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The Initiation (2013)

Actors: Antonio Badrani (actor), Camille Montgomery (actress), Andre Wiggins (editor), Andre Wiggins (writer), Andre Wiggins (director), Andre Wiggins (producer), Andre Wiggins (producer), Eric Corbin (actor), Roy Kerry (actor),

Genres: Action, Short, Thriller,

Sharte Aval (2011)

Actors: Akbar Abdi (actor), Nazanin Mofakham (editor), Sirus Gorjestani (actor), Elnaz Shakerdust (actress), Kambiz Dirbaz (actor), Negar Forozandeh (actress), Mani Monadizadeh (composer), Masoud Atyabi (director), Parvin Qaem-Maqami (actress), Mohamad Kamalipour (producer), Shahab Abasi (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

Luna Papa (1999)

Actors: Karl Baumgartner (producer), Merab Ninidze (actor), Moritz Bleibtreu (actor), Igor Tolstunov (producer), Jan Schütte (producer), Irakli Kvirikadze (writer), Christoph Friedel (producer), Chulpan Khamatova (actress), Michael Seeber (producer), Kenzô Horikoshi (producer), Heinz Stussak (producer), Nikolay Fomenko (actor), Philippe Avril (producer), Evgeniy Gindilis (producer), Evi Romen (editor),

Plot: The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

Keywords: airplane, artist, falling-cattle, pregnancy, rabbit, reference-to-william-shakespeare, revolver, simpleton, surrealism, tajikistan
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Faryad (1999)

Actors: Masud Kimiai (writer), Enayat Bakhshi (actor), Masud Kimiai (director), Masud Kimiai (costume designer), Babak Bayat (composer), Mohammad Reza Forutan (actor), Mohammad Reza Mouyini (editor), Akbar Moazezi (actor), Mitra Hajjar (actress), Ali Asghar Tabasi (actor), Abbas Ghajar (actor), Kianoosh Gerami (actor), Poulad Kimiayi (actor), Jamshid Jahanzadeh (actor), Afsaneh Khalili (actress),

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Honarpisheh (1993)

Actors: Mohsen Makhmalbaf (writer), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (editor), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (director), Akbar Abdi (actor), Fatemah Motamed-Aria (actress), Mahaya Petrossian (actress), Ahmad Pezhman (composer), G. Dordi (writer), Yasmine Nour (producer),

Genres: Comedy,

Trinetra (1991)

Actors: Bharat Kapoor (actor), Manik Irani (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Mahesh Anand (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Hercules (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Arun Bakshi (actor), Dharmendra (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor),

Plot: Raja is an aspiring singer and gets a chance to sing in Dubai through Mr. Singhania. He informs his pregnant wife, Seema, and they look forward to a more prosperous life. Before that could happen, Raja finds out that Singhania is going to use him to carry drugs in his suitcase, he objects to this, and is brutally killed in the presence of his wife. His wife flees the assailants, and gives birth to a baby boy near the temple of Bhagwan Shri Shankar and names the boy Shiva. Unmarried and childless Maria Fernandes sees the child and an apparently dead Seema, and takes the child. But Seems is still alive, and is angered at being separated from her son. She swears to avenge Raja's death, and sets about to kill the assailants one by one. She manages to kill one of them, but before she could proceed on with her gruesome task, she is arrested by the police and sentenced to jail for several years. How will Seema avenge the death of Raja? Will she escape from prison, or wait till she is withered and old after the end of her sentence?

Genres: Action,

The Beast of War (1988)

Actors: Don Harvey (actor), Stephen Baldwin (actor), Kabir Bedi (actor), Steven Bauer (actor), Erick Avari (actor), George Dzundza (actor), Dale Dye (miscellaneous crew), Mark Isham (composer), Jason Patric (actor), Samantha C. Kirkeby (miscellaneous crew), Peter Boyle (editor), David Sherrill (actor), Bruce Bahrenburg (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Reynolds (director), Rami Heuberger (actor),

Plot: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.

Keywords: 1980s, anti-communist, based-on-play, battle, cannibalism, commander, escape-by-chopper, guerilla, independent-film, main-character-dies
Genres: Drama, History, War,
Taglines: War brings out the beast in every man. You can escape from everything but justice. The Cause: freedom. The enemy: The world's deadliest fighting machine. There is no room in a tank for a conscience.

