Abbas Kiarostami — Director (21)
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Close-Up (1990) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
8.6 (14 ratings) director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Hossain Sabzian / Monoochehr Ahankhah …
other title: Close Up / Close-up …
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
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Where Is The Friend's House? (1987) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
خانه‌ی دوست کجاست؟
8.9 (11 ratings) director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Babek Ahmed Poor / Ahmed Ahmed Poor …
other title: Dov'è la casa del mio amico? / Wo ist das Haus meines Freundes? …
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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Taste of Cherry (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
طعم گيلاس
8.1 (9 ratings) director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Homayoun Ershadi / Abdolrahman Bagheri …
other title: Il sapore della ciliegia / O Sabor da Cereja …
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
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The Traveler (1974) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
مسافر
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Hassan Darabi / Masud Zandbegleh …
other title: Le Passager / El viajero …
Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors.
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Life, and Nothing More… (1992) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
زندگی و دیگر هیچ
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Farhad Kheradmand / Buba Bayour …
other title: E la vita continua / E a Vida Continua …
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
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Through the Olive Trees (1994) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
زیر درختان زیتون
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Mohammadali Keshavarz / Farhad Kheradmand …
other title: Sotto gli ulivi / Através das Oliveiras …
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theo Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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Like Someone in Love (2012) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Like Someone in Love
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Rin Takanashi / Tadashi Okuno …
other title: Qualcuno da amare / Like Someone in Love (Como alguien enamorado) …
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
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The Report (1977) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
گزارش‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Shohreh Aghdashloo / Kurosh Afsharpanah …
other title: The report / گزارش‎‎ …
A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home.
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24 Frames (2017) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
24 Frames
director: Abbas Kiarostami
other title: 24帧 / 24 فریم …
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
باد ما را خواهد برد
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Behzad Dorani / Farzad Sohrabi …
other title: Il vento ci porterà via / باد ما را خواهد برد …
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish 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.
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Lumière & Company (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lumière et Compagnie
director: Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) [Movie] TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Antonio Capuano … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
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Ten (2002) [Movie] TMDB
ده
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Mania Akbari / Amina Maher …
other title: Dieci / Dez …
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
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Recess (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
زنگ تفریح‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Sirous Hassanpour
other title: La Récréation / La hora del recreo …
A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home.
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The Colours (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
...رنگ‌ها
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Shahin Amir Arjomand
other title: Couleurs / Los colores …
By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours.
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The Bread and Alley (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
نان و کوچه‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Reza Hashemi / Mehdi Shahravanfar
other title: Le Pain et la Rue / نان و کوچه‎‎ …
After returning from an errand to get bread, a young boy encounters a dog that frightens him making the journey to get home more difficult than he could’ve imagined.
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The Chorus (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
همسرایان
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Yoosef Moghaddam
other title: Le Choeur / همسرایان …
An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to see him.