Davoud Rashidi

Acting

Davoud Rashidi

Born 1933-07-16 · Tehran, Iran

Acting credits

Hell + Me poster
2.0

In a bus travelling to Mashhad few people and a prisoner are together. But when the prisoner manage to escape and hold them hostages they all trapped in the middle of a desert and must try to save their life.

Hell + Me

1972

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Kamalolmolk

1984

Swallow, My Tree poster
NR

Based on the novel "My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos. Majid lives with his mother in his bad-tempered stepfather's house. He gets on Javad's lorry secretly but the trucker scolds and beats him. Hating Javad, Majid promises to kill him. He goes to a trainer to get ready and confides in a tree. Javad realises Majid's emotional needs and they form a deep friendship after a while.

Swallow, My Tree

1986

The Teacher without Master poster
NR

The Teacher without Master

The Teacher without Master

2016

Mr. Hieroglyph poster
9.0

On his holiday, Mr. Hieroglyph wakes up tumultuous and goes to the office. He sees some signs on the screen of his computer written in hieroglyph. He goes to the central library to discover the lines. He finds a thesis his daughter has written when she was a student. By using the thesis, he reviews the story of his daughter. In the past years, she has gone to the factories and then was assigned by a political group to organize a group of mine workers to fight. Recommendations made by the girl and her friends are opposed to the opinions of the leaders. The girl distributes a leaflet on behalf of the workers which results in a disturbance. She escapes and after a while she is killed in a street struggle.

Mr. Hieroglyph

1980

The Inner Beast poster
5.0

With the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, and the escalation of the conflicts and SAVAK agents fleeing, Doctor, one of the most outstanding members of SAVAK, hides in a village. During this retreat, he gradually goes over his past and remembers how he stepped on the corpses of the innocent and even submitted his wife to his bosses to get to the position he wanted. Doctor's wife who has committed suicide, doesn't let his mind settle down at all as he's facing with his past, and this ruins his mental and emotional balance. The curious villagers who thought he was a doctor at fırst, consider him a lunatic after seeing him isolating himself and his abnormal behavior. The longer the Doctor's isolation continues, the more he struggles with his own soul, and one time, his ignorance causes his house to catch fıre. Doctor, who thinks he's been attacked, fıres all of the bullets his pistol has.

The Inner Beast

1983

Akbar Passage poster
NR

Akbar, after completing his period of exile, goes to Tehran to attend the wedding ceremony of his brother Habib and Maryam. But when he arrives, he finds that a mourning chamber has been set up for his brother instead.

Akbar Passage

1972

Ekbatan poster
3.0

When Alborz gets out of prison, he goes off in search of a peaceful life in the city. Yet living within the high walls of the Ekbatan Apartment Complex in West Tehran, he can’t seem to find it...

Ekbatan

2014

A Good Time for Tragedy poster
5.0

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

A Good Time for Tragedy

2005

A Prize poster
NR

A trained engineer won a two-motor plane because it was impossible to transport a plane to his place of residence in Tehran, but it costs him a lot of money and so he has to play with his family in commercial movies

A Prize

1984

Jamshid Mashayekhi poster
NR

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Jamshid Mashayekhi

2007

Where is Fereydoun Goleh? poster
NR

This documentary, after years of ignorance of "Fereydoun Goleh", one of the most influential filmmakers in Iranian cinema, talks to him and his colleagues.

Where is Fereydoun Goleh?

2006

Ghadeghan poster
NR

Ghulam (Parviz Fenizadeh), Abdullah (Dawood Rashidi) and Amir (Morteza Aghili) are old friends who deal with various problems.

Ghadeghan

1978

Beehive poster
6.4

Recently have been released from jail, Ebi makes a bet with his Friend that he goes and drinks in seven bars without even paying any money.

Beehive

1975

The Musketeer poster
NR

When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between the lawmen and a group of civilians in a rural province. As hostilities between the two sides slowly escalate, the animosity felt by the rebel leader towards his enemies slowly grows. Violence only begets more violence as a brutal attack is met with an act of revenge. A Bloody historical epic from Jamshid Heydari.

The Musketeer

1984

Rooster poster
10.0

After the death of her husband, a woman lives with her son, a cockfighter. An old admirer approaches the woman, but her son is against this new marriage.

Rooster

1973

Escape from the Trap poster
3.5

After being released from prison, Morteza discovers that his fiancée, Mehri, has been married off to a moneylender. Mehri’s husband promises to divorce her in exchange for money. Morteza, together with a man named Karim, steals a fortune from drug traffickers and goes into hiding in the sugarcane fields...

Escape from the Trap

1971

Tatooreh poster
NR

Gorgo saves a drunk American from the sea and takes him back to his home where he lives with his wife. The drunk American, Rep, tries to rape Gorgo's wife after he gets sober and thus is thrown out of the house and beat up. Gorgo is bankrupt now and has to work in a Road Construction company, where Rep also works as one of the main engineers. The story goes on with a series of unfortunate events consisting of death and rebellion and false accusations...

Tatooreh

1984

The last meeting with Iran Daftari poster
NR

A documentary about life and career of an eighty-year-old Iranian actress, Iran Daftari.

The last meeting with Iran Daftari

1995

Leaning on the Wind poster
2.0

A young man leaves the sleepy confines of his village and moves to the buzzing capital of Tehran to find a job. He leaves behind his mother and fiancee, promising to return after saving enough money for the wedding. Utterly engrossed in his new life in the capital city, he encounters someone captivating enough to make him almost forget about the life he left behind. However, a shocking announcement brings him back to cold reality.

Leaning on the Wind

2000

The Meeting place of Anger poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Meeting place of Anger

1972

Fisheries poster
4.0

A man who is the cause of his former life, and who suspects that he will expose the old chief

Fisheries

1983

Once Upon a Time in Tehran poster
NR

The second feature film to be edited using footage from Hatami's miniseries Hezar Dastan.

Once Upon a Time in Tehran

1999

Border poster
NR

This film was the first feature film about the Iran-Iraq war that was made and released.

Border

1981

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