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Iranian Cinema in the 1980s

by Amin-Behzadian • Created 4 years ago • Modified 3 years ago
The Best Films of Iranian Cinema from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
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  • Captain Khorshid (1987)

    1. Captain Khorshid

    19871h 58m
    7.4 (1.3K)
    Khaje Majed informs the authorities about Captain Khorshid smuggling with his ship. The authorities take the smuggling and burn it. Farhan is a new arriver in the port. He wants to smuggle some political exiled people to some Arab countries. He asked Captain Khorshid to help him. At first Captain is refusing but finally due to financial problems he agree to help them. But the exiled ones have plans to rub Khaje Majed. They kill him and steal some pearls and jewels and bring it with themselves to the ship. Captain is forced by gun to obey them. In the middle of the way he manages to kill one of them. Then a brutal fight between him and the rest of the gang is occur which lead to the kill of all of them.
    DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsDariush ArjmandAli NasirianSaeed Poursamimi
  • Maybe Some Other Time (1988)

    2. Maybe Some Other Time

    19882h 39m
    7.2 (796)
    Dubber Mr. Modaber spots spouse Kian with an unfamiliar man while working. After tracking him down, he realizes it's Kian's twin sister Vida, separated in childhood after their father's death.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiDariush FarhangSimin Ansari
  • Hajji Washington (1983)

    3. Hajji Washington

    19831h 38m
    7.1 (806)
    A loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction.
    DirectorAli HatamiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiRichard HarrisonRussel Case
  • Travellers (1992)

    4. Travellers

    19921h 30m
    7.4 (1.3K)
    A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service? The film is transcendental in its resolution.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiHoma RustaJamileh Sheikhi
  • Mother (1990)

    5. Mother

    19901h 48m
    8.5 (5.3K)
    How a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
    DirectorAli HatamiStarsRogheyeh Chehreh-AzadMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarimah Farjami
  • The Last Act (1991)

    6. The Last Act

    19911h 50m
    7.4 (554)
    "Gaslight" as Farsi farce. Kamran and Moluk, middle-aged siblings, live penniless in the family's Tehran mansion, selling furniture to pay expenses. Their brother, who owns the house, has died suddenly, and his widow, Forugh, is coming from the provinces to visit. Kamran writes an elaborate script and hires a troupe of five actors to be the household servants. The purpose of the charade, which will seem real to Forugh, is to drive her mad, perhaps to suicide, so that Kamran and Moluk can inherit the house. The play is elaborate, Forugh is fooled and terrified, and the police can't substantiate her wild claims. She appears insane to them. All is headed for the mysterious last act.
    DirectorVaruzh Karim-MasihiStarsFarimah FarjamiDariush ArjmandNiku Kheradmand
  • Hamoun (1990)

    7. Hamoun

    19902hNot Rated
    7.9 (7.5K)
    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.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein Sarshar
  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)

    8. Bashu, the Little Stranger

    19892h
    8.0 (3.4K)
    An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
    DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan Afravian
  • Musa Afshar, Rouhollah Emami, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mehrdad Fakhimi, Farhad Fakhredini, Jahangir Forouhar, Ali Hatami, Leila Hatami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Esmail Mohammadi, Ali Nasirian, Parviz Poorhosseini, Davoud Rashidi, Manouchehr Hamedi, Shaban Ranginvand, Hossein Ghafoori, Mohammad Varshochi, Sirous Ebrahim Zadeh, Soroosh Khalili, Akbar Doodkar, Rashid Aslani, Abbas Mokhtari, Ahmad Kashani, Firooz Rokni, Reza Arefan, Hassan Boloor, Ahmad Alinejad, and Jooyayi in Kamalolmolk (1984)

    9. Kamalolmolk

    19842h 2m
    7.5 (1.3K)
    The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
    DirectorAli HatamiStarsJamshid MashayekhiEzzatolah EntezamiAli Nasirian
  • Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)

    10. Where Is the Friend's House?

    19871h 23mNot Rated
    8.1 (21K)
    Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek AhmedpoorAhmed AhmedpoorKhodabakhsh Defaei
  • The Love-stricken (1992)

    11. The Love-stricken

    19921h 31m
    7.4 (1.2K)
    A movie about Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first record which takes them on a journey to France.
    DirectorAli HatamiStarsFaramarz SadighiAmin TarokhAkbar Abdi
  • Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Hossain Farazmand, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Hossain Sabzian in Close-Up (1990)

    12. Close-Up

    19901h 38mNot Rated92Metascore
    8.2 (25K)
    The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl Ahankhah
  • The Lady (1992)

    13. The Lady

    19921h 55m
    6.8 (633)
    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.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsBita FarahiFathali OveisiSima Tirandaz
  • The Spell (1987)

