Homayoun Ershadi
Also Known As: Homayon Ershadi, همایون ارشادی
Biography: Homayoun Ershadi (sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi), is an Iranian actor. Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry. A non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality. Most recently he can be seen in the movie The Kite Runner, playing the role of Baba. He is one of few Iran-based Iranian actors that are permitted to act in Western movies. He currently resides in Karaj, Iran.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Isfahan, Iran
Adult: No
Birthday: March 26, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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The Wet Dream
Overview: 16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-02-04
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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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Taste of Cherry
Overview: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-09-28
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Kiarostami in Close up
Overview: A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Blue Like the Sky
Overview: A documentary about the history of Esteghlal F.C. From Docharkheh savaran to Taj, to Esteghlal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Revision Sentence
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-12-09
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Mahan
Overview: Mahan finds out that he has cancer
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-01
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The Town
Overview: The story of a young man who is interested in acting, who is accepted in the audition of a big movie, and in order to join this project and achieve his dream of becoming an actor, he has to accept the special conditions and mental and psychological exercises of the acting group in an isolated town.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-02
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Laleh
Overview: Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.
Genres: Action Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Lina
Overview: Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-11-07
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The Sixth Day
Overview: A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-06-25
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Dead End of Trust
Overview: It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a love made of same "blood" still some time remains which is worth more than what has lasted so far.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-07
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The Kite Runner
Overview: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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A Most Wanted Man
Overview: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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The Pear Tree
Overview: A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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Agora
Overview: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-17
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The Sinners
Overview: Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Utopia
Overview: Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-07-15
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Ali and Nino
Overview: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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The Fifth Reaction
Overview: Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Orange Suit
Overview: The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Fragrant
Overview: Ali has a great talent for perfumery and will soon become a father. Along the way, he faces new challenges and must complete his unfinished work in a limited amount of time...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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The Little Black Fish
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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A Simple Love Story
Overview: Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Inadvertent
Overview: Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-10-22
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Mohey
Overview: Mohey is separated from her twin sister and abused after she is plucked from an orphanage as a girl. She becomes trapped in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect and beauty are used as commodities. When she is coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Principles
Overview: Sarah is an architect who tries to figure out the best way to treat her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-10-11
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Facing Mirrors
Overview: Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Italy Italy
Overview: Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-10-04
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The Queen
Overview: During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-06-11
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The Last Inhabitant
Overview: In an Armenian village, evicted as a result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills as a stonemason are still needed for the construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2016-07-12
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The Turned World
Overview: The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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Disturbant
Overview: An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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Cypress Under Water
Overview: The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-11-21
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Hattrick
Overview: Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Aal
Overview: An Iranian horror film.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Portrait of a Lady Far Away
Overview: An old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This put him to face a challenge.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-07-03
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A 5 Star
Overview: A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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Calm Breaths
Overview: Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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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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Life with Closed Eyes
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Zero Dark Thirty
Overview: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Cheque
Overview: Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-09
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Kakadu
Overview: An alien is sent from Kakadu planet to earth for one week. He befriends a little girl Golnar and this is the beginning of their adventures.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Havana File
Overview: A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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Good to Be Back
Overview: Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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Waiting for Kiarostami
Overview: Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-12-04
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From Afar
Overview: "From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-10-10
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No Choice
Overview: A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-11-03
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Apparition
Overview: A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-06-22
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Sky Blue
Overview: Synopsis: It is about the life of a young boy and girl who face various family and social issues...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Nilgoon
Overview: This movie is a romantic story about the life of a young boy and girl who face various family and social issues and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-05-08
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Resembling Madness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-08-14
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