# The best Abbas Kiarostami films

From the Koker trilogy to Taste of Cherry: the Kiarostami films critics and audiences rank highest (MovieWeb, High On Films, Wikipedia).

- 126 votes · 12 items
- Jul 23, 2022 · amy_matinee
- https://even.best/en/l/2052/the-best-abbas-kiarostami-films

## Top 12

1. **Close-Up (1990)** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — A real man who impersonated director Makhmalbaf plays himself.
2. **Ten (2002)** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Ten conversations inside one woman's car.
3. **Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — A boy crosses villages to return a classmate's notebook.
4. **Through the Olive Trees (1994)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — A film shoot after the earthquake and a stubborn courtship.
5. **Taste of Cherry (1997)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him; Palme d'Or.
6. **The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Tehran visitors wait in a Kurdish village; Venice Grand Jury Prize.
7. **Certified Copy (2010)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Juliette Binoche and an English writer in Tuscany.
8. **The Traveller (1974)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — A boy schemes to get to Tehran for a football match.
9. **Homework (1989)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Documentary interviewing schoolboys about their homework.
10. **Like Someone in Love (2012)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — An elderly professor and a student in Tokyo.
11. **24 Frames (2017)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — His posthumous film: 24 still images brought to life.
12. **And Life Goes On (1992)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — A director and his son search for the child actors after the 1990 quake.

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