Baran Kosari
Also Known As: باران کوثری, Baran Kousari, Baran Kowsari
Biography: Iranian actress Baran Kosari (باران کوثری) graduated in Stage Acting from Sooreh Art University. She made her acting debut in 1991 in Best Dad in the World.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1985
Age: 39 years old
Gender: Female
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Laboratory
Overview: It is about a boy named Ghahraman who changes his life when he starts working in a laboratory
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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I Am Forough
Overview: Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre, and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be a 'window through which we see ourselves sing, shout and cry'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-12-31
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Tales of an Island
Overview: An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Gilaneh
Overview: A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-02-01
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Punch Drunk
Overview: Mahtab lives in Tehran in 1996, along with her 10-year-old child, Erfan. She has got divorced from her husband, Morteza, who is in jail. Mahtab has enrolled her child in a karate class so that he does not end up like his father as far as his character is concerned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-02-01
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Tambourine
Overview: Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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Mainline
Overview: The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-04-20
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Under the Skin of the City
Overview: 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 her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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Won't You Cry?
Overview: A man loses the ability to cry after the death of his younger brother. As he deals with grief and the separation from his wife, he tries to reconcile his job at a football website with depression and a lack of meaning in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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The Wastetown
Overview: Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband’s family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son. Bemani goes to the car demolition workshop where Ebi, her brother-in-law, works, but he claims not to know anything about the boy’s fate. She finds out, however, that it was Ebi who sold the child to a rich family. Bemani tries to extract more information from the workers of the demolition shop, but they demand an indecent favour in return for the information. As a desperate mother, she is prepared to go to the extremes, but not in the way the men are hoping for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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48 Hours
Overview: After three years in prison, Nader is given a furlough to go home. He has 48 hours to become a father to his four-year-old daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-11-06
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Moonshadow – The Myth of Fahimeh
Overview: This is the story of Fahimeh Akbari, a leading lady in the musical and cultural history of Iran, an exceptional talent whose magical voice and unique style enriched both the folklore and urban musical landscapes of Iran, a pioneer who breathed new life into the music scene by introducing and marrying European tunes and rhythms with that of Gilan, Iran. Fahimeh Akbari, a figure so remarkable and revolutionary that her marked absence seems almost mythical. A familiar tale of a female artist mysteriously forgotten and seemingly erased from history books.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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Tea Man
Overview: This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Odyssey of Solitude
Overview: Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his friends. He desperately tries to act as a very democratic person, giving priority to his wife’s joy and pleasures. He is even willing to show that he would be happy if his wife marries one of his friends since he thinks the other one would be able to make her happier. But it seems that she’s notified that the matter of her happiness is absolutely not dependent on a “man”. Thus he sees that all his scientific beliefs are collapsed…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-05-12
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Acclimatizing
Overview: A theatre directed by Afsaneh Mahian.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Jameh Daran
Overview: The depressed Shirin wanders around at her father's funeral. Unexpectedly, she sees a man very much like her father. Regardless of her uncle's objection, Shirin is enchanted by the idea of finding out that man. Reluctantly, her uncle acknowledges that the man is her father's illegitimate child. Looking at gloomy daughter, Shirin's mother tells her about some past events, especially about an unexpected truth that Shirin is her father's adopted daughter. It seems to be clear that Shirin and that man have no blood bond. But her father's mistress tells a different story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-11-11
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Nargess
Overview: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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Fairy Tale
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-06-15
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Nothing
Overview: A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-03-17
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The Nameless Alley
Overview: Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-02-11
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Heiran
Overview: During the rule of Taliban in Afghanistan, about 3 million illegal Afghani immigrants entered Iran and caused numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film depicts the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with Heiran, an Afghan student who has come to their village to work. However, Mahi's family being strictly against her marriage to Heiran, force Mahi to choose one between her family and an Afghan boy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-01-07
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Absolutely Tame Is a Horse
Overview: A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-10
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Lantouri
Overview: 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 district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Dancing in the Dust
Overview: When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh (Kosari). When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man (Gharibian) who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-01-23
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Atoosa's Laughters
Overview: Twelve strangers embark on the Trans-Asia Express, a four-day train journey from Tehran to Istanbul. But not everyone is who they pretend to be or seem to be,
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-04-26
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The Third Day
Overview: During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province. Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.
Genres: War Action Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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Blockage
Overview: Qasem is a roadblock employee at the municipality, trying to improve his life while facing problems with his wife Narges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-03
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7 Months Pregnant
Overview: Revenge may have irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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The Blue-Veiled
Overview: An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Chanel
Overview: The story narrates the story of the life of a nursing woman who lives with her child in special circumstances, and she experiences adventures due to events and mistakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Girl's Dormitory
Overview: A young beautiful lady leaves the overprotective and familiar environment of her hometown and moves to the city to set off her college studies. There, she will have to face a new life alone, with all the experiences and dangers that this may imply.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-11-14
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Cold Sweat
Overview: Iran's national women’s futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia. But at the airport on departure day, the team captain finds her husband hasn’t signed the document to permit her exit from the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Mastaneh
Overview: An Adopted Movie From Orginal Title 'Lipstick"
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-01-21
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I'm a Mother
Overview: The film is about the lives of two affluent families that are collapsing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-05-09
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The Magic Generation
Overview: Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can hear through solid walls and over great distances. But Babak is not the only one with bizarre, unexplained powers. A group of extraordinary individuals begin to emerge and find each other. Will they learn to use their powers for anything other than their own selfish means? With experimental sequences and innovative camerawork, director Iraj Karimi takes a whimsical look at a band of youths brought together through their abilities, but bound by their lack of purpose.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-06-13
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Tofigh-e Ejbari
Overview: Tofigh-e Ejbari is a day-in-the-life of a superstar, Reza, and all the pluses and minuses that such degree of fame brings with it in terms of dealing with friends, family, fans and general public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Anonymity
Overview: It is few days left to Amir's 40th birthday but an incident enters him into a big crisis which makes him to begin searching for a solution.
