Reza Naji
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.065 |
Birthday | 1942-12-26 |
Place of Birth | Tabriz, Iran |
Also Known As | Mohammad Amir Naji, محمدرضا امیرناجی, Mohammad Reza Amir Naji, Mohammad Reza Naji, رضا ناجی, محمد امیر ناجی, |
1997
Children of Heaven
7.9/610
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...
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Children of Heaven
2019
Texas 2
4/4
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...
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Texas 2
2005
The Willow Tree
6.7/20
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the li...
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The Willow Tree
2001
Baran
7.4/73
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...
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Baran
2008
The Song of Sparrows
7.4/66
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling...
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The Song of Sparrows
2010
Autumn
5.9/11
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...
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Autumn
2022
Apache
0/0
You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead...
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Apache
2023
Winners
0/0
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...
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Winners
2015
Sperm Whale
5/24
Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has br...
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Sperm Whale
2024
Projectionist
5/1
The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building painte...
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Projectionist
2016
Bench Cinema
8/1
Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man...
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Bench Cinema
2000
Birth of a Butterfly
0/0
Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film - that between two young children and their stepfather, a c...
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Birth of a Butterfly
2018
Sly
4/6
Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course...
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Sly
2009
Wind Blows in the Meadow
3/2
Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syn...
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Wind Blows in the Meadow
2018
The Redtails
2/1
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...
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The Redtails
1993
Circle of Death
0/0
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Circle of Death
2002
The Little Bird Boy
4.5/1
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 tale...
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The Little Bird Boy
2004
Kandaloos Gardens
0/0
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,...
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Kandaloos Gardens
2014
Shiva
6/1
Shiva is a girl
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Shiva
2013
Ziba and I
5.5/2
On a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives home. For the rest of life, Mousa accuses himself for...
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Ziba and I
2017
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
3.9/15
Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united sta...
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Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
2019
We Are All Together
3.4/7
The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...
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We Are All Together
2019
Newcastle
0/0
There is an old house in which some people are living without its owner's permission. Once, the people living there find out that the owner of the hou...
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Newcastle
2014
Angels Come Together
0/0
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 cau...
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Angels Come Together
1997
Tunnel 18
10/1
Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
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