Movies: Irene Zazians

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips....

Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film w...

A young man who has killed his creditor is coerced into cutting his ties with his fiancé and marrying the woman who witnessed his crime....

Akbar has just lost his job when he meets a foreign tourist woman named Catherine and starts working as her guide. This proves to be troublesome since his wife and his former co-workers try to end his new relationship....

After the death of her husband, a woman lives with her son, a cockfighter. An old admirer approaches the woman, but her son is against this new marriage....

A man who divorced his wife three times due to a misunderstanding , regrets his act after realizing the truth and decides to marry her again. An Interim Husband is needed for this....

Aram falls in love with a beautiful dancer Shirin. Due to her dubious profession, Aram and his brother Naser decide to lie about her origins to their mother. Unfortunately, she finds out the truth and forbids Shirin from marrying her son. Aram, belie...

To find pearls, a fisher man goes to the sea on a cursed ship. But the ship seamen leave him in an island and go. 15 years later he finally returns home, where his 15-year-old son, provoked by the diamond smugglers, wants to kill him....

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution....

A young doctor enters a village to serve there but the traditional doctor Mozaffar Khan Hakim-bashi didn't like that and thinks him a rival. Mozaffar Khan and his assistant begin to plot against the doctor making people to doubt him. Meanwhile Hakim-...

Behrouz - a criminal story writer - is married with Roxanne and is running the factory of Roxanne's cousin who was killed in an accident in his factory......

A young man is accused of embezzlement by staging his boss and goes to prison, but soon he is acquitted and released, while his family situation is disturbed, he lost his job, his fiance left him and his mother is sick...

Nayyer after killing a woman takes over Sha'ban's lands and accused him of the killing causing him to be imprisoned. A young guy known as Red-Haired is protecting her. But Sha'ban is back and this time in a quarrel gets killed by Nayyer's men. Meanwh...

During the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution....

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Amir is the accountant of a company that is falsely accused of embezzlement, and before his arrest, he kills the chief accountant who is the main culprit......

Pooran doesn't get pregnant so Mahmood marries a widow in the hope of becoming a father. Unpredicted things happen when the three of them have to live in the same house....

Two gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He p...