Pegah Ahangarani
Also Known As: پگاه آهنگرانی
Biography: Pegah Ahangarani is an Iranian actress and Film director. She is the daughter of actress and director Manijeh Hekmat and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made one documentary.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 24, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Twilight
Overview: Sarah and Soodeh, sisters who lost their parents in the earthquake, have a good life in a hut in the northern mountains. Sarah brings a young man named Parsa who has lost his way to the hut and ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-09-04
Popularity:
For Marjan
Overview: Happiness in a relationship is completely a matter of chance; Maybe making others fear us and forcing them to stay with us is more reliable than loving us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-02-10
Popularity:
To Each His Own Cinema
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
Popularity:
The Singer Cat
Overview: Hasani who is an orphan is living with his little sister Goldouneh in an orphanage. One day a couple come there to adopt a child. They chose Goldouneh but Hasani who believes that their father is somewhere waiting for them is refusing...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-01-01
Popularity:
No Prior Appointment
Overview: When Yasmin was six years old, as her son is now, the family immigrated to Berlin. Now the heroine is forced to return to Iran because of the death of her father. the son suffers from autism, and this greatly complicates the trip. Arriving in Iran, Yasmin, who hardly knew her father, is surprised to discover that he left her all the inheritance. a short and unwanted stay in her father's hometown and meetings with those who knew him make her rethink concepts such as life, death and human nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-01
Popularity:
Shirin
Overview: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-01-20
Popularity:
Trapped
Overview: This fascinating moral thriller is centered on the bristling relationship between two very different young women in contemporary Tehran. Nazanin (Nazanin Bayati) is a determined first year medical student. Since there is no free space in the university dorm and Nazanin does not have much money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Sahar (Pegah Ahangarani), a party lover who works in a fragrance shop. Sahar badly wants to migrate from Iran, so she’s borrowed money from a man in the bazaar. When this man makes an opportunistic complaint against Sahar, she is imprisoned. There have been some very some rocky times between the two roommates and their conflicting lifestyles, but Nazanin will now do everything she can to have her friend released.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-09-28
Popularity:
I Am Trying to Remember
Overview: Pegah talks about Gholam, a man who’s not like her father, mother, uncles, or aunts, even though he’s always present at family gatherings. Gholam films these everyday scenes with his own camera. At the time, Pegah can’t imagine what the purpose of these films might be, but she’s happy to pose before the lens of this family friend, who she’s certainly very fond of.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-11-18
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Kami's Party
Overview: A road trip takes many unexpected turns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-11-21
Popularity:
Gisoum
Overview: A Movie by Navid Behtoie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-01-08
Popularity:
The Worker Bee
Overview: After a man named Buick is killed during a fight at a gas station, Buick's daughter Inji seeks revenge on the killer in order not to let her father's blood be trampled on. But the intervention of the killer's family to change the course of the case causes events to happen and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-03-06
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
My Father
Overview: When Iranian actress and director Pegah Ahangarani (1984) was growing up, she thought every soldier she saw on television might have been her father. During her earliest years he was fighting at the front, and a portrait of Khomeini hung in a prominent place in the house. But one day the image of the Ayatollah disappeared without explanation and another photo took its place.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-11-20
Popularity:
Jameh Daran
Overview: The depressed Shirin wanders around at her father's funeral. Unexpectedly, she sees a man very much like her father. Regardless of her uncle's objection, Shirin is enchanted by the idea of finding out that man. Reluctantly, her uncle acknowledges that the man is her father's illegitimate child. Looking at gloomy daughter, Shirin's mother tells her about some past events, especially about an unexpected truth that Shirin is her father's adopted daughter. It seems to be clear that Shirin and that man have no blood bond. But her father's mistress tells a different story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-11-11
Popularity:
Mr. Yousef
Overview: A man lives with his only daughter, doing everything he can to make a living for his daughter's sake. But a misunderstanding makes things complicated for him.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-03-12
Popularity:
No Men Allowed
Overview: In order to prepare her best and brightest for the upcoming chemistry Olympiad, strict, conservative headmistress Ms. Darabi is forced to break her lifelong rule of not allowing male teachers in the school and reluctantly hires the bumbling Mr. Jebeli. Little does she know though that several of her students, led by the self-assured Paria, have a plan to get her to fall in love with him. 'No Men Allowed' is a hilarious, rollicking romcom, chock-full of witty dialogue and zany antics that will have you coming back time and time again!
