Jahangir Almasi

Acting

Jahangir Almasi

Born 1950-03-21 · Tehran, Iran

Djahangir Almasi (Persian: جهانگیر الماسی‎, born 21 March 1950 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian actor. He has played different roles in his career, but he is known mainly as an actor who plays serious and intellectual roles. He started his career with Stemming from Blood (1984) and has also directed a short film. Almasi was awarded with lifetime achievement award at 31st Fajr International Film Festival.

Acting credits

The Grandfather poster
8.0

A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and at the same time decides to send his father to a nursing home.

The Grandfather

1986

The Legend of a Sigh poster
9.0

The Legend of a Sigh is Tahmineh Milani's strikingly feminist film which draws on the literature of Azarbayejan province. The protagonist is a female novelist who experiences the lives of four women from different social strata. The film offers a fascinating portrait of a range of Iranian women and their problems

The Legend of a Sigh

1991

Exodus poster
NR

The story is about two men who start their journey from Dezful to Tehran, who are on the road for two and a half months and face many challenges.

Exodus

2020

The Rubble poster
NR

A wealthy man summons his sons and their wives to divide his inheritance among them before his death. While he is preaching to his children and daughters-in-law in the basement of the house, he dies, and at the same moment as his death, an earthquake blocks the exit from the basement.

The Rubble

1985

Operation Mangrove poster
NR

Major Nabavi , an officer of the Law Enforcement Force, infiltrates a drug trafficking ring on the orders of his commander in order to report the transaction of a drug shipment.

Operation Mangrove

2008

The Harbour poster
8.0

Two teens escape from their house and go to Bandar-Abbas because of the problems they have with their father. The father searches for them and finally manages to find their trace. So he goes to Bandar-Abbas. After a series of events, the family members become friends again and start to appreciate each other.

The Harbour

1988

Pomegranate and Cane poster
6.6

Hunting for interesting elements for a play, a photographer meets an old man, who has just had a heart attack He tries to save the man's life. In an effort to determine the old man's identity, he is confronted with the old man nostalgic memories.

Pomegranate and Cane

1989

The Monster poster
7.5

An Iranian villager wants to restore a nearby well in hopes of solving a water sortage, but is haunted by a local legend of a monster that drinks the wells dry.

The Monster

1985

Behind the Curtain of Fog poster
7.0

Morteza, a deaf child who lost his father, lives in a village with his mother. He, who is not a study student, becomes completely unmotivated when dealing with the bad-tempered school teacher. Later, when Morteza's classmates inform him of the teacher's intention to marry his mother, he becomes pessimistic towards his mother and the teacher.

Behind the Curtain of Fog

2005

The Fall poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fall

1994

Spectre of Scorpion poster
7.0

A scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.

Spectre of Scorpion

1987

Digeh Che Khabar!? poster
8.0

The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.

Digeh Che Khabar!?

1992