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5

Baduk

A boy and his sister are abducted from the streets of Tehran and sold into slavery.

NR

5

1992 Action 89 min Play

5.6

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.

NR

5.6

1992 Comedy 92 min Play

7.5

Life, and Nothing More…

After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to search for the actors of the movie the director made there a few years ago, "Where Is My Friend's House?" (1987). In their search, they found how people who had lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

NR

7.5

1992 Drama 95 min Play

7.9

Where Is My Friend’s House?

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

NR

7.9

1990 Drama 83 min Play

8

Close-Up

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

NR

8

1990 Crime 98 min Play

6

The Chorus

An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to see him.

NR

6

1982 Drama 17 min Play

6.3

The Report

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.

NR

6.3

1977 Drama 112 min Play

5.6

Two Solutions for One Problem

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

NR

5.6

1975 Documentary 5 min Play

7.6

The Traveler

The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. After a number of adventures, he finally reaches Tehran stadium at the time of the match. The film addresses the boy's determination in his goal and his indifference to the ...

NR

7.6

1974 Drama 83 min Play

5.5

Downpour

A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother. In an environment where commitments and social problems often stand in the way between people and their dreams.

NR

5.5

1972 Comedy 128 min Play

6

The Breaktime

A young boy accidentaly kicks his football through a glass window. On his way home he steals a new ball from some older kids who start to run after him.

NR

6

1972 Drama 14 min Play

6.5

The Bread and Alley

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the dog's barking, he asks various passers-by for help but no-one pays him any attention, and he must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home.

NR

6.5

1970 Drama 10 min Play

7.7

The Cow

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.

NR

7.7

1969 Drama 105 min Play

7.6

The House Is Black

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

NR

7.6

1963 Documentary 20 min Play