Ali Abbasi

The Apprentice (2024)

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé†...

Holy Spider (2022)

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners. ...

Queen of Hearts (2019)

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society's most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage ste ...

Border (2018)

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind. ...

Shelley (2016)

Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned... ...

M for Markus (2011)

A female police detective, TESS, discovers a mutilated body in a crime scene. Her search for the killer leads her to the young and innocent-looking MARKUS. Immediately attracted to Markus, her attraction to him leads her deep into a dreamy and grotesque wo ...

I mørket er lyset (2010)

Officer Relaxing After Duty (2008)

The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark. ...

Home: A Soldier's Mind Is Always at War (2022)

A soldier battling PTSD after the loss of his close friends is forced to face home intruders. ...