Khosro Shakibai

Acting

Khosro Shakibai

Born — Died

1944-03-27 — 2008-07-18

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

One of Iran's famous actors since after the Iranian revolution era. Khosrow studied acting at Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Tehran. He began his stage career in 1963 and branched out his activities into film dubbing in 1968. Shakibā'í initiated his film acting in 1982 with Khatt-e Ghermez (The Red Line), directed by Masoud Kimiai. He had played in seven feature films when the film director Dariush Mehrjui offered him the title role of Hamoun, a film that over time has achieved a cult status.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 22 titles

Dinosaur poster
NR

This film is about a writer whose children are expelled from college for not paying their tuition, and when the landlord issues an eviction notice and the bank check he received from his producer is not cashed, he decides to take up arms and cash the check.

Dinosaur

2007

The Ethereal poster
10.0

Nollywood yoruba language movie with full english subtitle, Asiri (yoruba for Secrets) is a tale of three child hoodfriend who reconnect after a very long time away from each other only to find out that they all share secrets that interconnect them in dubious ways

The Ethereal

2002

Pink wedding poster
1.0

Aryan, an architecture student, wants to marry Donya, his classmate, but he doesn't have enough money and is unemployed. While looking for work, he meets an old man named Saket, who used to be an actor and lawyer. Saket wants to hire a female servant, but his client, Malek Taj, wants to hire a male servant. Malek Taj offers Aryan a monthly salary of five hundred thousand tomans. After some time, Aryan, tempted by the pursuit of money and property, proposes marriage to her...

Pink wedding

2003

The Boss poster
2.0

A young guy Siamak has a list of 25 youngsters in his pocket. He has to deliver drugs to them but his father Reza is coming from abroad after many years. He was a runaway but now wants to be a good father for his son.

The Boss

2007

Very Hot Nescafe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Very Hot Nescafe

2006

Breakfast for Two poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Breakfast for Two

2004

Night Bus poster
4.0

The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides

Night Bus

2007

Heartbroken poster
5.3

Heartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families.

Heartbroken

2009

The Night poster
5.0

A sergeant who is on a mission to take a criminal to the prison is forced to spend a night with him in Mashhad.

The Night

2007

Verdict poster
4.3

Sahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ...

Verdict

2005

Tales of an Island poster
4.6

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)

Tales of an Island

2000

50 million proposal poster
NR

A young couple needs money to cross the border. They decide to kidnap a movie actor, and on a rainy day, they put their plan into action. They hold him captive in a house in the north of the country and tell him to call his mother and tell her to prepare fifty million Tomans.

50 million proposal

2005

The Mix poster
6.0

An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.

The Mix

2000

Empty Hands poster
6.5

Maryam's husband has been a prisoner of war for many years. Maryam leaves the house at night, her daughter suspicious of her. An anonymous call from Maryam's relationship with a stranger says.

Empty Hands

2007

Glasses Love poster
3.0

Jalal who dwells in room 212 of the Golha inn, came to tehran wishing to be a famous and beloved actor. Despite his numerous attempts, he couldn't go further than taking part in minor roles. He desperately decides to commit suicide, for he failed both in his job and in his love life, but he can't even do that. He intends to hire a murderer...

Glasses Love

2000

Disturbant poster
4.5

An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.

Disturbant

2002

A girl named Tondar poster
NR

Azar hates to be a girl, so she does not get tired of learning men's skills. As a subject of her dissertation, she decides to work on a story by her aunt, which is about a man who wishes to have a son. When her wife delivers a girl, he tells everyone that his wife has given birth to a boy called Tondar

A girl named Tondar

2000

Garden Salad poster
6.5

Leila, a girl from a poor family, who has no choice but to pick pocket in order to make ends meet. Leila meets Hamid Doosdar, an investor Businessman, while riding Metro that changes her life direction. Leila falls in love with Hamid and there is only one thing on their way, Hamid's wife. Leila considers the only thing blocking her happiness, Hamid's Wife. She plans her murder by using her ex-lover, but the story takes a completely different turn...

