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Jahangir Mirshekari

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Taste of CherryTaste of Cherry · 1997
Taste of Cherry
7.71997
MovieDrama
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Where Is The Friend's House?Where Is The Friend's House? · 1987
Where Is The Friend's House?
7.91987
MovieDramaAdventure
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Close-UpClose-Up · 1990
Close-Up
8.01990
MovieCrimeDrama
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.
Taj MahalTaj Mahal · 2013
Taj Mahal
2013
MovieDrama
Hossein Moradi, a 60-year-old worker from Abadan, has many times been forced to fire his colleagues in the shipbuilding factory on the employer’s order. However, this time he decides to create a chance for the workers by drawing lots. He also volunteers to be fired so to save ones place. One of the workers protests and gets into a fight with Hossein. A few days later his children give him a ticket to India to visit with his wife. But after a coulpe days someone breaks into his house steals the compensation money and the tickets. Hossein suspects that angry worker.
The Wind Will Carry UsThe Wind Will Carry Us · 1999
The Wind Will Carry Us
7.11999
MovieDrama
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Maybe Some Other TimeMaybe Some Other Time · 1988
Maybe Some Other Time
5.61988
MovieDramaThriller
Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection due to deep regrets regarding the child whom she has abandoned.
Killing Mad DogsKilling Mad Dogs · 2001
Killing Mad Dogs
6.82001
MovieThrillerDrama
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
SaraSara · 1993
Sara
6.01993
MovieDrama
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.

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