Shish O Besh (Six and Five) is a 2011 Iranian film starring Mohammed Reza Golzar and Amin Hayai.
Two small-time con men, Sami (Golzar) and Davood (Hayai) think they have the break of their lives when they hear of a crown containing three rubies that is ripe for the stealing. Unfortunately, the crown and rubies are scattered around Tehran, and the duo need to form four separate plans to steal them all...
This film contains instances of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: The old lady, who blackmails Sami into marrying her.
- All Take and No Give: Sami and Davood have this kind of relationship.
- Amoral Attorney: The sleazy lawyer who has the third ruby.
- Attempted Rape: Both of the Female-on-Male and the Male-on-Female variety. Unfortunately, the usual Double Standard applies.
- Beware the Silly Ones: While Davood often comes across as The Ditz, he sometimes manages to outwit Sami completely, as in the prostitute con.
- Brother–Sister Team: Panis and Davood. She's about as nice to him as Sami is.
- Butt-Monkey: Davood. In order: the guy he hired to find him a bus betrays him to the police, Sami at first refuses to forgive him for that mistake, and afterwards tends to treat him like crap, Eskander uses him to steal the rubies, and Panis refuses to visit him in jail and turns out to be an undercover policewoman and has him arrested.
- The Caper: Four of them!
- The Charmer: Sami, who can sweet-talk just about anybody. Even Davood seems to have...
a thing for him. - Chained to a Bed: Sami. He and Davood are forced to dismantle the bed and run away with it when the "bride" flushes the key down the toilet.
- The Chessmaster: Eskander.
- Chick Magnet: Sami, who manages to unwillingly seduce the old lady... while robbing her house.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Don't call Panis "Mahboubeh."
- Dirty Old Woman: Owns the second ruby.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: The Dirty Old Woman's attempted rape of Sami is completely Played for Laughs. However, the Amoral Attorney's attempted rape of Panis is just as dramatic as one would expect.
- Downer Ending: The pair are thoroughly outwitted by Eskander, and end up in jail again. Eskander doesn't get away either.
- Easily-Overheard Conversation: Sami listens to Davood and Eskander while hiding under the bed. He's lucky that Davood isn't too bright, and Eskander probably wanted him to overhear anyway.
- Every Man Has His Price: Invoked my Sami, who attempts to raise money by setting up a random guy with a prostitute, pretending to be a member of the religious police and "catching" him, then claiming he needs money for heart surgery.
- Extreme Doormat: Davood puts up with pretty much everything Sami and Panis subject him to.
- Family-Friendly Stripper: When Panis is pretending to be a hooker or a Sexy Secretary, she is fully clothed from head to foot, in accordance with Iranian cinema standards. Truth in Television in that actual Iranian streetwalkers must cover up (and are arrested if caught), and so must rely on other cues to advertise themselves.
- Fortune Teller: Panis, by profession. Or not.
- Friend in the Black Market: The jeweller, who seems to run a legitimate business while doing a bit of smuggling on the side. Except his business is only a front, and he's actually working for Eskander and his wife.
- Gilligan Cut: Sami adamantly refuses to marry the old woman until the police are nearly at the door. Cut to the wedding reception.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: The crown isn't worth too much unless all the pieces are assembled.
- Heavy Sleeper: Davood, much to Sami's annoyance.
- Ironic Echo: "This is the age of the internet."
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Eskander hands over the names and addresses of the people who own pieces of the crown to Davood as he is dying. He isn't actually dying, and just wants Davood to do the dirty work for him.
- Jerkass: Sami.
- Loveable Rogue: Sami, in-universe only. To the audience, he comes across as a straight-up Jerkass with virtually no redeeming qualities.
- Mr. Fanservice: Sami, in universe. Davood makes fun of him for this by calling him "pretty eyes" when he's annoyed with him.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Davood has this attitude.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. The john is also named Sami.
- Professional Gambler: Davood.
- Rejected Apology: Sami refuses to forgive Davood for landing them in prison at the beginning. Until there is the opportunity for making money out of it.
- Reunion Kiss: When Sami finally agrees to forgive Davood for getting them caught, Davood is overjoyed and kisses him (not really Ho Yay in Iranian culture). Sami, being a Jerkass, promptly ditches him.
- Sexy Secretary: Panis pretends to be one in order to drug the lawyer.
- Siblings in Crime: Davood and Panis. Except that Panis is secretly a policewoman.
- Slipping a Mickey: Panis drugs the sleazy lawyer in order to get into his safe. Then Davood drinks the drugged juice.
- The Smart Guy: Sami. He's not as smart as he thinks he is, and definitely not as smart as Eskander.
- There Is Only One Bed: Played for laughs between Sami and Davood.
- Twist Ending: Eskander and his wife were just using Sami and Davood from the very beginning. The owner of the crown was Eskander's wife. And Panis was an undercover policewoman the entire time.
- Undercover Cop Reveal: Panis, of all people.
