New Iran Cinema in the 80s
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- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiAmrollah SaberiStudents of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.
- DirectorVaruzh Karim-MasihiStarsParviz PoorhosseiniDariush FarhangMohamad MotieThe Mongol invasion of Iran leaves the country devastated but the people fight for their right in their own way.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsHeinz LievenDorothea MoritzIngrid DomannHerbert is a civil engineer who has quit his job, changed his behavior and become very indifferent and apathetic against people and to most things. His wife convinces him to go to a clinic, but will it change him?
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiYoung Mohammad-Reza falls victim to tooth decay woes-and Kiarostami takes advantage of his misfortune by documenting the trauma of the subsequent dental appointment-crafting a humorous portrait eliciting empathy for a young man in a troubling situation familiar to many.
- DirectorAmir NaderiIt all began with "Black Friday" - a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah's police. Official pronouncements put the death toll at 200, but the next day the people of Teheran witnessed how thousands of bodies were brought to Behast Zahra cemetery. Yet even this wasn't the whole extent of the tragedy. As the families continued looking for their relatives they began to realize just how many had disappeared. Over the next few months the massacres continued, with many thousands more disappearing, until February 11th, 1979, victory day for the Revolution. Naderi's film follows this search for the missing, through which the terrible truth is gradually revealed. The film is not only a documentary but also a document of a horrible crime.
- DirectorAmir Naderi
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsYoosef MoghaddamAli AsgariTeymourA deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiRichard HarrisonRussel CaseA loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsSaeed RadFarimah FarjamiKhosro ShakibaiDuring the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution. Amani reports him to the authorities but Laleh becomes suspicious of him and begins to investigate about him. Finally Amani is getting killed and Laleh is saved by Jamal.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiMehdi HashemiMahmoud BehrouzianDeath of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the miller, his wife and his daughter but all the stories are different from each other.
- DirectorMohammad Reza AslaniStarsAhmad RasoolzadehThis film looks at the children who live and work in the big city's suburbs.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIn this documentary a citizen is trying in a street of Tehran to control the traffic and not let people to break the law which cause them to react differently and lead to funny situations.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadMary ApickHoushang TouzieAn Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. Tabataie) has already been killed by a Muslim American Hassan Tantai (aka David Theodore Belfield). A prominent mullah residing in the U.S. find him a new assassination target.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsPierre BayleMathieu JolyNicolas Joly
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsManfred ZapatkaIris von Reppert-BismarckUmran ErtokA woman leaves his husband and starts living with a Turkish man.
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsManfred ZapatkaImke BarnstedtGundula PetrovskaA treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohammad DadrasA concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsJamshid MashayekhiEzzatolah EntezamiAli NasirianThe movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMadjid NiroumandAbbas NazeriMusa TorkizadehAfter enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
- DirectorAmir Naderi
- DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsHamid JebeliEsmail MohammadiMajid NasiriIn winter a young guy Esmaeil is forced to go to the city to get the medicines of his father. The teacher of the village and another youngster Rahman too come with him. In the way the teacher leaves them to get back to the village but is attacked by wolves. He hides himself in a pit waiting for help. Esmaeil and Rahman make it to the city and get the medicines and on the way back home join a group of the villagers who come to the rescue of the teacher and together manage to save him.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMohammad KasebiMajid MajidiEsmat MakhmalbafA young guy Valeh is arrested by the security during Shah's reign in Iran. There in prison he remembers his past and his life and begins to asks about his believes and ideals. Finally they execute him while his friends try to make a hero out of him.
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsParvaneh MassoumiDavoud RashidiJamshid MashayekhiA family of three consists of a father in prison, a blind son and a suffering mother who have been waiting with her son for 20 years for her husband to be released.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianStarsSaeed RadJamshid HashempurZari BoroomandBased on true events, this movie depicts of the sacrifices made by the Iranian Air Force at the unset of the Iran-Iraq war. In particular the story of the fighter pilot Yadi Sharifirad based in second tactical airbase of Tabriz.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsReza Arham SadrEzzatolah EntezamiJahangir ForouharJafar Khan, the son of Haj Akbar, returns from America. When his father sees his unconventional appearance he realizes he will need to use fire and water to make Jafar look presentable. The father's efforts are unsuccessful because the government gives Jafar room to put his ideas into practice. Jafar becomes an agent for making Jafarabad, which has been renamed as Newjef, into an industrial city and a space where the residents can be put to work implementing Jafar's programs making his ideal society. When Haj Akbar is unable to bring Jafar in line and learns he has married a Americaan girl, he has a heart attack and on Jafar's advice is sent an asylum instead of a hospital. However the psychologist decides to look after him at home. In his father's absence Jafar Khan implements his programs. With help from the psychologist and the hospital doctor Haj Akbar regains his health and musters opposition to Jafar. After Jafar sets the people of the village against each other, the country drops the goal of being like America.
