
Abolfazl Pourarab
Acting
Biography
Abolfazl Pourarab (ابوالفضل پورعرب) was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He is a graduate of Theatre Acting and Directing from Art Academy. Starting his work in Theatre from 1978, he played his first role in cinema in Zakhme movie. Abolfazl Pourarab has the experience of being the director assistant in a couple of movies. His acting in Aroos, Behrooz Afkhami's movie, is very well known and he won the award for the best leading role from Pyongyang International Film Festival. Abolfazl Pourarab is also a winner of crystal Simorgh from Fajr Film Festiva for playing the leading character in A Man Like Rain in 1996. His last appearance was in Hamid Nematollah's TV Series: Vaziat Sefid.
Known For

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
Shahrzad

During the iran-Iraq war a crowded family gathers together in their old mother house
White status

When the Tehran rain rocket launches from the winter of 1366, members of the crowded family, almost all of whom are violent and dissent, to prevent hostile attacks by their mothers living in the villages in the outskirts of Tehran. A village whose main source has become a place of residence for warlords. Establishing this family in the garden and its neighbors to the peoples living in the climax, makes families understand families and understand them about each other's problems and the roots of their differences. They find out during the adventures that they are capable of helping each other and ... But the central core and the role of the story of an adolescent called Amir is that many things are happening to him and different stories that the other members of each other in parallel to the story before win ...
Vaziat Sefid
It narrates the lives of several families, each of whose characters has their own troubles, which are ultimately connected by a common thread.
Sharm
Three friends, Farajian, Kalani, and Asadi, sell a piece of land to a wealthy man named Korani using a fake document and defraud him, but Asadi takes the money and plans to take the shares of the other two for himself. He hides the money in the basement of an old house in Pamnar and tries to escape to Canada on the way to the airport.Anf getting to an accident. Now two more people are competing to find the money.
Zirzamin

The old story of the love of a poor boy for a rich girl, but with a twist. 'Bozorg' who works in a car showroom, damages the Mercedes belonging to a rich lady pharmacist. The girl, Behrokh,...
As a Stranger

Special agent Major Hashemi is working on several terrorist cases. Meanwhile a news is received about a plan for bombing in Tehran.
The Devil's Dance

A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Nargess

The movie Kanapeh tells the story of the lives of two families who want to get together, but in the end, a couch causes problems in their lives.
Sofa

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.
The Bride

Diba and Siamak with the help of a young couple Nader and Roya decide to steal from a wedding ceremony. They steal some jewelry and escape but the cops are after them.
Corrupt Hands

Majid,a 29 year- old guy, has some problems with his father, Haaj-Nosrat, . Majid finds his father an obstacle against him in his life , and he's looking for revenge, but he's scared to do so. Majid who wants to settle the score decides to kidnap his 10-year-old brother who is the love of his father, and succeeds to do so.
The Sacrifice

After years Reza Shayesteh returns to Iran from abroad to die peacefully and buried in his hometown. But his only problem is that after his death he has nobody to mourn him and participate ...
How Much You Want to Cry?

'Nish' is a noir-esque film brimming with atmosphere - telling the story of a policeman who discovers his family brutally murdered. The mafia are responsible for this monstrous act, ...
Bite
It is the story of a family who come to Iran after their father's death to receive their share of their father's property. They gather together to read the father's will and begin dividing the inheritance. But the strange thing in the will was that they have to fully implement the conditions stated in the will in order to get their father's property. A strange situation that upsets all their mental equations. They are obliged to fulfill all the conditions of the father in the will
How Much You Want to Cry 2 ?

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Face

When an Iranian military commander is captured in enemy territory, the prisoners around him become pawns in a ruthless effort to uncover his identity. As pressure mounts, survival becomes a test of resolve and sacrifice in the face of unrelenting cruelty.
A Man Like Rain

Between the years 1941-51, many immigrants went to the south of Iran to work for the oil companies there. A couple, Tal'at and Karamat also go there in hope of a better life. But Tal'at, who is pregnant, catches leperosy and they have to remain outside the city. The husband makes a tea-house and they stay there. An immigrant girl Manzar who had lost her parents, come to the tea-house and lives by them too.
The Immigrants

It is a story of five different episodes and is about a valentine's day present which rounds from hand to hand till finally.
Majnoone leyli
The story is about a woman who, upon entering an all-boys school to find her son, encounters the strange and humorous behavior of the principal, the administrator, and the teachers, as if each of them has a hidden secret and is trying to mislead her with laughter and jokes.