Reza Kianian

Acting

Reza Kianian

Born

1951-06-19 (75)

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Reza Kianian is an Iranian actor. Reza is the second child of a family of 9; he has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. When he was 1 year old, the Kianian family moved to Mashhad. His first acting coach was his older brother, Davood. In 1965, Davood directed and coached Reza in his first role in a play entitled 'Az Paa Nayoftadeha', written by Gholam Hossein Sa'edi. He continued to work with Davood's theater troup for the next 3 years, when he moved back to Tehran to study fine arts at the University of Tehran, where he graduated in 1976. Reza Kianian married his wife - Hayedeh- on March 21 on the Persian New Year in 1983.

Known for

Drunkard Morning poster
8.0

The story is about a daughter of a noble family in old Tehran named "Mahboobeh" who falls in love with a carpenter's apprentice from their neighborhood. She rejects his suitors and stands up to her family so that they will recognize this love and consent to her marriage to Rahim. Unaware that the wheel of time sometimes does not turn according to the will.

Drunkard Morning

2025

Shahrzad poster
9.0

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

Shahrzad

2015

Kimia poster
NR

The story of the series Kimia (starring Mehraveh Sharifinia) shows the impact of societal changes on family relationships, pitting a father and daughter against each other; the daughter of the family, named Kimia, is very questioning and protesting, and Kimia is confronted by her father, who is a military, disciplined, and law-abiding person.

Kimia

2015

The Mokhtar Narrative poster
6.5

The Mokhtar Narrative is an Epic/History television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mokhtar. Over 140 actors were cast in it. Mokhtar Saqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).

The Mokhtar Narrative

2010

After the Incident poster
NR

A sudden, life-altering tragedy shatters young Ruhollah's world, thrusting him into a harsh new reality where he must confront not only the profound grief of losing his father but also the daunting responsibility of providing for his struggling mother. Forced to mature far beyond his years, Ruhollah finds himself precariously balancing the demands of his education with the crushing weight of adult responsibilities.

After the Incident

2020

Shahgoosh poster
4.6

A man is murdered & the police investigates the murderer

Shahgoosh

2013

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

After the Incident poster
NR

A sudden, life-altering tragedy shatters young Ruhollah's world, thrusting him into a harsh new reality where he must confront not only the profound grief of losing his father but also the daunting responsibility of providing for his struggling mother. Forced to mature far beyond his years, Ruhollah finds himself precariously balancing the demands of his education with the crushing weight of adult responsibilities.

After the Incident

2020

Escort poster
4.0

A police soldier is forced to become an escort for a female shooti to deliver the illegal cargo to its destination in order to obtain cancer medicine for his friend.

Escort

2026

Metropole Cinema poster
NR

Set in early‑1980s Abadan under siege during the Iran–Iraq war, the film centers on a group striving to keep alive the Metropol Cinema, a beloved local theater now in ruins. Against the backdrop of conflict and nostalgia, characters recall their youth, childhood memories in the cinema, and cling to hope through the survival of this cultural landmark.

Metropole Cinema

2025

People's Child poster
8.0

After growing up in an orphanage, Abolfazl embarks on a journey to find his real mother. His path leads him through friendship, love, loss, and war—until he discovers where he truly belongs.

People's Child

2025

Gazelle poster
NR

"Gazelle" is the story of the self-inflicted isolation of a girl who sees her dreams in vain but has not lost her hope yet.

Gazelle

2023

A Bumpy Story poster
NR

An author dreams of writing an extraordinary story. A special moment comes when the dream comes true and the ability to write a fantastic story is emerged, but it is apparently too late…

A Bumpy Story

2021

The House of Ghosts poster
NR

An Iranian romantic comedy

The House of Ghosts

2025

2010s · 17 titles

The Maritime Silk Road poster
4.6

A young student of Shiraz university joins Captain Soleiman on a maritime journey to China in 11th BC.

The Maritime Silk Road

2011

Khabar-e Khasi Nist poster
NR

The story of two sisters who have nice and calm life and their daughter are about to get marry. But when they held a family party a young stranger guy comes to their party which challenges their life.

Khabar-e Khasi Nist

2016

A Cube of Sugar poster
7.1

Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).

