Mehdi Reisfirooz

Directing

Mehdi Reisfirooz

Born 1927-01-01 · Tehran, Iran

Acting credits

Wild Angel poster
8.0

A bankrupt businessman and his wife attempt a rail suicide, but the wife's change of heart make it fail. They have already abandoned their newborn daughter who is picked up by a street sweeper and raised in his family. Years later, she runs away from the home searching for a better life and a job...

Wild Angel

1959

Delirium poster
10.0

Iranian horror movie from 1965.

Delirium

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Toofan's blow

1994

A Party in Hell poster
5.0

Haji Jabbar is a wealthy man, who is chided constantly by his family for avarice. Haji intends to marry off his daughter, Parvin, to a wealthy old man. He has no regard for the love existing between Parvin and her cousin. He does not care for his son, Hamid, who, due to negligence, is on the verge of a breakdown. In an elaborate fantasy sequence which makes up the last third of the film, Haji finds himself in hell, witness to all sorts of macabre and elaborate tortures and horrors. The film is noted for its elaborate set pieces which recall Méliès. There is even a sequence involving Hitler in hell!

A Party in Hell

1957

Twenty Years of Waiting poster
NR

Maryam leaves her son Majid on the street, and a man named Abbas Agha and his wife Fatemeh raise the child. Farid, Maryam's husband, is released from prison and later becomes very wealthy. Majid and his friend Hassan collaborate with a group of thieves led by Ghaffar. One day, Majid enters Farid's house and takes refuge in Hayedeh's room, gradually falling for her. Abbas, who knows Majid's real parents, gives Majid an incriminating letter to deliver to Farid.

Twenty Years of Waiting

1966

Rural Songs poster
NR

The distinguished lord procures his daily necessities from the villagers as tribute with the help of his steward. He encourages his daughter, Monireh, to befriend Farrokh. Farrokh dishonors Monireh by giving her a sleeping drug and then flees to the city.

Rural Songs

1964

The River Course poster
NR

Mahmoud stumbles upon a corpse in his humble home. He takes the body to the forest to hang it, but a man named Jabbar shows up and, threatening Mahmoud, takes him to a farm, introducing him as Farhad, the lost son of the farm owner. Mahmoud, who has fallen for Nahid, the landlord's daughter, reveals the truth, and Nahid, thinking Mahmoud intends to deceive her father, pushes him away. Mahmoud reads in the newspaper that the police have found a corpse in the forest that had previously been stolen from the morgue. Mahmoud breaks off his partnership with Jabbar, but Jabbar takes him to Sohrab Khan's estate and shows him Farhad. Sohrab locks Mahmoud in a small room. Farhad rescues Mahmoud, and Mahmoud takes Farhad to his real father and marries Nahid.

The River Course

1964

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses poster
2.8

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses

2016

Alma poster
10.0

An Iranian man has been separated from his daughter, who's been in Soviet Azerbaijan, for 20 years. Finally he has the opportunity to cross the border and see her, but when he gets there he finds that she's been sentenced to death for "anti-Soviet activities."

Alma

1992

Kadkhoda's Daughter poster
NR

A young villager named Nader is interested in Golnar, the daughter of Kodkhoda, but Kodkhoda is against their marriage, and decides to marry his daughter to a steward. Mubasher and Ramal of the village conspire against Nader, but there is a difference between the two of them, whose job it is to make the residents rebellious. Ramal is killed by the butler, and the butler identifies Nader as the murderer and makes him leave the village. Before Mubasher and Gulnar's marriage ceremony is held, he runs away and meets Farrukh Khan, the nobleman who is an educated young man. After hearing the story of Gulnar, Arbab's son makes it possible for him to study and gradually falls in love with him. However, after Golnar insists on marrying Nader and uncovering the secret of Ramal's murder and the butler's arrest, Farrokh, despite his mother's opinion, puts Golnar and Nader on the wedding table.

Kadkhoda's Daughter

1969

Behind the camera

Wild Angel poster
8.0

A bankrupt businessman and his wife attempt a rail suicide, but the wife's change of heart make it fail. They have already abandoned their newborn daughter who is picked up by a street sweeper and raised in his family. Years later, she runs away from the home searching for a better life and a job...

Wild Angel

1959

Mr. Handsome Reza poster
NR

"Dara" is a wealthy man who is imprisoned due to a conspiracy by his assistant. Meanwhile, the daughter of the head of a foreign company is set to come to Iran to sign a contract with Dara. "Reza," Dara's driver, introduces himself as Dara, thereby thwarting the assistant's plans...

Mr. Handsome Reza

1974

I Can Die for Money poster
NR

A young worker is infatuated with the factory owner's daughter.

I Can Die for Money

1959

Under the Blue Sky poster
NR

A love blossoms in the peaceful village between a man and a woman. When it's time to tie the knot, the kind-hearted lover is slandered and defamed, and all efforts are in vain. The situation escalates from calm and gentleness to conflict, and finally, the man proves his truth by removing the obstacles.

Under the Blue Sky

1967

Insistency poster
NR

A driver who transports passengers between Tehran and the cities accidentally becomes aware of a conspiracy and informs a wealthy woman who is the target of this plot. He then gets the chance to work as the driver for the wealthy woman, which is a simpler and more lucrative job. The driver's wife, believing that there is a relationship between her husband and the wealthy woman, leaves her husband...

