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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The End
2024
Executive Producer
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
2023
Executive Producer
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
2023
Director, Producer
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
2022
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2022
Executive Producer
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
2021
Producer
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
2021
Producer
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
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
2021
Director, Screenplay, Editor
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
2018
Producer
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
2018
Producer, Writer, Director
Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.

Fahrenheit 451
2018
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

99 Homes
2015
Director, Writer, Editor
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
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
2014
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
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
2013
Director
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
2012
Screenplay, Director, Producer
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
2009
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
2009
Editor, Screenplay, Director
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Chop Shop
2008
Director, Editor, Writer
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
2006
Producer, Screenplay, Editor
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
Stray dogs in Thessaloniki, Greece.

11’09”01—September 11: India
2002
Extras Casting
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
2000
as Kaveh Dalaki
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
2000
Director, Writer, Casting Director
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
1998
Director
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
N/A
Director, Screenplay
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
N/A
Director
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...