- DirectorAbolfazl JaliliStarsMehdi AsadiMaryam AshrafiMohsen MossaviDuring Iran-Iraqi war Hamed who has missed his parents in an air raid on his city Bostan is taken to the north to a war refugee's camp. An old man who his work is guarding the jungle take the responsibility of him. Soon an emotional relationship is found between them.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsJahangir AlmasiManijeh AghaiSirus GorjestaniAn Iranian villager wants to restore a nearby well in hopes of solving a water sortage, but is haunted by a local legend of a monster that drinks the wells dry.
- DirectorAli ZhekanStarsSusan TaslimiHossein MahjoubFirouz Behjat MohammadiRezvaneh is informed that her daughter Golbooteh is gave birth to a child. She rides the mare and with Rahmat her brother depart for the village in which her daughter lives. In the way she reviews her life. That the rain has destroyed their corps and that she and her 4 orphans are having such a hard life. That her daughter Golbooteh is forced to this marriage for only a mare in return because they are poor. After reviewing these bitter memories she reaches the village and finds her daughter smiling in the bed with her husband sitting by her side.
- DirectorMarzieh BoroomandMohammad Ali TalebiStarsAdel BezdoudehNima FallahHamid JebeliProbably the most famous puppet show for children and all ages. Mice who have to leave their school and immigrate because of a wild cat who wants to eat them up. Eventually the mice defeat the cat and go back to their home.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsJalil FarjadReza AsadiAli GholamiNasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. He has an accident with a child hitting him with his motorcycle. Because of his conscience hurting him badly he returns to Tehran alone. In the way back home he himself has a car accident. An ambulance comes to take him to the hospital but by accident they take him to an hospital of war injures. But he can not remember his true identity so doctors and nurses try hard to help him remember his true identity.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadAli PourtashAli Fakhroddin
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMahshid AfsharzadehFirouz KianiSamira MakhmalbafThe wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim's strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won't finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion?
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohammad Vali AhmadlooKamran BakhtarFarimah FarjamiIn a meeting in Bangkok the gang's member decide that they want to smuggle 20 tons of illegal drugs into Iran. But their members a man and his wife are arrested in Iran. The woman commit suicide in prison but the man decides to help the police. He help them and the gang fail in their plot.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsMary ApickHoushang TouzieMarshall ManeshA busload of College students, returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip, is stopped at the US border at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis. The group includes a number of Iranian passengers, divided along ideological lines, whose debates about policy and politics soon lead to a full-scale confrontation.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMahmoud BasiriBehzad BehzadpourJafar DehghanConsisting of three separate stories, the director explores "Man" as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the socio-economic pile.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz FardtombekianThe tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiDariush FarhangSimin AnsariMr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the documentary he finds the stranger who has a pawn shop. But when meets him he finds that the woman is not his wife but her twin sister Vida. While faking that he making a documentary he brings his wife to meet her twin sister. Kian finds that in her childhood her father passed away and her mother.
- DirectorEbrahim ForouzeshStarsAmir Mohammad PourhassanMahnaz AnsarianAbbas JafariA young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartment.
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsAmin TarokhDariush ArjmandKatayoun RiahiMasoud wants to leave his wife Parvaneh and their daughter and go to Europe. But before that they going on a trip to see some of their relatives. In the way a stranger who is injured rides with them and forces them with a gun to go to Payizan village. This and what happens next change Masoud's intention of going west.
- DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiValiyollah ShirandamiThe body of an English man who is been killed with a scythe is found in the Bakhtiary's area. Khoda Morad whose job is making stony lions with another man Kohyar bury the body. An officer A'meri with an English diplomat guiding him come to investigate in the murder case and arrest the murderer. They accuse Kohyar of the murder causing a dispute between people there.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsDariush ArjmandAli NasirianSaeed PoursamimiKhaje Majed informs the authorities about Captain Khorshid smuggling with his ship. The authorities take the smuggling and burn it. Farhan is a new arriver in the port. He wants to smuggle some political exiled people to some Arab countries. He asked Captain Khorshid to help him. At first Captain is refusing but finally due to financial problems he agree to help them. But the exiled ones have plans to rub Khaje Majed. They kill him and steal some pearls and jewels and bring it with themselves to the ship. Captain is forced by gun to obey them. In the middle of the way he manages to kill one of them. Then a brutal fight between him and the rest of the gang is occur which lead to the kill of all of them.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsKazem AfrandniaManijeh AghaiNasser AghayiA scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.
