Also Known As: 레일라 하타미, Leila Hatami, Leyla Hatami, لیلا حاتمی
Biography: Award-winning actress, Leila Hatami, was born on October 1, 1972 in Tehran, Iran, to legendary Iranian Director, Ali Hatami, and actress mother, Zari Khoshkam (Zahra Hatami). During her childhood, she appeared in several of her father's films including the historical TV series, Hezar dastan (1978), and biopic Kamalolmolk (1984), as well as a role as Leila, the blind Turkish princess in the film The Love-stricken (1992). After completing high school, she moved to Lausanne, Switzerland and started her studies in Electronic Engineering. However, after two years she changed her major to French Literature. She completed her studies in a couple of years and moved back to Iran. After a pause in her film career of a few years which included her studies in Switzerland, she made her professional entry into cinema with Dariush Mehrjui 's film Leila (1997) as the title character. Her performance in the film received rave reviews from critics and audiences worldwide. She also received the Diploma of Honor for Best Actress from the 15th Fajr Film Festival. Later, she married her co-star Ali Mosaffa in 1999. They now have two children: a son named Mani (born February 2007) and a daughter named Asal (born October 2008). To date, Hatami has worked with some of the most celebrated Iranian directors. Moreover, her performance in The Deserted Station (2002) won the Best Actress award from the 26th Montreal World Film Festival. She also appeared in her husband's directorial debut film, Portrait of a Lady Far Away (2005). In 2011, she won the prestigious Silver Berlin Bear award at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival for the Best Actress in a Leading Role in Asghar Farhadi 's internationally acclaimed film, A Separation (2011).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Birthday: October 02, 1972
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Gender: Female
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Overview: A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-02-15
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Overview: On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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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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Overview: Ziba is getting ready for her daughter's wedding when she's abducted by a feared gang. She tries to escape but does not have much time, as her daughter is on her way to the location, unaware of what awaits.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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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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Overview: Night in Tehran. A daydreaming cab driver falls in love with a woman he can’t have, leaving to a series of encounters, filled with mystery and playful moments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-05-23
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Overview: The story is about a lonely and weary girl whose mood is lifted by the help of her friend but the girl is not courageous enough to introduce her friend to others
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-02-02
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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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Overview: A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having squandered all the money he had on trivial matters, he tells his wife about being axed & that's when the tables turn on him.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-01-13
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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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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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Overview: In March 2012, Iranian movie "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people this was more than a cinematic award. When sanctions and threats of war with Iran covered the world headlines, Farhadi talked about Iran's love for peace and the rich culture of the Iranians on the stage when receiving his award. This time the Iranians voice was heard through someone other than the government officials. This documentary shows the reaction of the Iranians to this Oscar award and has a general view on Iran's society of today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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Overview: In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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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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Overview: A person wants to hijack an airplane to go out of Iran and cure his sick son.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Overview: Amin is in coma and has forgotten almost everything about the past, but he remembers some of his misty memories. He decides to make a new past for himself with recollection of these memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-02-15
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Overview: Bita (Hatami), a successful lawyer specializing in championing the cause of women’s rights in divorce cases, is blind to the trouble brewing in her own marriage. A snatch of gossip and a problem client with an unwanted pregnancy unexpectedly bring Bita’s problems home. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Overview: Attiyeh has made a career out of giving relationship advice to couples over her radio show. Every day she answers questions about family dynamics and safeguarding marriages, while behind the scenes she and her husband struggle with a problem of their very own, one that seems practically unsolvable. All her life she has been the one to give advice, and as she tries to come to terms with a costly and dangerous medical procedure, she finds she is now the one who desperately needs it.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-03-06
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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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Overview: Sahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ...
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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Overview: The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the advertising agency ideas man for whom smoking is all part of the creative process.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-04
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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
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Overview: Me is written and directed by Soheil Beiraghi and produced by Saeed Sa’adi and Saeed Khani. The film is about Azar (Leila Hatami), a woman who acts as a middle-man for those seeking illicit goods. According to Beiraghi: “I didn’t want to portray an ordinary woman, but the one who is living a double life. She is a rebellious woman who rebels against the law and individuals.” Me was officially selected in the Certain Regard section at the 34th Fajr International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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Overview: Leila, a girl from a poor family, who has no choice but to pick pocket in order to make ends meet. Leila meets Hamid Doosdar, an investor Businessman, while riding Metro that changes her life direction. Leila falls in love with Hamid and there is only one thing on their way, Hamid's wife. Leila considers the only thing blocking her happiness, Hamid's Wife. She plans her murder by using her ex-lover, but the story takes a completely different turn...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Overview: After her divorce Mina is in need to financial and emotional supporting. She meets a guy and thinks that this is the man of her dreams. But things are not just as their first seem to be.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-01
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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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Overview: It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-02-20
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Overview: Yassi, who has doubts about Mohsen's life in common, decides to remind her of a memorable occasion. He anticipates everything in advance for the best of the party, ignoring the fact that the circumstances do not go away on his own. The film deals with betrayal in marriage.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-05-16
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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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Overview: Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-10-23
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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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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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Overview: Negar is a married woman who works at a musical company. When she is given an assignment to collaborate with an Iranian expat Orchestra leader, she...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-02-01
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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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Overview: The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Overview: A man whose job collecting garbage from the streets. But from this work he becomes aware of the secrets of those houses he collecting garbage from and that lead him to involve in some troubles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-10-16
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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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Overview: Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Overview: A group of Iranian classical musicians in the Ghajar era try to release their first record, which takes them on a journey to France.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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Overview: The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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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
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Overview: The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family Music
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-04-19
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Overview: A woman embarks on an unyielding and possibly hopeless search for her missing husband, a journey that strains her already fragile relationship with her daughter. Along the way, she also faces the unwelcome advances of her persistent brother-in-law.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fa
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