| Year | Film | Functioned as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Role | |||
| 2000 | Swan Song | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2002 | Thirst | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2004 | Coma | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2006 | Cafe Setareh | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2006 | Wedding Dinner | No | Yes | No | ||
| 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 | |
MOVIES
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
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
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
Camp X-Ray
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
Tales
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
Melbourne
The film recounts the story of 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.
Director: Nima Javidi (as Ehsan Javidi)
Writer: Nima Javidi
Stars: Payman Maadi, Negar Javaherian, Mani Haghighi
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
13 Hours
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
Life+1Day
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.
Director: Saeed Roustayi
Writer: Saeed Roustayi
Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar
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
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
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