    14. The Spell

    19871h 30m
    6.6 (199)
    After the wedding the bride, [Sogand Rahmani] the groom [Atila Pesiani] and their relatives set out for the village where they will be living. A severe storm comes, the bride and groom lose the way and take refuge in a mansion. Shazdeh and his steward [Parviz Poorhosseini] decide to spend two nights there. Five years earlier Shazdeh's wife [Susan Taslimi] got lost there when she went into a hall of mirrors. In an abandoned basement the bride meets Shazdeh's wife who says she has been imprisoned in a black pit since the wedding night. Shazdeh and the son-in-law doubt the steward and when they go from the hall of mirrors to the black pit they pursue him. In the ensuing struggle the steward is killed by Shazdeh's wife. The bride and groom leave the mansion and after years of separation Shazdeh and his wife sit and talk. The wife knocks over a candlestick and the mansion is consumed by fire.
    DirectorDariush FarhangStarsJamshid MashayekhiMahmoud JafariMalihe Nasiri
  • Birgit Anders, Imke Barnstedt, Fritz Ewert, Gabriele Fischer, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Andreas Hanft, Ramin Reza Molai, Gundula Petrovska, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Johanna Sophia, Manfred Zapatka, Barbara Beutler, Alex Zander, Johanna Ebert, Johanna Gerhard, and Bernhard Adami in Utopia (1983)

    15. Utopia

    19833h 18m
    7.6 (409)
    A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.
    DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsManfred ZapatkaImke BarnstedtGundula Petrovska
  • Snake's Fang (1990)

    16. Snake's Fang

    19901h 45m
    6.2 (307)
    Reza, 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 KimiaiStarsFaramarz SadighiGolchehre SajadiehAhmad Najafi
  • The Tenants (1987)

    17. The Tenants

    19871h 49m
    7.7 (3K)
    The tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
    DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz Fardtombekian
  • Hadi Eslami in The Lead (1989)

    18. The Lead

    19892h 3m
    6.3 (350)
    Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence. But Yezghel is also on a personal mission of seeking Danial and Munes. At the same time, a gang of Zionist gunmen are sent to gun down the witnesses and Nuri....
    DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsJamshid MashayekhiJalal MoghadamHadi Eslami
  • The Stone Lion (1987)

    19. The Stone Lion

    19871h 27m
    6.6 (167)
    The body of an English man who is been killed with a scythe is found in the Bakhtiary's area. Khoda Morad whose job is making stony lions with another man Kohyar bury the body. An officer A'meri with an English diplomat guiding him come to investigate in the murder case and arrest the murderer. They accuse Kohyar of the murder causing a dispute between people there.
    DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiValiyollah Shirandami
  • Enayat Bakhshi, Majid Entezami, Faramarz Gharibian, Hassan Hedayat, Faraj Heidari, Hossein Maleki, Khosro Shakibai, Hossein Zandbaf, Abbas Kasayi, Bahram Reypoor, Amrollah Saberi, Kiumars Malekmotei, Soroosh Khalili, Jamal Omid, Tooran Ghaderi, Amir Ghavidel, Hadi Meshkat, Mashallah Afrashte, and Mohammad-jafar Seddigh in Train (1988)

    20. Train

    19881h 51m
    6.2 (205)
    The film is about a train carrying fuel for the army in 1979 during the revolution movement in Iran but with the help of revolutionary forces the train is redirected to a cold region of the country facing fuel shortage. But the authorities try to stop the train before it reaches it destination.
    DirectorAmir GhavidelStarsKhosro ShakibaiFaramarz GharibianEnayat Bakhshi
  • Hunt (1987)

    21. Hunt

    19871h 43m
    6.1 (105)
    An escaping political fugitive takes refuge in a truck driver and befriends him
    DirectorMajid JavanmardStarsParviz ParastuiKhosro ShakibaiEnayat Bakhshi
  • The Ship Angelica (1989)

    22. The Ship Angelica

    19891h 50m
    6.2 (204)
    Many years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian gulf. Ahmad Beyk manages to find it's place and is after getting the treasure out. He goes to Shiraz's governor's son and demands his help agreeing with him on sharing the profits 50 percent for each. But the governor's son wants it all for himself unaware that the English forces there are became interested in the Angelica too.
    DirectorMuhammad BozorgniaStarsFereydoon Aboo ZiaDariush ArjmandEzzatolah Entezami
  • Frosty Roads (1985)

    23. Frosty Roads

    19851h 33m
    6.7 (100)
    In winter a young guy Esmaeil is forced to go to the city to get the medicines of his father. The teacher of the village and another youngster Rahman too come with him. In the way the teacher leaves them to get back to the village but is attacked by wolves. He hides himself in a pit waiting for help. Esmaeil and Rahman make it to the city and get the medicines and on the way back home join a group of the villagers who come to the rescue of the teacher and together manage to save him.
    DirectorMasoud Jafari JozaniStarsHamid JebeliEsmail MohammadiMajid Nasiri
  • O Iran (1990)

    24. O Iran

    19901h 50m
    6.6 (414)
    Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.
    DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsAkbar AbdiHossein SarsharSoraya Hekmat
  • Cheetah (1985)

    25. Cheetah

    19851h 41m
    5.9 (75)
    DirectorSamuel KhachikianStarsReza AshtianiEnayat BakhshiParidokht Eghbalpoor

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