Jamshid Mashayekhi
Also Known As: جمشید مشایخی
Biography: Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim Golestan). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Kaiser(Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai). Mashayekhi commonly appears as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure. He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jajrood, Tehran, Iran
Birthday: November 26, 1934
Deathday: April 02, 2019
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Gender: Male
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Water
Overview: Towfigh is a rich man who has a large number of barrels and carts to distribute water, and in order to protect his interests through the exclusive distribution of water, he prevents any attempt by others in this field. But a young man named Moslem stands up to him and tries to compete with him with his small cart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1975-02-25
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Lollipop
Overview: Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset his daughter and son. When Morteza ends up in prison for involuntary manslaughter due to an accident, his daughter, realizing that her fiancé, who is also her cousin, does not earn enough to support their lives, starts working as a secretary for a wealthy man ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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The Sound of the Desert
Overview: Osman Adi Beyk was shot dead by Haghighat. Moghan Khan took his son (Brazil) to his wife to raise him like his own child.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Pure White
Overview: This documentary movie explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the 60s and 70s cinema and theater, with investigating through archival footage of his works and referring to his fellow artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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Tear and Smile
Overview: Tear and Smile
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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O Kaiser
Overview: Kaiser is a short animated film, directed by the cartoonist Álvaro Marins, the Seth, in 1917. It is considered the first cartoon produced in Brazil.
Genres: Animation Comedy History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-01-22
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Bi-hejab
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Charlotte be bazarche miayad
Overview: No despcrition
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Dead End of Trust
Overview: It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a love made of same "blood" still some time remains which is worth more than what has lasted so far.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-07
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The Musketeer
Overview: When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between the lawmen and a group of civilians in a rural province. As hostilities between the two sides slowly escalate, the animosity felt by the rebel leader towards his enemies slowly grows. Violence only begets more violence as a brutal attack is met with an act of revenge. A Bloody historical epic from Jamshid Heydari.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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The Cow
Overview: An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Desiderium
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Faryad
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Being Farmanara
Overview: This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Gheysar
Overview: Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol brothers are behind all of this decides to get revenge. His uncle advised him not to go after revenge but he begins to pursue them killing them one by one. Finally, when killing the last brother he himself is getting killed by the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Javani ham alamai darad
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Sky with No Stars
Overview: Heshmat runs the factory of his wife who has a heart disease and is unhappy with his wife's decision that after her death his property will be handed over to his sister Fereshteh. In the absence of his wife, Heshmat tries to attack the sanctity of her gaurdian angel, but the angel hits him on the head with a statue and runs away thinking that Heshmat is dead. Fereshteh decides to drown herself in the river, but Amir, who works in the Heshmat factory, saves her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Gunman
Overview: At the end of the reign, the country, the north, and the south are under strain to make foreign provisions for the Tremain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Motreb
Overview: A famous singer named Eskandar who killed his cousin out of love and served 15 years in prison is released. He finds out that his nephew Sasan has impregnated his late cousin's daughter Negar and is reluctant to marry her. At first Eskandar tries to convince Sasan but when he flees the city, Eskandar marries Negar to save her honor. They decide to stay married until Sasan comes back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Honeymoon
Overview: Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1976-02-10
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The Brick and the Mirror
Overview: Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji, try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1966-01-12
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The Starless Sky
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Abadan
Overview: An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Unruled Paper
Overview: Unruled Paper is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Naser Taghva'i, based on an original script by Naser Taghva'i and Minoo Farsh'chi. The film was produced in 2001 by Yekta Film.
Genres: Drama Family Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Prince Ehtejab
Overview: Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days of his ancestors as well as days of degradation. Among the latter are the gruesome manner in which his cruel grandfather murdered his mother and brother, and the way that he himself caused the death of his wife.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1975-01-25
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The Spring
Overview: A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Kamalolmolk
Overview: The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Zabih
Overview: Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison after 15 years. When arrested, Aghdas was pregnant with his child. Now Zabih sets off for his hometown to find Aghdas and their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1975-02-02
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The Curse
Overview: An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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A Little Kiss
Overview: Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-12-14
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The Grandfather
Overview: A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and at the same time decides to send his father to a nursing home.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Alma
Overview: An Iranian man has been separated from his daughter, who's been in Soviet Azerbaijan, for 20 years. Finally he has the opportunity to cross the border and see her, but when he gets there he finds that she's been sentenced to death for "anti-Soviet activities."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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Crime
Overview: Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-05-24
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Punishment Committe
Overview: In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.
Genres: History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Lead
Overview: Tehran, 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.
