Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. Read More »
Tag Archives: Persian
The Blind Owl (1975) Kiumars Derambakhsh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Farshid Farshood, Novin Ghiasi
The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. Read More »
Two-Legged Horse (2008) Samira Makhmalbaf, Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haron Ahad, Gol-Ghotai
A father who has a young son with one leg and no other household members must go to India for some weeks. Read More »
Killing Mad Dogs (2001) Bahram Beizai, Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian
Golrokh an Iranian lady who is a talented author struggles to settle her presumably disloyal Read More »
Through the Olive Trees (1994) Abbas Kiarostami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992) Read More »
Under the Moonlight (2001) Reza Mirkarimi, Hossein Parastar, Hamed Rajabali, Mehran Rajabi
Hassan is a student of Religious /Islamic school and is about to be dressed as a missioner. Read More »
Beautiful City (2004) Asghar Farhadi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Faramarz Gharibian, Babak Ansari
Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, ‘Beautiful City’ is a cinematic gem not to be missed. Read More »
Alchemy (1995) Ahmad Reza Darvish, Bita Farahi, Reza Kianian, Khosro Shakibai
During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza’s wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Read More »
Gheisar (1969) Masud Kimiai, Behrouz Vossoughi, Pouri Baneai, Nasser Malekmotei
When Gheisar returns to town, he finds that his sister committed suicide after being raped and her brother was murdered. Read More »
Still Life (1974) Houshang Baharlou, Morteza Momayyez, Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Read More »
Far from Home (1975) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan
Husseyin (Parviz Sayyad), Turkish migrant workers, working in a factory in West Germany. Read More »
My Tehran for Sale (2009) Granaz Moussavi, Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran Read More »
The Key (1987) Ebrahim Forouzesh, Mahnaz Ansarian, Abbas Jafari, Amir Mohammad Pourhassan
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. Read More »
The Cycle (1978) Dariush Mehrjui, Saeed Kangarani, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fourouzan
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali’s father can be treated for his sickness. Read More »
The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Manuchehr Esmaili, Mojgan Naderi, Parvaneh Goharani
An embittered Professor and his daughter (whose job it is to nurse sucidal patients) try to deal with life in Iran before and after the fall of the Shah. Read More »