Ali Nasirian
Biography: Ali Nasirian is an actor, writer, and director of the theatre, cinema and television who was born in 1935 in Tehran, Iran. He began his professional work with theatre and writing plays. After that, he directed the theatre and telefilm. He entered the cinema by playing in Dariush Mehrjui's "Cow". He also received the Best Actor's Crystal Simorgh from the Fajr Festival for Homayoun Ghanizade's "Maskhare Baz".In recent years, Ali Nasirian has had many activities in television series such as "Sarbedaran", "Hezar Dastan", "Mive-ye Mamnooe" and "Shahrzad".The movies that he has featured are "Captain Khorshid", "the Emperor of Hell", "The Stone Lion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 05, 1935
Deathday: N/A
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Shahrzad
2016-09-15
Shahrzad
Overview: in mention of documentary of Shahrzad , she having no choice because " BozorgAgha - Divan Salar " Order her to marry with Ghobad , and she don't like him ( Ghobad ) because she still thinking about her former lover " Farhad " .
Genres: Music
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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The Cycle
1978-09-14
The Cycle
Overview: Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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Captain Khorshid
1987-03-02
Captain Khorshid
Overview: Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ask a middleman to strike a deal with Khorshid. Khorshid is asked to illegally take them out of the country with his boat. At first he is reluctant, but because of the hardships of living he accepts the job.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1987-03-02
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Mr. Gullible
1970-04-01
Mr. Gullible
Overview: The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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The Cow
1969-01-01
The Cow
Overview: An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The School We Went To
1980-01-02
The School We Went To
Overview: Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Iron Island
2005-10-05
Iron Island
Overview: Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
Overview: A look at the making of Dariush Mahrjui's 'The Cow' ('Gav'), considered by many to be the seminal film of the Iranian New Wave.
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Original Language: en
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Nowruz
2024-02-01
Nowruz
Overview: Nowruz is coming, but the devil is lurking to destroy Nowruz and spring. Uncle Nowruz has an accident on the way to Grandma Frost's hut and searching for Hajji Firuz and a big storm starts.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-02-01
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A Prize
1984-01-01
A Prize
Overview: A trained engineer won a two-motor plane because it was impossible to transport a plane to his place of residence in Tehran, but it costs him a lot of money and so he has to play with his family in commercial movies
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Iran Burger
2015-02-01
Iran Burger
Overview: About a fictional village in Iran and two candidates that are competing for people's votes in a local election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-02-01
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The Scent of Joseph's Shirt
1995-01-01
The Scent of Joseph's Shirt
Overview: َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Postman
1972-04-01
The Postman
Overview: A political metaphor based on Karl Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Sattar Khan
1972-10-16
Sattar Khan
Overview: Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Satar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Satar and Heidar as they join another hero Bagher Khan.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1972-10-16
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The Custodian
1976-10-06
The Custodian
Overview: Davoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they have to bear her expenses too. Davoud loves film making and is in love with Nahid. He brings a camera and tries to steal the company while filming himself. They fired his father Rahman and he too throws Davoud out of the house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Kamalolmolk
1984-11-09
Kamalolmolk
Overview: The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Foreign Currency
1989-02-01
Foreign Currency
Overview: Morteza Olfat is an ordinary employee who has lots of problems in his life. One day, he happens to find fifty thousand dollars. He says nothing to anyone and tries to exchange the cash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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The Grand Day
1989-12-06
The Grand Day
Overview: In the years before the Iranian revolution, after winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her arrival in the city...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-06
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Tale of the Sea
2018-04-20
Tale of the Sea
Overview: Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Confession
2018-08-06
Confession
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-08-06
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Mirza Norooz's Shoes
1985-01-01
Mirza Norooz's Shoes
Overview: Mirza Norooz can't get rid of his worn-out shoes which bring him bad luck, no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Mandrake
1975-04-22
The Mandrake
Overview: The inherited land of Ali has been usurped by his aunt. Ali, who makes a living by selling flowers, one night on the road outside the city sees a woman who seems to be running away from some people. A woman who introduces herself as Mehri gets into Ali's car and this meeting causes attraction between the two. One day, Mehri goes to her grandmother's house under the pretext of visiting her and does not return.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1975-04-22
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A Hairy Tail
2019-02-01
A Hairy Tail
Overview: Danesh works in a barbershop and dreams about becoming an actor. Manfered is an agent who would introduce Danesh to a famous director if he collects enough long hairs to be used as wigs. At the same time a series of murders have worried everyone. Who is the killer and is the barbershop in any way related?
Genres: Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Punishment Committe
1997-01-01
Punishment Committe
Overview: In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.
Genres: History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Stone Lion
1987-02-04
The Stone Lion
Overview: When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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The Insane Flew Away
2003-07-23
The Insane Flew Away
Overview: Yalda is married to Rouzbeh who is an injure of war. Rouzbeh's health getting worse and they should hospitalize him. Although Yalda loves Rouzbeh very much but she begins to doubt her ...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Sun Children
2021-05-14
Sun Children
Overview: The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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A Minor
2022-04-27
A Minor
Overview: Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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Jamshid Mashayekhi
2007-01-01
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Overview: Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Minoo Watch Tower
1996-01-01
Minoo Watch Tower
Overview: Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Silent King
2003-04-01
The Silent King
Overview: In the beginning of the World War I, Iran’s government decides to remain neutral in order to save the country from further damage. But the countries in war, especially the allied powers (Russia and Britain) and the axis powers (Germany and the Ottoman Empire) ignore Iran’s stance and turn the country into their political and military battlefield. In this situation the young Ahmad Shah Qajar, Iran’s king, feels helpless facing these highly experienced foreign politicians. The young king remembers nothing from his childhood or teen years, and during one of the toughest historical points of Iran when the Russians and the British politicians interfere with most of Iran’s internal affairs to the point of affecting Iranian people’s personal lives, he meets Konts de Gotti, the daughter of Austria’s prime minister in Iran ...
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times
2009-02-05
The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times
Overview: A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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The Teacher without Master
2016-10-15
The Teacher without Master
Overview: The Teacher without Master
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Daily Notes
2005-01-16
Daily Notes
Overview: A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-01-16
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Where is Fereydoun Goleh?
2006-01-01
Where is Fereydoun Goleh?
Overview: This documentary, after years of ignorance of "Fereydoun Goleh", one of the most influential filmmakers in Iranian cinema, talks to him and his colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Night Talk
1997-01-10
Night Talk
Overview: A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-01-10
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