Payman Maadi

Payman Maadi

Born: July 30, 1970
in New York, New York, USA
Peyman Maadi (پیمان معادی) was born in 1970 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. Peyman Maadi's family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer of several famous Iranian films. Peyman Maadi started his acting career in Asghar Farhadi's film About Elly (2009). Two years later, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Actor in Leading Role for his performance as Nader in Farhadi's A Separation (2011) from the Berlin International Film Fest.

Movies for Payman Maadi...

Title: Viper Of Tehran
Character: Arman Bayani
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: TV
The adventures of a movie director who gets involved in a murder case.
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Opponent
Title: Opponent
Character: Iman
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumors start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
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Aporia
Title: Aporia
Character: Jabir
Released: August 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
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Parfum
Title: Parfum
Released: January 8, 2023
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles luxury real estate agent finds herself in crisis after making a strange discovery during a routine showing. PARFUM explores the absurd dichotomy between California’s ever-increasing obsession with luxury real estate and lifestyle culture (as depicted in Netflix’s hit reality show “Selling Sunset”) and California’s simultaneous increase in wildfires, mudslides, and other climate disasters.
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Leila's Brothers
Title: Leila's Brothers
Character: Manouchehr
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.
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Hamid's Symphony
Title: Hamid's Symphony
Released: March 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A Film By Jafar Sadeghi
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Character: Asomidin Tohirov
Released: May 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find out about the truth, they have to make a difficult choice.
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Walnut Tree
Title: Walnut Tree
Character: Qader
Released: February 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
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6 Underground
Title: 6 Underground
Character: Murat Alimov
Released: December 10, 2019
Type: Movie
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
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Law of Tehran
Title: Law of Tehran
Character: Samad
Released: March 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
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Suddenly a Tree
Title: Suddenly a Tree
Character: Farhad
Released: February 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he is freed years later, he goes to his old love, Mahtab. Through conversations with his psychoanalyst and interrogations with the police, Farhad reveals the story of his life.
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Pig
Title: Pig
Character: Payman Maadi
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?
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Bomb: A Love Story
Title: Bomb: A Love Story
Character: Iraj
Released: February 20, 2018
Type: Movie
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.
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Title: Westworld
Character: Elliot
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: TV
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
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Title: The Night Of
Character: Salim Khan
Released: July 10, 2016
Type: TV
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Title: Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Character: Payman
Released: June 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.
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Life and a Day
Title: Life and a Day
Character: Morteza
Released: March 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Title: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Character: Amahl
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: Movie
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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Last Knights
Title: Last Knights
Character: Emperor
Released: April 3, 2015
Type: Movie
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
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Camp X-Ray
Title: Camp X-Ray
Character: Ali
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
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Melbourne
Title: Melbourne
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event.
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Tales
Title: Tales
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.
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Mourning
Title: Mourning
Character: Masoud (voice)
Released: October 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
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From Iran, a Separation
Title: From Iran, a Separation
Character: Self - Actor
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
In March 2012, Iranian movie "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people this was more than a cinematic award. When sanctions and threats of war with Iran covered the world headlines, Farhadi talked about Iran's love for peace and the rich culture of the Iranians on the stage when receiving his award. This time the Iranians voice was heard through someone other than the government officials. This documentary shows the reaction of the Iranians to this Oscar award and has a general view on Iran's society of today.
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A Separation
Title: A Separation
Character: Nader
Released: February 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
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About Elly
Title: About Elly
Character: Peyman
Released: June 6, 2009
Type: Movie
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Arenas
Title: Arenas
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Brahim is a promising 18-year-old footballer who is about to make his dream come true: to sign his first professional contract at Lyon, his club, his city. But the emergence of a powerful foreign agent at the club changes all that. With Mehdi, his cousin and agent, Brahim embarks on a race against the clock in the transfer market, "le mercato", where anything goes.