Insistency

1972

Ardour poster
NR

A rogue hunter named Sanjar causes the death of a village woman...

Ardour

1976

Twenty Years of Waiting poster
NR

Maryam leaves her son Majid on the street, and a man named Abbas Agha and his wife Fatemeh raise the child. Farid, Maryam's husband, is released from prison and later becomes very wealthy. Majid and his friend Hassan collaborate with a group of thieves led by Ghaffar. One day, Majid enters Farid's house and takes refuge in Hayedeh's room, gradually falling for her. Abbas, who knows Majid's real parents, gives Majid an incriminating letter to deliver to Farid.

Twenty Years of Waiting

1966

Migration poster
NR

"Ali," the chief technical worker at a tractor manufacturing plant, goes to a village to service several tractors. There, he rescues a gypsy girl whom "Sohrab," a well-known young man in the village, is attempting to assault. However, Ali soon finds himself accused of Sohrab's murder. The gypsy girl helps Ali uncover the truth and identify the real killer—"Jamil," a young gypsy man who committed the murder out of love for the girl.

Migration

1977

A Flower in Wasteland poster
NR

A Lost Persian Film. "Iraj", who is suffering from a mysterious and unknown disease, believes that he is about to die. In the meantime, he meets a young girl and they both fall in love with each other. The girl is the mistress of a wealthy man who is Iraj's uncle. Despite his great love for the woman, the man allows the intimacy and affection between him and his mistress to grow due to Iraj's special circumstances. Iraj soon realizes that the symptoms of his fatal illness have resolved and the girl is the woman his uncle is interested in. He therefore withdraws himself, but the uncle, who is concerned about his niece's well-being, once again proves his devotion and removes himself from Iraj's and his beloved girl's lives forever.

A Flower in Wasteland

1961

A Flower in Wasteland poster
NR

A Lost Persian Film. "Iraj", who is suffering from a mysterious and unknown disease, believes that he is about to die. In the meantime, he meets a young girl and they both fall in love with each other. The girl is the mistress of a wealthy man who is Iraj's uncle. Despite his great love for the woman, the man allows the intimacy and affection between him and his mistress to grow due to Iraj's special circumstances. Iraj soon realizes that the symptoms of his fatal illness have resolved and the girl is the woman his uncle is interested in. He therefore withdraws himself, but the uncle, who is concerned about his niece's well-being, once again proves his devotion and removes himself from Iraj's and his beloved girl's lives forever.

A Flower in Wasteland

1961

A Flower in Wasteland poster
NR

A Lost Persian Film. "Iraj", who is suffering from a mysterious and unknown disease, believes that he is about to die. In the meantime, he meets a young girl and they both fall in love with each other. The girl is the mistress of a wealthy man who is Iraj's uncle. Despite his great love for the woman, the man allows the intimacy and affection between him and his mistress to grow due to Iraj's special circumstances. Iraj soon realizes that the symptoms of his fatal illness have resolved and the girl is the woman his uncle is interested in. He therefore withdraws himself, but the uncle, who is concerned about his niece's well-being, once again proves his devotion and removes himself from Iraj's and his beloved girl's lives forever.

A Flower in Wasteland

1961

Yusuf and Zulaikha poster
7.5

The brothers of Yusuf (Joseph), jealous of their father Yaqub’s (Jacob's) love for him, throw him into a well. A caravan rescues Yusuf, and years later he is sold as a slave in the market of Egypt. Zulaikha, Yusuf's owner, falls in love with him, and after an incident, the Aziz of Egypt (Zulaikha’s husband) has him imprisoned. Seven years later, Yusuf is released due to his interpretation of the Pharaoh’s dream and rises to the rank of Aziz of Egypt.

Yusuf and Zulaikha

1968

The End of Suffering poster
NR

A young girl gets caught up in the temptations of a man named Jamshid.

The End of Suffering

1955

The End of Suffering poster
NR

A young girl gets caught up in the temptations of a man named Jamshid.

The End of Suffering

1955

Iman poster
1.0

A young engineer who is returned home from Europe becomes responsible of taking care of his father's company. But a villain friend of him manages to drag him to gambling and drugs making him to lose his money and his family. Years later the young engineer in an accident helps a rich man and due to that manages to marry his girl and gets back his life and his family once again.

Iman

1967

Velgard poster
9.0

Naser and Parvin live a simple and happy life and their happiness is made more complete by a baby, but the ill-wishers drag Naser into decline and he falls so much that with all his interests and ties to his family, he has no way of coming back.

Velgard

1952

Velgard poster
9.0

Naser and Parvin live a simple and happy life and their happiness is made more complete by a baby, but the ill-wishers drag Naser into decline and he falls so much that with all his interests and ties to his family, he has no way of coming back.

Velgard

1952

Song of a Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Song of a Life

1969

Song of a Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Song of a Life

1969

Laghzesh poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Laghzesh

1953

Laghzesh poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Laghzesh

1953

Thievish poster
NR

Reza and Gol-Agha have been friends since childhood. Gol-Agha is a police officer, and Reza has a history of theft...

Thievish

1974

The Bond of Friendship poster
NR

Iranian film by Mehdi Reisfirooz

The Bond of Friendship

1960

The Bond of Friendship poster
NR

Iranian film by Mehdi Reisfirooz

The Bond of Friendship

1960