13 Movies Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Where is the Friend's Home?

Where is the Friend's Home?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-03-21

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (4790 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaFamily

Fullplot:

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Close-Up

Close-Up

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-10-30

Languages:

Persian, Azerbaijani

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (6816 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Hossain Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Tehran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The actual people involved in the incident re-enact the actual events, followed by the footage from the actual trial that took place.

Life, and Nothing More...

Life, and Nothing More...

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-10-21

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (2101 Reviews)

Fullplot:

After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to search for the actors of the movie the director made there a few years ago, Khane-ye Doust Kodjast? (1987). In their search, they found how people who had lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-01-25

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

France, Iran

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3223 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Abbas Kiarostami

Harold Manning (french adaptation)

Hengameh Panahi (french adaptation)

Fullplot:

The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that they should get married.

Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-11-26

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran, France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (12606 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him - he has already dug out the grave in the mountains, but the assistant will have to bury him when he will do the deed. He asks Kurd soldier, Afghan seminarian, but everyone refuses by some reason. Finally he finds an old Turkish taxidermist, who has a sick son and previously attempted suicide himself, and he agrees to assist Badii.

The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-24

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran, France

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (4722 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

ABC Africa

ABC Africa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-24

Languages:

Persian, English

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(498 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures and caresses the faces of a thousand children - all orphans - whose parents have died of AIDS. Recording tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death, the film attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease.

Ten

Ten

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-09-18

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

France, Iran

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (4711 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Ten, the latest film by Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, focuses on ten conversations between a female driver in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a women on her way to prayer and others, shed light on the lives and emotions of these women whose voices are seldom heard.

Tickets

Tickets

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-03-25

Languages:

Italian, English, German, Albanian, Persian

Countries:

Italy, UK

Runtime:

109 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1961 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Abbas Kiarostami (screenplay)

Paul Laverty (screenplay)

Ermanno Olmi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

Certified Copy

Certified Copy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-25

Languages:

French, English, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy, Belgium, Iran

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (13076 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Caroline Eliacheff (collaborator on screenplay)

Abbas Kiarostami

Fullplot:

James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a country-side drive to a local Italian village. Here, they discuss various works of art found in the town, and also the nature of their relationship - which gets both more revealed and concealed as the day progresses.

Certified Copy

Certified Copy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-25

Languages:

French, English, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy, Belgium, Iran

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (13118 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Caroline Eliacheff (collaborator on screenplay)

Abbas Kiarostami

Fullplot:

James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a country-side drive to a local Italian village. Here, they discuss various works of art found in the town, and also the nature of their relationship - which gets both more revealed and concealed as the day progresses.

Shirin

Shirin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-01-20

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1485 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A 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.

Like Someone in Love

Like Someone in Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-09-15

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

France, Japan

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (5996 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Abbas Kiarostami (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Like Someone in Love I is a Japanese film directed by Abbas kiarostami. It has been selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set during the mighty Heisei Dynasty-period in Japanese history. Written by Abbas kiarostami.

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