Ali Mosaffa
Also Known As: علی مصفا, Ali Mosafa
Biography: Ali Mosaffa (علی مصفا) was born in Tehran, Iran. His father, Mozaher Mosaffa is a renowned Persian poet and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT). Mosaffa mother, Amir Banoo Karimi is also a leading scholar and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT) and the eldest daughter of the legendary Persian poet, Amiri Firuzkuhi. As a child, Ali Mosaffa discovered his interest in story writing and english, contributing to his fluency in the language. He is a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran (UT) where he showed an interest in acting; making his debut in the 1991 film, Omid. Mosaffa went on to win the prize for best male actor the following year at the Fajr International Film Festival for his role in Darius Mehrjui's film, Pari. Mosaffa met his future wife, Iranian actress Leila Hatami on the set of Dariush Mehrjui's 1996 film, Leila. The two married in 1999 and have two children, a son named Mani (born February 2007) and a daughter named Asal (born October 2008). Ali Mosaffa is also known for The Mix, Pari, The Tower of Minoo, The Last Step, Beloved Sky, There Are Things You Don't Know, The Past, What's the Time in Your World, Death of the Fish, Duet.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Birthday: December 01, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Gazelle
Overview: "Gazelle" is the story of the self-inflicted isolation of a girl who sees her dreams in vain but has not lost her hope yet.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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The Past
Overview: After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-17
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The Last Step
Overview: Actress Leila bursts into laughter on camera during the filming of a dramatic scene. Her improper behavior is a reaction to the recent death of her husband Koshrow, who accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. And it is Koshrow who serves as the film’s somewhat unreliable narrator, appearing in the movie even after his death. The couple’s complicated yet loving relationship unfolds as a delicately ironic detective story inside the elusive and, at the same time, obsessively arranged space- time of memory. Nevertheless, it reveals Koshrow’s secret life crisis and delves deep into the past, to an ancient house in the mountains.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-07-04
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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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Pari
Overview: Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Overview: Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-07-04
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Absence
Overview: Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he had about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir's fall from the window.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Leila
Overview: This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation. This is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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You Only Go Around Once
Overview: The peaceful life of the members of the Rabbani family undergoes changes with the unexpected arrival of a snake, the discovery of an exquisite manuscript and a mysterious hole.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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What's the Time In Your World?
Overview: A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-05-13
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Accomplice
Overview: Mitra is a famous lawyer who one day a crime happens in his office. Therefore, he is forced to start an investigation about one of his clients to defend himself, and in this way he faces problems that even endanger his job.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fa
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Won't You Cry?
Overview: A man loses the ability to cry after the death of his younger brother. As he deals with grief and the separation from his wife, he tries to reconcile his job at a football website with depression and a lack of meaning in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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Playing with Stars
Overview: Playing with Stars is a 2021 Iranian drama film directed and written by Hatef Alimardani. The film screened for the first time at the 39th Fajr Film Festival and earned 2 nominations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-02-20
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The Locust
Overview: Hanieh is a broke forty year old woman on the verge of being thrown out from her apartment. She has tried to make a film based on her own semi-autobiographical script for years, but after accepting that she has no luck to fulfill her dream, she has no other choice than selling the script to one of her best friends. Due to her love for the script and its details, Hanieh is not able to tolerate any indifferent and ignorant reactions during the preproduction, but she decides not to get involved in any conflict with the director, the cast and the crew today. However, during the reading rehearsal, others begin to judge her character as described in the script and name her a bastard and a loser...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-03-12
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There Are Things You Don't Know
Overview: The film tells the story of a reclusive taxi driver in Tehran in the days leading up to an earthquake. He has chosen to distance himself from society and to be passive so as not to be hurt. Finally one of his passengers gives him enough motivation to act and bring about a change in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-07-06
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Dead of Night
Overview: Amid a society that clings tightly to its cultural traditions, a translator, writer, and poet finds himself at odds with the government's restrictive cultural structure. With his finances stretched thin and his wife expelled from the university, he retreats to an abandoned house in his hometown. But just as he begins writing a new novel, a looming threat emerges - the rising river that threatens to engulf him and his family. As he battles to keep the floodwaters at bay, he's also fighting against the oppressive forces of the government that seek to silence his dissenting voice. But he's determined to finish his book, even as his situation becomes increasingly dire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
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Hell, Purgatory, Paradise
Overview: Love and living.
