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Plot Summary:
Arjang and Roya are getting married.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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Sperm Whale (2015)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian man tells the story of his life and lifelong love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: crying, interesting
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Red Carpet (2014)
Plot Summary:
An 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.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Invitation (2008)
Plot Summary:
a film about how attitude dissimilar family against abortion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Ey Iran (1990)
Plot Summary:
Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Mods (2002)
Plot Summary:
A quasi-musical by Serge Bozon.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags:
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Hajji Washington (1983)
Plot Summary:
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to the inability of the Persian government to meet the embassy's needs. One night he is visited by President Grover Cleveland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Golshifteh (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story is about four women with multiple problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Subdued (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Nahid (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved with a new sexual relationship with a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, contemplative, independent film
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The Actor (1993)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Dash Akol (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dash 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Bride of Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Mr. Gullible (1970)
Plot Summary:
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
Plot Summary:
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, melancholic, political, art house
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The Cycle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ali 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: banned
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Mum's Guest (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: islamic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Tenants (1987)
Plot Summary:
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Peddler (1987)
Plot Summary:
The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second episode, a mentally impaired and isolated young man tries to take care of his senile mother who is almost dead. In the third episode, a cowardly and desperate peddler tries to escape from his boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Brick and the Mirror (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hashem (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. Hashem 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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The Night Bus (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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From Karkheh to Rhine (1993)
Plot Summary:
Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to re-establish the close relationship that they had long time ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Mother (1990)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spiritual, islamic, interesting
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The Pear Tree (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual, islamic, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Hezarpa (2018)
Plot Summary:
The thief accidentally notices the secret of a girl and tries to exploit this position.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Travellers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A 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?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, beautiful
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The Blue-Veiled (1995)
Plot Summary:
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Shirin (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, contemplative, stylized, emotional, art house, islamic, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat
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Tambourine (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mohammad 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, islamic, crying
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small café that proves the only source of income to the couple. Saloomeh is a beautiful young woman who dreams of marrying Ebi, but how will the couple survive on the salary of a simple mechanic? Lastly, middle aged Moluk has fallen for a much younger man, and her heart breaks when she discovers that her love is unrequited.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy