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Khane-Ye Doust Kodjast? aka Where Is The Friend'S House? (1987) FR #852 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Iran, USA | Persian, English
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Babek Ahmedpoor, Ahmed Ahmedpoor, Khodabakhsh Defaei
Plot 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.
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Nema-Ye Nazdik aka Close-Up (1990) FR #1303 | Movie | Biography, Crime | Iran | Azerbaijani, Persian
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Plot 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.
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Ta'M E Guilass aka Taste Of Cherry (1997) FR #1794 | Movie | Drama | Iran, France | Persian, Kurdish
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
Plot An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
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Zendegi Va Digar Hich aka And Life Goes On (1992) FR #4038 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Iran, India | Persian, Hindi
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Behrouz Abedini
Plot 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.
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Zire Darakhatan Zeyton aka Through The Olive Trees (1994) FR #4537 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Iran, France | Persian, English
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Plot A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
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Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord aka The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) FR #4555 | Movie | Drama | France, Iran | Kurdish, Persian
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Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Mahmoud Aiden, Abbas Kiarostami
Cast Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi
Plot 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.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Abbas Kiarostami collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
