Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani

1975-03-20 North Carolina, USA 29 Credits

Biography

Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the decade and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade."  Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France.

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The End

The End

2024

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they ...

A Little Prayer

A Little Prayer

2023

Executive Producer

4.0
Producing

Tammy and husband David lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill and Venida. David and Bill work ...

If Dreams Were Lightning

If Dreams Were Lightning

2023

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Ramin Bahrani explores a precarious community ill-equipped to handle catastrophe, and in so doing captures the human cost of inequality, a moral failu...

2nd Chance

2nd Chance

2022

Director, Producer, Writer

6.6
Directing Producing Writing

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 ...

Joyland

Joyland

2022

Executive Producer

7.4
Producing

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and fal...

7 Prisoners

7 Prisoners

2021

Producer

7.0
Producing

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

Luzzu

Luzzu

2021

Producer

6.9
Producing

Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the wor...

Talking Heads 2021

2021

as Self

1.0
Acting

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...

The White Tiger

The White Tiger

2021

Director, Screenplay, Editor

7.0
Directing Writing

An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller...

Sócrates

Sócrates

2018

Producer

6.3
Producing

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms wit...

Blood Kin

Blood Kin

2018

Producer, Writer, Director

5.0
Producing Writing Directing

Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

2018

Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Producing Writing

In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

99 Homes

99 Homes

2015

Director, Writer, Editor

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with th...

Lemonade War

2014

Director, Producer, Writer

5.0
Directing Producing Writing

In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry runs his big business lemonade stand and has the market cornered, until ten-year-old Addie opens her own st...

Lift You Up

Lift You Up

2014

Director, Producer, Writer

6.0
Directing Producing Writing

Glyn Stewart inspects eggs at a food bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He volunteers and helps people. He wonders about his life, his love, his d...

Life Itself

Life Itself

2014

as Self - Filmmaker

7.5
Acting

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor...

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment

2013

Director

7.7
Directing

Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from...

At Any Price

At Any Price

2012

Screenplay, Director, Producer

5.4
Writing Directing Producing

Set in the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple wants his rebellious son Dean to help expand his family’s farming empire. ...

Plastic Bag

Plastic Bag

2009

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.5
Directing Writing Producing

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

Goodbye Solo

Goodbye Solo

2009

Editor, Screenplay, Director

6.9
Writing Directing Producing

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Chop Shop

Chop Shop

2008

Director, Editor, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard...

Man Push Cart

Man Push Cart

2006

Producer, Screenplay, Editor

6.9
Producing Writing Directing

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every...

Dogs

2005

Director

Directing

Stray dogs in Thessaloniki, Greece.

11’09”01—September 11: India

11’09”01—September 11: India

2002

Extras Casting

7.0

It is September 11, 2001, and a young man goes missing in New York. Because of his eastern name and his Islamic religion, he is suspected of being inv...

Strangers

Strangers

2000

as Kaveh Dalaki

Acting

Kaveh, a young man from America, walks the roads of southern Iran searching for Dehdari, his recently deceased and estranged father's childhood home. ...

Strangers

Strangers

2000

Director, Writer, Casting Director

Directing Writing Producing

Kaveh, a young man from America, walks the roads of southern Iran searching for Dehdari, his recently deceased and estranged father's childhood home. ...

Backgammon

Backgammon

1998

Director

6.0
Directing

Backgammon tells the tale of a young Iranian American girl who desperately wants to play backgammon with her stubborn grandfather who has recently arr...

Amnesty

Amnesty

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Set in Australia, Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses, realizes that he has information about the murder of one of his employers. Over ...

Last Meals

Last Meals

N/A

Director

Directing

Walter Karat is a former White House Chef whose fall from grace has landed him in the kitchen of a maximum security prison cooking for death row inmat...