariPantea BahramTwo families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsMahnaz AfsharMohammad Reza GolzarAtila PesianiThe domestic problems of a wealthy young couple goes through the scrutiny of an adroit psychologist to be solved.
- DirectorSoheil BeiraghiStarsLeila HatamiAmir JadidiBehnoosh BakhtiariA woman with a breaking the norm spirit who falls in love .
- DirectorRambod JavanStarsReza AttaranVishka AsayeshPegah AhangaraniThis movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
- DirectorNavid MihandoustStarsTaraneh AlidoostiHamed KomailyReza AttaranVandad is notice about his father's death so he comes to Kish. In the same time Parmida is noticed about her mother death so she comes to Kish, too. But they understand that they are in the same boat.
- DirectorParisa BakhtavarStarsBaran KosariSaber AbarMehran ModiriMohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
- DirectorFereydoun JeyraniStarsBaran KosariFarhad AslaniHabib RezaeiAva is sentenced to capital punishment for the murder of saeed, the friend of his father and her lover who had raped her.
- DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsAkbar AbdiElnaz ShakerdoostEsmaeel KhalajAfsaneh is a poor girl who because of many debts of her father has stole her father's demand notes and escaped. She then meets a pious clergy who decides to help her but this is only the beginning of the problems.
- DirectorMaziar MiriStarsMahnaz AfsharAmir AghaeeHamed BehdadA look at the lives of 3 well-off Iranian couples who are ostensibly living an idyllic life and are going to have a get-together for a birthday party. Each couple bearing their own sordid secrets attend the party to find out what follows on the hills of the cold welcome of their host.
- StarsTaraneh AlidoostiMahsa NasiriMostafa ZamaniIn Iran, Tehran, 1953, Shahrzad and Farhad love each other and intend to get married, but the great mafia Bozorg Agha has decided another fate for them.
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsHamed BehdadTaraneh AlidoostiPoulad KimiayiParasto a young girl from a virtuous family, in absence of her brother and being alone, by her careless behavior leads the neighborhood and her family into some misunderstandings. But that changes by return of her brother when she tries to clear them up.
- StarsFariborz ArabniaReza RooygariNasrin MoghanlooMukhtar Thaqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsTaraneh AlidoostiNegar JavaherianHossein MahjoubFifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage proposal. Within four months the couple realize that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir emigrates back to Germany. When Taraneh discovers she is pregnant she decides against all advice and intense social pressure, to keep the baby.
- DirectorReza DormishianStarsBaran KosariNavid MohammadzadehMaryam PalizbanA Girl, Maryam, is attacked with Acid by Pasha, a young man who is madly in love with her.
- DirectorShahriar BahraniStarsAmin ZendeganiMahmoud PakniatHossein MahjoubSolomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMerila Zare'iMohammad Reza ForutanA sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
- StarsAlireza Zamani NasabEmir PahlaviMohammad Reza GolzarA narrative of several families with their stories and problems that each character has his story and past.
- DirectorFereidoun HasanpourStarsParviz ParastuiShahab HosseiniHadis Mir-AminiOn a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives home. For the rest of life, Mousa accuses himself for her death. He devotes himself and his whole life to their son Jafar, the only memento left from Raheleh
- DirectorAli RooyintanStarsShahab HosseiniBita BaadraanKhosro ShakibaiHeartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families.
- DirectorAlireza RaisianStarsLeila HatamiShahab HosseiniFarhad AslaniBita is a successful lawyer and her specialty is women's rights. A curious case is brought to her that changes lives of everybody involved.
- DirectorSobhan AfghariMani HaghighiStarsSaed SoheiliHasti MahdavifarAzadeh SamadiWhen the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story begins.
