Abbas Kiarostami — Playwright (11)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Key (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
کلید
director: Ebrahim Forouzesh actor: Mahnaz Ansarian / Abbas Jafari
other title: The key / کلید
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his bottle while she is away. However, the boy has a different idea about what he should do, and consumes most of the bottle himself. The hungry baby's cries arouse the neighbors to try and get into the apartment, but it is locked, and the four-year old can't (or, more likely, won't) let them in. Despite a number of near-disasters, the enterprising young boy manages things just well enough (with the occasional help of shouted advice from frantic neighbors) so that serious calamities are avoided.