Amir Aghaei

Acting

Amir Aghaei

Born

1970-08-01 (56)

Place of birth

Urmia, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Amir Aghaei (امیر آقایی) is an actor, born on the 1 August 1970 in Urmia, Iran. He is known for Inja Iran, for which he was nominated at the Action on Film International Film Festival, USA, the award-winning Death Is My Profession (Marg kasb va kare man ast) (2011) and for his participation in the romantic drama 'Saadat Abad' (2011) in the role of Ali.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Watching This Movie Is a Crime! poster
7.8

Amir is a young member of Basidj and his father is a martyr of war. But when Amir's pregnant wife is being beaten by a stranger in the street and loses her child he decides to take action.

Watching This Movie Is a Crime!

2021

The Four Walls poster
3.5

Kurdish composer Boran is no longer able to see the ocean, obstructed by a new building, and a tragedy befalls him…

The Four Walls

2021

Motherless poster
NR

An educated, middle aged couple, Amir Ali and Marjan, lead a quiet life. When Marjan insists on renting a womb and a surrogate mother enters their life, unintentionally they go through different tests and face moral dilemmas.

Motherless

2022

Drown poster
6.4

After leaking of a video of her class in a women only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation and dignity as the godfather in the neighborhood. Hashem’s brother, Hojat, embarks a journey into the labyrinths of underground in Tehran to find out who is responsible for this dirty game. Once wrongfully accused for smuggling drugs, he returns to the world of crime to trace his brother’s rivals…

Drown

2020

Successor poster
10.0

The life story of Hossein Amalaki, one of the commanders of the iran-iraq war.

Successor

2026

Beyond The Wall poster
6.7

Ali, a blind man, is attempting to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the concierge of his building. He is informed that the police is in search of a woman who has escaped and hidden somewhere in the building. Little by little, Ali finds out that the fugitive woman, Leila, is inside his apartment. After participating in a workers’ protest that led to chaos, she is distraught about her four-year-old son who was lost when she was taken in a police van. Gradually, Ali becomes emotionally attached to her. Wishing to flee reality, helping Leila becomes a refuge in his own world of imagination.

Beyond The Wall

2023

When You Were Not Here poster
NR

A young woman, Marziyeh, has led the lives of hers and her son all through the years of absence of her husband Farhad who illegally escaped to Australia with their landlord’s son. One night, after five years, Farhad comes back home and spends the night with Marziyeh, but in the morning, he vanishes once again. Marziyeh begins desperately seeking him…

When You Were Not Here

2024

Nocturnal poster
NR

A young man's car crashes into a stray dog ​​on a side road, causing the night patrol to become suspicious and search the car. Something is found in the trunk of the car that changes the fate of several people...

Nocturnal

2024

North by Southwest poster
NR

New movie by hamid zargar nezhad

North by Southwest

2025

Campaign poster
NR

Synopsis: It is a complex and intersecting narrative of one day and night of the life of Fariborz and Mehboob, which leads them to another couple named Ashkan and Neda due to an incident. In the midst of this commotion and conflicts, everyone is thinking of saving his life, but...

Campaign

2025

2010s · 17 titles

Russian poster
NR

Toomaj manages to escape from the prison but when get back home he finds that his wife has been raped by an unknown person. This is only the beginning of the troubles as Toomaj begins to search for that person.

Russian

2019

Privacy poster
4.2

A group of youngsters are going to a villa in north of Tehran. But there their troubles little by little begin to appear.

Privacy

2017

No Date, No Signature poster
6.7

Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

No Date, No Signature

2017

Lina poster
NR

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

Lina

2017

Hush! Girls Don't Scream poster
6.7

Hours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically troubled. But as the dark secrets in her past are slowly revealed, exposing a childhood of neglect, abuse, and the tragic history of two previous failed marriages, the characters must face their own battles with justice, retribution, and morality.

Hush! Girls Don't Scream

2013

Bodyguard poster
5.2

A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.

Bodyguard

2016

Night Shift poster
5.2

A woman searches for her husband on the streets of Tehran.

Night Shift

2015

Wednesday, May 9 poster
5.7

A man named Jalal publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news gathers a large group of people. At the end of the day, he receives many application forms, and he eventually decides to choose one by chance. Those who have applied insist that what's been advertised is the only solution to their problem. The police take charge of the situation by calming the people and having them dispersed. However, two women do not give up: Setareh, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and Leila, Jalal’s ex-fiancée…

Wednesday, May 9

2015

Private Life poster
7.0

Intense thriller following a religious newspaper editor who is faced with temptation. When Ibrahim (Farhad Aslani) meets a young writer (Hanie Tavassoli) who is seemingly interested in a job, things quickly take a turn. A gripping story of paranoia and obsession then ensues, culminating in the most unexpected of climaxes.

