Acting

Jamshid Layegh

Acting credits

Journey poster
6.2

The story is about two poor boys’ search for their father through a Journey from downtown to uptown. Two hungry boys are forced to move through the events, people and unrealistic and risky places in a nightmarish way. A daily journey in search of their lost identity and worth!

Journey

1972

Maybe Some Other Time poster
5.6

Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection due to deep regrets regarding the child whom she has abandoned.

Maybe Some Other Time

1988

Killing Mad Dogs poster
6.8

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

Killing Mad Dogs

2001

The Cycle poster
6.9

Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.

The Cycle

1978

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother poster
7.4

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother

1976

Downpour poster
6.7

Well-educated and humble teacher Mr Hekmati arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman who nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother.

Downpour

1972

The Legend of the King and the Shepherd poster
NR

One evening in a grand royal palace, a frivolous and grotesque sultan has a nightmare. The great diviner concludes that on a full moon evening arrows of doom will fall on his head. Frightened, the sultan feels discomfort and falls ill in bed...

The Legend of the King and the Shepherd

1983

Off-Limits poster
6.5

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him to the authorities is another story.

Off-Limits

1986

The Autumn Alley poster
9.0

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

The Autumn Alley

1997

The Raven poster
6.5

Mr. Esalat, a television producer, discovers a missing person's photo in a newspaper that bears a striking resemblance to someone he knows. While investigating the case for a television program with the help of his deaf wife, Asieh, the search uncovers deeper and unexpected connections to their own family's past.

The Raven

1977