Saber Abar

Acting

Saber Abar

Born 1984-06-09 · Tehran, Iran

Saber Abar is a cinema and television actor who was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. He began his acting career in cinema with Mohammad Ahmadi's "Poet of Wastes" movie. He was nominated as Best Actor for Crystal Simorgh Award from Fajr Film Festival for "About Elly" by Asghar Farhadi, "Tambourine" by Parisa Bakht Avar and "Colors of Memory".His other movies are "Nothing" by Abdolreza Kahani, "Thirteen Fifty-Nine" by Saman Salour, "Here Without Me" by Bahram Tavakoli and "At The End of 8th Street" by Alireza Amini.

Acting credits

Getting Even poster
3.0

Kasra moves back to his own country after years with a strange plan to build his future. He finds Mohsen, a go-between guy to help him, and meets Mahsa; and old love who has a thirst to move out of country. They find Reza as the only who could make the plan happens. But something very strange push them to change their plan which concludes completely different ending.

Getting Even

2018

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

About Elly poster
7.5

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

About Elly

2009

The Villa Complex Residents poster
4.8

Vilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian's army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes here, all become tension that maybe he brings bad news about the army leaders who fight in the front lines. After a while Cima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her.

The Villa Complex Residents

2017

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

Colors of Memory poster
NR

The film relates the story of a surgeon (Doctor Pārsā) who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Pārsā performs a heart operation on the nephew of the family friend Mr Ghanāti. Mr Ghanāti urges him to travel with him to his home town, Bam. On the trip, they drive past the rubble and destruction and Pārsā remembers back to his childhood.[citation needed]

Colors of Memory

2008

Dreamy poster
2.0

An old rich man dreams of his deceased mother. She warns him that he has only 24 hours to apologize to a woman who he has hurt or else he will die. He finds her but getting her consent is not easy at all.

Dreamy

2013

Tale of the Sea poster
3.8

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.

Tale of the Sea

2018

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

Tambourine poster
5.8

Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.

Tambourine

2008

Without Her poster
6.0

Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life.

Without Her

2022

I Want to poster
NR

Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing.

I Want to

2018

The Great Yawn of History poster
7.7

A man dreams of a box of gold waiting for him at the end of a cave. Curbed by his religious belief that it is not permissible to go after it himself, he employs the assistance of a non-believer and together they embark on a long journey across the Iranian landscape in pursuit of a miracle. Their treasure hunt soon turns tempting also for those they meet along their way. Aliyar Rasti’s allegorical breakthrough turns a road trip into a play of hide and seek between faith and human frailty.

The Great Yawn of History

2024

In Between poster
NR

A crime scene investigation is in progress.

In Between

2018

Pig poster
5.8

A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?

Pig

2018

After Leaving poster
10.0

After a long time away, Arash returns to his hometown and looks for his missing person.

After Leaving

2023

Sedative poster
7.7

A Film By Saeed Zamanian

Sedative

2026

Obit poster
1.0

For some time Taha [Saber Abar] and Reyhan [Nazanin Bayati] have been looking after an old man named Manuchehr Asef [Khosro Bamdad] because of a newspaper advertisement. When Asef dies of ...

Obit

2014

Three Therapy Sessions poster
NR

A theatre directed by Afsaneh Mahian.

Three Therapy Sessions

2015

Here Without Me poster
7.3

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.

Here Without Me

2011

From the Basement to the Roof poster
NR

A theatre directed by Afsaneh Mahian.

From the Basement to the Roof

2017

Acrid poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Acrid

2013

Modest Reception poster
6.4

An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.

Modest Reception

2013

The Turtle poster
NR

Beneath a psychiatrist’s composed exterior lies a fear of abandonment and a growing unease. When a sudden death brings an enigmatic figure from the past back into his life, the balance of his carefully ordered world begins to slip.

The Turtle

2025

Behind the camera