Sanam (2001)

Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Hundred to one hundred (Persian: صدبرابرصد‎‎) is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Elevator (Persian: آسانسور‎‎) is a 1995 social drama Iranian film, written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Simin deseja mudar-se para garantir um futuro melhor para a família, mas seu marido Nader não quer por causa do pai doente. Ela entra com um pedido de separação e Nader contrata Razieh para cuidar de seu pai enquanto trabalha. Certo dia ao voltar para casa encontra o pai sozinho, desmaiado e amarrado à cama; Razieh aparece e os dois discutem, na sequência Nader empurra a mulher e dias depois, é notificado que Razieh estava grávida e teria perdido o bebê. Os dois terão que resolver a situação na justiça, e tem pontos de vista muito diferentes do que aconteceu durante a briga.

Echo (Persian: پژواك‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi.

Arghavan, uma mulher à beira da meia-idade, e seu marido levam seu cachorro ao veterinário. Eles percebem que alguém forçou o cachorro a comer muitos doces e agora provavelmente ficará cego. Arghavan não quer mais ficar com o cachorro, então eles precisam encontrar um lugar para ele. Ela tenta matar o cachorro e quando o marido descobre isso, um segredo se revela: o chefe da mulher a estuprou enquanto o cachorro estava testemunhando. A mulher fica arrasada, mas não consegue matar o cachorro.

Em abril de 1980, uma série de homens armados invadem a embaixada iraniana localizada em Princes Gate, na cidade de Londres. Eles fazem todos de refém e durante os seis dias seguintes, um impasse tenso acontece. Um grupo de soldados altamente treinados se prepara para uma invasão nunca vista antes no mundo.

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Coisas estranhas acontecem em Bad City. Uma cidade fantasma iraniana, lar de prostitutas, viciados, cafetões e outras almas sórdidas. Um reduto de depravação e falta de esperança, onde uma vampira solitária persegue os habitantes mais repugnantes. Mas quando um garoto conhece uma garota, uma história de amor incomum começa a florescer... vermelha como o sangue.

Rain Tree (Persian: درخت بارانی‎‎) is a 2001 Iranian drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi.

Wars and Treasure (Persian: جنگ و گنج‎‎) is a 2000 Iranian drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi.

Após um desastre que destrói a maioria da civilização, dois homens e uma jovem se encontram em um triângulo amoroso emocionalmente carregado como os últimos sobreviventes conhecidos.

Duas pessoas travam uma disputa até às últimas conseqüências. De um lado está Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), jovem que sofre profunda depressão após ter sido abandonada pelo marido. Por um erro do governo, ela é expulsa da casa em que morava. Inconformada, contrata um advogado para recuperar o que ela acredita ser o último símbolo de sua sanidade. Do outro lado está Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), imigrante iraniano que comprou a casa de Kathy em leilão, o que para ele é a oportunidade de dar conforto à mulher e ao filho e de recuperar o padrão de vida que tinham no Irã.

Um menino de oito anos pegou por engano o caderno do amigo. Agora, precisa devolvê-lo para evitar que o amigo seja expulso da escola se não levar o dever de casa.

Maziar Bahari é um jornalista iraniano que trabalha para a revista americana Newsweek e vive em Londres, ao lado da esposa grávida. Ele é enviado para cobrir as eleições presidenciais no Irã em 2009, onde o atual presidente Mahmoud Ahmadinejad corre o risco de não se reeleger. Após uma vitória folgada de Ahmadinejad, rumores de que a eleição teria sido fraudada provocam diversas manifestações populares, algumas repelidas com violência pela polícia local. Bahari consegue filmar um destes ataques e veicula o material para ser divulgado mundo afora, o que o transforma em alvo do governo iraniano. Preso por tempo indeterminado, ele passa a ser torturado para que confesse que estava agindo em nome de uma conspiração ocidental para derrubar o presidente iraniano

Forough is a middle aged woman whose husband has temporarily married with another woman. Even though that was kept secret from her, but his action is considered legal in Iran. Now the husband is in prison, due to not being able to pay second wife’s “Mehrieh” (the bride’s marriage portion).The second wife intends to receive her Mehrieh by asking the court’s permission to sell his house. Forough, the first wife, in order to not lose her home, intends to sell all she has to pay for her husband’s debt and release him from the jail.

A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a tragic ending.

Parvis, filho de exilados iranianos, leva a vida que pode na sua pequena cidade natal, entregando-se à cultura pop, encontros no Grindr e raves. Depois de ser apanhado roubando uma loja, é condenado a trabalho comunitário num centro de refugiados, onde conhece os irmãos Banafshe e Amon, que fugiram do Irão. Quando uma atração romântica cresce entre Parvis e Amon, a frágil relação entre os três é posta à prova.

An exploration the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the memories of a Syrian family as they return to the newly retaken city of Quneitra.

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.

William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though hardened from years of taming the new frontier, he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Before he settles down, however, he must contend with men who wish to bring him harm. In the prologue of the 1939 Astor Pictures revival of this film, Hart gives a moving eight-minute introduction-- the first and only time he appeared in a film accompanied by his striking voice.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.

Emma is a teenager when she is the victim of a terrible road accident in London, and needs psychiatric care after she suffers from resulting brain injury. Her mother, Silvia, confines her in the house, and Emma's personality becomes aggressive, leading to a regrettable series of violent deaths.

The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province.

A widowed English heroine (Malù) recalls her life, from marriage to an affair with the gamekeeper.

Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life the turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.

Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.

Acompanhando ao mesmo tempo o nascimento de seu filho e o envelhecimento de sua avó, Naomi Kawase investiga a partir de imagens cotidianas a constituição de suas relações familiares e os estágios da vida.

This is the story of a young man at the dawn of the 21st century. He belongs to the most vulnerable, most futile and most appealing segment of society. Raoul flits from woman to woman, searching for seemingly unattainable love, until he meets Jeanne, who is fated to live freely and tragically.