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Reza Naji

Reza Naji

Acting

Biography

Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reza Naji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Children of Heaven
7.9

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Children of Heaven

1997
Baran
7.5

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Baran

2001
The Song of Sparrows
7.5

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

The Song of Sparrows

2008
Occasion
N/A

The story of Occasion, which takes place in the 70s, is the story of Rahim, who plans to go to Canada to continue his education, but he finds out that he is banned from leaving and this incident is under the control of Mohsen's uncle, so he must look for a solution...

Occasion

2024
No image
6.0

Qudrat and Jahangir, famous falsifiers wanted by the police, intend to flee the country, but the two find themselves in adventures where they can start a new business with Ramali. Although the police have identified them, but they do not give up witchcraft due to greed, and by fraud, they can get property that ...

The Sorcerer

2022
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
3.8

Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united states with her family due to some social restrictions of 1980s. Arjang who has never forgotten Roya, meets her different times later but each time he fails to marry her again. He has 50 now and is a wealthy man, so he insists Roya to stay in Iran and marry him.

Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection

2017
Sperm Whale
4.9

Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya.

Sperm Whale

2015
Texas 2
4.0

Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother come to airport to take them home but they don't know that they are married. Meanwhile Bahram takes the wrong suitcase which lead them to confront with a gang and enter them in new adventures.

Texas 2

2019
Autumn
5.9

Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.

Autumn

2010
Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!
N/A

Behrouz joins the school football team in the dream of getting a bicycle. He is a very playful boy and creates problems for the people around him at school and in the living environment, until the arrival of the football coach (Nima Nakisa) changes his life path and...

Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!

2010
We Are All Together
3.4

The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...

We Are All Together

2019
Newcastle
N/A

There is an old house in which some people are living without its owner's permission. Once, the people living there find out that the owner of the house will be back to his home by the night and...

Newcastle

2019
The Willow Tree
6.8

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

The Willow Tree

2005
Winners
7.8

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.

Winners

2023
Red Shades
1.0

story of a boy named Mahmoud who, along with his niece Peri, finds his father's will. He decides to go in search of the treasure and faces many challenges along the way.

Red Shades

2025
Projectionist
5.0

The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building painter who loves cinema, who has succeeded in producing several short films and dreams of making his first feature film.

Projectionist

2024
Birth of a Butterfly
9.0

Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film - that between two young children and their stepfather, a cripple setting off alone on a pilgrimage without the company of his fellow villagers, and a teacher returning to his remote village and finding himself the subject of unrealistic expectations of the other villagers.

Birth of a Butterfly

2000
No image
6.0

Shiva is a girl

Shiva

2014
Bench Cinema
8.0

Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...

Bench Cinema

2016
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10.0

Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Tunnel 18

1997