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- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiFakhri KhorvashA man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossein YarmohammadiAndre GovalovishParviz NaderiThe hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsHossain EmadeddinKamyar SheisiAzita RayejiAn Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMahmoud HatamikiaRoya NonahaliEbrahim AbadiHaji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
- DirectorEbrahim GolestanStarsParviz SayyadMary ApickShahnaz TehraniAli (Parviz Sayyad) who is a poor farmer when plowing his farm finds a treasure. He secretly begins to sell some of this treasure in the city and making a luxurious life for himself. By the encouragements of some customers of his treasure in the city he decides to divorce his rural wife and marry a girl from the city. But some of the villagers are after his treasure and his big marriage will not be without problems.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiBahman MofidFariba KhatamiReza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so. Ultimately, Reza is killed when he collides with a truck on his way to meet his beloved. Received the best actor and best music prizes at the Third Iranian National Film Festival "Sepas" in 1971.
- 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...
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsFariborz ArabniaHediyeh TehraniHassan JoharchiIn his last moments Mr. Baheri gives his janitor Mr. Koohsari a small piece of land but his sons are after that piece of land. Soltan who is a thief, pick pocketing the janitor's daughter Maryam in the air port. She had the documents of that piece of land in her stolen wallet, so she searches after Soltan and find him. A love story is evolved between them.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohammad Reza ForutanMarjan ShirmohammadiRambod ShekarabiEsfandiar because of his father's illness manages to get the expensive Mercedes to travel with it. But he decides to postpone his trip so he can enjoy a day with this car. He goes after his friends and together they begin to drive in the streets. Many misfortunes that happen to them in that day make Esfandiar so disgust about the car that in the morning he set the car on fire.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsDariush ArjmandMohammad Reza ForutanMitra HajjarAmir who was in jail for a murder gets free after twelve years behind bars and finds that now there is a huge gap between his generation and his brothers'.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohammad Reza ForutanBahram RadanPoulad KimiayiThe story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianStarsBehrouz VossoughiPouri BaneaiIran DaftariA blind girl is in love with her young master but never dares to tell him. He goes and marry a girl from Europe. The girl who is disappointed begin to work as a nurse. She also becomes able to see once again. Finally the war is coming and she meets the man once again but this time everything is different.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAkbar MeshkinSoraya GhasemiLeila BaharanA former army colonel comes from a village to live in the city with her daughters where he finds it hard to adapt with the modern life.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsMorteza AghiliSusan GilberMehri VadadianIn one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghassem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....
- 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.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsDariush AsadzadeFiruzGeeti ForouharAdaptation of The Prince and the Pauper story. it happening in Iran during Iran, Iraq war. story following two sisters one in a poor neighbor and one living in almost a palace.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsGolab AdinehMohammad Reza ForutanBaran KosariA valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
- DirectorFarokh GhafariStarsFarhang AmiriEbrahim BagheriFarhad EmadEffat tells Mahmoud her life story in order to convince him not to divorce his wife.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsSaeed RadFarzaneh TaidiReza FazeliFor years the only windmill in the village is The Landlord's and he uses it to nobble the people. He also prevents people from building another mill. They are have ready a big stone to build the mill but because of the landlord and his men never succeeded to carry it inside the village. One day a Gypsey is coming to the village. He decides to help them carry the big stone to the village but they are scared and not listening to him. Finally he manages to convince some people -one of them a blacksmith- to help him carry the big stone to the village.
- DirectorSyamak YasamiStarsMohamad Ali FardinArmais Vartani HovsepianFourouzanWhen two young poor men save a rich man who has decided to suicide and take care of him, he learns about the other part of the society and poor people's life.