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A girl pretends to be Mitra, the fiancée of Morteza Khan, the owner of a coffee shop. After some time of them socializing and wedding preparations being made, the real Mitra arrives in Tehran from Europe. The embarrassed girl leaves Morteza's house, but Morteza, who has fallen in love with her, follows her, finds her, and marries her.
The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and robs the bank's safe. But he fails to execute the plan and gets caught by the police.
A wise man's job is to find young men with good lineage but no financial means, and after training them in various skills with masters, he introduces them to wealthy families with daughters, and after they are able to get married, he makes money in this way...
A girl who is a milk delivery agent meets a young man and soon becomes infatuated with him.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
A young villager loves the landlord's daughter, while his sister is in love with the landlord's son. The landlord is initially furious about this, but later agrees to his son marrying the village girl. He tells the young villager that he will only agree to his marriage to his daughter if he earns a lot of money. The young villager manages to get the money during an incident. However, the landlord's daughter falls ill from missing the young villager. The landlord searches for the young man. Eventually, he finds him and, dropping his earlier condition, agrees to their marriage.
A naive youth from a provincial town journeys to Tehran with aspirations of advancement, only to become ensnared by the city's allure, ultimately returning to his hometown with nothing to show for it. This cinematic work draws its inspiration from a theatrical production titled 'The Triplets,' which was staged in 1954 at a Laleh-zar theater in Tehran.
The distinguished lord procures his daily necessities from the villagers as tribute with the help of his steward. He encourages his daughter, Monireh, to befriend Farrokh. Farrokh dishonors Monireh by giving her a sleeping drug and then flees to the city.
Mehri and Keyvan spend their holidays in Bandar with their parents. Mehri falls in love with a young man named Hemet, and Keyvan falls in love with Hemet's sister (Zinet). Despite their parents' approval, the two couples decide to get married. Zeinet and Keyvan get married, and Hemet goes to Tehran to buy a wedding dress. But he loses his money and, since he has no intention of returning, he stays in Tehran. Zeinet is unloved by her family, and when she gives birth to her child (the child is black), Keyvan drives her away on the pretext of infidelity. The family doctor shelters Zeinet, and Mehri commits suicide in order to blame her parents, but a series of incidents and actions taken by the doctor resolve the problem and the two couples live a peaceful life.
When Nusrat is released from prison after four years, his fiancée, Leila, whom Suleiman has disfigured, marries Suleiman. Qavam, Nusrat's old friend, returns from a trip and arranges with Nusrat to kill Suleiman when Nusrat has a witness to prove his innocence, and in return, Nusrat will kill his uncle Nasir, who has taken over his father's wealth and intends to marry his mother. Qavam informs Nusrat after a fight with Suleiman...
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A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.
A film by Gholam Hossein Lotfi
Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.
A six-year-old girl (Maryam) who has lost her family in the war, is living in an orphanage. She likes a woman called Fereshteh who lives in a house in front of the orphanage. A family (Nasrin and her husband) adopts her and takes her to the north of Iran. Maryam tries to write to Fereshteh and in a proper situation escapes home to reach her.
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.
Persian remake of Home Alone
A deaf mute, and his trained bear wind up on an old, narrow street in Tehran. The street's many children are instantly delighted by new arrivals.
A pickpocket steals and does anything to have enough money to be able to marry his love. He eventually comes upon some money, that causes him to make some choices...
Maryam 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.
Ahmadi is tasked with returning the hawks that have been confiscated from smugglers.
The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.
After spending all his money buying a piece of land that was already sold to someone else, Nasrallah Madadi finds himself in trouble. To solve his money problems, he then decides to be the offender of fraud rather than its victim. Getting himself involved with a pair of criminals, he begins a crooked business selling a same yellow taxi to different buyers, only to steal it back from them and sell it again. In a fascinating portrayal of human nature, Canary Yellow follows Nasrallah through the ups and downs of his double-sided experience of crime. But will it all end with the better life for his family he hopes for?
An Iranian girl marries a man who has been loved by a witch- daughter of a jin, who tries to frighten the poor woman by showing herself in evil ways that make the poor woman go unconscious several times and her sister convinces the poor woman's husband to divorce her.
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
Directed by Khosro Malekan.
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Iranian tv series
a mini series about a green car that is sold to individuals in each episode
Everything is better in green.
The series is about two couples who are supposed to be neighbors in an apartment. Kamal (Firdous Kaviani) and Mahin (Mehraneh Mahintorabi) are one of the two older couples. Ali (Farhad Jam) and Maryam (Elham Pavehnejad) are two other couples who are younger than Kamal and Mahin. Later, it turns out that Kamal is Maryam's uncle, which Maryam did not know about... The story of the series "The Wives" is about the adventures and preoccupations of these two neighbors.
In each episode of this series, in the form of identical items, in addition to following the adventures of a typical family of four (directed by Behrouz Baghaei), jokes were performed with stories such as The Asylum, Hassan Kachchel, Shahrzad the Storyteller, Nero, and Robin Hood (directed by Reza Attaran).
A widowed man and a widowed woman have trouble raising their big family alone however their marriage presents even more challenges