A Cube of Sugar

2011

A Hairy Tail poster
5.2

Danesh works in a barbershop and dreams about becoming an actor. Manfered is an agent who would introduce Danesh to a famous director if he collects enough long hairs to be used as wigs. At the same time a series of murders have worried everyone. Who is the killer and is the barbershop in any way related?

A Hairy Tail

2019

No Where No Body poster
6.3

A young couple need easy money. A few friends join them to plan a kidnap, but nothing goes right when some of them go after revenge and betray each other.

No Where No Body

2013

Panj ta Panj poster
NR

The story of a 55 years old man who is forced to stay the night at a house when his car is broken. He is then interrogated by 4 men...

Panj ta Panj

2013

The Red Trauma poster
2.0

This movie is a romance scene in the context of a city trip in Tehran, where the main character of the film is trying to maintain the balance between the four personality dimensions of a woman (Mistress, Mother, Amazon, and Madonna archetypes). Like the very close encounter, this movie has a playfulness and narcissistic feelings besides thematic and temporal concerns.

The Red Trauma

2017

Shadow poster
NR

A couple who want to marry, but face the disapproval by the girl's father.

Shadow

2016

Where Are My Shoes? poster
5.3

After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer.

Where Are My Shoes?

2016

Barcode poster
4.5

Behind each person is a story , behind each story is a person , so we have to be patient before any judgment

Barcode

2016

I Want to poster
NR

Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing.

I Want to

2018

Tea Man poster
NR

This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema.

Tea Man

2011

A Man for All Seasons poster
NR

Directed by Bahman Farman Ara.

A Man for All Seasons

2014

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

The Report of a Celebration poster
2.0

An examination of the issues of the Iranian youth in the aftermath of the disputed 2009 presidential election.

The Report of a Celebration

2010

Migraine poster
NR

The story of an apartment with several floors. When you open the door and enter it, in the third floor there lives Raana, the English translator with her 9 years old girl.

Migraine

2012

Laboratory poster
2.0

It is about a boy named Ghahraman who changes his life when he starts working in a laboratory

Laboratory

2012

2000s · 27 titles

An Umbrella for Two poster
2.0

Yasaman Pakravan, a wealthy woman, has paid his husband, Sadegh, 10 Million Tomans to convince him of divorcing her. However, Sadegh continues to harass her and ask her for more until she is forced to hire a lawyer, Ehsan Daneshvar, to make her divorce legal. But before they can meet ...

An Umbrella for Two

2001

Killing Mad Dogs poster
6.9

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

Killing Mad Dogs

2001

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine poster
6.6

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

2000

The Wind Carpet poster
6.3

Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.

The Wind Carpet

2003

The Fish Fall in Love poster
6.0

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.

The Fish Fall in Love

2007

7:05 PM poster
NR

In Paris, the story of three women on the verge of mental collapse and suicide.

7:05 PM

2009

There's Always a Woman in Between poster
3.3

A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.

There's Always a Woman in Between

2008

The Familiar Soil poster
5.0

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

A Good Time for Tragedy poster
5.0

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

A Good Time for Tragedy

2005

Issa Is Coming poster
NR

A captive warrior, Issa, who has long been thinking about various plans to escape from the camp, takes advantage of a golden opportunity and runs away from the camp immediately. A number of Ba'athist troops pursue him, but he continues steadfastly and boldly to flee while they are firing their bullets. But eventually, he manages to return to his homeland by plunging into the border river ...

Issa Is Coming

2001

5:00 PM, Ferdows Garden poster
NR

When meeting a psychologist reveals a secret life of a girl and her mother.

5:00 PM, Ferdows Garden

2006

3 Women poster
5.0

Forty-something single mother Minoo is a product of the Islamic Revolution, a generation of women repressed by changes in law under the new Islamic Republic. Her daughter Pegah is a rebellious youth, part of a generation in search of an identity they're yet to find. Together they live with Minoo's mother - three women of three different generations, living in the past, present and future. When Pegah takes off on an existential journey, Minoo realizes she needs to reconnect her fracturing family, and sets out to find Pegah - encountering a myriad of Tehran characters, including an improvisational indie rock band. Things take a turn for the worse when she loses her mother along the way.

3 Women

2008

Sometimes look at the sky poster
7.0

In a sanitarium for injures of war some ghosts are waiting and wandering about but for different reasons.

Sometimes look at the sky

2003

Persian Carpet poster
5.0

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.

Persian Carpet

2007

Being Farmanara poster
NR

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.

