Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini 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 for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he both wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel.

  • Title: Hossein Amini
  • Popularity: 2.093
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1966-01-18
  • Place of Birth: Iran
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Hossein Amini Movies

  • 2015
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    The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence

    The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence

    1 2015 HD

    Martin Scorsese and other contemporary filmmakers reveal the impact The Third Man had on their careers and why the film is still so relevant today.

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  • 2002
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    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers

    6.6 2002 HD

    A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends...

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  • 2013
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    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin

    6.2 2013 HD

    Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed...

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  • 2011
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    Drive

    Drive

    7.582 2011 HD

    Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming...

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  • 2008
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    Killshot

    Killshot

    5.8 2008 HD

    Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident"....

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  • 2010
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    Shanghai

    Shanghai

    6.088 2010 HD

    An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he...

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  • 2014
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    The Two Faces of January

    The Two Faces of January

    5.836 2014 HD

    1962. A con artist, his wife, and a dangerous stranger are caught up in the murder of a private detective and are forced to try and escape Athens.

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  • 2014
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    The Two Faces of January

    The Two Faces of January

    5.836 2014 HD

    1962. A con artist, his wife, and a dangerous stranger are caught up in the murder of a private detective and are forced to try and escape Athens.

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  • 1994
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    The Dying of the Light

    The Dying of the Light

    1 1994 HD

    Sean Devereux was a British aid worker in Somalia, who upset the authorities and was assassinated as a result.

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  • 1996
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    Jude

    Jude

    6.3 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    The Wings of the Dove

    The Wings of the Dove

    6.6 1997 HD

    Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's...

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  • 2012
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    Snow White and the Huntsman

    Snow White and the Huntsman

    6 2012 HD

    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....

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  • 2011
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    Drive

    Drive

    7.582 2011 HD

    Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming...

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  • 2016
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    Our Kind of Traitor

    Our Kind of Traitor

    6.033 2016 HD

    A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond...

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  • 1970
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    Break

    Break

    1 1970 HD

    Follows the German tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm who found himself in the crosshairs of the Nazi regime as his sporting star rose in the 1930s.

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  • 2023
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    The Pigeon Tunnel

    The Pigeon Tunnel

    6.8 2023 HD

    Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world...

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  • 2017
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    The Snowman

    The Snowman

    5.2 2017 HD

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

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  • 1996
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    Deep Secrets

    Deep Secrets

    1 1996 HD

    Gripping drama about an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Manchester underworld to investigate a brutal murder, and his method of getting...

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore...

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face...

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  • 1970
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    7.308 1970 HD

    Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own...

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  • 1970
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    7.308 1970 HD

    Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own...

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