Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Acting

Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Born

1961-10-29 (64)

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Fateme Motamedaria (فاطمه معتمد آریا) was born on 29 October 1961 in Tehran. She is a multi-award-winning Iranian actress. Fateme Motamedaria received her degree in Arts from Tehran University. She got involved in theatre during her teen years and then has emerged as one of the most celebrated actresses of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. She has had nine nominations for best actress at the Fajr International Film Festival, with four of them successfully winning her the Crystal Simorgh. More recently, Fateme Motamedaria played in Tales (Ghesseha), Avalanche (Bahman), and Yahya Didn't Keep Quiet (Yahya Sokoot Nakard).

Known for

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen poster
NR

Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, and he could never return to his homeland. This is the story of his journey, living in exile.

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen

2017

Nabat poster
6.3

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.

Nabat

2014

Once for Ever poster
5.5

A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separated from her. The woman is a war refugee and decides to return to her home town in the south of Khuzistan province. On the day of separation the woman realizes she is pregnant, and now the man has to modify his plans to face the new situation.

Once for Ever

1993

Sword's Edge poster
6.0

Zire Tigh was an Iranian drama television series broadcast by the IRIB network. The series was finished after 19 episodes, and was extremely popular with viewers. It could be seen Wednesday nights after the nightly national news on Channel 1 in Iran. The show was later re-aired shown daily on IRIB 1, IRIB 2 and IRIB 3 for those living out of the country. The show's last episode aired March 12, 2007.

Sword's Edge

2006

Shirin poster
6.2

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.

Shirin

2009

Mercy poster
NR

A fairy grants wishes in Tehran through a remote control.

Mercy

2006

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

No Choice poster
5.0

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

No Choice

2020

Popular poster
1.5

A middle-aged housewife that is about to enter her sixties decides to become independent after realising her husband has cheated on her in a humiliating fashion.

Popular

2023

Once Upon a Time Abadan poster
NR

Takes place in the early 2000s, during a period when the country's political situation is heavily influenced by the US military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the years that have passed since the end of the war, the shadow of fear and terror has once again reminded people of the dark days of the past. The plot revolves around New Year's Eve in a not-so-wealthy family living in Abadan. The father of the family is an addict and is desperate for drugs, which has disrupted the household atmosphere. However, the sudden occurrence of a catastrophic event changes everything, and the family realizes that in the short distance between life and death, they need each other more than ever.

Once Upon a Time Abadan

2024

Mama's Girl poster
NR

At a tense family gathering, Ava — a strong-willed little girl — defies her mother’s strict orders and plays with the boy she secretly likes. But beneath this seemingly innocent disobedience lies a deeper rebellion. As her mother’s anger intensifies, Ava is ready to reveal a secret that can no longer be hidden.

Mama's Girl

2026

Showmah poster
NR

Mitra is a single mother who runs an ecotourism complex with her son Arvand. Together, they organize tourist tours and diving training. After a lengthy wait, the bodies of divers who were suspiciously killed in the war are found, there is no clue of Mitra's husband. So, she decides to find him.

Showmah

2025

2010s · 14 titles

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen poster
NR

Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, and he could never return to his homeland. This is the story of his journey, living in exile.

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen

2017

Nabat poster
6.3

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.

Nabat

2014

Fairy Out of Wedluck poster
NR

Parinaaz's mother dies in an accident. The only relative to take care of Parinaaz is an aunt who despises her. Their relationship is to be challenged through different unnatural events.

Fairy Out of Wedluck

2017

Tales poster
6.5

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.

Tales

2014

Yahya Didn't Keep Quiet poster
6.0

Young Yahya's father is going far looking for a job,therefore Yahya should stay with her infamous aunt....

Yahya Didn't Keep Quiet

2015

Here Without Me poster
7.2

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.

Here Without Me

2011

Tale of the Sea poster
3.8

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.

Tale of the Sea

2018

African Violet poster
6.0

When Fereydoun's children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve.

African Violet

2019

Ballad of Bahram poster
NR

A documentary about Bahram Beyzai (Persian: بهرام بیضایی; born 26 December 1938). He is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts, and Iranian studies.

Ballad of Bahram

2018

In Silence poster
NR

Sudabeh returns to Iran after years to escape the punishment of conscience, but he needs to tell a secret that it is difficult to tell a secret ...

In Silence

2019

Avalanche poster
5.2

Homa, the most accomplished nurse in the hospital is asked to care for the elderly mother of the owner of the hospital. The next ten days sees continuous snow fall, trapping both women but opening a host of unknown doors.

Avalanche

2015

Alive poster
4.2

Asma's previous suitor Yaser ruins her wedding Ceremony. Her brother Jamal accidentally kills Yaser's brother. Yaser's odd suggestion in order to forgive Jamal, endangers Asma's Marriage.

Alive

2019

Aba Jan poster
3.7

Stories of families who live in the Zanjan city in the 1980s. Family atmosphere of those years of war and its impact on their lives A family tradition in the 1980s they live in the city. Families who affected by the war between Iran and Iraq.

Aba Jan

2017

Leila's Dream poster
NR

The story is about a 26-year-old girl who lives alone in the house inherited from her parents...

Leila's Dream

2010

2000s · 17 titles

Shirin poster
6.2

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.

Shirin

2009

Mercy poster
NR

A fairy grants wishes in Tehran through a remote control.

Mercy

2006

Niloofar poster
4.0

Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down

Niloofar

2008

Look at Me poster
NR

At the age of 9, due to the poverty of the family, Aitkin is sold to a person who has two wives and several children and marries him, she runs away from home due to the beating of her husband.

Look at Me

2002

Azizam, Man Kook Nistam poster
2.5

Hamid Afshari, the secretary at the courthouse (Parviz Parastui), is running out of money to buy a computer for his son. Desperate, he plans to kidnap Farzan, the son of Mr. Zare, a rich party that had a trial in court. For this, he takes for accomplice Asghar, a gangster already condemned. Asghar locks Farzan in a villa in the suburbs. To catch the kidnappers, Mr. Zare feigns a state of emergency and is hospitable. Hamid Afshari rushes to the hospital to inquire about his state of health. Roya, the nurse who informs her (Fatemeh Motamed-Arya), seems very welcoming and helpful. Finding her to his liking, Hamid feels very quickly in love with her...

Azizam, Man Kook Nistam

2002

Gilaneh poster
6.5

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.

Gilaneh

2005

Abadan poster
NR

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.

Abadan

2004

Once Upon a Time poster
2.0

In 'Once upon a time,' ('Yeki Bood Yeki Nabood', 2000), a magical letter transports two men, Fahrad and Iraj, to a small house in the middle of the countryside - and into a world that's filled with cute talking animals.The men are happy to go along with it, but when the animals follow them back to the city, there are much bigger problems to solve. A delightful film for young children.

Once Upon a Time

2001

Winter Dreams poster
NR

Three sisters find themselves trying to cope in the wake of their parents' death. One of the sisters, a young factory worker, finds herself faced with the prospect of marriage when a ...

Winter Dreams

2008

My Child poster
6.0

harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful young woman who serves as a leader to the community and a seemingly naive young man who is smitten with a local girl. The film observes their customs and traditions in the tranquil setting of their natural environment. Despite the irreparable damage to their lives due to the war, the villagers remain warm-hearted and kind to those they encounter. The past haunts their lives, but their hearts remain pure and strong in war torn times.

My Child

2009

A hundred years to these years poster
NR

The film chronicles the life of a woman who experiences various events over the course of thirty years.

A hundred years to these years

2007

The Pastry Girl poster
2.0

The film is all about marriage. A boy and a girl from two families want to get married, but for twenty years because of the differences between their parents either their engagement, or their wedding has been put of. The disagreements get more serious and finally the boy and the girl decide to commit suicide.

The Pastry Girl

2002

Men at Work poster
6.6

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...

