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The Mare (1986)
Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.
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Issa Is Coming (2001)
A captive warrior, Issa, who has long been thinking about various plans to escape from the camp, takes advantage of a golden opportunity and runs away from the camp immediately. A number of Ba'athist troops pursue him, but he continues steadfastly and boldly to flee while they are firing their bullets. But eventually, he manages to return to his homeland by plunging into the border river ...
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Close Watch (1997)
Pourya is a police officer who is about to get marry. But he faces a challenge when one of his friends get killed and he has to discover the secret behind that.


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