Shabnam Toloui

Known for Acting

Biography

Shabnam Toloui is known for Dust, flower, flame (2016), Women Without Men (2009) and The Day I Became a Woman (2000).

Known For (8 credits)

6.0

Movie

The Siren

2023

November 1980. Southern Iran. We are at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Abadan, the capital of the Iranian petrol industry resists the repeated assaults of the Iraqi army, but is soon under full siege. Omid, a 14-year-old boy, has stayed back in the city, with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to come back from the frontline. Along with Omid, we discover several other uncommon characters, each one having stayed for a personal reason. Each one resisting in his own way. But as the Iraqi siege of the city hardens, Omid has to quickly find a way to save those he loves.

6.0

Movie

Mitra

2021

“37 years after her daughter Mitra was executed in Iran and she fled her home country, Haleh leads a successful life as a renowned academic in the Netherlands. Her peaceful existence is shaken by the arrival of a woman she believes may be the traitor responsible for Mitra’s death.”

5.0

Movie

Red Rose

2014

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

6.4

Movie

Women Without Men

2009

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Movie

Chocolate

2004

Famous actor Amin Hayaei has an accident with a poor young man named Mahmoud. Mahmoud's sister's husband Shapour convinces him to pretend that his back was injured in an accident while in reality Mahmoud's back was injured in the Iran-Iraq war and is unable to walk so that they can recover their financial situation by receiving damages. and organize

7.5

Movie

A House Built on Water

2002

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

6.1

Movie

The Day I Became a Woman

2000

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.

5.7

Movie

To Be or Not to Be

1998

A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant.