Niki Karimi
Also Known As: نیکی کریمی, Niki Karimi
Biography: Niki Karimi is an actress and director who was born in 1971 in Tehran, Iran. From her first activities in the cinema, we can name "Bride" directed by Behrouz Afkhami. She has also won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ahmadreza Motamedi and "The Fifth Reaction" by Tahmineh Milani. She has also been featured in "Night Shift", "One Night" and "A Few Days Later" as director. Among her other cinematic works "Sara" by Dariush Mehrjui, "Night and Day" by Omid Bankdar and Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi's, "Who killed Amir?" by Mehdi Karampour and "Democracy In Day Light "by Ali Atashani can be named.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Adult: No
Birthday: November 11, 1971
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Female
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Wedding Dinner
Overview: Two youngsters from rich families fall in love and decide to get marry but they don't know that both their parents are broke. This creates funny situations for them and the two families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-06-24
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Cahiers du Film
Overview: Documentary about Film magazine. Film (Persian: فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 40 years (founded in 1982).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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The Hidden Half
Overview: An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-02-06
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Squad Of Girls
Overview: The story shows a different point of view of Iraq's invasion since it's narrated by self sacrificing fearless women who reach the army fortress in order to bring back weapons and ammunitions to stand against the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-02-01
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Eve's Red Apple
Overview: Neda who believes in money rather than love leaves her fiance Farhad and marries an older wealthy man Foruzesh on condition that he gives her all his fortune. But when she goes to Kish Island for her honeymoon the bitter truth is revealed for her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-02-07
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Two Women
Overview: A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-06-23
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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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Sara
Overview: Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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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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Wednesday, May 9
Overview: A man named Jalal publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news gathers a large group of people. At the end of the day, he receives many application forms, and he eventually decides to choose one by chance. Those who have applied insist that what's been advertised is the only solution to their problem. The police take charge of the situation by calming the people and having them dispersed. However, two women do not give up: Setareh, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and Leila, Jalal’s ex-fiancée…
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-09-07
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The Other Wife
Overview: A recently married couple face the intrinsic dynamics of a couple's relationship during personal turmoil. Themes of love, exploration and the symbolism of marriage flow throughout. The bleak, isolated winter setting which was once a getaway for the couple now begins to mirror the very cracks and frosty coldness present in their own lives. 'The Second Wife' portrays the highs and lows of the reality of marriage, but will love prevail for this couple or is their romance destined to be tortured forever?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The 24th Avenue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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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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Democracy in Daylight
Overview: The story of life of an Iranian army leader who has faults in his life and now in purgatory wants to retaliate for his faults.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Final Whistle
Overview: an Iranian TV and documentary director who becomes involved in the plight of Malineh, a young woman who appeared in her latest film. Malineh is desperate to sell one of her kidneys in order to raise money for the defense of her mother, who faces hanging on a charge of murdering her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Aghaye haft Rang
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-03-23
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The Bride
Overview: Hamid and Mahin are husband and wife and are traveling to the north by their car. But in the way they have an accident with a rural woman. Unlike his wife's disagreement Hamid decides to escape the scene and lives the woman to die but it is only the beginning of his troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Trial on the Street
Overview: Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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The Scent of Joseph's Shirt
Overview: َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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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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Azar
Overview: A non-traditional wife and mother, Azar (Karimi) is first seen racing her dirt bike over a hilly track while her husband Amir (Azarang) and young daughter cheer her on. Co-equal with her liberal-minded husband in marriage and in their fledgling business venture, a café with a thriving carryout trade, she is forced to meet an unequal challenge in which the strict pecking order of a family dominated by misogynist uncle, a business loan with strings attached, a black sheep son with a hidden agenda, and a tragic accident add up to a scenario in which Azar is targeted as the unwilling sacrificial victim. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-02-01
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Along City
Overview: A tension building thriller at every turn, Dar Emtedad Shahr opens with the begins of a jewellery store robbery, and then goes back in time to explore the events leading up to it. In doing so, the major players are introduced: the pair of robbers themselves, the jewellery store owner, his ill wife and doctor mistress and a disenfranchised celebrity. When the robbery goes wrong and the jewellery store owner is shot, all stories begin to collide as a hostage situation escalates. Who exactly will survive? And what will be left of those who do?
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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I'm His Wife
Overview: Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Life Is Elsewhere
Overview: Davood is a nurse's aide who helps emergency's patients. Now he himself is going to die by cancer. Meanwhile, his ex-wife's husband is going to be executed because of drug smuggling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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The Afflicted Generation
Overview: Setareh Asadi (Niki Karimi) is a young girl, who has gone to the house of a Qajar's Prince (Saeed Poursamimi) to be hired for nursing the prince's physically disabled son.... and this is the gate of what the story wants to tell about the society!
