Dariush Mehrjui

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L'Iran: une révolution cinématographique
6
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.
Documentary
The New Wave
1

The New Wave

Nov 08, 2016
A Documentary about New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.
Documentary
Cinema Iran
5.5

Cinema Iran

May 04, 2005
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
Documentary
سرد سبز
1

سرد سبز

Apr 01, 1999
Part 1 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film traces her personal life.
Documentary
جام جان
1

جام جان

Aug 01, 2002
Part 2 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film examines her controversial, sometimes erotic, poetry. Contemporary Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad became a legend in her own time for her innovative and controversial writings. In this extensive, three-part documentary, Farrokhzad's life, work, and soul are laid bare. Director Nasser Saffarian deftly combines interviews with family members and peers with footage of Farrokhzad shot by Bernardo Bertolucci. Saffarian digs deep into her personal and professional life to uncover new information about this outspoken artist. Includes The Green Cold, a revealing look at her private world, The Mirror of the Soul, an exploration of her controversial, sometimes erotic poetry, and Summit of the Wave, an overview of her theater and film work.
Documentary
اوج موج
1

اوج موج

Jan 01, 2003
Part 3 of documentary trilogy about Pertsian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This part focuses on her theatre and film work.
Documentary
فنی‌زاده
1

فنی‌زاده

Jan 01, 1970
Fanizadeh documentary is about the famous actor of Iranian cinema Parviz Fanizadeh. This documentary film deals with his life and works. This documentary is based on the talks of characters from theater and cinema who worked directly with him. Among them there are Taghvai, Mehrjoui, Golestan, Kimiaiee, Nosrat Karimi, Behrouz vosoughi, Pari Saberi, etc.
Documentary
الماس در گام لا مینور
1
On October 14th,2023, An Internationally prominent and acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Darioush Mehrjui, and his scriptwriter wife, Vahideh Moahmmadifar, were slaughtered in their home in Iran. A few months before this tragic event, Mehrjui protested publicly against the censorship of his films and dared Iranian authorities to kill him. Featuring rare and intimate footage from Mehrjui and his wife in the last months of their lives, this documentary offers a unique chance to see the life of an artist in a closed society. Here, a murdered filmmaker is talking about his legacy in battling with censorship in his country.
Documentary
هامون
7.1

هامون

Feb 01, 1990
Hamoon'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.
Drama
هامون
7.1

هامون

Feb 01, 1990
Hamoon'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.
Drama
La Vache
7.7

La Vache

Jan 01, 1969
Hamoon'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.
Drama
Leila
7.2

Leila

May 14, 1999
Hamoon'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.
Drama
دایره مینا
6.8

دایره مینا

Sep 14, 1978
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Drama
دایره مینا
6.8

دایره مینا

Sep 14, 1978
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Drama
بانو
6.5

بانو

Jan 01, 1992
Maryam 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.
Drama
Bemani
5

Bemani

May 24, 2002
A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.
پری
5.4

پری

Feb 01, 1995
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Romance
پستچی
6.5

پستچی

Apr 01, 1972
A political metaphor based on Karl Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.
Drama
سنتوری
6.9

سنتوری

Apr 01, 2007
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Music
سارا
5.6

سارا

Feb 03, 1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Drama
آقای هالو
5.4

آقای هالو

Apr 01, 1970
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
Drama
Ashbah
2

Ashbah

Jun 22, 2014
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Leila
7.2

Leila

May 14, 1999
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Drama
نارنجی پوش
6

نارنجی پوش

Feb 03, 2012
The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.
Drama
نارنجی پوش
6

نارنجی پوش

Feb 03, 2012
The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.
Drama
سنتوری
6.9

سنتوری

Apr 01, 2007
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Music
سنتوری
6.9

سنتوری

Apr 01, 2007
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Music
سنتوری
6.9

سنتوری

Apr 01, 2007
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Music
هامون
7.1

هامون

Feb 01, 1990
Hamoon'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.
Drama
پستچی
6.5

پستچی

Apr 01, 1972
A political metaphor based on Karl Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.
Drama
سارا
5.6

سارا

Feb 03, 1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Drama
آقای هالو
5.4

آقای هالو

Apr 01, 1970
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
Drama
الماس ۳۳
4

الماس ۳۳

Jul 08, 1966
A professor who found out a formula to make diamonds from oil is killed in Tehran and his nephew who is a spy is sent to Tehran by Interpol in order to find the formula.
الماس ۳۳
4

الماس ۳۳

Jul 08, 1966
A professor who found out a formula to make diamonds from oil is killed in Tehran and his nephew who is a spy is sent to Tehran by Interpol in order to find the formula.
سارا
5.6

سارا

Feb 03, 1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Drama
طهران تهران
5

طهران تهران

Jan 01, 2010
This movie is about a music group that want to have their first concert but the politics don't let them.The name of the episode is sime akhar.
Drama
Leila
7.2

Leila

May 14, 1999
This movie is about a music group that want to have their first concert but the politics don't let them.The name of the episode is sime akhar.
Drama
Bemani
5

Bemani

May 24, 2002
A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.
میکس
5

میکس

Jan 01, 2000
An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.
Drama
میکس
5

میکس

Jan 01, 2000
An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.
Drama
فرش ایرانی
5

فرش ایرانی

May 21, 2007
Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.
Documentary
La Vache
7.7

La Vache

Jan 01, 1969
Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.
Drama
La Vache
7.7

La Vache

Jan 01, 1969
Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.
Drama
پری
5.4

پری

Feb 01, 1995
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Romance
پری
5.4

پری

Feb 01, 1995
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Romance
La Vache
7.7

La Vache

Jan 01, 1969
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Drama
لامینور
1.5

لامینور

Apr 27, 2022
Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.
Drama
لامینور
1.5

لامینور

Apr 27, 2022
Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.
Drama
شیرک
3

شیرک

Jun 01, 1988
Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village.
شیرک
3

شیرک

Jun 01, 1988
Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village.
شیرک
3

شیرک

Jun 01, 1988
Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village.
چه خوبه که برگشتی
2
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
Comedy
چه خوبه که برگشتی
2
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
Comedy
چه خوبه که برگشتی
2
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
Comedy