The Strike

Iranian horror movie from 1965.

After his release from prison, Rasool promised his sister Maryam that he would not pursue wrongdoing anymore...

Behrouz - a criminal story writer - is married with Roxanne and is running the factory of Roxanne's cousin who was killed in an accident in his factory...

A girl is abducted by criminals, and a young man happens to be aware of this kidnapping, pursues the criminals, and after several conflicts, finally frees the girl and arrests the criminals.

A relatively wealthy family takes a child from a village to the city to serve in their house. The child patiently and dedicatedly uses his minimal free time for education and becomes an active and valuable person in his youth. While Hamid, the eldest son of the family, who grew up in prosperity, becomes a delinquent youth. The two fall in love with a young girl.

In Tehran, a young man struggles between keeping his integrity and joining a band of criminals to prosper for the woman he loves.

Two sisters from an aristocrat family fall in love with the son of their driver. Finally the little sister retreat for the oldest sister to get marry with him.

Haji Jabbar is a wealthy man, who is chided constantly by his family for avarice. Haji intends to marry off his daughter, Parvin, to a wealthy old man. He has no regard for the love existing between Parvin and her cousin. He does not care for his son, Hamid, who, due to negligence, is on the verge of a breakdown. In an elaborate fantasy sequence which makes up the last third of the film, Haji finds himself in hell, witness to all sorts of macabre and elaborate tortures and horrors. The film is noted for its elaborate set pieces which recall Méliès. There is even a sequence involving Hitler in hell!

A group of thieves, including a girl, commits a big robbery. During the robbery, one of them is seriously injured. Thieves kidnap a doctor and carry him over the injured person's head. Then they hide and wait for their colleague to recover. Meanwhile, the girl meets a young man who is a police detective...

A truck is moving from the south to Tehran. On the way, during an accident, a fugitive passenger secretly gets into the truck...

Uncle Hashem, an old villager who was formerly a skilled hunter and now has poor eyesight, decides to hunt a deer and sell it to a mule-driver to fund his journey with the Chavoush group so he can go on a pilgrimage to Ali ibn Musa al-Rida.

One of the government officials who left the country before the revolution is afraid to return. In his villa, which a guard is responsible for maintaining, some antique items and precious jewels, under the name "Yoozpalang" (Cheetah), have been hidden.