Beauty on the Block

During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not ...

On 5 June four hijackers, three men and a woman, hijack an Iranian passenger aircraft. Their commander is a person named Fariborz Atabaki [Nasser Aghayi]. Two of the passengers, one of whom later turns out to be an officer, disarm the hijackers; to the astonishment of the passengers they guide the aircraft to the same European destination the hijackers had intended. The original planners of the hijack hold a press conference at the destination. They say all the passengers are seeking asylum and ask the officer to tell the journalists his views. He says his reason for bringing the aircraft here is to show the world the passengers have no interest in political or social asylum; they all want to return to Iran.

Iman wants to go and fight in the Iran-Iraq War, but he has some problems that he has to solve first. The problems consist of his daughter’s wedding and treating his blind son. He is busy trying to solve these two problems when his other son returns from the front with wounded legs. Iman forgets about going to the front and goes to several hospitals with his two sons seeking care for them. When the hospitals cannot solve his sons' problems he takes them to a holy place to be cured.

Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil. Four of them give into the temptations provided by the Devil, and die. However the last man is able to defeat the Devil by accepting God.

Fati goes to Tehran from her hometown to be a maid in Khan Sardar's house. Shamsollah Zafar, the driver of Khan Sardar, takes Fati to Sardar's house. Sardar insists that his son Parviz marry a girl named Eshrat.

The film is set in the period following the Iran–Iraq War and explores its lasting effects on Iranian society. Toofan is the film’s main character. During the war, he lost his wife and child. After many years, he has gradually managed to find a relative sense of peace—until…

A man divorces his wife by having two children. She is an accounting officer and is now unemployed.

Hassani is a little boy who is known in his town for being lazy and sleepy. The townspeople each try in their own way to steer him away from laziness, but they do not succeed. Later...

Elderly gamekeeper Heydari's encounter with a group of illegal hunters whilst on patrol ends in tragedy.

Lord is the great house of happiness. His daughter Maryam and Sohrab, Saadat's son, become interested in each other. One day, the two are captured by the gendarmes, and Saadat, after guaranteeing them, forbids his son from continuing the relationship with Maryam, and in order to prevent their relationship, he orders two people to monitor Sohrab. Sohrab continues his relationship with Maryam and does not heed his father's warnings. Maryam's father also blames his wife and daughter for continuing the relationship. Sohrab and Maryam decide to run away from home. Before leaving, the two eat poisonous contaminated food that Sohrab's mother feeds the neighborhood's stray dogs. Sohrab and Maryam live together in a carousel.

A look at the life of Ahmad.

A wealthy man summons his sons and their wives to divide his inheritance among them before his death. While he is preaching to his children and daughters-in-law in the basement of the house, he dies, and at the same moment as his death, an earthquake blocks the exit from the basement.