Reza Dadoie's Cheshme Sevom — 'The Third Eye' — steers an Iranian police procedural into thriller territory. Released in 2020, the action film follows an officer named Hamid whose routine casework pulls him into the orbit of an arms-smuggling network and a lethal professional operating from its shadows.
What is Cheshme sevom about?
Hamid is a serving police officer with sharp instincts and a loyal assistant at his side. When evidence surfaces linking a string of incidents to a mafia-style network trafficking weapons, the two men are assigned to unravel it. The deeper they push, the clearer it becomes that the smugglers are shielding something bigger: a trained operative with a violent plan that has to be stopped before it can be carried out. What begins as a paperwork-heavy smuggling case turns into a race against the clock, and Hamid is forced to gamble on his own judgment once official procedure runs out of road.
About the cast
Kambiz Banan, Payam Dehkordi and Hamidreza Farahani lead the cast, playing off each other with the sober, procedural energy the material calls for. Dehkordi brings a grounded presence to the ensemble, while Banan and Farahani fill out the film's world of investigators and smugglers. Director Reza Dadoie stages the confrontations with an emphasis on tension over spectacle.
Context & significance
Straight action films are relatively rare in Iranian cinema, a national industry better known for social drama and comedy; police thrillers about smuggling networks form one of the few well-travelled lanes the genre has. Cheshme Sevom, released in 2020, works inside that lane, alternating investigation scenes with bursts of confrontation. The title — the third eye — points to the intuition an investigator needs when the case file stops matching what is happening on the street. Viewers who like procedural detail alongside their action will find the film pitched squarely at them.
Watching Cheshme sevom on K-Time
Cheshme Sevom streams on K-Time in Persian. This page is free to read; watching requires nothing more than a K-Time account login. K-Time serves the Persian-speaking diaspora with a Farsi interface and a catalogue centred on Iranian cinema — a natural home for a homegrown thriller like this one.