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...
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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
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6.3
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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
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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
Direction Shinji Aoyama · Aki Kaurismäki · Michael Glawogger · Sogo Ishii
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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
Direction Amir Naderi
Cast John Wojda · Daniel Oreskes · Mary F. Geng · Eddie Olmedo
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