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsNoor Agha AhmadiMahdi EbadiHasiba EbrahimiA romance blooms between a young Iranian man working in a factory in Tehran and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHosein YariJamshid HashempurWhat appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsHamid FarrokhnezhadLeila HatamiGohar KheirandishA domestic Iranian flight is taken hostage by a man Ghasem who is a refugee of war and has financial problems. He will go any distance for his family and wants to find a better place for living.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsBahram RadanLeila HatamiNader FallahA haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having squandered all the money he had on trivial matters, he tells his wife about being axed & that's when the tables turn on him.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein LatifiStarsPouria PoursorkhBaran KosariHamed BehdadDuring the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province (in Southern Iran). Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.
- DirectorMasoud DehnamakiStarsKambiz DirbazArzhang AmirfazliAkbar AbdiThe movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.
- DirectorSeyed Jamal Seyed HatamiStarsPardis AhmadiehPantea PanahihaBehnam TashakkorAkram is a sixteen years old girl who should struggle with financial and social problems in her life when the world shows her it's ugly face.
- DirectorHatef AlimardaniStarsPegah AhangaraniSadegh AzizjahanReza BehbudiThe story of a woman Rana who is 7 months pregnant. She has lost her child once in her last pregnancy and is suspicious of her husband about that. With the insisting of her husband Mehrdad she goes to visit her family in north but this time too has an accident.
- DirectorHamid Reza GhorbaniStarsMahnaz AfsharAfshin AghaeiMania AlijaniTwo brothers fight each other which cause one to kill the other. The murderer escapes but his mother convinces him to surrender to the police. Now the mother and the two wives of the brothers who all live together in a three stories house have to deal with the consequences of the murder and with each other.
- DirectorMonir GheidiStarsTannaz TabatabaeiParinaz IzadyarSoraya GhasemiVilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes all become tension that maybe he brings bad news for them about their families. After a while Sima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her but Aziz refuses.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsTannaz TabatabaeiNavid MohammadzadehSaeed ChangizianKhosrow is a famous married singer involved with a troublesome affair and consequences of fame.
- DirectorTina PakravanStarsHamed BehdadRoya NonahaliMehrab RezaeiThe movie narrates the story of a handsome young singer who is hired and unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and an older, widowed woman, though neither is immediately aware of the other's emotions. This relationship creates as much chaos as it does tenderness.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiMerila Zare'iBabak HamidianA government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.
- DirectorNiki KarimiStarsMohammad Reza ForutanLeila ZareAmir Hossein ArmanIt's about a woman who is looking for her husband in Tehran's streets.
- DirectorEbrahim EbrahimianStarsMohammad Reza ForutanSareh BayatHediyeh TehraniMahtab is suspicious of her husband Ahmad, a university professor. As she tries to unravel the mystery instigated by Sima, a close friend of the family, by pressuring Farnoosh Kheirkhah, Ahmad's student, her husband tries to prove his innocence. But the sudden death of Farnoosh opens a new path before Ahmad, Mahtab, Sima, and her husband Mansoor.
- DirectorHomayoon Ass'adianStarsNegar JavaherianBehrouz ShoaybiJavad EzatiA Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's Muslim clergy with its unusual tale of a man forced by hardship to become a better husband and father. Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra to look after their two young children and weave the intricate rugs that earn them a living. But one evening Zahra collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she's diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Scarcely able to process the tragedy, Seyed is left to cook, change diapers, walk his daughter to school and take his toddler son with him to his classes, where peers and elders treat him with scorn. But Seyed eventually learns to cope, his prayers and devotional studies taking on deeper meaning as he attends to the hard nightly work of rug weaving, getting through with a heavy assist from friends, neighbors and kind strangers.
- 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.
- DirectorMahdi GolestanehStarsEhsan AbbasiKhatereh AsadiMaryam BoubaniKhosrow who was away at his work in the sea for 23 days is back home to find out that his fears and suspicions are becoming real. He cannot stand all this and becomes nervous. This put him in confrontation with his wife.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsMilad KeymaramMina SadatiShahrokh ForoutanianMehran and Mina are a happy couple but face a problem when Mina joins the dissident armed group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Mehran who is a reporter starts suspecting her when a chemical bomb is dropped over the place where she is studying.