- DirectorAbolfazl JaliliStarsMehdi AsadiHossein MaloomiHossein PanahiAbolfazl Jalili's docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the prison, his life within this harsh environment becomes progressively worse, a near-daily fight for survival. The film is a searing indictment against a government that failed to deliver the on the promises with which it came to power: to deliver social justice to the oppressed and downtrodden. Initially released in the mid 1980s, at a time when Iran was at war with neighbouring Iraq, the film was an unwelcome edition to the Fajr Film Festival, as its theme of prison life was deemed critical of the Islamic Republic. In a re-edited version, the film was released in 1989 to critical acclaim.
- DirectorManoochehr Asgari-NasabStarsSaeed PoursamimiFathali OveisiReza AbdiComedy of mishaps with an American theme. When the clumsy Jafar is nearly run over by the cowboy hat-wearing Joe, a friendship develops that puts ideas into Jafar's head. Jafar loves America just as much as Joe does, and Joe soon starts encouraging him to move there. It's not a popular idea with his wife and family though, and it has some unexpected consequences for Jafar himself. Entertaining fun ensues as Jafar unwittingly gets himself into a bit of American-style trouble, only to extricate himself from it with comical inelegance.
- StarsAli NasirianMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid MashayekhiA corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsMehdi AsadiEzzatolah EntezamiHamid JebeliShirak's village is under the attack of the wild boars and he has lost his father in one of their attacks. To help his village he buys a dog from the Gypsies in return of some dates. He trained his dog and become ready to one night face the fierce attack of the wild boars on their crops. On that night with the help of his dog he manages to defeat their attack and save the crops.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsReza SaberiAhmad FakhrAnna Borkowska
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabak AhmadpoorFarhang AkhavanMohammad Reza NematzadehIn this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsJamshid MashayekhiJalal MoghadamHadi EslamiTehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence. But Yezghel is also on a personal mission of seeking Danial and Munes. At the same time, a gang of Zionist gunmen are sent to gun down the witnesses and Nuri....
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMadjid NiroumandA young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling through an amazingly bleak and desolate landscape. Primarily an essay on the issue of humans vs. nature, the film is of interest for technical and cultural reasons.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan AfravianAn Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
- DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMajid MozaffariAhmad HashemiDuring the second World War Iran is occupied by the allies. Meanwhile Doctor Rastan is going to the Qashqaei nomads to treat his sister's husband. There he meets Amir Houshang the head of Qashqaeies and also Ghobad who is a villain. He returns to his city Shiraz and finds that his younger brother Ali has killed the villain of the city. Doctor with his brother Ali flee to the nomads but this time finds that they are at war.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsAli NasirianAlireza KhamsehJamshid HashempurIn the years before the Iranian revolution, after winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her arrival in the city. The district governor [Ali Nassirian] and the military and security officials asked Gol Aqa to use his popularity to persuade the people to make the carpets in their homes available to the district governor for carpeting the welcome route. Gol Aga did not agree to this but after his fiancee's brother, who was a city journalist, was abducted to provoke him, he asked the district governor and the military officials to respond and invite the people to participate. Gol Aqa's father Os Khaled [Valiyollah Shirandami] was opposed to participation by his son and the people of the town in the welcome proceedings. This was why the royal family's welcome to the city was on the same day as the wedding. The people attended the grand celebration of Gol Aqa's wedding, but the only city residents present at the welcome proceedings were the district governor and the city officials.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMahmoud HatamikiaRoya NonahaliEbrahim AbadiHaji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsSeyed Ali Reza KhatamiSeyed Ebrahim AsgharzadehAli Reza HeydariA man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.
- DirectorHamid SamandarianStarsHoma RustaReza KianianAhmad Aghalu
- DirectorHassan HedayatStarsEbrahim AbadiAkbar AbdiFereydoon Aboo ZiaThis is a fictional story of early days of cinema theaters in Iran in early 20th century in the dawn of Persian constitutional revolution. Roosi Khan and Aghaiev who are supported by Russians and Britishs respectively have big rivalry over movie theaters. They try to attract more theater-goers to their cinema and even sabotage one another business.
- DirectorHassan HedayatStarsHadi EslamiParviz PoorhosseiniMohammad BarsoozianAfter the coup of 1953, four convicts escape while they are being taken to jail and attack the home of a foreign ministry official and take everyone hostage. Guests decide to choose two to accompany the convicts so they can escape abroad.