Hossein Amini Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter
Biography:: Screenwriter Hossein Amini has penned several screenplays for British films including Wings of the Dove, and is known for his talent in adapting literary works to film. In 2002, he wrote the screenplay for The Four Feathers, an historical war drama directed by Shekhar Kapur that largely slipped...Read More

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Killshot

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Knoxville, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thomas Jane, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: Prime Suspect 4 and Inspector Morse director John Madden comes back to the world of crime after a brief foray into romance with Shakespeare in Love and Captain Corelli's Mandolin with this adaptation of pulp icon Elmore Leonard's novel concerning a real estate agent and her husband (Thomas Jane) Read More

1/23/09
Shanghai

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Cusack, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe

Synopsis: The Weinstein Company presents this story of an American (John Cusack) in Shanghai who, through the investigation of the death of a friend, ends up falling in love while stumbling upon a political conspiracy in this period drama from 1408 helmer Mikael Håfström. Gong Li and Ken Watanabe co-star in Read More

1/1/09
Drive

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Jackman

Synopsis: Director Neil Marshall (Doomsday) brings James Sallis' high-octane novel Drive to the big-screen blacktop with this Universal Pictures production starring Hugh Jackman as a stuntman on the run from contract killers. The noir action thriller was adapted by Hossein Amini (Killshot), with producing Read More

1/1/09
Stony Blossoms

Actors: Kamran Hamzehaqaie, Lili Abdollahi, Hossein Amini, Mohammad Babak Dori, Rajin Abdollahzeh

2005
The Four Feathers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: A.E.W. Mason's perennially popular tale of honor and adventure is brought to the screen yet again in this lavish period action-drama. In 1884, Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is a young officer-in-training in the British Army who is soon to graduate and is expected to be shipped of to the Sudan Read More

9/20/02
The Wings of the Dove

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: Based on the 1902 Henry James novel of the same name, The Wings of the Dove is set in 1910. After the death of her mother, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter) has become a ward of her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who is paying her dissipated father (Michael Gambon) to stay out of Kate's Read More

1997
Jude

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, June Whitfield, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: In 19th century Britain, a unconventional young man struggles against the limitations of a rigid, restrictive society. Based on Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, this somber period drama stars a suitably intense Christopher Eccleston as Jude, a young man with dreams of receiving a scholarly Read More

1996
Deep Secrets

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ion Caramitru, Amanda Donohoe, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: A cop goes into dangerous territory in this British made-for-television thriller. Colin Salmon stars as Detective Charlie Nolan, a cop who goes undercover to track down an underworld mob boss (Ion Caramitru) in Manchester. When he gets involved with the man's wife (Amanda Donohoe), he has to do Read More

1996