Ramin Bahrani
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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Movies (35)

Zejtune
2026 · Producer

Extremist
2025 · Executive Producer

A Little Prayer
2025 · Executive Producer

The End
2024 · Executive Producer

If Dreams Were Lightning
2023 · Director, Producer

The Audition Tape
2023 · Thanks

The Journey: A Music Special from Andrea Bocelli
2023 · Self

2nd Chance
2022 · Director, Producer, Writer

Joyland
2022 · Executive Producer

7 Prisoners
2021 · Producer

Luzzu
2021 · Producer
Talking Heads 2021
2021 · Self

Tigre Blanco
2021 · Director, Editor, Writer

Socrates
2018 · Producer

Blood Kin
2018 · Producer, Writer, Director

Fahrenheit 451
2018 · Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

99 Homes
2015 · Director, Writer, Editor, Story, Producer
Lemonade War
2014 · Director, Producer, Writer

Lift You Up
2014 · Director, Producer, Writer

Life Itself
2014 · Self - Filmmaker

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
2013 · Director

At Any Price
2012 · Screenplay, Director, Producer

Plastic Bag
2009 · Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer, Editor

Goodbye Solo
2009 · Editor, Screenplay, Director, Producer

Chop Shop
2008 · Director, Editor, Writer

Man Push Cart
2006 · Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Director
Dogs
2005 · Director

11’09”01—September 11: India
2002 · Extras Casting

Strangers
2000 · Kaveh Dalaki, Director, Writer, Casting Director, Producer

Backgammon
1998 · Director

Gheddis
1981

Amnesty
· Director, Screenplay

Last Meals
· Director
Vegas: A Love Story
· Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Rancher
· Director, Screenplay



