Direction: Amir Naderi

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Amir Naderi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Runner

1984 · Movie · 94 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Majid Niroumand · Abbas Nazeri · Musa Torkizadeh

Plot Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he...

6.5

45 votes

6.5

45 votes

Cut

2011 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Hidetoshi Nishijima · Takako Tokiwa · Takashi Sasano · Shun Sugata

Plot Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed...

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

5.4

74 votes

5.4

74 votes

Second Search

1981 · Documentary · min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

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The Search

1980 · Documentary · 85 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Plot It all began with "Black Friday" - a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah's police. Official pronouncements put the death toll at 200, but the next day the...

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Sound Barrier

2005 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Frank Glacken · Charlie Wilson · Louise Flory

Plot An 11-year old deaf-mute boy sets out to find an audio cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death, which may be locked in a storage room.

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A, B, C... Manhattan (ABC Manhattan)

1997 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Lucy Knight · Erin Norris · Sara Paul · Maisy Hughes

Plot Set over the course of one day in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, A,B,C Manhattan weaves together three stories of love, loss, survival and hope with unvarnished realism and highly choreographed...

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Waiting

1974 · Movie · 43 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Zohreh Ghahremani · Hasan Heidari · Farzaneh Yousefi

Plot One of Naderi's most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy's daily chore: bringing an elegant glass bowl to get filled with ice, and then...

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Monte

2016 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Andrea Sartoretti · Claudia Potenza · Zac Zanghellini · Marco Boriero

Plot An irrepressible villager decides to defeat a massive mountain in order to allow life into his inhospitable valley and to fight against a merciless fate. Monumentally told, this myth of...

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Marathon

2002 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Sara Paul · Trevor Moore · Merritt Nelson

Plot Gretchen, a young New Yorker who prefers clatter of the subway to the apparently more disturbing solitude of her apartment, sets out to beat her personal record by completing 77...

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Made in Iran

1979 · Movie · 86 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Candy Bergen · Emile Blasco · Chet Carlin · Billy Lankoo

Plot Ali is a young boxer who is going to America to pursue his dream of becoming a champion, but very soon is trapped by a gangster mob. He get involved...

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Harmonica

1974 · Movie · 75 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Abbas Pourahadi · Jomeh Vafabakhsh · Mehdi Javadi · Mahmoud Vafabakhsh

Plot On the sun-drenched southern coast of Iran, a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as they...

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Tight Spot

1973 · Movie · 112 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Behrouz Vossoughi · Parviz Fanizadeh · Jafar Vali · Enayat Bakhshi

Plot This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was...

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Water, Wind, Dust

1989 · Movie · 75 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Majid Niroumand

Plot A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling...

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60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

2011 · Movie · 61 min. · Estonia

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Tangna (Strait)

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Saeed Rad · Nuri Kasrai · Enayat Bakhshi · Mohammad Eskandari

Plot Ali Khoshdast is living a confused and pointless life until one day in a billiard game he picks a fight with three brothers, and one of them accidentally gets killed...

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Requiem

1978 · Movie · 106 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Manoucher Ahmadi · Afshid Azimnejad · Mahmoud Basiri · Morteza Emami

Plot 'Requiem' begins as Nasrollah, just released from prison, returns home to discover that his mother has died while he was incarcerated. Nasrollah hits the streets looking for work, but finding...

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Magic Lantern

2018 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Sophie Curtis · Brandon Sklenar · Ella Edwards · Monk Serrell Freed

Plot Mitch is a 22 year-old projectionist who is loading the last film for the final screening at a small theatre that is about to be converted into a digital cineplex....

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Goodbye Friend

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · Iran

Direction Amir Naderi

Cast Saeed Rad · Zackaria Hashemi · Jalal Pishvaian · Mehri Vadadian

Plot Naser who is a smart and experienced young guy knows that his retirement time from crime is near. He decides to do his last robbery and then marry the girl...

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Manhattan by Numbers

1993 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

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