Behnaz Jafari
Also Known As: بهناز جعفری
Biography: Behnaz Jafari was born in Tehran , Iran , in 1974, and has begun her cinematic activities since 1980. She has got her B.A. in Dramatic Literature from College of Art of Azad University in 2005. She won diploma of honor as best actress in a leading role for "The President's Cellphone" in the Thirtieth Fajr Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Teheran, Iran
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1974
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Blackboards
Overview: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-09-01
Popularity:
Kozovo
Overview: Miners say that the more you look for diamonds, the less you find them. According to them, it is the diamond that finds its man. He is the one who decides whose hand falls on whose finger
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-03-18
Popularity:
The Golden Night
Overview: The Golden Night
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-01
Popularity:
Shahrbanoo
Overview: Shahrbanoo is the mother of three children who has been sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking. After 11 years in prison, she is released from prison for a few days to attend her son's wedding. However, this temporary release confronts him with another aspect of his life and that of his family before returning to prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-03-04
Popularity:
Terrestrial Verses
Overview: A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-10-05
Popularity:
3 Days and 3 Murders
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date:
Popularity:
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
Release Date:
Popularity:
Titanic, Suitable Version for Iranian Families
Overview: A complex and sometimes combative exchange at an Iranian broadcaster over a certain Hollywood blockbuster disguises deeper ruptures, in Farnoosh Samadi’s wry and subtly provocative drama.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2023-09-20
Popularity:
A Man for All Seasons
Overview: Directed by Bahman Farman Ara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-05-08
Popularity:
Lantouri
Overview: Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-10-15
Popularity:
7 Months Pregnant
Overview: Revenge may have irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-08-17
Popularity:
The Blue-Veiled
Overview: An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-02-01
Popularity:
Sound and Fury
Overview: Khosro, a pop singer, lives a hectic life with his wife Tina and their son Moez. His life is further complicated when he begins a love affair with a female fan. A terrible event ensues obliging the lovers to each recount their side of the story in pursuit of the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-02-11
Popularity:
Wake Up, Arezu!
Overview: Moments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues has died in the quake. She sets out for the town of Bam to get rescue aid for the villagers, but to her amazement, she discovers that the main tragedy has occurred there. Cries of help are heard from every side and the hospital is filled with the injured and the dead. On the recommendation of a cleric, she goes to the mortuary to help with the washing of the dead bodies of women. A prisoner, who managed to get out after the prison building is destroyed asks the teacher to wash the bodies of his dead mother, wife and child, Arezu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-01-31
Popularity:
3 Faces
Overview: Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-06-06
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Kandaloos Gardens
Overview: Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love with the heroes of our story, are foreshadowed by Bijan, Ali and Said looking for them for gardens such as Paradise of Idaho, and in this mysterious journey, we lay in layers Inside love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Popularity:
Chand tare mu
Overview: Pirzad's mother, in a telephone conversation with her, finds that she is detached from her husband, Pejman, she was informed that her son Behzad was arrested in student confrontations and he was looking for a solution. Pejman accompanies his son Septa and a woman named Bita going to the north. Cima is the sister of Homa, an environmental expert, on a journey and engineer Pirzad is hunting with his brother. Immediately following the arrest of Behzad, Sima reacts to persuading him to contact Pejman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-12
Popularity:
A Time To Love
Overview: A disabled child living with his parents tries to relate emotionally to other members of his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-07
Popularity:
Tehran: City of Love
Overview: Three lonely people, each looking for love in their own ways. This is hard enough in any big city – never mind in Tehran, where individual freedoms can’t be taken for granted. In a sexy voice on the telephone, an overweight receptionist seduces men who wouldn’t look twice at her real ‘me’. A former bodybuilding champion now earns a living as a personal trainer. When he develops feelings for a promising young sportsman as a client; he drops everything else; even a very promising acting job for a well-known French director. A singer at religious funerals is dumped by his fiancée. He tries to find new purpose in life by retraining as a singer at weddings and parties. That’s a lot more attractive to women, his friend assures him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-10-11
Popularity:
Yalda
Overview: Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-08-27
Popularity:
The President's Cell Phone
Overview: An old man who is a simple worker decides that he wants to buy a cell phone. He goes to buy some second hand ones but by accident the president's used cell phone is the one which he buys.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-01
Popularity:
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
Overview: After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut as a feature film director in 20 Fingers (2004), Abbas Kiarostami urged her to direct a sequel to the film. In Dah be alaveh Chahar (10 + 4), though, circumstances are different: Mania is fighting cancer. She has undergone surgery; she has lost her hair following chemotherapy and no longer wears the compulsory headscarf; and sometimes she is too weak to drive. So the camera follows her to record conversations with friends and family in different spaces, from the gondola she had famously used in her first feature to a hospital bed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
Popularity:
Sinama Sinamast
Overview: Reza Kianian film director after much searching, Mandana considered for the role in the film. But Mandana's family disagrees with her play and ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date:
Popularity:
Tehran 7:00 a.m.
