Payman Maadi
Also Known As: پیمان معادی, Payman Maādi, Payman Maadi, Peyman Moādi, Peyman Moadi, Peyman Maadi
Biography: Peyman Maadi (پیمان معادی) was born in 1970 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. Peyman Maadi's family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer of several famous Iranian films. Peyman Maadi started his acting career in Asghar Farhadi's film About Elly (2009). Two years later, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Actor in Leading Role for his performance as Nader in Farhadi's A Separation (2011) from the Berlin International Film Fest.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: July 30, 1970
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Gender: Male
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A Separation
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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Aporia
Overview: Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Opponent
Overview: In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumors start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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Hamid's Symphony
Overview: Hamid Symphony is a story about the life of Hamid Alidosti, a former Iranian football star. "Hamid Symphony" invites you to watch life away from the hustle and bustle. To hear, to think.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-03-07
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Leila's Brothers
Overview: At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2022-08-24
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Camp X-Ray
Overview: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Parfum
Overview: A Los Angeles luxury real estate agent finds herself in crisis after making a strange discovery during a routine showing. PARFUM explores the absurd dichotomy between California’s ever-increasing obsession with luxury real estate and lifestyle culture (as depicted in Netflix’s hit reality show “Selling Sunset”) and California’s simultaneous increase in wildfires, mudslides, and other climate disasters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-08
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Arenas
Overview: At just 18, Brahim, a promising young footballer, is represented by his agent and cousin Mehdi. He is about to fulfil his dream of signing his first professional contract with Lyon. But the arrival of a powerful foreign agent changes all that. In this uncharted world, even loyalty comes at a price.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-05-07
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Melbourne
Overview: Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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About Elly
Overview: The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Life and a Day
Overview: Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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Window Horses
Overview: Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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From Iran, a Separation
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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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Overview: An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Genres: War Action History Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-14
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Last Knights
Overview: When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Bomb: A Love Story
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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Suddenly a Tree
Overview: Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he is freed years later, he goes to his old love, Mahtab. Through conversations with his psychoanalyst and interrogations with the police, Farhad reveals the story of his life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Law of Tehran
Overview: Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-03-17
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6 Underground
Overview: After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-10
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Night Shift
Overview: Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find out about the truth, they have to make a difficult choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-05-21
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Walnut Tree
Overview: Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
Genres: Drama History War Crime
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2020-02-01
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Tales
Overview: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Pig
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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The Test
Overview: A soft-spoken immigrant taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising "the test" confront a terrorist group lead by a far-right fanatic.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
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Mourning
Overview: A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-10-29
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Hard Shell
Overview: Leila, a young and talented tightrope walker, was banned from performing by the authorities. Since then, she has been working in her father's old circus. Samir is a teenager who falls in love with Leila and, instead of going to school, spends his days at the circus. At the same time, as political and economic problems in Iran deepen, the boy's father, Siamak, after many years of working in different jobs, gets a job as a foreman on a small donkey farm. When the animals start to disappear, he comes across terrible secrets and a web of corruption.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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Crime 101
Overview: A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls ‘Crime 101'. Police attribute the thefts to Colombian cartels, but Detective Lou Lubesnick’s gut says it’s the work of just one man. Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score and Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Woman and Child
Overview: The contemporary family drama of revenge and forgiveness stars Parinaz Izadyar (Law of Tehran) as a widowed nurse struggling with her rebellious son. Tensions reach a peak during the betrothal ceremony with her new boyfriend, but when a tragic accident occurs, she finds herself confronting feelings of betrayal as she seeks justice.
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Original Language: fa
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