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A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).
After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers.
The story is about the life of a middle-aged woman played by Mehrane Mahin Torabi, who is a university professor and has a successful professional life, but despite being single, she is a kind mother to all her siblings' children and even the neighbor's son.
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
Haj Kazem Pahlevan is a good man and a prominent Iranian rice merchant who, with an emphasis on supporting national production, only works in the field of Iranian rice trading. Together with his son Masoud and his daughter Maryam, who is a lively journalist, he fights against the smuggling of expired and poisoned rice into Iran.
Chakameh, who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident, meets a man recently released from prison. While she's under pressure from lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the ex-convict tells her his story of his arrest and subsequent freedom.
"Gazelle" is the story of the self-inflicted isolation of a girl who sees her dreams in vain but has not lost her hope yet.
When Mahi's son dies in a car accident, Behrouz who has returned to Iran to sell his properties, attends the funeral. Their old romance catches up while Behrouz has planned to marry Sara and go back to Canada with her.
"Hamid" is kicked out of his mother's luxurious house.
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Directed by Bahman Farman Ara.
