Bita Farrahi

Acting

Bita Farrahi

Born 1958-03-21 · Tehran, Iran

One of the most famous and internationally acclaimed actresses in Iran, Bita Farrahi studied art at John Powers’ School in the United States. She worked as professional model for art magazines in California, left the US in 1985, and went back to Iran. Her talent as an actress was found by director Darius Mehrjui. She began her acting career with “Hamoun.” She is most noted for willingness to play the roles of intellectual, independent women who are struggling with family and psychological problems.

Acting credits

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

A Time in Eternity poster
NR

A woman embarks on an unyielding and possibly hopeless search for her missing husband, a journey that strains her already fragile relationship with her daughter. Along the way, she also faces the unwelcome advances of her persistent brother-in-law.

A Time in Eternity

2026

Parkway poster
5.5

Parkway is a crossing in Tehran. Part horror, part thriller, the film chronicles the tribulations of a young couple, Raha and Kouhyar.

Parkway

2007

A Minor poster
1.5

Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.

A Minor

2022

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

Time to Love poster
5.9

Bita (Hatami), a successful lawyer specializing in championing the cause of women’s rights in divorce cases, is blind to the trouble brewing in her own marriage. A snatch of gossip and a problem client with an unwanted pregnancy unexpectedly bring Bita’s problems home. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Time to Love

2014

Shirin poster
6.2

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Shirin

2009

Hamoon poster
7.1

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

The Last Fiction poster
6.9

Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.

The Last Fiction

2019

Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen poster
3.0

The story is about faith and religious believes.

Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen

2013

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report poster
NR

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report

2016

Protest poster
5.2

When Amir learns that the woman who is to marry his younger brother Reza is having an affair with another man, he murders her to restore his family's good name. Considering the killing to be a matter of honor, Amir stoically goes to prison for 12 years where his fellow inmates regard him as a hero. But when he is released, he discovers that the Iran he knew has changed.

Protest

2001

The Time I Came Back poster
NR

He has a beautiful house and Farang. He has a dream and the reality and love that sustains the house.

The Time I Came Back

2017

My Brother Khosrow poster
6.4

Khosrow (Shahab Hosseini) who is a bi-polar man is forced to live in his brother's house Nasser, as his guardian and sister goes abroad for a while. The brothers soon find themsleves in friction due to the challenging behavior of Khosrow and quesrionable moral decisions by Nasser.

My Brother Khosrow

2017

Mainline poster
6.6

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab

Mainline

2011

Waiting For Miracle poster
NR

The film is about Amir and Mehraneh, a married couple who can’t stand the sight of each other. Their marriage three years ago was a mistake, and their hellish life together has exhausted them — yet they are forced to tolerate each other for one more day and night.

Waiting For Miracle

2012

A House Built on Water poster
7.5

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

A House Built on Water

2002

Six and Five poster
3.2

Two fellows find themselves in prison for thieving but it is actually their fortune because an old man before dying gives them a treasure map so after their release they try to find it but there are some problems.

Six and Five

2011

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

The Familiar Soil poster
NR

An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.

The Familiar Soil

2008