Reza Naji
Biography: Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reza Naji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 26, 1942
Deathday: N/A
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Children of Heaven
1997-08-01
Children of Heaven
Overview: Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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Texas 2
2019-04-10
Texas 2
Overview: Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother come to airport to take them home but they don't know that they are married. Meanwhile Bahram takes the wrong suitcase which lead them to confront with a gang and enter them in new adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-04-10
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The Willow Tree
2005-08-11
The Willow Tree
Overview: Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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Baran
2001-01-31
Baran
Overview: On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-01-31
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The Song of Sparrows
2008-10-01
The Song of Sparrows
Overview: When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-10-01
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Autumn
2010-11-01
Autumn
Overview: Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ks
Release Date: 2010-11-01
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Apache
2022-03-15
Apache
Overview: You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-03-15
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Winners
2023-03-17
Winners
Overview: In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Sperm Whale
2015-05-20
Sperm Whale
Overview: Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-05-20
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Projectionist
2024-03-12
Projectionist
Overview: The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building painter who loves cinema, who has succeeded in producing several short films and dreams of making his first feature film.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-03-12
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Bench Cinema
2016-10-22
Bench Cinema
Overview: Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Birth of a Butterfly
2000-01-01
Birth of a Butterfly
Overview: Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film - that between two young children and their stepfather, a cripple setting off alone on a pilgrimage without the company of his fellow villagers, and a teacher returning to his remote village and finding himself the subject of unrealistic expectations of the other villagers.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Sly
2018-04-20
Sly
Overview: Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted parties and politicians, none take him seriously until he's connected to a single, notorious incident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Wind Blows in the Meadow
2009-06-07
Wind Blows in the Meadow
Overview: Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, has been head over heels in love...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-06-07
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The Redtails
2018-08-01
The Redtails
Overview: Two youngsters Bahman and Nader who must go to the military service and are searching for a way to escape from that meet each other and become friends. This friendship is the beginning of many troubles and adventures for them.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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The Little Bird Boy
2002-08-23
The Little Bird Boy
Overview: With his father in jail, probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbed-wire border, Behruz and his family are destitute. His love of birds and talent for imitating their songs land him the unhappy job of helping to capture them for a local bird merchant. He meets a girl his own age whose mother comes to Iran to sell clothes, but they leave before he has a chance to say goodbye. Qanbari sticks to images and the children’s plaintive faces, old before their time, to tell his story almost without words. Their delicate emotions are echoed in a local bridegroom’s illegal crossing into Azerbaijan for his own wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-08-23
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Shiva
2014-11-13
Shiva
Overview: Shiva is a girl
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
2017-10-06
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
Overview: Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united states with her family due to some social restrictions of 1980s. Arjang who has never forgotten Roya, meets her different times later but each time he fails to marry her again. He has 50 now and is a wealthy man, so he insists Roya to stay in Iran and marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Angels Come Together
2014-02-01
Angels Come Together
Overview: Ahmad is a clergy man who has a quiet and lovely life with her wife. However, his life changes when her wife becomes pregnant. Economical pressure causes him to change jobs until he is offered a role in a movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Tunnel 18
1997-02-13
Tunnel 18
Overview: Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-13
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We Are All Together
2019-06-05
We Are All Together
Overview: The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Kandaloos Gardens
2004-04-01
Kandaloos Gardens
Overview: Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love with the heroes of our story, are foreshadowed by Bijan, Ali and Said looking for them for gardens such as Paradise of Idaho, and in this mysterious journey, we lay in layers Inside love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Ziba and I
2013-01-01
Ziba and I
Overview: On a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives home. For the rest of life, Mousa accuses himself for her death. He devotes himself and his ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Newcastle
2019-07-17
Newcastle
Overview: There is an old house in which some people are living without its owner's permission. Once, the people living there find out that the owner of the house will be back to his home by the night and...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-07-17
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Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!
2010-12-17
Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!
Overview: Behrouz joins the school football team in the dream of getting a bicycle. He is a very playful boy and creates problems for the people around him at school and in the living environment, until the arrival of the football coach (Nima Nakisa) changes his life path and...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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Crab
2023-01-21
Crab
Overview: A young man is looking for a rich wife for happiness
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-01-21
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