Niki Karimi

Acting

Niki Karimi

Born 1971-11-11 · Tehran, Iran

Niki Karimi is an actress and director who was born in 1971 in Tehran, Iran. From her first activities in the cinema, we can name "Bride" directed by Behrouz Afkhami. She has also won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ahmadreza Motamedi and "The Fifth Reaction" by Tahmineh Milani. She has also been featured in "Night Shift", "One Night" and "A Few Days Later" as director. Among her other cinematic works "Sara" by Dariush Mehrjui, "Night and Day" by Omid Bankdar and Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi's, "Who killed Amir?" by Mehdi Karampour and "Democracy In Day Light "by Ali Atashani can be named.

Acting credits

Wedding Dinner poster
4.0

Two youngsters from rich families fall in love and decide to get marry but they don't know that both their parents are broke. This creates funny situations for them and the two families.

Wedding Dinner

2006

Takhti poster
4.3

Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. Intelligence Ministry to finish the project. The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job.

Takhti

1997

No artwork available
NR

'Two Sisters' follows the story of a young hustler who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. When he meets two beautiful sisters, Mina and Mahtab, he begins contacting both of them – in two disguises. As he masquerades as 'Amir' and 'Afshin,' things become increasingly complicated. Mohammad Reza Golzar’s dual performance takes center stage in this comedic drama.

Two Sisters

2009

Sara poster
6.0

Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.

Sara

1993

Wednesday, May 9 poster
5.7

A man named Jalal publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news gathers a large group of people. At the end of the day, he receives many application forms, and he eventually decides to choose one by chance. Those who have applied insist that what's been advertised is the only solution to their problem. The police take charge of the situation by calming the people and having them dispersed. However, two women do not give up: Setareh, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and Leila, Jalal’s ex-fiancée…

Wednesday, May 9

2015

A Thousand Women Like Me poster
3.0

In modern day Iran, a female attorney fights for the custody of her seven year old diabetic son following a divorce from her husband. When the courts rule against her, she takes desperate actions that lead to tragic events.

A Thousand Women Like Me

2001

Minoo Watch Tower poster
4.8

Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.

Minoo Watch Tower

1996

The Scent of Joseph's Shirt poster
5.5

َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...

The Scent of Joseph's Shirt

1995

Top of the Tower poster
6.0

Rezvani, the director of a housing cooperative, is demanded by the shareholders to fire Farid Sadri, the contractor and the supervisor of the high-rise towers construction project, who could not manage to bring the construction process to an end on the due time, and find someone else to substitute him...

Top of the Tower

2005

Astigmatism poster
2.0

A man has returned after a few years of separation from his family and wants to take back his house from his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. His son, who farms leeches in the basement and hopes to get rich by doing that, tries to reconcile his father with his mother to stay at home, but his mother intends to marry someone else. The grandson who is just 9 years old, falls in love with his teacher at school and this causes problems in both the boy and the teacher's family.

Astigmatism

2018

Crime poster
3.5

Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.

Crime

2011

Death of the Fish poster
1.0

An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.

Death of the Fish

2016

Mr two-faced poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mr two-faced

2008

Shirin poster
6.2

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Shirin

2009

Women are Angels poster
4.2

A greedy husband (Hayayee) is found to be cheating on his wife, who immensely adores him. With the help of her friends, she plots revenge on him.

Women are Angels

2008

The Wolf's Trail poster
5.5

Reza and Sadegh-Khan are old friends who are engaged in shady deeds. The next day after his wedding, Reza is arrested hauling the dead body of one of his friends. He is sentenced to jail. Years later, freed from the prison, he is now settled in a little town. A letter arrives from Sadegh to invite him back to the capital city in order to attend his son's wedding.

The Wolf's Trail

1993

Life Is Elsewhere poster
5.0

Davood is a nurse's aide who helps emergency's patients. Now he himself is going to die by cancer. Meanwhile, his ex-wife's husband is going to be executed because of drug smuggling.

Life Is Elsewhere

2014

Trial on the Street poster
6.3

Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...

Trial on the Street

2009

The Fifth Reaction poster
5.8

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.

The Fifth Reaction

2003

Human Comedy poster
4.0

A comedy of the tragic life of someone who must live like the people around him despite his own preference. The Human Comedy is a comedy narrative of the tragic life of a person who finds himself doing as the Romans do unwillingly.

Human Comedy

2017

The Mix poster
6.0

An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.

The Mix

2000

Cahiers du Film poster
NR

Documentary about Film magazine. Film (Persian: فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 40 years (founded in 1982).

Cahiers du Film

2016

No artwork available
3.3

an Iranian TV and documentary director who becomes involved in the plight of Malineh, a young woman who appeared in her latest film. Malineh is desperate to sell one of her kidneys in order to raise money for the defense of her mother, who faces hanging on a charge of murdering her husband.

Final Whistle

2011

I'm His Wife poster
2.0

Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.

I'm His Wife

2012

Behind the camera

A Time in Eternity poster
NR

A woman embarks on an unyielding and possibly hopeless search for her missing husband, a journey that strains her already fragile relationship with her daughter. Along the way, she also faces the unwelcome advances of her persistent brother-in-law.

A Time in Eternity

2026

No artwork available
3.3

an Iranian TV and documentary director who becomes involved in the plight of Malineh, a young woman who appeared in her latest film. Malineh is desperate to sell one of her kidneys in order to raise money for the defense of her mother, who faces hanging on a charge of murdering her husband.

Final Whistle

2011

No artwork available
3.3

an Iranian TV and documentary director who becomes involved in the plight of Malineh, a young woman who appeared in her latest film. Malineh is desperate to sell one of her kidneys in order to raise money for the defense of her mother, who faces hanging on a charge of murdering her husband.

Final Whistle

2011

One Night poster
4.4

On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories.

One Night

2005

One Night poster
4.4

On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories.

One Night

2005

Azar poster
3.7

A non-traditional wife and mother, Azar (Karimi) is first seen racing her dirt bike over a hilly track while her husband Amir (Azarang) and young daughter cheer her on. Co-equal with her liberal-minded husband in marriage and in their fledgling business venture, a café with a thriving carryout trade, she is forced to meet an unequal challenge in which the strict pecking order of a family dominated by misogynist uncle, a business loan with strings attached, a black sheep son with a hidden agenda, and a tragic accident add up to a scenario in which Azar is targeted as the unwilling sacrificial victim. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Azar

2017

Until Tomorrow poster
6.5

Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are.

Until Tomorrow

2022

Night Shift poster
5.2

A woman searches for her husband on the streets of Tehran.

Night Shift

2015

Night Shift poster
5.2

A woman searches for her husband on the streets of Tehran.

Night Shift

2015

Night Shift poster
5.2

A woman searches for her husband on the streets of Tehran.

Night Shift

2015

A Few Days Later... poster
5.5

"In her second narrative feature, Karimi presents a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision. At first it seems that graphic designer Shahrzad (played by Karimi) goes about her daily life with placid ease, but her surface stillness masks a maelstrom of weighty decisions she desperately wishes to avoid making." - Persian Film Festival Australia

A Few Days Later...

2006

Atabai poster
6.7

Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his unexpected love for his colleague....

Atabai

2020

Atabai poster
6.7

Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his unexpected love for his colleague....

Atabai

2020