Ali Nasirian

Acting

Ali Nasirian

Born 1935-02-05 · Tehran, Iran

Ali Nasirian is an actor, writer, and director of the theatre, cinema and television who was born in 1935 in Tehran, Iran. He began his professional work with theatre and writing plays. After that, he directed the theatre and telefilm. He entered the cinema by playing in Dariush Mehrjui's "Cow". He also received the Best Actor's Crystal Simorgh from the Fajr Festival for Homayoun Ghanizade's "Maskhare Baz".In recent years, Ali Nasirian has had many activities in television series such as "Sarbedaran", "Hezar Dastan", "Mive-ye Mamnooe" and "Shahrzad".The movies that he has featured are "Captain Khorshid", "the Emperor of Hell", "The Stone Lion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Acting credits

The Custodian poster
3.0

Davoud Najafi lives with his father Rahman who is the custodian of a small company and his disabled brother Ne'mat. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they have to bear her expenses too. Davoud loves film making and is in love with Nahid. He brings a camera and tries to steal the company while filming himself. They fired his father Rahman and he too throws Davoud out of the house.

The Custodian

1976

The Postman poster
6.6

A political metaphor based on Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.

The Postman

1972

Sattar Khan poster
7.5

Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Satar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Satar and Heidar as they join another hero Bagher Khan.

Sattar Khan

1972

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Kamalolmolk

1984

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

Foreign Currency poster
8.0

Morteza Olfat is an ordinary employee who has lots of problems in his life. One day, he happens to find fifty thousand dollars. He says nothing to anyone and tries to exchange the cash.

Foreign Currency

1989

The Teacher without Master poster
NR

The Teacher without Master

The Teacher without Master

2016

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

Tale of the Sea poster
3.8

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.

Tale of the Sea

2018

The School We Went To poster
5.0

Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.

The School We Went To

1980

Sun Children poster
7.0

The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.

Sun Children

2021

The Cycle poster
6.9

Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.

The Cycle

1978

The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times poster
3.0

A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.

The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times

2009

A Minor poster
1.5

Laminar, means the first step and chords that guitar learners learn. This movie is about a girl musician.

A Minor

2022

The Grand Day poster
4.5

In the years before the Iranian revolution, after winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her arrival in the city...

The Grand Day

1989

Punishment Committe poster
6.5

In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.

Punishment Committe

1997

Mr. Gullible poster
5.4

The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.

Mr. Gullible

1970

Iron Island poster
7.1

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

Iron Island

2005

Captain Khorshid poster
6.3

Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ask a middleman to strike a deal with Khorshid. Khorshid is asked to illegally take them out of the country with his boat. At first he is reluctant, but because of the hardships of living he accepts the job.

Captain Khorshid

1987

Saturday's hunter poster
NR

About the secret history of a certain geographic zone and the gradual change of an innocent child into a wild beast.

Saturday's hunter

2011

Oh, What Happy Days! poster
NR

On the eve of losing her family estate, actress Homa is blackmailed by a government agent with a compromising tape. Forced into a real-time video call with her estranged family, which has been exiled since the 1979 Revolution, decades of silence explode into raw confrontation. As old wounds resurface and accusations fly, the line between past and present blurs. Secrets unravel, betrayals are laid bare, and the long-buried fate of two sons lost to history comes roaring back.

Oh, What Happy Days!

2025

The Cow poster
7.7

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

The Cow

1969

Frosty Roads poster
NR

Mr. Moosavi, a country schoolteacher, must undertake an arduous journey to fetch medicine for his village's sick. Accompanied by his student and a villager, he travels through a blizzard and is pursued by a pack of hungry wolves.

Frosty Roads

1986

The Mandrake poster
7.0

The inherited land of Ali has been usurped by his aunt. Ali, who makes a living by selling flowers, one night on the road outside the city sees a woman who seems to be running away from some people. A woman who introduces herself as Mehri gets into Ali's car and this meeting causes attraction between the two. One day, Mehri goes to her grandmother's house under the pretext of visiting her and does not return.

The Mandrake

1975

Behind the camera