Quotes:

Daskal: We're safe in here. My tanks have been hit by everything. In Mongolia once, RPG, direct hit. Commander, gunner and turret went flying. I drove the rest of the tank back to our lines. These tanks today are better. Much better.

Taj: [in Pashtun, to Koverchenko] Eat.::Sherina: [in Pashtun, to Koverchenko] Choke.

Daskal: [the tank is incapacitated. Daskal hands out a grenade to Kaminski and Golikov] You know our standing orders.::Kaminski: What?::Daskal: Out of commission, become a pillbox. Out of ammo, become a bunker. Out of time, become heroes.::Kaminski: You must be out of your fucking mind! [He tosses his grenade aside]::Daskal: Now. Together. [Daskal pulls the grenade pin]

Koverchenko: You're a good soldier Anton. You can be counted on when they ask you to shoot your mother.

Koverchenko: Well, sir, the roadwheel's cracked. Kaminski drank our brakes. We're low on petrol. The battery's low. We're losing oil. If the engine heats up it's gonna seize. The terrain, obviously against us. We have no rations. The Mujas behind us don't seem to run on rations, petrol, or anything we know of. And they have an RPG. Their aim is getting better. Sir.

Koverchenko: [to Daskal] Sorry, sir. Not much of a war. No Stalingrad. How is it that we're the Nazis this time? How is it? I tried to be a good soldier. But you can't be a good soldier in a rotten war, sir. Now I want you to live to see them win. Go. [shouts] I said go!

Daskal: Get back in the tank.::Kaminski: What for?::Daskal: Because I said so.::Golikov: We're going home, sir.::Daskal: Yeah. In the tank.::Kaminski: Why can't we go home in the fucking helicopter?::Daskal: Because you're tankers.

Helicopter pilot: Today's your lucky day. If we hadn't been out here looking for water we wouldn't have found you guys. Go ahead and climb aboard, I'll call in an airstrike on the tank.::Daskal: Nobody wastes my tank...

[Koverchenko and Daskal are in the tank removing a dud shell from the cannon breech]::Daskal: Just tell me one thing; why do you stick up for the Afghan?::Koverchenko: Because he's doing the best he can, sir.::Daskal: That's what worries me. [he then opens the cannon breech as the dud shell falls out into Koverchenko's arms]

[Golikov and Kaminski are walking back to the tank carrying fuel cans from the helicopter as Daskal watches them from behind the tank's machine gun]::Golikov: What are we doing? Why don't we make a run for it?::Kaminski: Are you crazy? He'd shoot us right out of the sky!

The Blood of Hussain (1980)

Actors: Jamil Dehlavi (producer), Jamil Dehlavi (actor), Jamil Dehlavi (writer), Jamil Dehlavi (director), Jamil Dehlavi (editor), Abdul Karim Baloch (actor), Kika Markham (actress), Samina Peerzada (actress), Salmaan Peerzada (actor), Salmaan Peerzada (actor), Khayyam Sarhadi (actor), Sue Kingsley (editor), Mirza Ghazanfar Begg (actor), Imraan Peerzada (actor), Rafiq Abdullah (writer),

Plot: A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.

Keywords: airplane, blood, brief-nudity, brother-brother-relationship, bulldozer, cleft-lip, dictatorship, female-nudity, firing-squad, general
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Hussain Murtaza: Your revolution... is a mockery.

Ghadir (1972)

Actors: Mehri Vadadian (actress), Arman (actor), Mohsen Mahdavi (actor), Reza Allamehzadeh (director), Reza Allamehzadeh (editor), Kamran Bakhtar (actor), Varuzhan (composer), Reza Rakhshani (actor), Mohammad Feyjani (miscellaneous crew), Taghi Mokhtar (actor), Marjan (actress), Hassan Shahin (actor), Manouchehr Tayefi (producer), Ebrahim Makki (writer), Hengame (actress),

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Padosi (1941)

Actors: Gajanan Jagirdar (actor), Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram (director), Radhakrishan (actor), Gopal (actor), Vishram Bedekar (writer), Vishram Bedekar (writer), D.D. Kashyap (actor), Sumitra Devi (actress), Mazhar Khan (actor), Master Krishnarao (composer), Vasant Thengadi (actor), Balakram (actor), Pandit Sudershan (writer), Balwant Singh (actor), Lajwanti (actress),

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