Dariush Mehrjui Trailers
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Dariush Mehrjui (December 8, 1939 - October 14, 2023) also spelled as Mehrjui Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, was an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor.
Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, The Cow, is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays.
On October 14, 2023, Mehrjui and his wife were found murdered in their home in the city of Karaj, near Tehran.
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01 January 1992
Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman.
01 February 1987
A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.
03 February 2012
The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it.
18 May 2006
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance.
04 May 2005
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
01 January 2010
This movie is about a music group that want to have their first concert but the politics don't let them.
01 January 2000
An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.
01 February 2004
A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
01 January 2000
An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is L)
01 February 1995
Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is.
01 February 1990
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life.
01 January 2003
Part 3 of documentary trilogy about Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This part focuses on her theatre and film work.
24 May 2002
A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.
01 April 1999
Part 1 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film traces her personal life.
21 January 1969
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
14 May 1999
This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation.
01 August 2002
Part 2 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film examines her controversial, sometimes erotic, poetry.
02 January 1980
Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.
21 May 2007
Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet.
08 November 2016
A Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.
04 July 2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.
18 October 1998
Mahmoud is suffering from writer's block and he is unable to continue the book he is currently working upon.
01 June 1988
Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars.
01 April 2007
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise.
22 June 2014
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child.
27 April 2022
Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.
03 February 1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds.
04 January 2011
A 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.
08 July 1966
A 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.
01 April 1972
A political metaphor based on Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.
14 September 1978
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness.
29 May 2013
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses.
02 January 1983
A documentary about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
01 April 1970
The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
11 October 2024
On October 14th,2023, An Internationally prominent and acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Darioush Mehrjui, and his scriptwriter wife, Vahideh Moahmmadifar, were slaughtered in their home in Iran.
