
Ramin Bahrani
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 20, 1975
- Birthplace
- North Carolina, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Rancher
The Rancher TBA
Director, Screenplay
- Vegas: A Love Story
Vegas: A Love Story TBA
Director, Screenplay, Producer

Last Meals TBA
Director

Amnesty TBA
Director, Screenplay

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
as Self

2nd Chance 2022
Director, Producer, Writer

Joyland 2022
Executive Producer

7 Prisoners 2021
Producer

Luzzu 2021
Producer
- Talking Heads 2021
Talking Heads 2021 2021
as Self

The White Tiger 2021
Director, Editor, Writer

Socrates 2018
Producer

Blood Kin 2018
Writer, Producer, Director

Fahrenheit 451 2018
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

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

Lift You Up 2014
Director, Writer, Producer

Life Itself 2014
as Self - Filmmaker

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment 2013
Director

At Any Price 2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer

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

Goodbye Solo 2009
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor

Chop Shop 2008
Director, Writer, Editor

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

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

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

Backgammon 1998
Director

Gheddis 1981
Actor
Credits from TMDB.