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- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsParvaneh MassoumiHossein ParvareshAnik ShefrazianWhen Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a teacher and at home she writes his mother's diary. When he searches for the address in that advertisement, he finds that it belongs to 30 years ago. Asieh is becoming interested in the missing girl too.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiManuchehr FaridReza BabakTara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. In her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa's belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one accepts. One day on the road, she meets an old-time warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to present time to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he comes back saying that he has fallen in love with her.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiMehdi HashemiMahmoud BehrouzianDeath of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the miller, his wife and his daughter but all the stories are different from each other.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiDariush FarhangSimin AnsariMr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the documentary he finds the stranger who has a pawn shop. But when meets him he finds that the woman is not his wife but her twin sister Vida. While faking that he making a documentary he brings his wife to meet her twin sister. Kian finds that in her childhood her father passed away and her mother.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiHoma RustaJamileh SheikhiA 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 ShamsaiAlireza Jalali-tabarHesam Navab SafaviChakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNancy KovackReza FazeliTaghi ZohuriA professor who found out a formula to make diamonds from oil is killed in Tehran and his nephew who is a spy is sent to Tehran by Interpol in order to find the formula.
- 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli NasirianEzzatolah EntezamiAmrollah SaberiStudents of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsMehdi AsadiEzzatolah EntezamiHamid JebeliShirak's village is under the attack of the wild boars and he has lost his father in one of their attacks. To help his village he buys a dog from the Gypsies in return of some dates. He trained his dog and become ready to one night face the fierce attack of the wild boars on their crops. On that night with the help of his dog he manages to defeat their attack and save the crops.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiNegar ForoozandehMohammad Reza SharifiniaAn Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNeda AghaeiMasoumeh BakhshiMohammad HabibianA woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli MosaffaLeila HatamiMani HaghighiA young doctor whose name Shayan is got cancer. He decides to commit suicide but in the last moments something is happening that lead him to a remote village.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsHamed BehdadMahnaz AfsharReza AttaranDentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAmirali DanaeiMahtab KeramatiHomayoun ErshadiA drunken, boorish general tyrannizes his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that the maid is pregnant with the general's child, she turns the maid out of the house. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face. This flamboyantly stylized melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, comes from one of the legendary figures of the Iranian New Wave.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsNaser Malek MotieeFourouzanBahman MofidGhalandar feels bothered by the suitors wooing for his sister Eshrat. But for a secret reason he does not want to marry her off. As a way out, he asks his trusted friend Sadegh to marry his sister, but warns him about making love with her. Sadegh tries to keep his promise, but when he leaves his wife immediately after the wedding ceremony for the capital, Eshrat follows and joins him and his mother. Unable to bear with the taunts of mother, Sadegh eventually breaks his oath and takes his legal wife to bed. Informed of this betrayal, Ghalandar waylays Sadegh at a dark night and stabs him to death. Eshrat, suspecting who is behind this murder, flees and joins a whorehouse, intent to exact her revenge by staining the name of his so-far respectable brother...
- StarsJamshid MashayekhiParviz FanizadehNaser Malek MotieeThe life of Amir Kabir, from the Ghajar dynasty.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsReza Arham SadrEzzatolah EntezamiJahangir ForouharJafar Khan, the son of Haj Akbar, returns from America. When his father sees his unconventional appearance he realizes he will need to use fire and water to make Jafar look presentable. The father's efforts are unsuccessful because the government gives Jafar room to put his ideas into practice. Jafar becomes an agent for making Jafarabad, which has been renamed as Newjef, into an industrial city and a space where the residents can be put to work implementing Jafar's programs making his ideal society. When Haj Akbar is unable to bring Jafar in line and learns he has married a Americaan girl, he has a heart attack and on Jafar's advice is sent an asylum instead of a hospital. However the psychologist decides to look after him at home. In his father's absence Jafar Khan implements his programs. With help from the psychologist and the hospital doctor Haj Akbar regains his health and musters opposition to Jafar. After Jafar sets the people of the village against each other, the country drops the goal of being like America.
- StarsAli NasirianMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid MashayekhiA corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.