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Human Comedy
Overview: A comedy of the tragic life of someone who must live like the people around him despite his own preference. The Human Comedy is a comedy narrative of the tragic life of a person who finds himself doing as the Romans do unwillingly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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Two Sisters
Overview: 'Two Sisters' follows the story of a young hustler who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. When he meets two beautiful sisters, Mina and Mahtab, he begins contacting both of them – in two disguises. As he masquerades as 'Amir' and 'Afshin,' things become increasingly complicated. Mohammad Reza Golzar’s dual performance takes center stage in this comedic drama.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-03-10
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The Truck
Overview: An Iranian truck driver ( Saeed Aghakhani ), a Yazidi family from Iraqi Kurdistan, would bring him to Tehran to find the father of the family, but incidentally, he accidentally crashes with the car of Bimō Nikki Karimi .....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Women are Angels
Overview: A greedy husband (Hayayee) is found to be cheating on his wife, who immensely adores him. With the help of her friends, she plots revenge on him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Astigmatism
Overview: A man has returned after a few years of separation from his family and wants to take back his house from his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. His son, who farms leeches in the basement and hopes to get rich by doing that, tries to reconcile his father with his mother to stay at home, but his mother intends to marry someone else. The grandson who is just 9 years old, falls in love with his teacher at school and this causes problems in both the boy and the teacher's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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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
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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
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Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen
Overview: The story is about faith and religious believes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Crime
Overview: Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-05-24
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A Few Days Later...
Overview: "In her second narrative feature, Karimi presents a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision. At first it seems that graphic designer Shahrzad (played by Karimi) goes about her daily life with placid ease, but her surface stillness masks a maelstrom of weighty decisions she desperately wishes to avoid making." - Persian Film Festival Australia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Girls in Expectancy
Overview: A medical student in financial crisis and a love triangle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Ransomer
Overview: when streetwise Essi enlists the help of the morally ambiguous Haj Tofigh to get out of prison sentence for murder, he sets off in search of his fortune.Essi considers a shocking offer from Tofigh...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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Khiyabanhaye Aram
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Original Language: fa
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Maybe it isn't Love
Overview: A man in the park tells the story of his friend, who worked in the cinema industry, to a young girl. The young girl who is part of the cast filming on the other side of the park ends up knowing the identity of the man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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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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The Insane Flew Away
Overview: Yalda is married to Rouzbeh who is an injure of war. Rouzbeh's health getting worse and they should hospitalize him. Although Yalda loves Rouzbeh very much but she begins to doubt her ...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Raspberry
Overview: Hamid and Homa are incapable of having a baby. Rezvan accepts to carry their child in her uterus through artificial impregnation until the child is born. When Homa dies and Hamid loses his memory in a car accident, things get complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-02-04
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The Music Box
Overview: The story about a boy whom her mother passes away and he meets an angel...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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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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Close Watch
Overview: Pourya is a police officer who is about to get marry. But he faces a challenge when one of his friends get killed and he has to discover the secret behind that.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-02-01
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Awakening
Overview: After a car accident Zahra loses her memory. Psychiatrists are desperate about the case while Zahra is in search for her lost daughter. After 24 years she is awake once again and begin to search for her then 6 years old girl but everything is different now.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Stolen
Overview: On the eve of emigration, a couple has problems that change the course of their lives. Mina, played by Nikki Karimi, is an actress whose personal laptop has been stolen and this causes her a lot of trouble. The film, whose old friend and colleague Alireza Afkari was also present, performed a number of his songs in front of the film and with his voice.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-09-21
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Night Shift
Overview: A woman searches for her husband on the streets of Tehran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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A Thousand Women Like Me
Overview: In modern day Iran, a female attorney fights for the custody of her seven year old diabetic son following a divorce from her husband. When the courts rule against her, she takes desperate actions that lead to tragic events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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The Wolf's Trail
Overview: Reza and Sadegh-Khan are old friends who are engaged in shady deeds. The next day after his wedding, Reza is arrested hauling the dead body of one of his friends. He is sentenced to jail. Years later, freed from the prison, he is now settled in a little town. A letter arrives from Sadegh to invite him back to the capital city in order to attend his son's wedding.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1993-02-01
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Takhti
Overview: Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. Intelligence Ministry to finish the project. The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Hot Chocolate
Overview: The film tells the story of a coffee shop that has regular customers and this coffee shop is run by a young man. With the arrival of a young woman in this cozy and quiet coffee shop, ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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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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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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Top of the Tower
Overview: Rezvani, the director of a housing cooperative, is demanded by the shareholders to fire Farid Sadri, the contractor and the supervisor of the high-rise towers construction project, who could not manage to bring the construction process to an end on the due time, and find someone else to substitute him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-01-15
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Psycho
Overview: Maryam believes that she does not have much time to live, but two foresights cause her to reject her own feelings. A fortune teller informs her about an engineer proposing her with flower. On the other hand, a wandered gypsy has seen a passenger in white who has taken Maryam to cure her disease. Anyway, she marries, but this is not an end for her way.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Being a Star
Overview: Farzaneh Mashreghi is a famous movie star. In her recent movie, she is supposed to play the role of an addict woman, whose job is drug dealing in retail. To play the role, her makeup has rendered her unrecognizable. The first filming location is a park in one of the southern districts. And to avoid people’s gathering, the director, Ms. Moshtagh suggests placing the camera in an unnoticeable spot and controlling the scene afar. In this scene, a player who has the role of an addict woman will come to Mashreghi. After exchanging some dialogues, they are supposed to go to a house which is a resting place for the filming crew ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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The Day Goes and the Night Comes
Overview: Feminine and romantic melodrama that women are the main target audience. The story of four intersecting narratives are intertwined and linked together. Foojan released the designer has to ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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Khiabane Bisto Chaharom
Overview: After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a young daughter in another town and prepares to kill them as well. But this time things go differently for all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-04-15
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The Playfellow
Overview: Amin, a 4-year-old boy, the only child in the family, asks his parents to play with him at home and bring him out of the loneliness by bringing the baby to the family.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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Petty Crimes of Husband and Wife
Overview: A theater directed by Farhad Aieesh
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-01-24
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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
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