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Abbas Kiarostami – Nema-ye Nazdik AKA Close-Up (1990)
Quote: In 1989 in Tehran, a movie mad unemployed printer named Ali Sabzian was arrested for impersonating the famous film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The family he had fooled was deep in rehearsals...
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Ida Panahandeh – Nahid (2015)
A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved in a new relationship with a man. http://nitroflare.com/view/98C283304E342AD/Nahid.2015.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv...
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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA The Mirror (1997)
Synopsis: A girl in traditional female clothing, with her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. She decides to travel home herself though she doesn’t...
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Saeed Roustayi – Abad va yek rooz AKA Life+1Day (2016)
The graphic account of a poverty-stricken family living in Tehran through the days before the youngest daughter of the family, Somaieh, is departing to start her marriage to a supposedly rich Afghan....
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Asghar Farhadi – Forushande AKA The Salesman (2016)
The Salesman tells the story of a young couple Emad and Rana who play the lead roles in a local rendition of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Meanwhile, their personal relationship takes a hit...
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Reza Dormishian – Lantouri (2016)
Quote: A Girl is attacked by her lover with Acids. Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern...
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Asghar Farhadi – Forushande AKA The Salesman (2016)
Quote: One of the many reasons that Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time — the quintessential filmmaker — is that his spirit and technique infuse the work of so many other...
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Kianoush Ayari – Boodan yaa naboodan AKA To be or Not to be (1998)
Imdb review Life is Precious, 21 August 2000 Author: Martin Kohler (mkohler@geoscience.org.za) from Pretoria, South Africa Having known someone who needed a kidney transplant, I was aware of the...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Yek Etefagh sadeh AKA A Simple Event (1974)
Quote: With A Simple Event Sohrab Shahid-Saless emerged on the Iranian film scene as a filmmaker with a distinctive style. Adopting an almost documentary style, Shahid-Saless records uneventful...
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Parviz Kimiavi – Mogholha AKA The mongols (coloured version) (1973)
From IMDB: A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012)
Synopsis: The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they...
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Narges Abyar – Nafas AKA Breath (2016)
Quote: Little Bahar lives a life spun from folklore and stories, always with her head in a book. But growing up in Yazd in the 1970s and ’80s, she’s at the centre of a country in turmoil: the Shah is...
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Rakhshan Bani Etemad – Zir-e poost-e shahr AKA Under the Skin of the City (2001)
Synopsis: Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats...
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Amir Naderi – Davandeh AKA The Runner (1984)
Quote: Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school....
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Negar Azarbayjani – Fasl-e Narges AKA Season of Narges (2017)
Quote: “Season of Narges” is parallel stories of three women who are named “Gisoo”, “Aylar”&“Narges”. These women each have their own story, but they’re all somehow connected to each other....
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Albert Lamorisse – Bade-h Saba AKA Le vent des amoureux AKA The Lovers’ Wind...
Quote: This is Albert Lamorisse’s last film. At the last stages of finishing the shooting in Iran, his helicopter crashed in the mountains of northern Iran, and the extremely talented and poetic...
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Jalal Moghadam – Farar az Taleh AKA Escape From The Trap (1971)
Quote: A great Iranian film , unfortunately unknown in and out of Iran, 23 April 2008 Author: Armand Erfanian from United Kingdom *** This review may contain spoilers *** Farar az Tale is an unknown...
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Rakhshan Bani Etemad – Nargess (1992)
Quote: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law. In her fourth feature, director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad tells the tragic story of a love triangle. Afagh, an aging...
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Samira Makhmalbaf – Sib AKA The Apple (1998)
Quote: This unusual Iranian documentary/drama is based on the true story of a poor and religious 65-year-old father who kept his two 12-year-old daughters locked in their small house from the day that...
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Dariush Mehrjui – Hamoun (1990)
Hamoon’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...
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