Elmira Rafizadeh

Acting

Elmira Rafizadeh

Born 1981-01-01 · Teheran, Iran

Acting credits

Verhältnisse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Verhältnisse

2010

Tehran Taboo poster
7.1

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

Tehran Taboo

2017

Nur eine Handvoll Leben poster
6.7

Thomas and Annette Winterhoff form a modern blended family with their two daughters from their first marriage. The birth of a child together should make their happiness perfect. But then Annette receives the devastating diagnosis: trisomy 18. While Thomas - himself a doctor - does not want to have the child because he does not want to expect his ten-year-old daughter Eva to lose her little sister, Annette feels that the child she wants is right in her body feels. The young family faces a crucial test. Can a short life be worth living? A difficult decision-making process begins.

Nur eine Handvoll Leben

2016

Zoros Solo poster
7.0

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master.

Zoros Solo

2019

Sonnwende poster
6.0

Anja lives with her parents in a small town somewhere in Germany. She is about to graduate, but the weekend is usually celebrated. When Anja runs home from a party one morning, she is hit by a car on the highway. Apparently not much has happened. After the first shock has subsided, everyone is relieved that the accident has gone so smoothly. First. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Anja is no longer the same. She sleeps badly, suffers from panic attacks and delusions. It's as if she's been followed by gloomy shadows since that party night.

Sonnwende

2013

In letzter Sekunde poster
NR

The plan seems to be working. The beautiful policewoman takes up a position in Deniz's company and quickly gains the trust and affection of her young compatriot. Gradually, she learns details about the planned attack from Deniz, who is actually in contact with fanatical Islamists, including German Muslim converts. And she gets to know the head of the group, the shady Abu "Ayman" Gallaz. But Yasemin can't fool him. Ayman immediately starts his own investigations. When his suspicions are confirmed and he is certain that Deniz has been seduced by an undercover agent, he skillfully exploits this knowledge. He lures the police onto the wrong track with targeted false information and gives Deniz the job of eliminating Yasemin.

In letzter Sekunde

2008

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts poster
4.1

Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to gear up instead of dressing up low cut! Moreover, the chauvinistic remarks of her comrade-in-arms David who feels comfortable around the clichéd gender stereotypes from the Stone Age seemingly prevalent in Cannes infuriate Isabell. As if this wasn’t enough already, a shattering feedback on her new film project by a potential investor finally causes her to doubt herself. Before she can live her dream up at the Olympus of film business, she must first find out who really believes in her.

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

2014

Wie Tag und Nacht poster
4.2

A notoriously overtired master baker Oliver Maibach has been working late at night in the family bakery to provide fresh bread and rolls together with his mother Elisabeth. One day, when he meets the attractive cellist Greta, the widowed father begins to doubt whether his future lies in this never-changing daily grind. Elisabeth also has her problems: in order to spare her friend Kemal Yildirim, a greengrocer, from being deported to Turkey, she unceremoniously walks him down the aisle.

Wie Tag und Nacht

2013

Verpiss Dich, Schneewittchen poster
3.6

In his dreams Sammy is a rock star. But in reality he works and cleans in his brother Momo's hammam. Suddenly, a music label gives him the chance to become famous in a casting show. On one condition: The solo musician must form a band. So Sammy, his sister Jessi, the old temporary masseur Wolle and fat Mahmut quickly become the group "Hamam Hardrock". The audience celebrates the original newcomers but label boss Thomaschewsky wants to prevent the multicultural rockers' triumphant advance by any means necessary.

Verpiss Dich, Schneewittchen

2018

Lösegeld poster
4.8

Nina Hausen, head of an escort agency, is attacked by a stranger on her nocturnal walk with the dog in the forest. Only with difficulty can she escape him by touching him with her car and seriously injuring him. On the way back she finds in her car a bag of diamonds - apparently the ransom from a case in which a boy was kidnapped. Under pressure from a colleague reports Nina Although the robbery of the police, the diamonds but suppresses them. But that's where their problems really start ...

Lösegeld

2012

Plötzlich 70! poster
5.7

Melanie loves her work, but often forgets about her boyfriend. He feels neglected. Later, she takes some time for him, but her work gets in the way again. This leads to a big argument that ends in a break-up. To relax, Melanie goes to a massage studio. There she tells the Thai masseuse about her problems. After the massage, Melanie lies down in her bed. When she wakes up the next morning, she has aged decades. She tries to find out what happened. But she has to come to terms with the fact that she is now 70 years old.

Plötzlich 70!

2012

The Weight of Steel Title poster
NR

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism.

The Weight of Steel Title

2020

Krauses Glück poster
4.5

Police chief Horst Krause is retired. Together with his sister Elsa, he takes care of the inn in Schönhorst. But none of that makes him happy.

Krauses Glück

2016

Aus der Kurve poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Aus der Kurve

2015

Ohne Dich poster
3.5

Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany - until one day Ralf does not return from a sailing trip. The Breton police believe in a sailing accident and make Martina little hope that her friend has survived. But Martina does not want to accept Ralf's death and begins a desperate search on the coast of Brittany. However, when this remains in vain, Martina returns to Germany.

Ohne Dich

2014

Lucky Child poster
5.6

A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.

Lucky Child

2014

Zu schön um wahr zu sein poster
5.0

Barbara Köster is suddenly alone: her baby daughter Leonie moved out when she was eighteen, as did her husband Walter years ago, who left the family for a younger woman. At 58, Barbara is left alone - alone in a house that is too big for her, alone in a job that doesn't fulfill her and alone with the stale feeling that she has missed out on something in life.

Zu schön um wahr zu sein

2012