Iranian Most Valuable Movies Part 2: Post-revolution era: 20th. century
Best Iranian films officialy made in Iran after the islamic revolution (from 1979 to 1999) and not banned by the goverment are listed here
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- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare SeddiqiAfter a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaJamileh SheikhiThe story of a semi-modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation, but is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh FeyziThe story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiReza KianianHabib RezaeiThe Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.
- 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsHomayoun ErshadiGolshifteh FarahaniMohammad Reza Shahbani NouriEsteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for beautiful tomboy "M".
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi AhmadiYousef JokarBahram ZandiWe follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the young man returns years later. As he surveys the ruins of his former homestead, he remembers how his family adapted to a new life, his boyhood escapades, and his first love. An elegant account of how war affects the lives of children, this drama is a must see.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiMahmoud AziziMaziar LorestaniDuring the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.
- 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.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
- 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.
- DirectorVaruzh Karim-MasihiStarsFarimah FarjamiDariush ArjmandNiku Kheradmand"Gaslight" as Farsi farce. Kamran and Moluk, middle-aged siblings, live penniless in the family's Tehran mansion, selling furniture to pay expenses. Their brother, who owns the house, has died suddenly, and his widow, Forugh, is coming from the provinces to visit. Kamran writes an elaborate script and hires a troupe of five actors to be the household servants. The purpose of the charade, which will seem real to Forugh, is to drive her mad, perhaps to suicide, so that Kamran and Moluk can inherit the house. The play is elaborate, Forugh is fooled and terrified, and the police can't substantiate her wild claims. She appears insane to them. All is headed for the mysterious last act.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsMina Mohammad KhaniKazem MojdehiNaser OmuniWhen a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.
- 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.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsEzzatolah EntezamiFatemah Motamed-AriaGolab AdinehAn 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.
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsRoya NonahaliShah Ali SarkhaniParviz PoorhosseiniThe fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsFarimah FarjamiAbolfazl PoorarabAtefeh RazaviAdel is a young criminal who frequently teams up with his middle-aged wife Afagh in order to carry out the most audacious schemes. But when Adel falls in love with Narges, he realises he is quite prepared to start a new life on the right side of the law. Posing as his mother, Afagh assures the bride's family that Adel is reliable, but his criminal record closes most doors in his attempts to secure a legitimate career path. Trapped in a love triangle and in the limbo of a double life, can Adel ever achieve the better future for which he is striving ?
- DirectorMehdi FakhimzadehStarsMehdi HashemiFatemah Motamed-AriaNasrin MoghanlooThe personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsFaramarz SadighiGolchehre SajadiehAhmad NajafiReza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over the home beyond bearing, he departs to overcome his sorrows. He ends up at a hostel where he shares his room with a southern guy called Ahmad who has a group of orphan war-stricken children under his wing. After the initial inkling gives way to the friendship, Reza discovers that Ahmad's patron plies his trade in black-market. At the same time, Reza's sister is constantly beaten and humiliated by her husband for being infertile...
- DirectorAlireza DavoudnejadStarsMohammad Reza DavoudnejadTarahom FathiShojaoddin HabibianTwo boys compete for one job they both need desperately. This movie portrays their rivalry.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsHadi AlipourAmir JanfadaMajid AlipourA boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsDavoud RashidiShahla Mir BakhtiarEsmail Mohammadithe movie is about a Savak agent who come to a village for escaping from revolutionaries punishment. Afterwards he comes mad and killed himself when he hallucinatly think to kill someone else.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsAzita HajianReza KianianParviz ParastuiA man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
- DirectorDariush FarhangStarsJamshid MashayekhiMahmoud JafariMalihe NasiriAfter the wedding the bride, [Sogand Rahmani] the groom [Atila Pesiani] and their relatives set out for the village where they will be living. A severe storm comes, the bride and groom lose the way and take refuge in a mansion. Shazdeh and his steward [Parviz Poorhosseini] decide to spend two nights there. Five years earlier Shazdeh's wife [Susan Taslimi] got lost there when she went into a hall of mirrors. In an abandoned basement the bride meets Shazdeh's wife who says she has been imprisoned in a black pit since the wedding night. Shazdeh and the son-in-law doubt the steward and when they go from the hall of mirrors to the black pit they pursue him. In the ensuing struggle the steward is killed by Shazdeh's wife. The bride and groom leave the mansion and after years of separation Shazdeh and his wife sit and talk. The wife knocks over a candlestick and the mansion is consumed by fire.