Roya Nownahali
Also Known As: رویا نونهالی, Roya Nonahali, Roya Nownahali, Ro'ya Nonahali, Ro'ya Nownahali, رؤیا نونهالی
Biography: Roya Nownahali is an actress of theater, cinema, and television who was born in 1963 in Tehran, Iran. After completing her studies, she was first featured in Khosro Sinai's "Yar dar Khaneh" movie. She won the Crystal Simorgh for Best First Role Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "The Marriage of the Blessed" directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She also became famous with the role played in Mehdi Fakhimzadeh's "Sleep and Awake" television series. She has also been featured in "A Piece of Bread" by Kamal Tabrizi, "The House On Water" by Bahman Farman Ara and "Confessions of My Dangerous Mind" directed by Hooman Seyyedi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Birthday: February 13, 1963
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Gender: Female
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Marriage of the Blessed
Overview: Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
Genres: War Drama Crime
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Women's Prison
Overview: Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-10-06
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Confessions of My Dangerous Mind
Overview: A man wakes up and doesn't remember anything...
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-07-15
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Where Are My Shoes?
Overview: After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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Helen
Overview: Story About A Girl who Want's to Move To Italy But Family Matters Diverts Her To Another Way
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-22
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Sanam
Overview: In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other children in the village. While his mother fights to clear her husbands name, Issa is left to his own devices. But unexpectedly, his solitude gives birth to his freedom, his real passion, horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
Overview: Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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I Want to
Overview: Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-06-04
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The Familiar Soil
Overview: An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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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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Nimrokh-ha
Overview: A lonely wife is helping her hopeless husband who is living his last days of his life because of cancer . Romantic relationship between them plus having her mother in law around causing drama & surreal narration . Unfortunately we've lost our director because of cancer just a couple of months after finishing our project .
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-15
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Niloofar
Overview: Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-11-09
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It Happened at Midnight
Overview: When the resident singer at a venue that hosts weddings and funerals abruptly quits his job, a young, charming new singer (Hamed Behdad) is hired. Unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and older, widowed woman who also works at the venue, though neither is immediately aware of the other’s emotions. The romance that ensues creates as much chaos as it does tenderness. This is a star-studded and incredibly entertaining ride.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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The Fish Fall in Love
Overview: After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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The Mousetrap
Overview: An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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Giti's Problem
Overview: It's about a couple Iraj and Giti who their life is about to collapse. Their problem is Giti's virtual life in the internet and the doubts and consequences of that which affect their life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Highlight
Overview: A story of three women in a hair salon - Pegah is getting ready for her wedding when her fiancé puts her in a difficult situation, Shahla is pregnant and worries about the father’s reaction when he finds out, and Haydedeh gets a surprise visit from her ex-husband who is leaving the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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A Piece of Bread
Overview: A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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A House Built on Water
Overview: Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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Sedaha
Overview: A murder takes place in a residential complex, and each of the neighbors gets involved in some way.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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On a Friday Afternoon
Overview: The life of a single mother living in Tehran gets unsettled by the visit of her enstranged sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Fifth Season
Overview: The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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