Reza Naji

Acting

Reza Naji

Born 1942-12-26 · Tabriz, Iran

Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reza Naji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting credits

Children of Heaven poster
7.9

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Children of Heaven

1997

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10.0

Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Tunnel 18

1997

Kandaloos Gardens poster
NR

Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love with the heroes of our story, are foreshadowed by Bijan, Ali and Said looking for them for gardens such as Paradise of Idaho, and in this mysterious journey, we lay in layers Inside love.

Kandaloos Gardens

2004

The Maiden Tower poster
NR

Two young people who love each other but cannot be reunited - Tuncay and Aytekin - have an endless love for each other. The reason for their separation is that Aytekin is the daughter of a king, and Tuncay is a simple engraver. Another issue is that Tuncay takes a shaman as his apprentice. As a result of a miracle, Tuncay arrives a thousand years later - in modern Baku and manages to find both the girl he loves and her father. But what has changed in Baku during these thousand years? Will our hero be able to reunite with the woman he loves in conditions that are completely alien to him, in the vortex of time?

The Maiden Tower

2019

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

Wind Blows in the Meadow poster
3.0

Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, has been head over heels in love...

Wind Blows in the Meadow

2009

The Song of Sparrows poster
7.5

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

The Song of Sparrows

2008

The Ride poster
NR

A young man, with unknown troubles and philosophy of life, hits the streets of Tehran to clear his mind. Soon he finds himself in the role of a taxi driver. As he drives through the city, each person he picks up brings his story, stories that he tries to make sense of in order to understand and make sense of his own life.

The Ride

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NR

You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead...

Apache

2022

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NR

Rahman who is a forest ranger gives his son Ali an injured duck to take care of it and treat it. Little by little an emotional relationship between the boy and the duck formed which leads to some adventures for them.

Parvaze Morghabiha

2009

Angels Come Together poster
NR

Ahmad is a clergy man who has a quiet and lovely life with her wife. However, his life changes when her wife becomes pregnant. Economical pressure causes him to change jobs until he is offered a role in a movie.

Angels Come Together

2014

Mom! Behrouz Hit Me poster
NR

Behrouz, dreaming of getting a bicycle, joins the school football team. He’s a very mischievous boy who causes trouble for those around him at school and in his neighborhood—until the arrival of the football coach changes the course of his life…

Mom! Behrouz Hit Me

2010

Hamsar dot com poster
NR

A young boy who is an apprentice at a truck showroom has been looking for a wife for a long time. When his old friend Touraj arrives from abroad, he introduces him to the virtual world and dating sites. This method leads to strange events.

Hamsar dot com

2015

Sly poster
4.0

Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted parties and politicians, none take him seriously until he's connected to a single, notorious incident.

Sly

2018

Chartered to Azadi poster
3.0

Sohrab and Bijan are two penniless friends who live in an old, abandoned cinema. One morning they decide to seek out Qader, a man who owes them a lot of money...

Chartered to Azadi

2014

The Willow Tree poster
6.8

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

The Willow Tree

2005

Birth of a Butterfly poster
9.0

Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film - that between two young children and their stepfather, a cripple setting off alone on a pilgrimage without the company of his fellow villagers, and a teacher returning to his remote village and finding himself the subject of unrealistic expectations of the other villagers.

Birth of a Butterfly

2000

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NR

A soon to be clergy man and his wife deal with the troubles of rising their triple children.

Angels Descend Together

2014

The Redtails poster
3.0

Two youngsters Bahman and Nader who must go to the military service and are searching for a way to escape from that meet each other and become friends. This friendship is the beginning of many troubles and adventures for them.

The Redtails

2018

The Little Bird Boy poster
6.8

With his father in jail, probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbed-wire border, Behruz and his family are destitute. His love of birds and talent for imitating their songs land him the unhappy job of helping to capture them for a local bird merchant. He meets a girl his own age whose mother comes to Iran to sell clothes, but they leave before he has a chance to say goodbye. Qanbari sticks to images and the children’s plaintive faces, old before their time, to tell his story almost without words. Their delicate emotions are echoed in a local bridegroom’s illegal crossing into Azerbaijan for his own wedding.

The Little Bird Boy

2002

Autumn poster
5.9

Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.

Autumn

2010

Texas 2 poster
4.5

Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother come to airport to take them home but they don't know that they are married. Meanwhile Bahram takes the wrong suitcase which lead them to confront with a gang and enter them in new adventures.

Texas 2

2019

Winners poster
7.8

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.

Winners

2023

We Are All Together poster
3.4

The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...

We Are All Together

2019