Nasser Faris

Acting

Nasser Faris

Nasser Faris is an actor, writer, and producer. He works throughout the U.S. and abroad and currently resides in New York City.

Acting credits

Ocean's Twelve poster
6.6

Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

Ocean's Twelve

2004

Spartan poster
6.2

U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

Spartan

2004

House of Sand and Fog poster
7.1

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

House of Sand and Fog

2003

The Week Of poster
5.5

The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.

The Week Of

2018

Saving Jessica Lynch poster
4.4

Based on the true story of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, by the United States army, in Iraq.

Saving Jessica Lynch

2003

Rosewater poster
6.4

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

Rosewater

2014

Chronically Metropolitan poster
5.0

A case of writer's block inspires a young novelist to return home to New York City and reconnect with his engaged ex and his bohemian parents.

Chronically Metropolitan

2016

Pretty When You Cry poster
3.4

A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.

Pretty When You Cry

2001

Homeland Security poster
4.8

Admiral McKee is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House informing him that his commander in chief requires him to serve his country once again. Shortly after this he is sworn into office as a senior member of the Office of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. Once in office Admiral McKee faces the challenge of organizing this new office so as to prevent further terrorist attacks against the United States. With this in mind, Admiral McKee's wife recommends he speaks to his friend, NSA Agent Sol Binder.

Homeland Security

2004

No artwork available
NR

Yara is a Palestinian-American screenwriter in Los Angeles whose online Arabic lessons with Hana, a poet and teacher living in Gaza, blossom into a profound friendship built on shared ambition, humor, and sisterhood. When war suddenly tears them apart, Yara must confront grief, diasporic guilt, and the responsibility of using her voice to ensure Hana’s story is not forgotten.

It's Complicated

2026

Kingdom of Silence poster
8.0

A political thriller examining the complex relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and how the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi amplified entanglements between the two countries.

Kingdom of Silence

2020

If You See Something poster
NR

In the bliss of their new love, Ali and Katie start to build their life together in New York City, he as an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and she, an ambitious American woman. When a crisis strikes back in Baghdad in the thick of his asylum process, Ali and Katie are forced to navigate its impact on their relationship... and the secrets they have been keeping from each other.

If You See Something

2025

No artwork available
10.0

In the tradition of old Fifties/Forties Noir films, this story is being told. The story takes place in a Military Camp in unknown country. The story can happen in a Latin America, Middle East any country where military power rules over civilian. A colonel is obsessed with old images; he had since childhood; interrogates a Judge who he is convinced is his father and his mothers' killer. The Colonel uses his power to serve his own interests, obsessions, and satisfy his demons.

The Interrogation

2002

Out of Season poster
4.6

Hip lesbian Micki Silva leaves her fast-paced urban lifestyle for Cape May, New Jersey, to help her ailing uncle Charlie. At the local diner, run by Shelley, Micki meets Charlie's friend Roberta. Roberta likes her house, working at the diner, and numerous aspects of the small-town way of life that bore Micki, but opposites attract. Drawn together by the dying Charlie, the two women develop a complex relationship.

Out of Season

1998

If Birds Believed in God poster
NR

The story follows a day in the life of Ismail, a Palestinian photographer whose American upbringing was shaped by his grandfather’s displacement during the 1948 Palestine Nakba. When Ismail’s mother gifts him his grandfather’s keffiyeh—a traditional Palestinian scarf—it triggers an internal struggle between shame and pride in his cultural identity, all unfolding against the ominous backdrop of rising violence against Palestinians.

If Birds Believed in God

2025