
Acting
Hossein Mahjoub
Born
1948-08-01 (78)
Place of birth
Rasht, Iran
Known for
Acting
Credits
22 titles
Hossein Mahjoub (حسین محجوب) was born in the city of Rasht in northern Iran. He studied literature in high school and later took different acting classes with a number of famous actors and directors. He made his film debut in Bahram Beizaee's Downpour. This talented actor has starred in many movies and TV series including On the Way to Zayandeh Rood
Known for
7.4On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Baran
2001
8.0The series 'Aban' is a psychological and social drama that follows the story of a genius in artificial intelligence named Aban, who has developed an algorithm for profitable investments in financial markets. However, Aban faces a critical situation with his former investor and now must quickly settle a multi-billion-dollar debt; otherwise, he will go to prison.
Aban
2025
7.6Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.
The Color of Paradise
1999
NRIn the series, Yad Yad Fardat, Yadad Yaddat is the story of a man who chooses the escape route to get rid of the wounds of his past. This decision takes him on an emotional and challenging journey where the past and the present merge.
The Forgotten
2025
10.0Danny, a young English actor, tells one of his relatives about his trip to Isfahan. Danny has come to Isfahan with the director and several other members of the film crew, whose film is being screened at a children’s film festival. There, he shares a room with Ali, who is also an actor.
Ali and Danny
2004
6.3Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.
The Kingdom of Solomon
2010
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRShahi received the award for the portrayal of Rohan, a 35-year-old woman who agrees to marry Mahi, an old man who had been the village teacher for many years. Mahi is now the caretaker of the village shrine in whose healing power he does not believe. Rohan begins her new life in a small room in the shrine. She meets a young boy who has taken refuge in the sanctuary of the shrine to be healed. When the boy dies suddenly, Rohan loses all her beliefs like her husband. The fanatic villagers do not tolerate the presence of two heathens in the shrine and the village anymore.
Silent Glory
2022
NRA leaked video and the disappearance of an actress. A filmmaker looks for the truth in this tense suspenseful Iranian film by 28-year-old Mahdi Asghari Azghadi, a debut director.
Maria
2023
2010s · 3 titles
6.3Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.
The Kingdom of Solomon
2010
4.7The screenplay for Khibula was inspired by the real events taking place in Georgia briefly after the country regained its independence in 1991. Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, elected by the majority of votes, was driven into exile by coup d'etat. Even though he returned to regain power soon after, political clashes once again forced him to flee into the mountains. Based on the final chapter of the first President's life, the film starts off by following his journey accompanied and pursued by both friend and foe.
Khibula
2017
NRAfter the breakdown of his car in the desert, a young man who works for the water supply organization reaches an abandoned village. With the help of an old man who is also the remaining inhabitant of that region, he goes down the aqueduct. The old man's condition to get him out is finding the spring that he believes is hidden somewhere beneath the ground.
The Dream of Water
2016
2000s · 5 titles
7.4On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Baran
2001
10.0Danny, a young English actor, tells one of his relatives about his trip to Isfahan. Danny has come to Isfahan with the director and several other members of the film crew, whose film is being screened at a children’s film festival. There, he shares a room with Ali, who is also an actor.
Ali and Danny
2004
6.8Taraneh is a model 15-year-old Iranian girl, studious and filial, who supports her ailing grandmother with a job at a photo shop and visits her father (who has been imprisoned for reasons never made clear in the film) bearing gifts of cigarettes and magazines. But when Amir, a young man from a well-off family, sets his sights on Taraneh and courts her with an intensity that borders on stalking, her well-ordered life spirals into chaos.
I'm Taraneh, 15
2002
NRThe documentary examines the Persian Gulf and the surrounding islands in terms of geography, economy, history, and the customs and traditions of the people of those areas.
Persian Gulf
2006
8.0A wood smuggler is arrested by the police. His family should pay the debts while he is in the prison.
Tradition of Lover Killing
2004
1990s · 3 titles
7.6Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.
The Color of Paradise
1999
NRAfter learning that his father has been injured on the front, he sets off for the war zone. One of his father's comrades accompanies him on this journey. The two go to the front line and...
Sundust
1995
10.0Would God answer a letter for help?
God Will Come
1995
1980s · 2 titles
5.6Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection due to deep regrets regarding the child whom she has abandoned.
Maybe Some Other Time
1988
6.0Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.
The Mare
1986
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
8.0The series 'Aban' is a psychological and social drama that follows the story of a genius in artificial intelligence named Aban, who has developed an algorithm for profitable investments in financial markets. However, Aban faces a critical situation with his former investor and now must quickly settle a multi-billion-dollar debt; otherwise, he will go to prison.
Aban
2025
NRIn the series, Yad Yad Fardat, Yadad Yaddat is the story of a man who chooses the escape route to get rid of the wounds of his past. This decision takes him on an emotional and challenging journey where the past and the present merge.
The Forgotten
2025
9.0A young football player named Mehran Sarang is going to Isfahan to sign a contract with an Isfahanian club (F.C.) and inadvertently kills a young Isfahan named Masoud Mosayeb, a cultural activist, in an accident. The story continues in this incident that...
In the Strand of Zayandeh Rud
2010
NRBehzad was supposed to marry Bahar who was his cousin. Twenty years ago, Behzad's father was killed due to an incident and his uncle Hesam took charge of him. Hesam is a rich man and a factory owner. Here there were suspicions that Hesam killed Behzad's father, and Behzad sued his uncle for this reason, and Arghvan Azarnia became his lawyer. During the progress of the case, they became interested in each other and Behzad decided to marry Arghvan despite the promise he made to his cousin Bahar.
Zamaneh
2012
5.0One evening in a grand royal palace, a frivolous and grotesque sultan has a nightmare. The great diviner concludes that on a full moon evening arrows of doom will fall on his head. Frightened, the sultan feels discomfort and falls ill in bed...
Sultan and Berger
1983

