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Amir Mokri

Born June 11, 1956 · Tehran, Iran (age 70)

Amir M. Mokri (Persian: امیر مکری; born June 11, 1956) is an Iranian-American cinematographer known for his work on blockbuster action films like Bad Boys II, Fast & Furious, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Man of Steel and Transformers: Age of Extinction. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amir Mokri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Man of Steel

Man of Steel · 2013

MovieActionAdventure

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch · 2011

Season of the Witch

MovieAdventureFantasy

A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

Pixels

MovieActionComedy

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction · 2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

MovieScience FictionAction

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.

Murder Mystery

Murder Mystery · 2019

MovieComedyMystery

On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II · 2003

MovieActionCrime

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Lord of War

Lord of War · 2005

MovieCrimeDrama

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure: Book of Secrets · 2007

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

MovieActionAdventure

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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Man of Steel

Man of Steel · 2013

MovieActionAdventure

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Director of Photography

Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch · 2011

Season of the Witch

MovieAdventureFantasy

A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

Director of Photography

Pixels

MovieActionComedy

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Director of Photography

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction · 2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

MovieScience FictionAction

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.

Director of Photography

Murder Mystery

Murder Mystery · 2019

MovieComedyMystery

On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.

Director of Photography

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II · 2003

MovieActionCrime

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Director of Photography

Lord of War

Lord of War · 2005

MovieCrimeDrama

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

Director of Photography

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure: Book of Secrets · 2007

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

MovieActionAdventure

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Director of Photography

Don't Say a Word

Don't Say a Word · 2001

Don't Say a Word

MovieThrillerMystery

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.

Director of Photography

Vantage Point

Vantage Point · 2008

MovieDramaAction

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.

Director of Photography

Taking Lives

Taking Lives · 2004

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

Director of Photography

Coyote Ugly

Coyote Ugly · 2000

MovieComedyDrama

Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.

Director of Photography

Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights · 1990

Pacific Heights

MovieThrillerDrama

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Director of Photography

Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye · 1996

MovieThrillerDrama

It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

Director of Photography

Birth of the Dragon

Birth of the Dragon · 2017

Birth of the Dragon

MovieActionDrama

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.

Director of Photography

Once Upon a Time in Venice

Once Upon a Time in Venice · 2017

Once Upon a Time in Venice

MovieActionComedy

Steve Ford is a private detective in Venice Beach, Calif., who's good with the ladies, bad with the punches and wild about his dog Buddy. When local thugs steal Buddy, Ford turns to Spyder, their devious leader, and forges an unlikely alliance. With help from his best friend, Steve pulls out the big guns to retrieve Spyder's stolen cash and cocaine and save Buddy.

Director of Photography

Anon

MovieScience FictionCrime

Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

Director of Photography

The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea · 2002

MovieCrimeDrama

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Director of Photography

Feel the Beat

Feel the Beat · 2020

MovieComedyMusic

After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

Director of Photography

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon · 2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

MovieActionScience Fiction

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.

Director of Photography

Good Kill

Good Kill · 2015

MovieDramaThriller

In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.

Director of Photography

The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club · 1993

The Joy Luck Club

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

Director of Photography

SuperFly

SuperFly · 2018

MovieActionCrime

Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.

Director of Photography

Blue Steel

Blue Steel · 1990

Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!

Director of Photography

The First Lady

The First Lady · 2022

SeriesDramaFamily

A revelatory reframing of American leadership through the lens of the First Ladies. Exploring everything from their journeys to Washington, family life, and world-changing political contributions, the impact of the White House's women is no longer hidden from view.

Director of Photography