Ali Kazmi

Acting

Ali Kazmi

Born 1981-10-31 · Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Ali Kazmi (born October 31st, 1981) is a Pakistani actor, director and writer.

Acting credits

The Breadwinner poster
7.8

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

The Breadwinner

2017

Na Band Na Baraati poster
10.0

The movie revolves around a typical Pakistani family living in Toronto, Canada. The family is busy in organising a desi wedding for their two sons in Toronto.

Na Band Na Baraati

2018

Dobara Phir Se poster
6.3

A divorced Pakistani woman visits an upscale Connecticut suburb in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged ex-mother-law.

Dobara Phir Se

2016

Baaji poster
1.0

Baaji takes the audiences on a journey filled with glamour, romance, scandal and intrigue. The film also pays a tribute to the classic social dramas of Pakistani cinema of the 1960s and the 1970s, while also finding inspiration from the golden era of Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s.

Baaji

2019

The Dependables poster
3.1

Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers that they are up against an enemy from their past. This time, The Dependables mission is personal. With guns blazing, the group puts their lives on the line to defeat their arch nemesis and save their grandchildren.

The Dependables

2014

Beeba Boys poster
3.8

Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.

Beeba Boys

2015

Beat the World poster
5.2

Three dance crews – one Latin American, one European and one Canadian – prepare to battle at the International Beat the World competition in Detroit. Along the way, they struggle with gambling debt, bad break-ups and their own egos. In the final showdown to become world champions they find that their lifelong hopes, dreams and even lives, are at stake.

Beat the World

2011

Shivaay poster
5.9

Shivaay , a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s wish of seeing her mother Olga, who abandoned them years ago. But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.

Shivaay

2016

Altered Skin poster
3.2

While caring for his ailing wife, an American engineer in Pakistan stumbles upon a deadly pharmaceutical conspiracy.

Altered Skin

2019

Stealing the Sky poster
5.5

A mosaic of interlocking stories set against the backdrop of Toronto's swelling urban landscape.

Stealing the Sky

2025

Laal Kabootar poster
7.7

He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.

Laal Kabootar

2019

Jawani Phir Nahi Ani poster
6.9

The movie revolves around three childhood friends, who are married and settled in their lives but are afraid of their wives.

Jawani Phir Nahi Ani

2015

Funny Boy poster
5.4

A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.

Funny Boy

2020

The Strip Mall poster
NR

Four teens sick and tired of life, authority, and their jobs plan a heist for the ages, as they look to steal what matters most to their parents. Meanwhile once the heist goes sour, a bumbling pair of super cops plan to solve the crime by using the only thing they have.

The Strip Mall

2010

Heer Maan Ja poster
8.8

Heer Maan Ja is love, crazy romantic and comedy Pakistani film which will be released in 2019 on Eid Ul Azha. The cast of the fil is Hareem Farooq and Ali Rehman along veteran actor Abid Ali.

Heer Maan Ja

2019

What's Mine is Yours poster
NR

Feeling inadequate as a father, Naim starts to notice unsettling changes in his wife's behaviour and the increasing visits from his best friend Javed. With his son Talha also sensing that something is wrong, they quietly navigate their suspicions and the complexities of their family relationships.

What's Mine is Yours

2025

Superstar poster
9.7

Superstar is the story of two characters from different worlds as they journey to find the true meaning of the word 'Superstar'. Noor, a budding actress who wants to make it big in the film industry meets Sameer who is a celebrity with stardom. Together they learn the price of success and that sometimes to shine, you need the darkness.

Superstar

2019

Sardaarji poster
6.3

A ghost hunter uses bottles to capture troublesome spirits.

Sardaarji

2015

Desi Standard Time Travel poster
10.0

When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.

Desi Standard Time Travel

2022

Motorcycle Girl poster
8.0

Based on the boundary-breaking motorcycle journeys of Zenith Irfan who, at 20 years of age, is the first Pakistani woman to have made a solo motorcycle journey through the northern regions of the country.

Motorcycle Girl

2018

A Message from the East poster
NR

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West, refute the notion of a class of civilizations and discover our shared humanity.

A Message from the East

2009

Behind the camera