Private Life

2012

A Man without a Shadow poster
4.0

The film A Shadowless Man in the Social Genre, produced in 1397 and filmed in Iran and Spain. The director of this work, Alireza Reisian, went on to make a film without shadows after the films "Forty Years" and "The Age of Love". A Shadowless Man was screened at the 37th Fajr Festival. The story of this film deals with the emotional and marital relationship of contemporary man, who has a special look at social problems these days. The film's synopsis states that filmmaker Mahan Koushiar decides to make a documentary about a serial murder, but his life is affected.

A Man without a Shadow

2019

Gangs poster
NR

Nobody knows what this city does to its people, the people we simply brand as 'gangs'. Gangs which have rules between themselves that are worthy of a listen...

Gangs

2011

360 Degrees poster
5.0

Javid takes the responsibility for the methamphetamine found in his car to save his wife from going to prison. After his release, many people come forward to use him for their own good.

360 Degrees

2015

The Nameless Alley poster
4.9

Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.

The Nameless Alley

2016

Felicity Land poster
6.3

Yassi, who has doubts about Mohsen's life in common, decides to remind her of a memorable occasion. He anticipates everything in advance for the best of the party, ignoring the fact that the circumstances do not go away on his own. The film deals with betrayal in marriage.

Felicity Land

2011

We're All Sinners poster
10.0

Farhad needs money for the treatment of his daughter. To get money, he is ready to sell everything or do anything.

We're All Sinners

2016

The Narcissus Season poster
5.0

A story about normal people who have not lost themselves in today's narcissistic world.

The Narcissus Season

2017

Death Is My Profession poster
NR

"Death is My Profession" is about the struggle of people who have to accept any work offered to survive in a neglected society.

Death Is My Profession

2011

2000s · 6 titles

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

Elixir and Dust poster
NR

ran is on the verge of civil revolution. The airport is closed and all international flights are canceled. There are so many people trying to leave Iran with the last flight: a wounded protester with his wife, a young man longing to go to France to search for his fiance;, a nomad - an old man carrying top secret documents for the revolutionaries abroad, a young clerg...

Elixir and Dust

2008

Low Heights poster
7.1

A person wants to hijack an airplane to go out of Iran and cure his sick son.

Low Heights

2002

A Song For Luba poster
NR

Luba is a young Russian woman who, after coming to Iran which coincides with the Iran-Iraq war, her Iranian husband went to the front and she has not heard from her husband for three years.

A Song For Luba

2009

The day looms poster
NR

In March 1978, a woman who had been in prison for many years before the revolution traveled to a mountainous area with her husband, who was a revolutionary, to rest. During this trip, they meet a man whom the woman believes was his interrogator ...

The day looms

2007

No artwork available
3.5

A recently married couple face the intrinsic dynamics of a couple's relationship during personal turmoil. Themes of love, exploration and the symbolism of marriage flow throughout. The bleak, isolated winter setting which was once a getaway for the couple now begins to mirror the very cracks and frosty coldness present in their own lives. 'The Second Wife' portrays the highs and lows of the reality of marriage, but will love prevail for this couple or is their romance destined to be tortured forever?

The Other Wife

2007

Series credits

Blue Blood poster
5.4

About the child of a well-known character who performs his sinister goals by performing deceptive actions such as holding an art exhibition, investing, and helping charity.

Blue Blood

2020

Notorious poster
1.0

Yalda doesn't know what love has opened its arms to her just when she is about to throw herself away. But she knows what kind of love it is. Her veins are competing to tear her apart.

Notorious

2026

Fereshteh's Sin poster
4.7

Fire is not a bad thing, it burns the excess, something that remains will remain!

Fereshteh's Sin

2023

Dance on the Glass poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dance on the Glass

2019

Killing a Traitor poster
5.0

In the early years of the 30s of Hijri, a group of patriotic and freedom-loving people planned to provide the amount needed for the national loan of Dr. Mohammad Mosadegh during a robbery operation from the National Bank. But everything does not go according to their plan and...

Killing a Traitor

2023

Cold Blooded poster
5.0

A person who traps and punishes the perpetrators of women abuse cases...

Cold Blooded

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Parantez Baz

2010

The Red Soil poster
2.0

A political prisoner in Shaah regime who lost his little girl in Tehran City before his conviction, be released and return to his own city (Khorramshahr) after 15 years. In this time his girl knows about her origin and try to find her father, but Iran-Iraq war begins and Iraq army brunt to Khorramshahr City.

The Red Soil

2002

No artwork available
NR

Major Kaveh Kihan faces different and violent cases this time, but what connects these small mysteries is a bigger story that goes back to Kaveh's past.

Navare Zard (2017)

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