The best Abbas Kiarostami’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Abbas Kiarostami’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Abbas Kiarostami.
Close-Up
8.2/10
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
8.4/10
The story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Covering six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other.
Homework
7.8/10
Documentary Abbas Kiarostami directed in 1989 after realizing he was having difficulties assisting his son with his homework. Kiarostami interviewed young male students at a local school to find out what kind of problems kids faced completing their homework, which in Iran requires a great deal of parental assistance (or did at the time).
Kurosawa's Way
7.1/10
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
What is Cinema?
6.1/10
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
7.3/10
Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids the talking heads of so many artistic memoirs to offer more candid clips of Kiarostami the man: lover of poetry, convivial with friends, engaging landscapes on and off screen, laughing with other artists. The artist and visionary emerges more clearly but so does a loving, wondrous man whom we will miss now as much as the auteur.
Close to Kiarostami
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
5.6/10
A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
Chaplin Today: The Kid
6.5/10
This documentary is featured on the 2-Disc Chaplin Collection DVD for The Kid (1921), released in 2004.
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
6.8/10
Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
7.7/10
Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer.
10 on Ten
6.7/10
"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming and how he taped certain sequences in "Ten" in 2001.
Roads of Kiarostami
6.6/10
Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a whole.
The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
A film by Fergus Daly
Around Five
Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.
A Good Time for Tragedy
A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.
A Walk with Kiarostami
6.4/10
U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before.
Let's See Copia Conforme
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).
Vida
Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
7.7/10
A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.
