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Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The production of the show took almost 8 years, starting in 1979 and ending in 1987, during which Hatami established a large set to represent Tehran in both Qajar dynasty and World War II, retroactively creating Iran's first movie studio and backlot (named Ghazali Cinema Town). The show tells the story of Reza Khoshnevis (also known as Reza Tofangchi), and his life and entanglement with corruption in government, and trying to correct it using not conventional means. The story is split into two section and it features Iran during the turbulent times of the latter days of Qajar Dynasty and during the events of World War II and Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
Etemad owns a cabaret in which they smuggle drugs too. Husband of Fariba the singer of the cabaret is getting killed. Now his brother Amir is back from America to find the murderers and get revenge.
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
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.
Rahmat, an unemployed young man, befriends a woman forced into prostitution after being deceived by a womanizer named Parviz. Later, during a trip to Isfahan, he meets Zohreh, another of Parviz's victims. Pregnant with Parviz's child, Zohreh asks Rahmat to pose as her husband before her parents ...
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Laleh is a wandering girl who is arrested after a robbery at a railway station and promises the police officer that she will live a righteous life from now on. A young worker named Parviz tries to convince Laleh to marry him. But Laleh is against the marriage proposal, because she has to take care of her mother and father, who are always drunk. The owner of the house where Laleh's family lives convinces Laleh's father to consent to his daughter's marriage to Abbas.
A bankrupt businessman and his wife attempt a rail suicide, but the wife's change of heart make it fail. They have already abandoned their newborn daughter who is picked up by a street sweeper and raised in his family. Years later, she runs away from the home searching for a better life and a job...
Nasser Fadakar and Taghi Bi-Azar work for Kousheh at an institute. Kousheh is not satisfied with their work and behavior and sends both of them on forced leave. The two go on a trip in their landlady's old car and meet Mina on the road. Mina is a famous singer whose aunt and her managers, Sousoul and Abdullah Booghi, are watching over her so that she doesn't think about claiming her wealth, which her aunt, with the help of Saeed and by forging documents, has taken possession of. Saeed wants to marry Mina and receive half of her wealth. Mina asks Nasser for help. The aunt, by hypnotizing Mina, arranges the wedding ceremony of Saeed and Mina, and Nasser, with the help of a man who pretends to be able to put people to sleep and make them talk, and with Taghi's antics, who is dressed in women's clothes, disrupt their wedding ceremony. Taghi kidnaps Mina and Nasser hands Saeed over to the police. Finally, Nasser starts a life with Mina and Taghi with Mina's friend.
Two musicians, when they can't find work for themselves, dress up in women's clothes and enter the house of a wealthy woman whose servants are all female; because the lady of the house intensely dislikes men.
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
The resemblance between a criminal and a simple theater actor, who recently got engaged to his beloved, causes problems. The criminal is wanted and tries to use this resemblance to carry out his evil plans and escape danger in time. The police, with the cooperation of the theater actor, disguise one of the actors as the victim and place him in the path of the criminal. The killer tries to escape upon seeing the victim, but the police, with their vigilance, manage to apprehend him.
Khanom Bozorg wants to give her necklace to her grand daughter Reihan but her son and her expelled daughter Nimtaj are after it. They send two thieves to steal it from Reihan.
Agha who has lost his wife, decides to remarry. However, during this period, he becomes haunted by illusions and sees his deceased wife in his dreams every night, so to speak, he becomes 'possessed by a genie' according to popular belief. People around him call in a exorcist, and eventually, he manages to regain his normal state."
A middle-aged couple travels from a small town to Tehran with their young son to visit their friends and their daughter. However, both families, to hide their true age, make their young son and daughter appear as young children. Despite this, the son and daughter gradually fall in love, and after a while, their love is revealed, thus exposing the pretense of the adults.
Ali, the shoe shiner, lives a good life within his means and is content until his wife, out of envy and competition, asks him to find a new way of life and provide a more prosperous situation.
Hossein Tormozi is a taxi driver, and because of poverty, he is unable to marry his cousin Mahin. One day, Hossein meets a Foreign girl named Maria, who just came to Iran with her sister and sister's husband and got lost. Hossein takes Maria for a trip and takes care of her at her mother's house.
Hamid and Mahin are husband and wife and are traveling to the north by their car. But in the way they have an accident with a rural woman. Unlike his wife's disagreement Hamid decides to escape the scene and lives the woman to die but it is only the beginning of his troubles.
Well-educated and humble teacher Mr Hekmati arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman who nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother.
