Iranian Cinema in the 1980s
The Best Films of Iranian Cinema from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiHoma RustaJamileh SheikhiA young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service? The film is transcendental in its resolution.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsRogheyeh Chehreh-AzadMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarimah FarjamiHow a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsJamshid MashayekhiEzzatolah EntezamiAli NasirianThe movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
- 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.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsFaramarz SadighiAmin TarokhAkbar AbdiA movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France.
- 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 MehrjuiStarsBita FarahiFathali OveisiSima TirandazMaryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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....
- 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.
- DirectorAmir GhavidelStarsKhosro ShakibaiFaramarz GharibianEnayat BakhshiThe film is about a train carrying fuel for the army in 1979 during the revolution movement in Iran but with the help of revolutionary forces the train is redirected to a cold region of the country facing fuel shortage. But the authorities try to stop the train before it reaches it destination.
- DirectorMajid JavanmardStarsParviz ParastuiKhosro ShakibaiEnayat BakhshiAn escaping political fugitive takes refuge in a truck driver and befriends him
- DirectorMuhammad BozorgniaStarsFereydoon Aboo ZiaDariush ArjmandEzzatolah EntezamiMany years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian gulf. Ahmad Beyk manages to find it's place and is after getting the treasure out. He goes to Shiraz's governor's son and demands his help agreeing with him on sharing the profits 50 percent for each. But the governor's son wants it all for himself unaware that the English forces there are became interested in the Angelica too.
- 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.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAkbar AbdiHossein SarsharSoraya HekmatTowards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.
- DirectorMohamad Reza AalamiStarsJavad GolpayganiHossein ParvareshJamshid HashempurA person with the Nickname of Mosafer (Passenger/Traveller), who is Suspected of Working in an Anti-Government Organization, is Arrested, and on the Pretext that he Needs to be Taken to the Security Organization to Confront One of His Comrades, They Wander Along the Road With Two Agents. The Mosafer's Companion Was Killed by the Officers While Fleeing, and the Two Officers Hope that the Mosafer's Actions and Words Will Reveal Important Points Along the Way.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamad Ali NajafiStarsAkbar ZanjanpourHoma RustaGhotbeddin SadeghiIn the middle of the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979 Captain Kalali who was in jail because of being a Communist is getting release from the prison. But he is after Keymaram the former leader of them who had betrayed them to kill him. Captain goes to Isfahan and manages to kill him and then after that he meets his wife and children who were away from him for a long time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHamid RakhshaniStarsHosein GilReza RakhshaniReza RooygariHossein is father of Mohtaram. He sees a mysterious woman in roof top of his house when he was burying Mohtaram's Placenta. Years later, Mohtaram and Esmael were supposed to get married according to an old tradition from childhood, and this happened. Everything is fine until Mohtaram sees jinn.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsAhmad NajafiGolchehre SajadiehShahed AhmadlooRavaged physically and psychologically by the war, sergeant Rostam Darre Kalaye is retired to go back to his family in the northern part of Iran. During his long absence, his wife Golbakht and their son had to work in sergeant brother's auto service. Initially delighted by return of his husband, Golbakht gradually finds his husband a handful stranger. Sergeant hears from his old friend , a retired major sergeant, that his piece of land has been taken by Nasser khan. Sergeant is bent on retrieving what he believes to be still belonging to him, but aside from his son and friend, nobody stands by him and when begins to work in his land, he is harshly thrashed by Nasser's men. It's around the time The Soviet Union has opened its borders just before its downfall, and Golbakht's old mother, originally an immigrant from Caucasus decides to cross the borders to revisit her homeland. Golbakht that finds his silent husband beyond her tolerance decides to leave him and their son and accompany her mother...