Amir Agha’ee shines as the film’s lead. His portrayal of grief and guilt is heartfelt and his emotional performance is perfect.
No Date, No Signature(بدون تاریخ بدون امضا)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Iran · 2017
1h 40m
Director Vahid Jalilvand
Starring Amir Aghaee, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakiyeh Behbahani
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
A tad overdetermined in its studied, snowballing ambiguities, No Date, No Signature is dramatized with an acute sense of the role of class in Iranian society, and is unfussily well directed, creating visual parallels between the two men.
Vahid Jalilvand's film is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional.
Village Voice by Craig D. Lindsey
No Date, No Signature presents a story of flawed but generally decent people trying to put right what went so horribly wrong.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Lensed with great sensitivity and style and superbly acted, it has one drawback for Western audiences in its perplexing plot points based on the local culture and customs.
RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire
As in Farhadi’s films, the success of this kind of drama depends not on its thematic depth but on its surface execution. And every aspect of the execution on display here posits Jalilvand as among Iran’s most assured directors to have emerged in this decade.
All four main actors are in top form, but it’s Mohammadzadeh who steals the show in his scene at the poultry plant, when his desperate monologue takes on an epic, Shakespearean quality as he throws all his physical force into a verbal storm of pained outrage.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
Beautifully performed and penetratingly photographed, Jalilvand’s assured second feature bears the probing precision of one of those meticulous autopsies.
Users who liked this film also liked
The Meaning of Life
Monty Python takes a look at life and all of the hard questions, why are we really here?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1983
- Director Terry Jones
- Cast Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
A Prophet
(Un prophète)
The timeless tale of the student who becomes the master -- set in a French prison.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 2009
- Director Jacques Audiard
- Cast Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Captive
When hope is all you have.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2014
- Director Atom Egoyan
- Cast Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
The High Sun
(Zvizdan)
Three decades. Two nations. One love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia • 2015
- Director Dalibor Matanić
- Cast Tihana Lazović, Goran Marković, Nives Ivanković, Dado Ćosić, Stipe Radoja, Trpimir Jurkić
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki
Life and a Day
(ابد و یک روز)
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of a poor family, is getting married. But as the wedding date draws closer, it seems that the groom may not be what he appears.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2016
- Director Saeed Roustaee
- Cast Payman Maadi, Parinaz Izadyar, Navid Mohammadzade, Shabnam Moghadami, Rima Raminfar, Mahdi Gorbani
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Video
7 Minutes
(7 minuti)
One condition. Everyone's fate.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Switzerland • 2016
- Director Michele Placido
- Cast Cristiana Capotondi, Ambra Angiolini, Michele Placido, Donato Placido, Gerardo Amato, Fiorella Mannoia
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hagazussa
A Heathen's Curse.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, Germany • 2018
- Director Lukas Feigelfeld
- Cast Aleksandra Cwen, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky, Haymon Maria Buttinger
- Genre Horror, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
West of Sunshine
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 2018
- Director Jason Raftopoulos
- Cast Damian Hill, Ty Perham, Arthur Angel, Kat Stewart, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Faye Smythe
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla
Proxima
An astronaut prepares to embark on a yearlong space mission that would mean leaving her young daughter behind.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2019
- Director Alice Winocour
- Cast Eva Green, Matt Dillon, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller, Alexey Fateev
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Guilty
(Den skyldige)
A cop, who can't leave his office, must --- somehow ---- solve a convoluted kidnapping case.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark • 2018
- Director Gustav Möller
- Cast Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jacob Ulrik Lohmann, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen
- Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, FlixFling, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Like a Cat on a Highway
(Come un gatto in tangenziale)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2017
- Director Riccardo Milani
- Cast Paola Cortellesi, Antonio Albanese, Sonia Bergamasco, Luca Angeletti, Antonio D'Ausilio, Alice Maselli
- Genre Family, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Io sono Tempesta
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2018
- Director Daniele Luchetti
- Cast Marco Giallini, Elio Germano, Eleonora Danco, Jo Sung, Francesco Gheghi, Carlo Bigini
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video
Capernaum
(کفرناحوم)
Zain, a hardened 12-year-old boy struggling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for his conception.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, United States, France • 2018
- Director Nadine Labaki
- Cast Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Sibel
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, France, Germany • 2019
- Director Cagla Zencirci
- Cast Damla Sönmez, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Emin Gürsoy, Elit İşcan, Gülcin Kultur
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Cuties
(Mignonnes)
A coming-of-age film featuring a girl caught between two poles of womanhood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2020
- Director Maïmouna Doucouré
- Cast Fathia Youssouf Abdillahi, Medina El Aidi, Esther Gohourou, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas, Myriam Hamma, Maïmouna Gueye
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads