Homayoun Ershadi

Acting

Homayoun Ershadi

Born — Died

1947-03-26 — 2025-11-11

Place of birth

Isfahan, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Homayoun Ershadi, sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi (May 26th, 1947 - November 11th, 2025), was an Iranian actor. Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry. A non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality. Most recently, he can be seen in the movie The Kite Runner, playing the role of Baba. He is one of the few Iran-based Iranian actors wh…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Mahoor poster
NR

A romantic story set against the backdrop of social events and war; an anti-war narrative that depicts the impact of violence on human lives and emphasizes the importance of peace.

Mahoor

2025

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

Laleh poster
5.0

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.

Laleh

2022

Fragrant poster
NR

Ali has a great talent for perfumery and will soon become a father. Along the way, he faces new challenges and must complete his unfinished work in a limited amount of time...

Fragrant

2023

No artwork available
4.0

Synopsis: It is about the life of a young boy and girl who face various family and social issues...

Sky Blue

2024

Resembling Madness poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Resembling Madness

2023

Revision Sentence poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Revision Sentence

2021

The Sixth Day poster
NR

A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.

The Sixth Day

2022

Nilgoon poster
NR

This movie is a romantic story about the life of a young boy and girl who face various family and social issues and...

Nilgoon

2024

Mahan poster
NR

Mahan finds out that he has cancer

Mahan

2022

A Bumpy Story poster
NR

An author dreams of writing an extraordinary story. A special moment comes when the dream comes true and the ability to write a fantastic story is emerged, but it is apparently too late…

A Bumpy Story

2021

The Town poster
NR

The story of a young man who is interested in acting, who is accepted in the audition of a big movie, and in order to join this project and achieve his dream of becoming an actor, he has to accept the special conditions and mental and psychological exercises of the acting group in an isolated town.

The Town

2022

2010s · 31 titles

Zero Dark Thirty poster
7.0

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

Zero Dark Thirty

2012

A Most Wanted Man poster
6.5

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.

A Most Wanted Man

2014

A 5 Star poster
5.5

A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen...

A 5 Star

2014

Ali and Nino poster
6.5

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.

Ali and Nino

2016

Apparition poster
2.0

A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.

Apparition

2014

Life with Closed Eyes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Life with Closed Eyes

2010

The Last Inhabitant poster
6.0

In an Armenian village, evicted as a result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills as a stonemason are still needed for the construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.

The Last Inhabitant

2016

The Queen poster
NR

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...

The Queen

2012

Lina poster
NR

Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.

Lina

2017

Hattrick poster
4.8

Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.

Hattrick

2018

The Turned World poster
5.0

The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.

The Turned World

2011

Bi Khodahafezi poster
NR

The film tells the story of three young people, each of whom sets out from Bandar Abbas to Tehran to achieve a goal.

Bi Khodahafezi

2012

The Sinners poster
6.0

Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...

The Sinners

2013

Utopia poster
4.8

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.

Utopia

2015

Italy Italy poster
3.5

Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.

Italy Italy

2017

Good to Be Back poster
2.0

Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.

Good to Be Back

2013

Facing Mirrors poster
6.1

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.

Facing Mirrors

2012

Blue Like the Sky poster
NR

A documentary about the history of Esteghlal F.C. From Docharkheh savaran to Taj, to Esteghlal.

Blue Like the Sky

2019

Calm Breaths poster
NR

Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.

Calm Breaths

2017

Beloved Sky poster
2.5

A young doctor whose name Shayan is got cancer. He decides to commit suicide but in the last moments something is happening that lead him to a remote village.

Beloved Sky

2011

A Simple Love Story poster
4.5

Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.

A Simple Love Story

2012

Inadvertent poster
2.0

Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.

Inadvertent

2014

Orange Suit poster
6.1

The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.

Orange Suit

2012

Cheque poster
5.0

Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.

Cheque

2012

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Black Fish

2015

Waiting for Kiarostami poster
NR

Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.

Waiting for Kiarostami

2017

Cypress Under Water poster
NR

The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.

Cypress Under Water

2018

Mohey poster
5.0

Mohey is separated from her twin sister and abused after she is plucked from an orphanage as a girl. She becomes trapped in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect and beauty are used as commodities. When she is coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal...

Mohey

2017

Principles poster
2.0

Sarah is an architect who tries to figure out the best way to treat her boss.

Principles

2011

Aal poster
NR

Young engineer Sina, accompanied by his pregnant wife Fariba, is sent on a business mission to Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, by his company’s board of directors. As the couple’s sunny days turn to darkness, accidents begin to loom.

Aal

2010

Dead End of Trust poster
NR

It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a love made of same "blood" still some time remains which is worth more than what has lasted so far.

Dead End of Trust

2017

2000s · 11 titles

Agora poster
7.0

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Agora

2009

The Kite Runner poster
7.3

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

The Kite Runner

2007

Kiarostami in Close up poster
NR

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.

Kiarostami in Close up

2000

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

The Fifth Reaction poster
5.8

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.

The Fifth Reaction

2003

From Afar poster
NR

"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.

From Afar

2006

Havana File poster
2.0

A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.

Havana File

2006

The Wet Dream poster
8.0

16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.

The Wet Dream

2006

Somewhere Else poster
NR

Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...

Somewhere Else

2003

Disturbant poster
4.5

An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.

Disturbant

2002

Portrait of a Lady Far Away poster
7.5

An old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This put him to face a challenge.

Portrait of a Lady Far Away

2005

1990s · 3 titles

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