Men at Work

2006

Redhat and Sarvenaz poster
5.9

This entertaining real action, puppets movie narrates the adventures of a stouthearted boy who is kidnapped by two bandits. During the abduction, he will help a girl, he meets, who has been held prisoner in her room for her entire life. After failing a course for several times, Kolah Ghermezi finally passes it and enters a higher level. He returns home and happily shows his marks to Aghaye Mojri and Narges; who are supposed to be his parents now. Aghaye Mojri promises to buy a bicycle for him as a gift. However, he does not have adequate money to buy that. The news of Kolah Ghermezi’s success is broadcasted on TV, then his uncle calls him and invites all of them to his luxurious house. He gives a nice and huge bicycle to Kolah Ghermezi as a gift.

Redhat and Sarvenaz

2002

A Little Kiss poster
6.3

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.

A Little Kiss

2005

Under the Peach Tree poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Under the Peach Tree

2006

Crossroads poster
4.0

As the days of several different people unfold, their separate lives are about to become linked by a tragic car crash which kills two women. Affected by their involvement in the accident in different ways, neither Amir or Mr Naseri will ever be the same again. How will the tragedy affect their relationships with those around them in this absorbing drama? Written by IMVBox.com

Crossroads

2006

1990s · 15 titles

Once for Ever poster
5.5

A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separated from her. The woman is a war refugee and decides to return to her home town in the south of Khuzistan province. On the day of separation the woman realizes she is pregnant, and now the man has to modify his plans to face the new situation.

Once for Ever

1993

Safar poster
7.5

An exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid.

Safar

1996

The Changed Man poster
5.9

Khosro Paziresh, poor inventor of a magical washing powder went to see the CEO to manufacture his invention But accidentally fell into the elevator shaft.

The Changed Man

1998

Once Upon a Time, Cinema poster
6.6

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

1992

The Blue-Veiled poster
5.3

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.

The Blue-Veiled

1995

The Spouse poster
6.0

The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss.

The Spouse

1999

The Prank poster
NR

An adaptation of Hero (1992), The Prank (Persian: Shoukhi) tells the story of Reza Fathali (Parviz Parastui), a petty criminal who saves the passengers of a crashed airplane; however, his friend, Ebrahim Nazabadi (Habib Rezaei) takes credit for his heroism.

The Prank

1999

The Actor poster
5.5

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.

The Actor

1993

Travelers poster
6.9

A wedding day becomes a ritual of mourning when the bride's family die in an auto accident. Refusing to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of guests and mourners, including the drivers that caused the accident, the mother orders the wedding to move forward. But how can the bride marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service?

Travelers

1992

Love + 2 poster
NR

Four years after breaking up, Mahmood meets Yasaman on the day of her father's funeral, just after the latter has returned back from abroad. Mahmood has met Mina a year after his and ...

Love + 2

1998

Redhat and Cousin poster
7.6

Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.

Redhat and Cousin

1994

The Sunny Man poster
NR

Akbar and Hamid work in a photography workshop. After the owner passes away, his daughter wants to sell the shop. She gives Akbar and Hamid, who are willing to buy it, a six-month deadline to provide the money. They decide to go to Japan and work as laborers to gain the money to buy the shop, but they get into some troubles in that country and prefer to come back to their homeland.

The Sunny Man

1995

A Mother's Love poster
6.2

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their charges, but she withdraws when the reality of such idealistic proposals becomes evident. Young Medhi (Hussein Soleimani) is troubled after the death of his mother. He views Mina as the mother he needs, but Mina is wary. Shown at the 1998 Fajr Film Festival.

A Mother's Love

1998

Reyhaneh poster
7.0

Reyhaneh leaves her husband and come to live by her father's house but her brother who has financial problems wants her out. He wants to force her into another marriage but she leaves for her sister's house. But the troubles are waiting for her there too.

Reyhaneh

1990

The Singer Cat poster
3.0

Hasani who is an orphan is living with his little sister Goldouneh in an orphanage. One day a couple come there to adopt a child. They chose Goldouneh but Hasani who believes that their father is somewhere waiting for them is refusing...

The Singer Cat

1995

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