Babak Anvari

Directing

Babak Anvari

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Babak Anvari (Persian: بابک انوری; born 1982 or 1983) is a British-Iranian filmmaker. He is best known for directing horror films such as Under the Shadow (2016) and Wounds (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Babak Anvari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Behind the camera

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother poster
7.6

Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

2026

Hallow Road poster
6.1

Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.

Hallow Road

2025

I Came By poster
6.3

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

I Came By

2022

I Came By poster
6.3

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

I Came By

2022

The Front Room poster
5.1

Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.

The Front Room

2024

Under the Shadow poster
6.5

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

Under the Shadow

2016

Under the Shadow poster
6.5

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

Under the Shadow

2016

Wounds poster
4.0

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

Wounds

2019

Wounds poster
4.0

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

Wounds

2019

Wounds poster
4.0

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

Wounds

2019

Two & Two poster
7.1

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit.

Two & Two

2011

Two & Two poster
7.1

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit.

Two & Two

2011

Two & Two poster
7.1

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit.

Two & Two

2011

History of Evil poster
4.3

A family on the run from a corrupt state takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past — a terrifying last stop on a near-future Underground Railroad.

History of Evil

2023

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Creed

2005

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Creed

2005

No artwork available
NR

Unfolding over the final days of a twenty-year war, Ali, a young Afghan man, fights for his entire family’s life to find safe passage out of Afghanistan, before he is sent to certain death. To reach the border, he must put his trust in Kirk Johnson, an American stranger 7,000 miles away who is desperately trying to put the war behind him.

Last Flight

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No artwork available
NR

Unfolding over the final days of a twenty-year war, Ali, a young Afghan man, fights for his entire family’s life to find safe passage out of Afghanistan, before he is sent to certain death. To reach the border, he must put his trust in Kirk Johnson, an American stranger 7,000 miles away who is desperately trying to put the war behind him.

Last Flight

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What's Up with Adam? poster
7.2

Adam who is a confused young man begins an intimate relationship with his classmate Toby.

What's Up with Adam?

2005

Abel poster
6.0

Abel, 17, a first-generation Mexican-American, finds solace in the arms of his aging father as the two reconnect over their shared sense of loss.

Abel

2024

No artwork available
NR

Two women lie accused and imprisoned in separate but adjoining cell blocks. Never having seen one another, they have formed a bond through the walls that no man can break.

Solitary

2007

No artwork available
NR

Two women lie accused and imprisoned in separate but adjoining cell blocks. Never having seen one another, they have formed a bond through the walls that no man can break.

Solitary

2007

No artwork available
NR

Plot unknown.

Untitled Cloverfield Sequel

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