Ali Nasirian

Acting

Ali Nasirian

Born

1935-02-05 (91)

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

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".

Known for

Shahrzad poster
9.0

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

Shahrzad

2015

Hamrefigh poster
7.0

Hamrefigh is a series of Home video performed and directed by Shahab Hosseini, which started broadcasting on December 10, 2020, produced by Hassan Khodadadi. In each episode of the program, the invited guest can introduce a person as a friend to be present in the program.

Hamrefigh

2020

No artwork available
NR

Although this film includes conversations with people, it is not in the form of an interview and consists of three parts. The first part introduces the personality and activities of Dariush Asadzadeh in cinema, theater and television. In this part, the camera is constantly moving and creates an atmosphere. The second part is dedicated to the conversations of people such as Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Abdi, Aminollah Rashidi, Behrouz Vosoughi, Nosratollah Vahdat and many artists who have worked with this artist over the years. The third part of the film is dedicated to reviewing his memories, which gives this part of the film a nostalgic feel. The effort to be attractive is the main thing in making this film.

Zendegi Va Digar Hich

2017

Jamshid Mashayekhi poster
NR

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Jamshid Mashayekhi

2007

The Forbidden Fruit poster
NR

Story of a devout individual called Haj Younis (Ali Nasirian), a merchant who believes in the principles of religion and is a haram and lawyer, but something happens in his life that involves him in adventures...

The Forbidden Fruit

2007

Hezar Dastan poster
7.2

Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The production of the show took almost 8 years, starting in 1979 and ending in 1987, during which Hatami established a large set to represent Tehran in both Qajar dynasty and World War II, retroactively creating Iran's first movie studio and backlot (named Ghazali Cinema Town). The show tells the story of Reza Khoshnevis (also known as Reza Tofangchi), and his life and entanglement with corruption in government, and trying to correct it using not conventional means. The story is split into two section and it features Iran during the turbulent times of the latter days of Qajar Dynasty and during the events of World War II and Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

Hezar Dastan

1988

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

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

Seven Citrus Aurantium poster
6.0

The film is a mythological love story between Talat and Shams, whose deep bond is tested when Shams loses his memory.

Seven Citrus Aurantium

2025

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

Nowruz poster
1.0

Nowruz is coming, but the devil is lurking to destroy Nowruz and spring. Uncle Nowruz has an accident on the way to Grandma Frost's hut and searching for Hajji Firuz and a big storm starts.

Nowruz

2024

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

2010s · 7 titles

No artwork available
NR

Although this film includes conversations with people, it is not in the form of an interview and consists of three parts. The first part introduces the personality and activities of Dariush Asadzadeh in cinema, theater and television. In this part, the camera is constantly moving and creates an atmosphere. The second part is dedicated to the conversations of people such as Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Abdi, Aminollah Rashidi, Behrouz Vosoughi, Nosratollah Vahdat and many artists who have worked with this artist over the years. The third part of the film is dedicated to reviewing his memories, which gives this part of the film a nostalgic feel. The effort to be attractive is the main thing in making this film.

Zendegi Va Digar Hich

2017

A Hairy Tail poster
5.2

Danesh works in a barbershop and dreams about becoming an actor. Manfered is an agent who would introduce Danesh to a famous director if he collects enough long hairs to be used as wigs. At the same time a series of murders have worried everyone. Who is the killer and is the barbershop in any way related?

A Hairy Tail

2019

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

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 Teacher without Master poster
NR

The Teacher without Master

The Teacher without Master

2016

Confession poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Confession

2018

Iran Burger poster
3.0

About a fictional village in Iran and two candidates that are competing for people's votes in a local election.

Iran Burger

2015

2000s · 7 titles

Jamshid Mashayekhi poster
NR

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Jamshid Mashayekhi

2007

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

Where is Fereydoun Goleh? poster
NR

This documentary, after years of ignorance of "Fereydoun Goleh", one of the most influential filmmakers in Iranian cinema, talks to him and his colleagues.

Where is Fereydoun Goleh?