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Original Language: en
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Inversion
Overview: Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Now Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life. As the youngest she has always obeyed their orders. Can she stand up for herself this time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Aseman-e Mahboob
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-04
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The Party
Overview: Amin is a young journalist who goes to jail because of something that he wrote, his friends want to free him, but they can't so they decided to make money by throwing parties at his sister's house, but everything gets worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-10-03
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Death of the Fish
Overview: An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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Duet
Overview: Hamed and Sepideh are not in a relationship anymore; they parted ways and the college years in which they watched movies together are just a far-off memory. Hamed has pursued his passion for music, he has recently released his first album and has been married for a year with a music instructor, Minoo. Sepideh has become an English teacher for preschoolers and is now wed to a builder, Massoud, who ironically can’t seem to build a solid marriage. In spite of everything, Hamed hasn’t forgotten about Sepideh yet and, when she goes back to their hometown, Minoo encourages her husband to meet her and clear his mind about what he really wants. With the collusion of a long time friend who owns a stationer, Hamed orchestrates an accidental meeting with Sepideh, in the attempt to find out more about her current life and, at the same time, to put himself to test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-02-13
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Pig
Overview: A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Searing Summer
Overview: A couple's son, Parham disappears in the babysitter's house. Complications arise as the babysitter claims Parham hasn't been to their house.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-06-14
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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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Orange Days
Overview: Aban a tough, self-sufficient person, and the only woman contractor in the orange fields of northern Iran, beats out the male competitors for a big job. She becomes responsible for peaking oranges on a farm. The operation seems to get off to a rocky start but Aban won't let go without a fight. So, she asks women in the northern regions who are seasonal workers to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-03-23
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A Bigger Game
Overview: This movie is about a group game and there is some new persons in game that will make them pay.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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My Boats
Overview: The short story of my boats, Leila Hatami and Ali Mosafa, are its main characters, regarding the fact that Aunt Jan Puri died and Farhad, who had been away from Iran for many years, returned to Iran and Remembers his memories with Mary and ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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A Man without a Shadow
Overview: The film A Shadowless Man in the Social Genre, produced in 1397 and filmed in Iran and Spain. The director of this work, Alireza Reisian, went on to make a film without shadows after the films "Forty Years" and "The Age of Love". A Shadowless Man was screened at the 37th Fajr Festival. The story of this film deals with the emotional and marital relationship of contemporary man, who has a special look at social problems these days. The film's synopsis states that filmmaker Mahan Koushiar decides to make a documentary about a serial murder, but his life is affected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-09-18
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My Second Year in College
Overview: Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Dressage
Overview: Golsa is a 16-year-old girl living with her family in a small town near Tehran. She spends most of her time hanging out with a group of friends. One day the group decide on a course of action the consequences of which will have unexpected results and turn their little bit of fun into something far more complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-01-09
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Somewhere Else
Overview: Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-10-22
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Who Killed Amir?
Overview: Amir is dead and all the people around him are accused of his murder. But as the investigations go further more interesting things appear to everyone.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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Dance With Me
Overview: A reunion of old friends for Jahangir's birthday when everyone is informed of his fatal illness - An inevitable confrontation with the current situation and the past - Series of the tensions and the reconciliations leading to a road to the life - however, death is knocking on the door.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-12-31
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A House On 41st Street
Overview: The film “A House On 41st Street”, tells the story of a family who are struggling with a happening and the consequences after. Something happens that results to a conflict between two brothers, following by some unpleasant incidents between the daughter-in-law and Mother of the family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Obesity
Overview: Amir is a film sound editor who has a peaceful and good life along with his wife, Bahar, and his daughter, Gandom. He has an older friend called Ramin, a film director, who is about to ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-08-28
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The Mix
Overview: An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Tales of an Island
Overview: An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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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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It's Not the Time
Overview: Rumor has it that the biggest earthquake ever is going to happen in town in a few days, everyone is leaving except one guy.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fa
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Guardian of the Field
Overview: A thriller based on a true story
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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