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Hossein Amini
Writer 60 years old

Hossein Amini

Iran

Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director who has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award... Read full bio →

Filmography

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11 titles
The Snowman

The Snowman

Tomas Alfredson 2017 1h 59m 4.5

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

Our Kind of Traitor

Our Kind of Traitor

Susanna White 2016 1h 48m 5.3

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

The Two Faces of January

The Two Faces of January

Hossein Amini 2014 1h 36m 5.7

A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.

47 Ronin

47 Ronin

Carl Rinsch 2013 1h 59m 6.0

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman

Rupert Sanders 2012 2h 7m 5.8

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White.

Drive

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn 2011 1h 40m 8.3

A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

Shanghai

Shanghai

Mikael Håfström 2010 1h 45m 6.0

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Killshot

Killshot

John Madden 2008 1h 35m 6.6

Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

Shekhar Kapur 2002 2h 12m 6.9

A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice.

The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove

Iain Softley 1997 1h 42m 5.0

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Jude

Jude

Michael Winterbottom 1996 2h 3m 9.0

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself.

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