
Merila Zarei
Actor · b. 1974 · Tehran, Iran
Merila Zarei (مریلا زارعی) was born on 14 April 1974. She is an Iranian actress famous for A Separation, About Elly, Hush! Girls Don't Scream, Two Women, Track 143, the Fifth Reaction, Keifar, The Unwanted Woman and The Outcast. She graduated from Azad University of Tehran. During her studies Merila Zarei became interested in acting through Ezatollah Entezami's acting courses. Her first movie was in Ali Asghar Shadravan's Patak. She received the Crystal Simorgh for the best actress in a supporting role for The Friday's Soldiers from the 22nd Fajr International Film Festival. More recently, Merila Zarei appeared in Ebrahim Hatamiki a's 2016 feature film 'Bodyguard' and Reza Mirkarimi's multi award winning movie 'Daughter'.
Movies22
Movie7.9DramaA 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.
Movie7.5DramaThe 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.
Movie6.5HistoryDramaA Pharaoh dreams of a future conqueror who will threaten his rule. As persecution begins, Moses is born secretly and rescued from Infanticide. Raised under divine guidance, he matures to confront tyranny and lead his people toward liberation.
Movie6.2DramaA hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Movie5.8ThrillerFereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.
Movie3.0ComedyDramaa film about how attitude dissimilar family against abortion .....
Movie5.5DramaDuring Iran-Iraq war Noor Aldin who is a carpenter is missing. He is captured by Iraqi army. After 8 years he returns home, but finds out that in his absence his wife is married to another man.
Movie4.0DramaThe story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.
Movie6.5ComedyFantasyThe story is about a planet named Sumarai, damned by devil, so the king and his daughters have been changed to cats. But the youngest girl has time to save her life and her family; she ...
Movie3.0his movie follows a boy who lives with his mother in a village. The boy has lost his father and needs to travel to Tehran with his soon to be stepfather.
MovieDramaThe story is about Mojtaba, an archive employee who is stuck in the boring routine of life. He suffers from sleep disorders and in his dreams meets a woman who changes his life.
Movie5.2ActionDramaA government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.
Movie4.0DramaGita' juxtaposes the ups and downs experienced by a couple (Gita and Amir) whose routine life is faced with despair due to their son's trip abroad. The lead role Gita encounters serious challenges and her life is accompanied with unexpected events.
Movie4.8DramaFamilyWhen Mahi's son dies in a car accident, Behrouz who has returned to Iran to sell his properties, attends the funeral. Their old romance catches up while Behrouz has planned to marry Sara and go back to Canada with her.
Movie2.0DramaIran and Spain have agreed to launch a major project on Honduran Island in southern Iran, companies and many people have been keen to win the bid ...
Movie6.7CrimeDramaHours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically troubled. But as the dark secrets in her past are slowly revealed, exposing a childhood of neglect, abuse, and the tragic history of two previous failed marriages, the characters must face their own battles with justice, retribution, and morality.
Movie6.1DramaWarOlfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
Movie5.0DramaMysterySome college students who study cinema take a rich girl as a hostage hoping to become actors but little by little things gets more complicated making difficult for them to distinguish the real from the unreal.
Movie5.0DramaA sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
Movie5.7DramaA young girl leaves her hometown in south of Iran for a half day trip without permission of his strict father to attend a close friend's goodbye party. In her way back home hazy weather changes all she planned.
Movie4.3CrimeDramaSahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ...
Movie5.7WarTwo days in the life of Mostafa Chamran, Iran's first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he attempts to prevent the city of Paveh from falling to Kurdish separatists in 1979.
Series8
TV6.8FamilyDramaThe young Naser'eddin Shah recently ordered the assassination of his beloved Prime Minister Amir Kabir, and the court, the shrine, the government, and the country underwent significant changes. At the same time and in the village of Kuhsar Tajrish, Khadijeh, the daughter of Mohammad Ali Najjar, hid the joyful love of a young man named Siavash in her chest.
TV7.7DramaCrimeThe adventures of a movie director who gets involved in a murder case.
TVCrimeDramaIt shows the lives of people facing different challenges and events in society.
TV9.0The story begins with the death of Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliph, and the coming to power of his son Amin. In the continuation of the war between Amin and his brother Mamun, the caliphate of Mamun and the bringing of Ali ibn Musa al-Reza to Merv is shown. It also describes the important events of this period, such as the rain prayer, the Eid al-Fitr prayer, and the debates between religions
TV7.5DramaHengameh needs money to save his brother's life. He takes a big risk to prepare this money and...
TVDramaCrimeAfter an unexpected and deadly tragedy occurs at a wedding party, a criminal investigator assigned to investigate the case is confronted with shocking truths...
TV4.3DramaFamilyThey have always had great and beautiful love, great and dreadful enemies, the lover and the beloved have to face many sufferings for the sake of their poetic love…
TV8.0DramaMysteryThrough a mysterious book, Lily discovers that she and her family have lived in many times and places, and now it is Lily's turn to decipher the book and find a valuable painting of her ancestors to make a choice that gives meaning to all these lives and...