2006

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

The Silent King poster
1.0

In the beginning of the World War I, Iran’s government decides to remain neutral in order to save the country from further damage. But the countries in war, especially the allied powers (Russia and Britain) and the axis powers (Germany and the Ottoman Empire) ignore Iran’s stance and turn the country into their political and military battlefield. In this situation the young Ahmad Shah Qajar, Iran’s king, feels helpless facing these highly experienced foreign politicians. The young king remembers nothing from his childhood or teen years, and during one of the toughest historical points of Iran when the Russians and the British politicians interfere with most of Iran’s internal affairs to the point of affecting Iranian people’s personal lives, he meets Konts de Gotti, the daughter of Austria’s prime minister in Iran ...

The Silent King

2003

The Insane Flew Away poster
NR

Yalda is married to Rouzbeh who is an injure of war. Rouzbeh's health getting worse and they should hospitalize him. Although Yalda loves Rouzbeh very much but she begins to doubt her ...

The Insane Flew Away

2003

Daily Notes poster
NR

A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian

Daily Notes

2005

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 10 titles

The Thief and the Writer poster
NR

Rahman is recently released from the prison and wants to make a decent life and not to return to the crime again. But anywhere he goes can't find a job so he decides to return to crime once again.

The Thief and the Writer

1987

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

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

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

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

Mirza Norooz's Shoes poster
3.3

Mirza Norooz can't get rid of his worn-out shoes which bring him bad luck, no matter what he does.

Mirza Norooz's Shoes

1985

A Prize poster
NR

A trained engineer won a two-motor plane because it was impossible to transport a plane to his place of residence in Tehran, but it costs him a lot of money and so he has to play with his family in commercial movies

A Prize

1984

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

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

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

Kamalolmolk

1984

The Stone Lion poster
8.5

When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.

The Stone Lion

1987

1970s · 6 titles

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
6.8

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

The Postman

1972

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

Sattar Khan poster
7.5

Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Sattar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Sattar and Haydar as they join another hero Baqir Khan.

Sattar Khan

1973

Mr. Gullible poster
5.7

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

Mr. Gullible

1970

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

Series credits

Shahrzad poster
9.0

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

Shahrzad

2015

Hamrefigh poster
7.0

Hamrefigh is a series of Home video performed and directed by Shahab Hosseini, which started broadcasting on December 10, 2020, produced by Hassan Khodadadi. In each episode of the program, the invited guest can introduce a person as a friend to be present in the program.

Hamrefigh

2020

The Forbidden Fruit poster
NR

Story of a devout individual called Haj Younis (Ali Nasirian), a merchant who believes in the principles of religion and is a haram and lawyer, but something happens in his life that involves him in adventures...

The Forbidden Fruit

2007

Hezar Dastan poster
7.2

Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The production of the show took almost 8 years, starting in 1979 and ending in 1987, during which Hatami established a large set to represent Tehran in both Qajar dynasty and World War II, retroactively creating Iran's first movie studio and backlot (named Ghazali Cinema Town). The show tells the story of Reza Khoshnevis (also known as Reza Tofangchi), and his life and entanglement with corruption in government, and trying to correct it using not conventional means. The story is split into two section and it features Iran during the turbulent times of the latter days of Qajar Dynasty and during the events of World War II and Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

Hezar Dastan

1988

Sarbadars poster
6.5

Sarbedaran is a historic series based on the revolt of the 'Sarbedar's of Khorasan, led by Sheykh Hasan Jowri against the Mongol Conquest of Iran. The director of this series is Mohammad Ali Najafi and it is written co-directed by Keyhan Rahgozar. Parts of this series also refer to the previous leader and the pioneer of the movement, Sheykh Khalifa of Mazandaran.

Sarbadars

1984

Dear brother poster
NR

The synopsis of the series Brother John states that Brother John is the story of brotherhood, equality, and sacrifice of three brothers who are famous and God and the people are at ease with them, until suddenly an incident occurs called Haqq-ol-Nas.

Dear brother

2018

No artwork available
NR

In this talk show—directed by Salar Tehrani and produced by Koosha Dehghan—host Farzad Farbod opens the guest's "Box of Life," inviting them to share their personal and professional stories and memories.

HamKalam

2026

No artwork available
NR

The residents of a neighboring apartment are living together in the house of Mr. "Firdous" and they are going through bitter and sweet days. Kind and empathetic families and neighbors who ultimately work together to solve each other's problems.

Hamsayeha

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