New Iran Cinema in the 70s
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- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiPouri BaneaiNaser Malek MotieeA young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli NasirianAn 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsReza HashemiMehdi ShahravanfarA child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiNaser Malek MotieeSoghra ObeisiThere is an old saying in Farsi, "if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family". ...And that's what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is caught for keeps. A well respected uncle plans to marry a young woman who lives in a far away town. He asks his young nephew to bring the fiancée home to him. On the way back the young people fall in love, get married in secret, and return home with their secret. They're both afraid to tell the truth to the family. Eventually the uncle finds out, and to teach both his nephew and his fiancée a lesson he starts a bloody revenge.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianStarsAbdollah ButimarNilufarShilaA young guy falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her. But the problems prevent him from marrying the girl making her to commit suicide. After many troubles the young guy manages to rescue her and finally they get marry and live together.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsBehrouz VossoughiGoogooshFarrokh SajediSohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of being the father so he pay for her abortion. But Sohrab falls in love and decide to marry his uncle's only daughter Leila while Taraneh is not leaving them alone. He has a quarrel with Taraneh in a boat which lead to her death and the arresting of him.
- 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.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsParviz SayyadKatayun Amir EbrahimiSadegh BahramiInspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned...
- 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.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsParviz SayyadNuri KasraiMinu ShafihAn archaeologist who is after an antique carpet comes to the village. The carpet belongs to Samad but he has sent it to Leila's house. The archaeologist tries to steal it from them but is unsuccessful and the police intervene which lead to the rest of the story.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsSaeed RadZackaria HashemiVejestaNaser who is a smart and experienced young guy knows that his retirement time from crime is near. He decides to do his last robbery and then marry the girl he loves 'Shirin'. He robs a jewelry with the help of Jalal and Khosrow. Khosrow betrays them and steal the money and runs away. Naser and Jalal find him and take the money back, but then begin to fight each other.
- DirectorZackaria HashemiStarsNaser Malek MotieeBahman MofidMorvaridBorzoo 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.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsBehrouz VossoughiDavoud RashidiNilufarMorteza who is recently freed from prison, promises Mehri to buy her out the debt she has to pay her husband. In order to do so, he commits a rubbery that won't turn out well.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsMohamad Ali FardinNaser Malek MotieeFourouzanBaba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsParviz SayyadZahra HatamiNozar AzadiMr. Khavari ,a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser.But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiBahman MofidMary ApickDash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.
- DirectorNosratollah KarimiStarsNosratollah KarimiIrenReza Karam RezaiAccording to the local religion, the number of divorces is limited to 3. If there is renewed interest, the woman will marry another man first.(4th is forbidden). It's about finding another man who meets the conditions of the first man.
- DirectorNosratollah KarimiStarsShahla RiahiNosratollah KarimiMasud AsadollahiA carriage driver who managed to become a taxi driver is in love with his sister-in-law. They were in love when they were young, but both married other people. Now that they are both widowed, they want to realize their dream and get married. The son of the sister-in-law is opposed to this marriage on principle, but he himself is in love with the carriage driver's daughter. The uncle and his nephew are going to challenge each other.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsSaeed RadHassan RazianiPunehMehdi Kafar gets released from the prison after six months. He goes after his friends and asks them to help him going after Hassan Tala's gang who caused him to be jailed to get revenge. Mehdi wants to help a poor girl her name Pouri who her family are cruel to her and is about to do his last burglary but Hassan Tala and his gang are after him.
- DirectorFereydun GoleStarsBehrouz VossoughiFourouzanHosein GilBanafsheh, a young prostitute who has fled with a man to the seaside in hope of starting a new life has to return to her profession as she learns about the betrayal of her lover. Penniless and emotionally broken, she also has to bear with the taunts of the other girls and the threats of the roughneck patron of the house, Mammad who unfailingly refer to his dagger to consolidate his supremacy. In fact it was Mammad who ordered the man to rob Banafsheh of her money and abandon her. Banafsheh apparently has not learnt her lesson, as she trusts her next customer and falls in love with him. Her new lover , Abbas, is a truck driver who received his nickname for his habit of constantly lying, but it seems that he gives it a break when promises Banafsheh to get a house of their own...
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiJaleh SamAn impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. When the educated nephew of the master comes back from Europe, complications occur which result to bad events for postman and his wife.
- DirectorJalal MoghadamStarsParviz SayyadShahnaz TehraniFarokhlagha HushmandSamad burns an ogre's hair which cause an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The ogre eat a goat and also kidnapped Leila for Samad which cause her father to complain against Samad and sends him to jail but the ogre saves him and takes him to the city. There they have more adventures.
- DirectorParviz SayyadStarsSirous Ebrahim ZadehHosein AmirfazliEnayat BakhshiKadkhoda and Mash Bagher decide to marry Leila to Einollah but Samad intervenes. He takes Leila and together they escape to the city. There they meet a couple Sami and Leili who look just like them and switch places. Now Samad and Leila are in the city dressed like them and the other couple return to their village to lice there. This cause some more funny adventures for both couples.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiIrenBaharakTwo 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 pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.