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Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother 1976 star_border 7.2
A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

The Garden of Stones 1976 star_border 6.3
Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired shrine to the namelessly holy.

The Blind Owl 1975 star_border 6
Film based on the famous Iranian novella by Sadegh Hedayat, considered one of the great works of modern Persian prose. A man who is perhaps losing his mind spits his murderous fantasies and confessions at a shadow on the wall of his room that has the shape of an owl.

The Spring 1973 star_border 5.7
A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.

Tranquility in the Presence of Others 1972 star_border 5.2
A colonel, who has two daughters working as nurses in Tehran, retires to a small city. The man marries a teacher from the provinces and goes with her to Tehran. However, he finds that his daughters have changed. The elder daughter eventually commits suicide and the younger daughter goes through an ill-fated marriage. The father, observing the problems of his children, goes insane and is confined to an asylum. For its political and social content, the film was banned by the government for several years.

Bita 1972 star_border 5
Hajir Darioush's first and last commercially successful film, "Bita" is about a young woman's struggle to come to terms with social barriers facing her, starring Googoosh.

How Scary is the Darkness of the Soul‏! 1972 star_border 5
In this experimental Iranian film, a being who has turned its back on the familiar and ordinary daily life embarks on a quest to find an escape to the beyond. It eventually reaches those who have already attained liberation and joins them. Leaving behind the ruins of its past days, it becomes part of another group of beings from a different world.

Knucklebones 1971 star_border 5
Borzoo is gambling and his wife is not happy with that. Finally he decides not to gamble anymore and takes an oath on himself not to do. But his friend Ali is in desperate need for money for his sister's marriage. Borzoo breaks his oath to gamble once more and brings money for his friend. But this time terrible consequences are waiting for him and other gamblers.

Naankhor-haye bisavadi 1970
A documentary about people who make their living by writing letters for illiterate people

Thursday-bazaar of Minaab 1968
Short documentary about the Thursday-bazaar of Minaab, a small city in South of Iran

Taxi Meter 1967 star_border 6.5
A short documentary about Tehran's taxi drivers and their problem with the new taxi meters.

Women and Professions 1967
A short documentary about women and their professions in Iran's 60s society.

My Uncle Napoleon 1976 star_border 7.6
An uproarious adoption of a popular novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad set in and around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran, marvelously rich in personality and incident. The title character, so-called because of his constant invocation of the general, rules over a wonderfully complex extended family. A hilarious series which makes fun of just about everything.