About Elly
Original title: Darbareye Elly · Turkish title: Elly Hakkında
2009 · 1 h 59 min
Directed by 
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar FarhadiCast
Golshifteh Farahani 
Taraneh Alidoosti 
Shahab Hosseini
Credits
Written by: Asghar Farhadi
Plot
During a holiday by the Caspian Sea, a young woman disappears, and the friends' stories begin to fall apart.
Sinekatalog’s take
A beach holiday among friends in Iran ends with a woman missing. Asghar Farhadi's drama escalates from small lies into a moral puzzle, and its ensemble acting is superb.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (61,757 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Fireworks Wednesday 2006 · Asghar Farhadi · IMDb 7.6 · Same director
- The Past 2013 · Asghar Farhadi · IMDb 7.7 · Same director
- The Color of Paradise 1999 · Majid Majidi · IMDb 8.1 · Viewers also liked
- Cast Away 2000 · Robert Zemeckis · IMDb 7.8 · Viewers also liked
- Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 · Béla Tarr · IMDb 7.9 · Similar genres
- The Son 2002 · The Dardenne Brothers · IMDb 7.5 · Similar genres