Overview: 24 hours in Tehran. A traffic cop is interested in an actress, two old sourpusses terrorise the drug control lab, not everything a taxi driver says is the truth and a building worker seems to be in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-11-20
Popularity:
The Southside Pickpocket
Overview: A thief comes out of prison and begins searching for his sister. Along the way, he meets another thief, a girl, they work together to gather money, but things don't go well.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-12-11
Popularity:
Freeway
Overview: The story of a young couple who their life changes when an older woman enters in their life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-02-16
Popularity:
Patio
Overview: Patio is the story of individuals whose city, no matter how large it may be, feels similar to a small patio for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-20
Popularity:
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
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:
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
Popularity:
Resident of the Middle Floor
Overview: 'Resident of the Middle Floor' tells the quirky tale of a depressive writer (Shahab Hosseini) struggling for inspiration. He immerses himself into each new idea, playing the roles of his characters before our eyes. Slowly, these fantasies begin to intersect with his own life, blurring the line between his stories' worlds and his own failing existence. Will he ever be able to figure out the story he wants to tell? A throughly entertaining character study that is reminiscent of Walter Mitty's world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-09-05
Popularity:
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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-04-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Water and Fire
Overview: Ali Mashreghi is a writer whose wife has been murdered after the night of his bitter fight with his wife. He is arrested and there is only one woman who can help him in the court of law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-02-01
Popularity:
Gita
Overview: Gita' juxtaposes the ups and downs experienced by a couple (Gita and Amir) whose routine life is faced with despair due to their son's trip abroad. The lead role Gita encounters serious challenges and her life is accompanied with unexpected events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-12-21
Popularity:
Rice cake
Overview: The story is about Morteza and Forogh, a couple married for several years. The man is so busy so he finds no emotion in his couple relationship anymore. Forogh involves an event and it makes their relationship is survived by the spouse finally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date:
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Mirror of the Soul
Overview: Part 2 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film examines her controversial, sometimes erotic, poetry. Contemporary Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad became a legend in her own time for her innovative and controversial writings. In this extensive, three-part documentary, Farrokhzad's life, work, and soul are laid bare. Director Nasser Saffarian deftly combines interviews with family members and peers with footage of Farrokhzad shot by Bernardo Bertolucci. Saffarian digs deep into her personal and professional life to uncover new information about this outspoken artist. Includes The Green Cold, a revealing look at her private world, The Mirror of the Soul, an exploration of her controversial, sometimes erotic poetry, and Summit of the Wave, an overview of her theater and film work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-08-01
Popularity:
Resurrection Day
Overview: A theater directed by Farhad Mohandespour
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-12-21
Popularity:
Veronica's Room
Overview: A theater directed by Reza Servati
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-01-11
Popularity:
North by Southwest
Overview: New movie by hamid zargar nezhad
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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: 2009-04-18
Popularity: