Golshifteh Farahani — Actor (22)
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Half Moon Arabic (2006)
نیوه مانگ IMDb TMDB
Bahman Ghobadi actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Hedie Tehrani …
other title: Halbmond / Half Moon …
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
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The Pear Tree (1998)
درخت گلابی WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dariush Mehrjui actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Homayoun Ershadi …
other title: Derakhte Golabi / درخت گلابی …
Mahmoud is suffering from writer's block and he is unable to continue the book he is currently working upon. He decides to take a break from his routine life and plans to visit his family's rural estate that is situated at north of Tehran. He also intends to complete his book in this visit. While at the estate, Mahmoud's attention is brought to the old Pear Tree that is situated behind the estate by the old gardener of the estate. Seeing the Pear Tree, Mahmoud thinks about his past - his infatuation towards his 14-year-old female cousin known only as M, his adolescent dreams, how that changed over the years. The rest of the film chronicles thoughts of Mahmoud and his past.
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Christmas & Co. (2017)
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Alain Chabat actor: Alain Chabat / Golshifteh Farahani …
other title: Julemand & Co. / Pai Natal & Co …
Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough moment for Santa, better known as Father Christmas. He's left no choice: he must make an emergency trip to Earth with his reindeer to search for a remedy. When he arrives, he must find some allies to save the magic of Christmas.
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The Upside (2019)
The Upside
Neil Burger actor: Kevin Hart / Bryan Cranston …
other title: Sempre amici / Novos Amigos Improváveis …
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.
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The Upside (2019)
The Upside
Neil Burger actor: Kevin Hart / Bryan Cranston …
other title: Sempre amici / Novos Amigos Improváveis …
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.
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Extraction (2020)
Extraction
Sam Hargrave actor: Chris Hemsworth / Rudhraksh Jaiswal …
other title: Tyler Rake / Tyler Rake: Operação de Resgate …
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Eran Riklis actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Zar Amir Ebrahimi …
other title: Lolita lesen in Teheran / Leer Lolita en Teheran …
As the Islamic Republic took power, morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, the women in Nafisi’s living room, whose rights had been systematically removed, risked everything to find a safe space to remove their veils and speak their minds. Despite the grave danger they are in, they find hope as their stories intertwine with the novels they are reading: ‘Lolita,’ ‘The Great Gatsby,’ ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’; here they speak about their own dreams, and wonder if the only way to achieve freedom will be to leave the home they still love.
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Eden (2014)
Eden IMDb TMDB
Mia Hansen-Løve actor: Félix de Givry / Pauline Étienne …
other title: Eden – Lost in Music / Eden: Lost in music
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
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Body of Lies (2008)
Body of Lies
Ridley Scott actor: Leonardo DiCaprio / Russell Crowe …
other title: Nessuna verità / O Corpo da Mentira …
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky — a satellite link — watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
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Rosewater (2014)
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Jon Stewart actor: Gael García Bernal / Shohreh Aghdashloo …
other title: 118 Dias
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
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My Father's Dragon (2022)
My Father's Dragon TMDB
Nora Twomey actor: Jacob Tremblay / Adam Brody …
other title: Il drago di mio padre / O Dragão do Meu Pai …
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
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About Elly (2009)
درباره الی‎‎
Asghar Farhadi actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Shahab Hosseini …
other title: À Procura de Elly / Alles über Elly …
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.
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Arab Blues (2019)
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Manele Labidi actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Hichem Yacoubi …
other title: Un divano a Tunisi / Un divan à Tunis …
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Gina Clayton …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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Shirin (2009)
شیرین
Abbas Kiarostami actor: Taraneh Alidoosti / Golshifteh Farahani …
other title: شیرین
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.