Garden Salad

2005

Who Killed Amir? poster
3.0

Amir is dead and all the people around him are accused of his murder. But as the investigations go further more interesting things appear to everyone.

Who Killed Amir?

2006

Unruled Paper poster
6.5

Royaa, mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and relationship with her shady architect husband Jahaan, gets into some serious drama; which leads to question if everything is really what it seems to be?

Unruled Paper

2002

After the silence poster
NR

Behind the scenes of the movie "Unruled Paper (2002)"

After the silence

2002

Another Salute poster
NR

After receiving the 2000 Akira Kurosawa Award, Abbas Kiarostami immediately gave it away to honor the renowned and exiled actor Behrouz Vossoughi, from the generation preceding the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Later that year, Khosrow Shakibaei—one of the best actors after the Iranian Revolution—tried to find and meet Behrouz Voussoughi. Any attempt to meet Behrouz Vossoughi, whose name and picture are banned in Iran, would have put Khosrow Shakibaei’s acting career in Iran in jeopardy. After the unexpected death of Khosrow Shakibaei in July 2008, Hossein Khandan, director of “Another Salute” received consent from Khosrow’s family to release the film.

Another Salute

2009

1990s · 13 titles

Bluff poster
8.0

After his release from prison, Rasool promised his sister Maryam that he would not pursue wrongdoing anymore...

Bluff

1994

Once for Ever poster
5.5

A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separated from her. The woman is a war refugee and decides to return to her home town in the south of Khuzistan province. On the day of separation the woman realizes she is pregnant, and now the man has to modify his plans to face the new situation.

Once for Ever

1993

Passing Through the Mist poster
4.0

a family live in a small village near tehran. the husband who is a teacher tries hardly to build a house on top of a hill. he soon finds out that her wife has a serious problem with kidney that will cause her early death.

Passing Through the Mist

1990

Sara poster
6.0

Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.

Sara

1993

Hamoon poster
7.0

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

Hamoon

1990

Psycho poster
2.0

Maryam believes that she does not have much time to live, but two foresights cause her to reject her own feelings. A fortune teller informs her about an engineer proposing her with flower. On the other hand, a wandered gypsy has seen a passenger in white who has taken Maryam to cure her disease. Anyway, she marries, but this is not an end for her way.

Psycho

1997

The Double Lottie poster
6.1

A young, inquisitive girl named Nargess encounters a girl from another school who could pass as her twin. Amazed by the strange coincidence, the two girls rush to their respective parents, but neither side has the time to hear them out. Nargess finds herself caught between her mother and father as she tries in vain to make herself heard, and when that fails, the two girls hatch a plan to swap places and see if their parents notice. While everything goes smoothly at first, it's not long until they start encountering problems in this double-sided family drama.

The Double Lottie

1995

Kimia poster
5.4

During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again...

Kimia

1995

Close Watch poster
1.0

Pourya is a police officer who is about to get marry. But he faces a challenge when one of his friends get killed and he has to discover the secret behind that.

Close Watch

1997

The Lady poster
7.0

Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.

The Lady

1992

Pari poster
6.0

Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater

Pari

1995

Land of the Sun poster
NR

With the beginning of Iran-Iraqi war a hospital in Khoramshar is surrounded by the Iraqi army and is being attacked from both land and sky. Jahan Ara the young leader of the Iranians wants the injures and the rest of the women and doctors to get out of the hospital with an ambulance. But in the way the Iraqis attack them and some getting killed and few are saved. The few rescued people scatter around the city not finding the way to the Iranian's side. Among them is the driver of the ambulance, doctor Kasra, a widow, a captain, a man who constantly think of surrendering to the Iraqis so he can save his money, and a nurse Hanieh who brought two infants with herself. An Iraqi officer who has been captured is with them too.

Land of the Sun

1996

A Search In The Island poster
NR

Ahmadi is tasked with returning the hawks that have been confiscated from smugglers.

A Search In The Island

1991

1980s · 6 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera