5 Movies Starring Hossein Mahjoub

The Color of Paradise

The Color of Paradise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-07

Languages:

Persian, Azerbaijani

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (10235 Reviews)

Director:

Majid Majidi

Fullplot:

Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for marriage to a woman who knows nothing of this son. Over granny's objections, dad apprentices Mohammad far from home to a blind carpenter. Can anything bring father and son together?

The Color of Paradise

The Color of Paradise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-07

Languages:

Persian, Azerbaijani

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (10229 Reviews)

Director:

Majid Majidi

Fullplot:

Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for marriage to a woman who knows nothing of this son. Over granny's objections, dad apprentices Mohammad far from home to a blind carpenter. Can anything bring father and son together?

Baran

Baran

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-03-14

Languages:

Persian, Azerbaijani

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (5455 Reviews)

Director:

Majid Majidi

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Young Lateef works on a construction site in Tehran with some Turks and a few illegal Afghan workers. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of his pranks, however, Lateef discovers Rahmat's secret--he is a girl named Baran. Latif's heart softens towards Baran and he shows his new affection for her by doing what he can to ease the hardships she suffers at work. When government inspectors force all Afghans to be fired from the site, Lateef discovers he cannot bear to be without her. Jeopardizing social standing and endangering his own well being, Lateef stops at nothing to save his love.

I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old

I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-05-29

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1558 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Fifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage proposal. Within four months the couple realize that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir emigrates back to Germany. When Taraneh discovers she is pregnant she decides against all advice and intense social pressure, to keep the baby.

The Kingdom of Solomon

The Kingdom of Solomon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-07

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (2225 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Shahriar Bahrani (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.

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