List of the best Abbas Kiarostami movies: The Wind Will Carry Us(1999), Certified Copy(2010), Like Someone in Love(2012), 10(2002), Tickets(2005) ... ...
Drama
Iran|France
1999
118 Minutes
Director
Behzad Dourani
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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.
Romance, Drama
France|Italy|Belgium|Iran
2010
106 Minutes
Director
Juliette Binoche William Shimell Jean-Claude Carrière Agathe Natanson Gianna Giachetti Adrian Moore Angelo Barbagallo Andrea Laurenzi Filippo Troiano
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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.
Drama
2002
94 Minutes
Director
Mania Akbari Amin Maher Roya Arabshahi Katayoun Taleidzadeh Mandana Sharbaf Amene Moradi
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An Iranian (Mania Akbari) grapples with her anxieties about men and discusses her second marriage with her resentful son (Amin Maher).
Comedy, Drama
2005
106 Minutes
Abbas Kiarostami Carlo Delle Piane Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Silvana De Santis Filippo Trojano Carolina Benvenga Marta Mangiucca Martin Compston William Ruane Gary Maitland
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Three stories about train passengers involve a biochemist (Carlo Delle Piane) and an attractive woman (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a general's widow (Silvana De Santis), and rowdy soccer fans.