Being Farmanara

2006

Nish Zanbor poster
4.5

Two swindlers who mostly deceive old rich ladies fall in trap while their families are unaware of their source of income.

Nish Zanbor

2009

Qadamgah poster
5.0

When sees a dream Rahman gets back to his village to find the truth about his life and his family but the villagers are not willing to tell him the truth.

Qadamgah

2004

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

Horse poster
NR

A horse, which was used for religious ceremonies, has grown old and it's been decided to sell it to the slaughterhouse; to be slaughtered The middleman, after hearing the horse's story, refuses to buy it because of his own religious beliefs. The horse breaks away and enters the life of a young depressed drug abuser. The young man's family has broken apart; but ...

Horse

2005

The Reward of Silence poster
NR

Akbar Manafi is an injure of war and is hospitalized for that before. he is now working in a bus station. One day he sees in the TV his fellow soldier in the war Yahya. Yahya has been ...

The Reward of Silence

2006

A hundred years to these years poster
NR

The film chronicles the life of a woman who experiences various events over the course of thirty years.

A hundred years to these years

2007

A Piece of Bread poster
7.8

A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran.

A Piece of Bread

2005

Men at Work poster
6.6

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...

Men at Work

2006

A Little Kiss poster
6.3

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.

A Little Kiss

2005

Open Sentence poster
NR

A war-scarred soul, Saber is granted a temporary release after nine years of confinement. Armed with a 48-hour pass, he ventures into the bustling metropolis of Tehran, seeking retribution alongside his former cellmate, Ankel. Yet, fate intervenes as an unexpected encounter with his estranged half-sister forces him to confront his past and discover a profound new meaning to existence.

Open Sentence

2002

A Place to Live poster
1.0

Six young men—Pouya, Reza, Abbas, Hossein, Saeed, and Mojtaba—live together in a Tehran dormitory during the last days of the year. The film observes their daily routines, small struggles, and shared hopes.

A Place to Live

2004

Sedaha poster
NR

A murder takes place in a residential complex, and each of the neighbors gets involved in some way.

Sedaha

2009

1990s · 6 titles

Series credits

Drunkard Morning poster
8.0

The story is about a daughter of a noble family in old Tehran named "Mahboobeh" who falls in love with a carpenter's apprentice from their neighborhood. She rejects his suitors and stands up to her family so that they will recognize this love and consent to her marriage to Rahim. Unaware that the wheel of time sometimes does not turn according to the will.

Drunkard Morning

2025

Shahrzad poster
9.0

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

Shahrzad

2015

Kimia poster
NR

The story of the series Kimia (starring Mehraveh Sharifinia) shows the impact of societal changes on family relationships, pitting a father and daughter against each other; the daughter of the family, named Kimia, is very questioning and protesting, and Kimia is confronted by her father, who is a military, disciplined, and law-abiding person.

Kimia

2015

The Mokhtar Narrative poster
6.5

The Mokhtar Narrative is an Epic/History television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mokhtar. Over 140 actors were cast in it. Mokhtar Saqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).

The Mokhtar Narrative

2010

Shahgoosh poster
4.6

A man is murdered & the police investigates the murderer

Shahgoosh

2013

Seven poster
NR

We are playing friends, we are in the right, we will hit, kill, kill, we will die until the end, but we will not forgive, no matter what happens, we are still here, we are still alive.

Seven

2023

Siyavash poster
7.0

What are you willing to do to support your family? If you are no longer a member of the family, do you do the right thing or wait for them to be destroyed?

Siyavash

2021

The Heartless poster
NR

It shows the lives of people facing different challenges and events in society.

The Heartless

2026

No artwork available
NR

Saman is a young writer whose story book won the Book of the Year award a few years ago. But now, after marrying Mojgan, on the advice of her father, he gives up his cultural activities and starts a lucrative business. After a while, he feels that he has fallen behind in his real life, and so he decides to live separately from his wife for a while to find the peace he has lost. For this reason, he returns to his father's house after two years. This house has been empty for some time due to Saman's parents' travel and has become a place for the two teenagers to carry out criminal activities.

Bachehaye Khiyaban (2004)

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No artwork available
NR

It tells the story of Davoud's return to his hometown with his mother; a return that is accompanied by family challenges, competition over the pistachio business, and the discovery of a suspicious secret.

Roozi Roozegari Abadi

2025

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