Nasser Taghvai (Persian: ناصر تقوایی, also romanized as Nāser Taghvā'i and Nāser Taqvāyi; born 13 July 1941) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.

After early experiences as a story writer, he began filming documentaries in 1967.

He made his debut, Tranquility in the Presence of Others, in 1970 and gained the attention of Iranian critics.

His concern for the ethnography and atmosphere of southern Iran is notable in his films.

Captain Khorshid is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, which won the third prize at the 48th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 1988.