Hossein Mahjoub

Acting

Hossein Mahjoub

Born 1948-08-01 · Rasht, Iran

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

Acting credits

The Kingdom of Solomon poster
6.3

Solomon, 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

Khibula poster
4.7

The 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

The Color of Paradise poster
7.6

Mohammad 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

Maybe Some Other Time poster
5.6

Famed 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

Baran poster
7.5

On 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

Persian Gulf poster
NR

The 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

Silent Glory poster
NR

Shahi 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

The Mare poster
6.0

Noted 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

The Dream of Water poster
NR

After 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

The Legend of the King and the Shepherd poster
NR

One 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...

The Legend of the King and the Shepherd

1983

I'm Taraneh, 15 poster
6.8

Taraneh 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

Maria poster
NR

A 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

Downpour poster
6.7

Well-educated and humble teacher Mr Hekmati arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman who nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother.

Downpour

1972

Sundust poster
NR

After 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

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NR

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The mirror man

No artwork available
10.0

Two kids meet at a film festival; an Afghan living in Iran, the other a Londoner. Initially they are at odds due to cultural differences, but when Danny the Brit stumbles upon some smugglers and is held captive, Ali goes to his rescue.

Ali and Danny

2002

God Will Come poster
10.0

Would God answer a letter for help?

God Will Come

1995

Tradition of Lover Killing poster
8.0

A wood smuggler is arrested by the police. His family should pay the debts while he is in the prison.

Tradition of Lover Killing

2004