Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses 2016

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Gheyrat 1976

A rogue hunter named Sanjar causes the death of a village woman

Thievish 1974

Reza and Gol-Agha have been friends since childhood. Gol-Agha is a police officer, and Reza has a history of theft...

Mr. Handsome Reza 1974

"Dara" is a wealthy man who is imprisoned due to a conspiracy by his assistant. Meanwhile, the daughter of the head of a foreign company is set to come to Iran to sign a contract with Dara. "Reza," Dara's driver, introduces himself as Dara, thereby thwarting the assistant's plans...

Joseph and Zuleika 1968

Jacob chooses his beloved son Joseph as his successor. Joseph's 11 other brothers get jealous and throw Joseph in a well and tell their father that Joseph is dead. Jacob gets blind out of sorrow....

Iman 1967

A young engineer who is returned home from Europe becomes responsible of taking care of his father's company. But a villain friend of him manages to drag him to gambling and drugs making him to lose his money and his family. Years later the young engineer in an accident helps a rich man and due to that manages to marry his girl and gets back his life and his family once again.

Delirium 1965

Iranian horror movie from 1965.

A Party in Hell 1956

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!

Laghzesh 1953