Best Abbas Kiarotsami Film
by SkyDeshpande | created - 09 Jul 2016 | updated - 11 May 2017 | PublicAs rightly said by Jean-Luc Godard-
" Cinema begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. "
Which of his films is your favorite?
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1. Taste of Cherry (1997)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Votes: 36,816 | Gross: $0.31M
2. Close-Up (1990)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes: 23,048 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Certified Copy (2010)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson
Votes: 26,921 | Gross: $1.34M
4. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
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.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi
Votes: 12,333 | Gross: $0.21M
5. Like Someone in Love (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.
Directors: Abbas Kiarostami, Banafsheh Modaressi | Stars: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase, Denden
Votes: 13,093 | Gross: $0.22M
6. Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Family
Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran Outari
Votes: 18,736
7. Through the Olive Trees (1994)
G | 103 min | Drama
A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai
Votes: 10,010 | Gross: $0.04M
8. And Life Goes On (1992)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Behrouz Abedini, Shahin Abzan
Votes: 7,482
9. Ten (2002)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mania Akbari, Amina Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Akbari
Votes: 8,612 | Gross: $0.11M
10. Shirin (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Votes: 2,852
11. Five (2003)
Drama
Alice discovers a lump in her breast. Martin, her husband, is trying to conceal the results from a study on the pill and breast cancer, which writes off years of dedicated research that ... See full summary »
Director: Silvia Kovatchev | Stars: Christi Powell, Lynda Muir, Peter Nelson, Steve Caley
Votes: 9
12. The Traveler (1974)
83 min | Drama
A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Masud Zandbegleh, Hassan Darabi, Mostafa Tari, Hasan Arab
Votes: 2,150
13. A Suit for Wedding (1976)
54 min | Drama
A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a ... See full summary »
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mohammad Fassih, Massoud Zand, Mehdi Nekoueï, Reza Hashemi
Votes: 753
14. The Report (1977)
112 min | Drama
The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Kurosh Afsharpanah, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mostafa Tari, Mehdi Montazar
Votes: 1,266
15. ABC Africa (2001)
Unrated | 83 min | Documentary
Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Abbas Kiarostami, Seifollah Samadian
Votes: 865 | Gross: $0.01M
A Docomentary
16. Homework (1989)
86 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Abbas Kiarostami
Votes: 1,920
A Docomentary
17. Roads of Kiarostami (2005)
32 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary which is consist of poetry, music and photos. Kiarostami made this of some photos he had take from some Iran's roads which he has passed himself during many years.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Star: Abbas Kiarostami
Votes: 359
A Documentary
18. The Bread and Alley (1970)
10 min | Drama, Short
A child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Reza Hashemi, Mehdi Shahravanfar
Votes: 1,511
A Short Film
19. Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh (1975)
5 min | Short
When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Saeid, Hamid
Votes: 1,192
A Short Film
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