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-06-15
Popularity:
Closer
Overview: A family reunion after several years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-08-24
Popularity:
Sara and Ayda
Overview: Sarah and Ayda are two close friends, one of whom was notorious and now they must work together to bring their conditions to normal, but they stand to where for their friendship?
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-07
Popularity:
Atomic Heart Mother
Overview: On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-05-31
Popularity:
7 Months Pregnant
Overview: Revenge may have irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-08-17
Popularity:
Take Off
Overview: Shirzad arrives after 5 year of living on the boat. After a midnight party with old friends, changes occur in their life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-05-23
Popularity:
The Green Fire
Overview: Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-09-02
Popularity:
Drought and Lies
Overview: Omid happily celebrates his birthday with his wife and her family at a beautiful villa near the Caspian Sea. A phone call from Omid's ex-wife puts the festivities on hold as she drops a bombshell that threatens to unravel the new life he is trying to lead. Written by Iranian playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi, this insightful drama tackles marital and social issues with sharp dialogue and knowing humour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-09-28
Popularity:
Motherland
Overview: After Islamic Revolution in Iran, many iranians left Iran .now some of them returns to their motherland. 2. A German scientist investigated whether turtles which left Iranian beaches returns to their motherland after thirty years or not.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-02-05
Popularity:
The Girl's House
Overview: Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so they go straight to their friend's fiancé, Mansoor, to find out about the cause of her suspicious death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-11-10
Popularity:
The Girl in the Sneakers
Overview: In love with a teenage boy, Tadaei leaves home in the morning heading for school but decides not to go to school and instead starts wandering in the streets of Tehran. She makes up her mind not to return to home and run away with her lover, because of her parents' reaction to her having a boyfriend but meandering in the city, she gets into some troubles that make her change her mentality of love and inevitably her pathway
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-06-11
Popularity:
3 Women
Overview: Forty-something single mother Minoo is a product of the Islamic Revolution, a generation of women repressed by changes in law under the new Islamic Republic. Her daughter Pegah is a rebellious youth, part of a generation in search of an identity they're yet to find. Together they live with Minoo's mother - three women of three different generations, living in the past, present and future. When Pegah takes off on an existential journey, Minoo realizes she needs to reconnect her fracturing family, and sets out to find Pegah - encountering a myriad of Tehran characters, including an improvisational indie rock band. Things take a turn for the worse when she loses her mother along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-02-14
Popularity:
Winter Dreams
Overview: Three sisters find themselves trying to cope in the wake of their parents' death. One of the sisters, a young factory worker, finds herself faced with the prospect of marriage when a ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-10-22
Popularity:
Our Times
Overview: Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-08-18
Popularity:
Maxx
Overview: An invitation for a famous Iranian bandmaster, Maxx, living in a foreign country, is accidentally sent to a young cabaret singer with the same name.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-12-14
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Domestic Killer
Overview: The story of this film is about the life of Dr. Jalal Soroush.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-06-17
Popularity:
Bandar Band
Overview: Manijeh Hekmat's music-infused twist on a road movie follows a band's day-long journey across a flooded landscape to Tehran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-09-15
Popularity:
The Maritime Silk Road
Overview: A young student of Shiraz university joins Captain Soleiman on a maritime journey to China in 11th BC.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-01
Popularity:
The Great Leap
Overview: A fantasy, road- movie regarding Man and Maryam that embark on an adventure road trip to find their missing along with three others remnant from the circus group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-09
Popularity:
Third Floor
Overview: By the call of a stranger the police come and intervene in a party in the fourth floor of a building. A girl escapes and trapped in a balcony of the third floor. A woman helps her but this is only the beginning of the troubles.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-12-22
Popularity:
East is East
Overview: A theater directed by Masoud Raygan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-18
Popularity: