Roya Nownahali
Birthday: Born in 1963-02-13 in Tehran, Iran
Deathday: Alive
Roya Nownahali is an actress of theater, cinema, and television who was born in 1963 in Tehran, Iran. After completing her studies, she was first featured in Khosro Sinai's "Yar dar Khaneh" movie. She won the Crystal Simorgh for Best First Role Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "The Marriage of the Blessed" directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She also became famous with the role played in Mehdi Fakhimzadeh's "Sleep and Awake" television series. She has also been featured in "A Piece of Bread" by Kamal Tabrizi, "The House On Water" by Bahman Farman Ara and "Confessions of My Dangerous Mind" directed by Hooman Seyyedi.
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ملکه گدایان
Character: La'ya
Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara....
خاتون
Character: Mehrbanoo
It is the story of a family on the first of September 1941, which undergoes changes during the occupation of Iran by the Allies....
خواب و بیدار
Character: Natasha
Between Dreaming and Awakening, an Iranian drama series whose story revolves around gangs that sponsor the drug trade in Iran, where senior police officers confront them after they pose a real threat to the country's youth. It shows a complicated story about police trying to drag these traders into the trap, so interesting events take place in a dramatic context in which the features of the conflict between the forces of good and evil appear, and the series is a light police comic type, which gi...
شهرزاد
Character: Belgheys Divansalar
A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état....
گردن زنی
Character: Giso
Gard Zani series is the story of the fate of Baran and Nima on their wedding night, which changed with the release of a criminal named Shahrokh, which led to the revelation of many family secrets about them and each member of their families....
خواب و بیدار
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Summary of the story: Turan, who is known as Natasha (with the spectacular performance of Roya Nonhali) and is a professional criminal, returns to Iran after many years. He started an armed robbery with Abdallah Panlang, who had a history of criminal activity and had abandoned it for many years. After a while, Abdallah's son was arrested and in an armed robbery, his son-in-law was injured by the police, and Natasha was also Abdallah. forces him to kill his wounded son-in-law......
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Marriage of the Blessed
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Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives....
Women's Prison
Character: Mitra
Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The war...
Confessions of My Dangerous Mind
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A man wakes up and doesn't remember anything......
Where Are My Shoes?
Character: Parinaz (Habib's Wife)
After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer....
Helen
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Story About A Girl who Want's to Move To Italy But Family Matters Diverts Her To Another Way...
Sanam
Character: Sanam
In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other children in the village. While his mother fights to clear her husbands name, Issa is left to his own devices. But unexpectedly, his solitude gives birth to his freedom, his real passion, horses....
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
Character: Woman Hitch-Hiker
Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's hu...
I Want to
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Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing....
The Familiar Soil
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An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village....
Tale of the Sea
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Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution....
Nimrokh-ha
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A lonely wife is helping her hopeless husband who is living his last days of his life because of cancer . Romantic relationship between them plus having her mother in law around causing drama & surreal narration . Unfortunately we've lost our director because of cancer just a couple of months after finishing our project ....
It Happened at Midnight
Character: Ziba
When the resident singer at a venue that hosts weddings and funerals abruptly quits his job, a young, charming new singer (Hamed Behdad) is hired. Unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and older, widowed woman who also works at the venue, though neither is immediately aware of the other’s emotions. The romance that ensues creates as much chaos as it does tenderness. This is a star-studded and incredibly entertaining ride....
The Fish Fall in Love
Character: Atieh
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day....
The Mousetrap
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An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap....
Giti's Problem
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It's about a couple Iraj and Giti who their life is about to collapse. Their problem is Giti's virtual life in the internet and the doubts and consequences of that which affect their life....
Highlight
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A story of three women in a hair salon - Pegah is getting ready for her wedding when her fiancé puts her in a difficult situation, Shahla is pregnant and worries about the father’s reaction when he finds out, and Haydedeh gets a surprise visit from her ex-husband who is leaving the country....
A Piece of Bread
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A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran....
A House Built on Water
Character: Mrs. Mohammadi
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical o...
Sedaha
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A murder takes place in a residential complex, and each of the neighbors gets involved in some way....
On a Friday Afternoon
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The life of a single mother living in Tehran gets unsettled by the visit of her enstranged sister....
The Fifth Season
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The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same....
Shirin
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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....