Genres: Action History Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Fish Die in Soil
Overview: Reza who is from a poor family and lives with his father in a rental room falls in love with a girl Nasrin who is from a rich family. Her father disagrees with this love and wants her to ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1977-03-21
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Pol
Overview: Jalal who is a locomotive driver meets a girl Shirin in a village and falls in love with her. They decide to get marry but in the way back he has an accident. He get injured very badly but ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Dada
Overview: The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get marry. But a guy Dada is resisting. He gives the landlord a piece of land so he not to ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1983-07-06
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I am not Scrap
Overview: The story of a woman who suffers from Alzheimer and her husband tries to recall a memory for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-07-23
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Good Fellas
Overview: The story a famous old actor who has not played a movie for a long time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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A Candle in the Wind
Overview: Roya, Farzins's mother, has left her husbands. As young Farzin quits university, accidentally he meets a girl from a wealthy family who is the manager of an NGO. Aware of farzin's ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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The House of Spider
Overview: Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa located in the north of Iran. They are all involved in Operation Eagle Claw waiting to see its success. When the operations fails, their relations change. The one who is a symbol of a system viewpoint based on the domination of world powers, kills all his friends, and at last he encounters the youngest member of the group who has found out about his true nature and is killed by him; but before he dies, he kills this young man too.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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All Three, He Said
Overview: A young man is released from prison. Three other prisoners who where his cellmates explain his political and social life in three different ways: The first one defines him as the son of an unknown father and a Polish mother who were taken abroad when his mother has been killed at the time of WWII and then he has returned to Iran as the agent of Zionists arrested while he was spying. The second one defines him as the lover of a Polish woman who is the wife of an embassy employee and is arrested through a report by the husband. The third one tells that he has returned to the country to take his wife's jewelry and is arrested mistakenly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Sunrise
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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A House Built on Water
Overview: Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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The father of other
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-03-16
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Furious Men
Overview: Ayaz who has a feud with Nasir's family makes a plan and manages to get their father arrested. Nasir decides to get revenge but is send away from the city. He meets a valiant and becomes his disciple learning his work. When he returns home he goes after Ayaz and his daughter to take revenge on them
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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The Spell
Overview: A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On the way home from their wedding, they get lost in a dark forest on a stormy night. They take refuge in an eerie mansion, inhabited by an old man obsessed with the past, and his creepy servant. As the night progresses, they learn the terrible secrets hidden in the house. Similar to many other films in this genre, with a few interesting plot turns.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Fateful Day
Overview: As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Cheque
Overview: Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-09
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Bitter Almonds
Overview: Engineer "Zarin", the influential and creative member of Pars Electric Company finds out about currency smugglers in some exporting activities of the company and opposes them severely. He decides to resist them with the help of his colleagues. But the smugglers who fail to stop them by threatening start violation and murder to prevent Zarin and his friends interfering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1998-04-01
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Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Overview: The second feature film to be edited using footage from Hatami's miniseries Hezar Dastan.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-15
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The Iconoclast
Overview: Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh gradually falls in love with Ali
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Thirteen 59
Overview: What if you lived by the sea, and one day you stopped hearing the sound of the waves? What would you do then? That's the question posed by Saman Salur in 'Thirteen 59', an introspective study of the psychological side of war. A chief commander in the Iranian army wakes up from a coma years after the war in which he fought has ended. Unable to define himself by the conflict anymore, he struggles to move on from what he has always known and find the peace within himself. Habit is the hardest addiction to kick.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-06-29
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My Lady
Overview: Years ago, two infants were born in a hospital at the same time. A little boy named Farhad, the first infant’s cousin, takes pictures with the second infant. Twenty years later, Farhad is now a charming young man and is arranged to marry Leyli (the first infant). But Farhad does not really want to marry her, as he is actually in love with Shirin, who is a widow. But ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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Chrysanthemum
Overview: Abbas is set to be released after 20 years in prison But on the day of his release, Abbas dies.Abbas's wife could not give the news to her blind child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1984-08-01
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Serpent’s Skin
Overview: Based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and one of the pioneering films of the Iranian New Wave
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1964-10-05
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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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The Teacher without Master
Overview: The Teacher without Master
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Soutedel
Overview: The most complete narrative of the 52 years of life of Iranian director Ali Hatami (1944-1996).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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After the silence
Overview: Behind the scenes of the movie "Unruled Paper (2002)"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-09-01
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Fannizadeh
Overview: Fanizadeh documentary is about the famous actor of Iranian cinema Parviz Fanizadeh. This documentary film deals with his life and works. This documentary is based on the talks of characters from theater and cinema who worked directly with him. Among them there are Taghvai, Mehrjoui, Golestan, Kimiaiee, Nosrat Karimi, Behrouz vosoughi, Pari Saberi, etc.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
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The Path of Glory
Overview: The Tangfani Pump House (Tangfani Oil Transfer Center), which was bombed several times during the Iran-Iraq War and then rebuilt, was once again targeted by Iraqi aircraft when it was opened and severely damaged. The National Oil Company officials believe that the only way to restart this important pump house, which is responsible for delivering crude oil to the country's three major refineries, is to move it underground. Specialists and workers, dressed as nomads, begin working underground, and Engineer Yeganeh is called to the area to direct the operation. In the meantime, several Iraqi regime spies, seeing the apparent halt in the reconstruction of the previous pump house, become suspicious of the movements and send one of their men to obtain information from Engineer Yeganeh through threats...
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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