| Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Role | |||
| 2000 | Swan Song | No | Yes | No | with Saeed Assadi | |
| 2002 | Thirst | No | Yes | No | Costumes Designer | |
| 2004 | Coma | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2006 | Cafe Setareh | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2006 | Wedding Dinner | No | Yes | No | Director Advisor | |
| 2007 | Lipstick (Short film) | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| 2009 | About Elly | No | No | Yes | Payman | |
| 2011 | Mourning | No | No | Yes | Honorary presence | |
| 2011 | A Separation | No | No | Yes | Nader | |
| 2013 | The Snow on the pines | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| 2014 | Camp X-Ray | No | No | Yes | Ali Amir | |
| 2014 | Melbourne | No | No | Yes | Amir | |
| 2014 | Tales | No | No | Yes | Taxi Driver | |
| 2015 | Last Knights | No | No | Yes | Emperor | |
| 2016 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | No | No | Yes | Amahl | |
| 2016 | The Night Of | No | No | Yes | Salim Khan, Nasir’s father | |
| 2016 | Window Horses | No | No | Yes | Payman | Voice |
Avaz-e ghoo
After being unjustly expelled from university, a young couple return home to parents who are against their union. After the young man is arrested and subsequently breaks out of prison, the …Director: Saeed Assadi
Writers: Saeed Assadi, Payman Maadi
Thirst
A trio of misfits – a hoodlum, a master of disguise, and a thief join forces to perform one of the biggest and most daring heists of their lives. The place? One of the most important hotels…
2002
Director: Hossein FarahBakhsh
Writer: Payman Maadi
Coma
A young doctorate graduate and son of a religon-exploiting rich man, in the verge of leaving Iran for the United States is confronted with events and accidents, hindering while educating him of the other classes in Iranian society.
2004
Director: Arash Moayerian
Writer: Payman Maadi
Cafe Setareh
The story is about lives of three women living in an old neighborhood; one has a cafe, one is the landlady and the youngest one is engaged and waiting to get married. They somehow link together with their problems.
2006
Director: Saman Moghadam
Writer:Payman Maadi
Wedding Dinner
2006
Director:Ebrahim Vahidzadeh
Writer: Payman Maadi
About Elly
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.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writers: Asghar Farhadi (screenplay), Azad Jafarian (story)
Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Payman Maadi
Mourning
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 …
Director: Morteza Farshbaf
Writers: Morteza Farshbaf (story), Anahita Ghazvinizadeh(screenplay)
Stars: Kiomars Giti, Sharareh Pasha, Amir Hossein Maleki,Payman Maadi
A Separation
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.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
The Snow on the pines
A piano teacher (Mahnaz Afshar) faced with a major event in her personal life, some secrets of her husband life is revealed … In a two-way decision, she must either make her choice in …
2012
Director:Payman Maadi
Writer: Payman Maadi
Tales
A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.
Director: Peter Sattler
Writer: Peter Sattler
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison
Melbourne
A series of seven vignettes about different people dealing with their every day problems in modern day Iran, that are loosely related to each other.
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad (as Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)
Writers: Rakhshan Banietemad (as Rakhshan Bani-Etemad),Farid Mostafavi
Stars: Habib Rezaei, Mohammad Reza Forutan,Mehraveh Sharifinia, Payman Maadi
Last Knights
A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master.
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya (as Kaz I Kiriya)
Writers: Michael Konyves (screenplay), Dove Sussman (screenplay)
Stars: Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie,Payman Maadi
Tales
During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Chuck Hogan (screenplay), Mitchell Zuckoff (book)
Stars: John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale ,Payman Maadi
The Night Of
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.
Creators: Richard Price, Steven Zaillian
Stars: Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, Bill Camp, Payman Maadi
Window Horses
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Writer: Ann Marie Fleming (screenplay)
Stars: Ellen Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh,Payman Maadi
Bomb
The film is based on the Tehran’s Bombardment conditions in 1988.
Director: Payman Maadi
Writer: Payman Maadi
Stars: Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Siamak Ansari