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...
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...
Solomon, 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.
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other...
Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset his daughter and son. When Morteza ends up in prison for involuntary manslaughter due to an accident, his daughter, realizing that her fiancé, who is also her cousin, does not earn enough to support...
There is an old saying in Farsi, "if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family". ...And that's what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is ...
Jalal who is a locomotive driver meets a girl Shirin in a village and falls in love with her. They decide to get marry but in the way back he has an accident. He get injured very badly but ...
Two brothers: Taghi the Butcher and Reza have been separated since childhood. Taghi has become a neighborhood's mobster with Hassan and Mohammad, and Taghi, who lives with his mother, helps the poor people with his friend Esmal. Taghi falls in love with a dancer named Eshrat Shirazi...
A Iranian man (Akbar Abdi) stuck in Turkey, desperately wants to get a VISA to go to America. He starts dressing up as a woman in hopes of marrying an American man to get American citizenship, but he starts having doubts and...
During Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army was attacking the Iranian oil tankers repeatedly. A young captain decides to pass an oil tanker through the enemy lines and deliver it to overseas. He ...
A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.
