The best Jamshid Mashayekhi’s thriller movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jamshid Mashayekhi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jamshid Mashayekhi.
The Lead
6.3/10
Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence.
The Spell
6.5/10
A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On the way home from their wedding, they get lost in a dark forest on a stormy night. They take refuge in an eerie mansion, inhabited by an old man obsessed with the past, and his creepy servant. As the night progresses, they learn the terrible secrets hidden in the house. Similar to many other films in this genre, with a few interesting plot turns.
The House of Spider
Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa located in the north of Iran. They are all involved in Operation Eagle Claw waiting to see its success. When the operations fails, their relations change. The one who is a symbol of a system viewpoint based on the domination of world powers, kills all his friends, and at last he encounters the youngest member of the group who has found out about his true nature and is killed by him; but before he dies, he kills this young man too.