Genres: Drama Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-01-14
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The Red Trauma
Overview: This movie is a romance scene in the context of a city trip in Tehran, where the main character of the film is trying to maintain the balance between the four personality dimensions of a woman (Mistress, Mother, Amazon, and Madonna archetypes). Like the very close encounter, this movie has a playfulness and narcissistic feelings besides thematic and temporal concerns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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The Girl's House
Overview: Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so they go straight to their friend's fiancé, Mansoor, to find out about the cause of her suspicious death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Astigmatism
Overview: A man has returned after a few years of separation from his family and wants to take back his house from his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. His son, who farms leeches in the basement and hopes to get rich by doing that, tries to reconcile his father with his mother to stay at home, but his mother intends to marry someone else. The grandson who is just 9 years old, falls in love with his teacher at school and this causes problems in both the boy and the teacher's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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Numbness
Overview: Jalal, a dropouts philosophy student, realizes that her sister Mary, who has a Bipolar disease, is married to a bourgeois man named Shahrokh who is addicted to football betting. He left the house angrily, and goes to his friend's house, Bahman, who is an underground composer. He meets a strange taxi driver named Nasser on his way. They spent a strange night together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Repression
Overview: After a long time, three sisters come back to their paternal house. They face a caretaker along with their mother struggling with Alzheimer's. But there is no trace of the father who has disappeared in an early morning. A dead body is found, but none of the sisters are going to identify the body due to the hatred rooted in their hearts. There is a dark secret in the family, but no one intends to talk about it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-07-24
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Night, Outdoor
Overview: Tuska decides that before her trip to Europe she wants to film Tehran from north to south with her camera. Her brother and friends are accompany her in this. But during that some troubles are happen to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-15
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The Winning Card
Overview: The manager of a successful travel agency, Arman, has just got away with committing huge financial fraud. Now he intends to flee the country before the authorities can catch up to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-07-15
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A Cube of Sugar
Overview: 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).
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-10-12
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Baran and the Native
Overview: Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a plush hotel on the mainland, however she seems somewhat disconsolate. Later she finds the native boy again and they begin to bond, playfully exploring the beach resort together. Later, the two go aboard a row-boat and the native dives down into the water to collect a pearl from the seabed for her. However, the ending leaves the audience to wonder if he was a figment of Baran's longing imagination all along. Well-shot and with a strong performance from Baran Kosari, this film perfectly captures the bittersweet pangs of young love.
Genres: Romance Adventure Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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The May Lady
Overview: Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She finally decides to quit making this film because of tiredness but doctor Rahbar wants her to continue. Maani is teasing her every day preventing her from marrying doctor Rahbar but she finally decides that she wants to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Our Times
Overview: Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-08-18
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The Last Fiction
Overview: Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Popular
Overview: A middle-aged housewife that is about to enter her sixties decides to become independent after realising her husband has cheated on her in a humiliating fashion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-11-08
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The Slaughterhouse
Overview: Amir, recently released from prison in France, finds himself back in Iran and in over his head when his father, a slaughterhouse worker, calls him to help him cover up a crime which has happened there.
Genres: Thriller Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-02-01
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Tales
Overview: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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I'm Not Angry!
Overview: I'm not Angry! is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in the society, and does all he can to keep his love, Setareh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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Crossroads
Overview: As the days of several different people unfold, their separate lives are about to become linked by a tragic car crash which kills two women. Affected by their involvement in the accident in different ways, neither Amir or Mr Naseri will ever be the same again. How will the tragedy affect their relationships with those around them in this absorbing drama? Written by IMVBox.com
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-10-18
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Jandar
Overview: Asma's previous suitor Yaser ruins her wedding Ceremony. Her brother Jamal accidentally kills Yaser's brother. Yaser's odd suggestion in order to forgive Jamal, endangers Asma's Marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Hatred
Overview: A young woman fleeing Iran via Turkey will do whatever it takes to reach the West. One evening she meets a young Turkish-Iranian man outside a club in Istanbul and offers to get him into the club for free. A a relationship develops between them and she convinces him to leave Turkey with her. They initially approach a relative of the young man, who owns a carpet shop, to help them escape but between drugs and fiery temperaments things seriously misfire. They then try to to hustle for the money they need to pay for fake passports and visas but in the carpet bazaar of Istanbul they are out of their depth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-10-13
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Without Anything
Overview: A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village has a new guest. But the village has a new...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-02-02
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The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times
Overview: A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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My Child
Overview: harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful young woman who serves as a leader to the community and a seemingly naive young man who is smitten with a local girl. The film observes their customs and traditions in the tranquil setting of their natural environment. Despite the irreparable damage to their lives due to the war, the villagers remain warm-hearted and kind to those they encounter. The past haunts their lives, but their hearts remain pure and strong in war torn times.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-02-02
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A Minute of Silence
Overview: A play reading directed by Aida Keykhaiee
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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Dog Silence
Overview: A theater directed by Arvand Dasht Aray
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-01-11
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Shirin
Overview: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-04-18
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Birth Certificate
Overview: Mino unwittingly carries with him a secret that has caused him fear and doubt all his life, he makes a difficult decision to get rid of this secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2025-05-06
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