List of the best Homayoun Ershadi movies: The Kite Runner(2007), Ali & Nino(2016), A Most Wanted Man(2014), Agora(2009) ... ...
Drama
USA|China|UK|Afghanistan
2007
128 Minutes
Baba
Khalid Abdalla Homayoun Ershadi Zekeria Ebrahimi Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada Shaun Toub Nabi Tanha Ali Danesh Bakhtyari Saïd Taghmaoui Atossa Leoni Abdul Qadir Farookh Maimoona Ghizal
young man friend father love interest rival emotional rousing afghanistan pakistan california taliban friendship coming of age escape refugees underdog growing up love 2000s
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Drama, Romance, History
2016
101 Minutes
Ali's Father
Adam Bakri María Valverde Mandy Patinkin Connie Nielsen Homayoun Ershadi Halit Ergenç Fakhraddin Manafov Nigar Gulahmadova
christian muslim girl boy traitor emotional engaging heartwarming moving passionate patriotic azerbaijan mountain train religious differences forbidden love war tradition society love
Ali Khan Shirvanshir, the male descendant of a royal Muslim family, falls in love with the beautiful Nino Kipiani, a Georgian princess who is Christian, while he is in Azerbaijan during World War I.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA|Germany
2014
121 Minutes
Dr. Abdullah
Philip Seymour Hoffman Rachel McAdams Grigoriy Dobrygin Willem Dafoe Robin Wright Homayoun Ershadi Nina Hoss Franz Hartwig Daniel Brühl Kostja Ullmann Vicky Krieps
spy terrorist government official co-worker civilian muslim brooding emotional intense germany office street car apartment helicopter spying defection inheritance suspicion work
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Romance, Adventure, Drama, History
Spain|Malta|Bulgaria
2009
126 Minutes
Aspasius
Rachel Weisz Max Minghella Oscar Isaac Ashraf Barhoum Michael Lonsdale Rupert Evans Richard Durden Sami Samir Manuel Cauchi Homayoun Ershadi Oshri Cohen
philosopher father student slave christian classmate melodramatic disheartening striking gripping alexandria, egypt library classroom street political unrest teaching unrequited love hypatia science vs. religion philosophical conflict
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.