Payman Maadi

Payman Maadi

1970-07-30 New York City, New York, USA 38 Credits

Biography

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 ...

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Crime 101

2026

Acting

A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived ...

Woman and Child

Woman and Child

2025

as Hamid

8.7
Acting

Mahnaz, a 40-year-old widowed nurse, struggles with her rebellious son, Aliyar, who has been suspended from school. Family tensions reach a peak durin...

Arenas

Arenas

2025

6.0
Acting

At just 18, Brahim, a promising young footballer, is represented by his agent and cousin Mehdi. He is about to fulfil his dream of signing his first p...

Hard Shell

Hard Shell

2024

Acting

Leila, a young and talented tightrope walker, was banned from performing by the authorities. Since then, she has been working in her father's old circ...

Opponent

Opponent

2023

as Iman

6.0
Acting

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 S...

Aporia

Aporia

2023

as Jabir

6.1
Acting

Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist re...

Parfum

Parfum

2023

Acting

A Los Angeles luxury real estate agent finds herself in crisis after making a strange discovery during a routine showing. PARFUM explores the absurd d...

Leila's Brothers

Leila's Brothers

2022

as Manouchehr

7.6
Acting

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 fro...

Like a Fish on the Moon

Like a Fish on the Moon

2022

Technical Advisor

Haleh and her husband Amir are having to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking. There is evidently no...

Hamid's Symphony

Hamid's Symphony

2022

as Payman

Acting

Hamid Symphony is a story about the life of Hamid Alidosti, a former Iranian football star. "Hamid Symphony" invites you to watch life away from the h...

Night Shift

Night Shift

2020

as Asomidin Tohirov

5.2
Acting

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 ...

Walnut Tree

Walnut Tree

2020

as Qader

7.0
Acting

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 ...

6 Underground

6 Underground

2019

as Murat Alimov

6.3
Acting

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.

Law of Tehran

Law of Tehran

2019

as Samad

7.2
Acting

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 searc...

Suddenly a Tree

Suddenly a Tree

2019

as Farhad

4.6
Acting

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...

Suddenly a Tree

Suddenly a Tree

2019

Producer

4.6
Producing

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...

Pig

Pig

2018

as Payman Maadi

5.8
Acting

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...

Bomb: A Love Story

Bomb: A Love Story

2018

as Iraj

6.8
Acting

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,...

Bomb: A Love Story

Bomb: A Love Story

2018

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

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,...

Window Horses

Window Horses

2017

as Payman

6.6
Acting

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 he...

Life and a Day

Life and a Day

2016

as Morteza

7.9
Acting

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...

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

2016

as Amahl

7.3
Acting

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.

Last Knights

Last Knights

2015

as Emperor

6.4
Acting

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 a...

Camp X-Ray

Camp X-Ray

2014

as Ali

6.7
Acting

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 Guantana...

Melbourne

Melbourne

2014

6.3
Acting

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, ...

Tales

Tales

2014

as Taxi Driver

6.8
Acting

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, whic...

The Snow on the Pines

The Snow on the Pines

2013

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantim...

Mourning

Mourning

2011

as Masoud (voice)

5.4
Acting

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 t...

From Iran, a Separation

From Iran, a Separation

2011

as Self - Actor

8.6
Acting

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...

A Separation

A Separation

2011

as Nader

7.9
Acting

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 aft...

About Elly

About Elly

2009

as Peyman

7.4
Acting

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 tr...

Cafe Setareh

Cafe Setareh

2006

Writer

4.9
Writing

Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's ...

Wedding Dinner

Wedding Dinner

2006

Writer

4.0
Writing

Two youngsters from rich families fall in love and decide to get marry but they don't know that both their parents are broke. This creates funny situa...

Coma

Coma

2004

Writer

5.6
Writing

This comedy narrates the many adventures of a millionaire's handsome, sassy son named Amir - born into a world of privilege, he is used to getting eve...

Thirst

Thirst

2003

Writer

Writing

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 ...

Swan Song

Swan Song

2001

Writer

4.0
Writing

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 ...

The Test

N/A

Acting

A soft-spoken immigrant taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising "the test" confront a terrorist gro...

Enemies

Enemies

N/A

Acting

A solitary hitman's new job catches a detective's attention, leading both to discover unexpected similarities between them.