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Divar Defaei

2026 TV Show Drama

Set against the backdrop of 1950 and the days leading up to the nationalization of the oil industry, *The Defensive Wall* follows the story of Iranian workers in the south; these workers stand up to the British company to claim their rights, and a football match subsequently transforms into an arena for rivalry, solidarity, and the defense of national honor and identity.

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Salhae Door Az Khana poster
TV

A Soldier "Khanjari" (played by Ahmad Mehranfar) who had come to Tehran from the north and was serving his military service at the police station of 100 Mellat. One of the accused who was brought to the police station was a young lady named Elizabeth who had a dog named Lucy. Dagger falls in love with Elizabeth and when he finds out that Elizabeth's dog has been impounded, he mistakenly takes a dog instead of Lucy and gives it to Elizabeth. Elizabeth, who realizes that the dog is not hers, leaves the park under the pretext of parking her car in order not to upset Daggeri.

Salhae Door Az Khana

2019 Comedy
The Engineer Child poster
TV

The story of this series is set in contemporary history and in three phases: childhood, adolescence, and youth. A boy is abandoned as a baby because his father did not want him to be born and decides to sell him for his gambling to make money. One night, after a few months, he comes home and finds the child. He has a fight with his wife and the mother and child leave the house. The mother places the child in an orphanage, where they name the child Javad Javadi, and the story of Javad's life is narrated from there.

The Engineer Child

Drama
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4.8 TV

The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.

Bitter Coffee

2010 Comedy
The Seven Labors of Esfandiar poster
TV

King Goshtasp of Iran returned from a great battle only to discover that Arjasp, the king of Turan, had seized upon the Iranians’ embrace of the true faith and monotheism as a pretext to invade Iran in his absence. Arjasp had ravaged the land and its people, and taken Goshtasp’s daughters, Homay and Beh-Afarid, captive. Goshtasp freed Esfandiar from his chains, and Esfandiar, to rescue his imprisoned sisters, chose to face the perilous passage through the Seven Labors—each filled with terror and deadly trials.

The Seven Labors of Esfandiar

2023 Drama

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88% match TV

The story of this series is set in contemporary history and in three phases: childhood, adolescence, and youth. A boy is abandoned as a baby because his father did not want him to be born and decides to sell him for his gambling to make money. One night, after a few months, he comes home and finds the child. He has a fight with his wife and the mother and child leave the house. The mother places the child in an orphanage, where they name the child Javad Javadi, and the story of Javad's life is narrated from there.

The Engineer Child

Drama

Shares a lead actor · Same director