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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] (Arash Marandi) is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father Hossein]] (Marshall Manesh), all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed (Dominic Rains). Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador (Creator/SheilaVand) leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...

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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] (Arash Marandi) is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father Hossein]] (Marshall Manesh), all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed (Dominic Rains). Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chador chador]] (Creator/SheilaVand) leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...



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* BilingualBonus: Bad, as in Bad City, has the same meaning in both English and Persian.
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* ScareEmStraight: The Girl employs this with the Urchin. After repeatedly asking him “Are you a good boy?” (to which he answers yes, with increasing lack of conviction), she reveals her vampire form to him and threatens to pluck his eyeballs from his skull and feed them to the dogs before telling him to “Be a good boy” and saying she’ll be watching him for the rest of his life.
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* CoolCar: Arash's 50s American car, which gets seized by Saeed to pay Hossein's debts.

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* CoolCar: Arash's 50s American car, 1957 Ford Thunderbird, which gets seized by Saeed to pay Hossein's debts.
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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] (Arash Marandi) is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father Hossein]] (Marshall Manesh), all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed (Dominic Rains). Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador (Sheila Vand) leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...

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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] (Arash Marandi) is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father Hossein]] (Marshall Manesh), all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed (Dominic Rains). Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador (Sheila Vand) (Creator/SheilaVand) leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...
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* FeelingYourHeartbeat: Featured in the climax of an early scene where The Girl takes an inebriated Arash home, and they listen to music together in her room. The scene is a silent [[TheOner oner]] which at face value looks like a teenage MeetCute scene, [[DramaticIrony but the important context is that unbeknownst to Arash]], the Girl is [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a vampire]] who's [[VampireBitesSuck already been shown killing someone for their blood]]. The direction of the scene makes it look like she's to lean into his face for a kiss ([[AlmostKiss which she doesn't]]), before gazing at his neck for a bite ([[PetTheDog which she doesn't]]), finally settling on resting her head on his chest, quietly listening to his heartbeat.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: She wears a chador and rides a skateboard.
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* TruthInTelevision: Even without a vampire’s super strength, biting off someone’s finger is about as easy as biting into a baby carrot. (The reason you can’t bite off your own fingers is because your brain limits your strength so you can’t hurt yourself.)

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* MaleGaze: Despite she appears modestly-covered in a chador for most of the movie, we do get to see Sheila Vand's bare chest during her bathing scene. Much later, near the end of the movie, she also provides us with a combined variant of ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack.

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* MaleGaze: Despite how she appears modestly-covered in a chador for most of the movie, we do get to see Sheila Vand's bare chest during her bathing scene. Much later, near the end of the movie, she also provides us with a combined variant of ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack.



* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It was marketed as "the first Iranian vampire western".

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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
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It was marketed as "the first Iranian vampire western".
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* PlasticBitch: Shayday, the snobbish and unpleasant daughter of Arash's employers, has a bandage over her nose implying that she's just had work done to it.

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* PlasticBitch: Shayday, Shaydah, the snobbish and unpleasant daughter of Arash's employers, has a bandage over her nose implying that she's just had work done to it.
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* PlasticBitch: Shayday, the snobbish and unpleasant daughter of Arash's employers, has a bandage over her nose implying that she's just had work done to it.
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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father]], all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed. Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...

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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] (Arash Marandi) is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addict father]], father Hossein]] (Marshall Manesh), all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed.Saeed (Dominic Rains). Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a black chador (Sheila Vand) leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...
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* DoesNotLikeMen: The Girl kills three men in the film, two of whom were actively abusive to the same woman, and never harms or threatens a woman.

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* DoesNotLikeMen: The Girl kills three men in the film, two of whom were actively abusive to the same woman, and never harms or threatens a woman. The only man she seems to like is Arash, who is tender to her.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While the relationship is not without tension, she appears to enjoy a courtship with Arash.


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* PetTheDog: The Girl [[spoiler: talking to Atti about her disillusionment in Bad City. It also seems she tried to give Atti jewels to help fund her escape.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: She doesn't kill the boy but she does threaten him and steal his skateboard so he'll be traumatized for life.

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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: After the Girl kills [[spoiler:Saeed, Arash]] finds a briefcase of money and drugs in his flat and [[spoiler:uses it to rather half-heartedly set himself up as a drug dealer]].

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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: After the Girl kills [[spoiler:Saeed, Arash]] finds a briefcase of money and drugs in his flat and [[spoiler:uses it to rather half-heartedly set himself up as a drug dealer]].



* CreatorCameo: Director and writer Ana Lily Amirpour also plays Shirin, the girl in skeleton facepaint at the Halloween party. Additionally, she does all the long and mid-distance shots of the Girl actually skateboarding, as Sheila Vand couldn't skate. There's also a picture of her on the wall in the Girl's apartment.

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* CreatorCameo: Director and writer Ana Lily Amirpour also plays Shirin, the girl in skeleton facepaint at the Halloween party. Additionally, she does all the long and mid-distance shots of the Girl actually skateboarding, as Sheila Vand couldn't skate. There's also a picture of her on the wall in the Girl's apartment.apartment.
* CreatorThumbprint: Heavily tattooed men, scenes of the protagonist getting high at a party, and skateboards all feature in Amirpour's later film ''The Bad Batch'' too.



* MaleGaze: Despite she appears with modestly-covered chador for most of the movie, we do get to see Sheila Vand's bare chest during her bathing scene for a few seconds. Much later near the end of the movie, she also provides us with combined variant of ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack.

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* MaleGaze: Despite she appears with modestly-covered in a chador for most of the movie, we do get to see Sheila Vand's bare chest during her bathing scene for a few seconds. scene. Much later later, near the end of the movie, she also provides us with a combined variant of ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack.



* NoNameGiven: Neither The Girl nor The Urchin is never named.

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* NoNameGiven: Neither The the Girl nor The the Urchin is never are ever named.



* RichBitch: Shaydah, whose family employ Arash as a gardener[=/=]handyman, who is implied to have just had a nose job at the start of the film, and patronisingly flirts with him.

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* RichBitch: Shaydah, whose family employ Arash as a gardener[=/=]handyman, who is implied to have just had a nose job at the start of the film, gets high at fancy costume parties and patronisingly flirts with him.Arash.



* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: The girl bullies the Urchin so that she can take his skateboard.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Saeed, who '''still''' thinks it'd be smart to seduce The Girl despite the fact '''she just sprouted her fangs'''. It takes him losing a finger to realize this]].

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* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: The girl Girl bullies the Urchin so that she can take his skateboard.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Saeed, who '''still''' thinks it'd be smart to seduce The Girl despite the fact '''she just sprouted her fangs'''. It takes him losing a finger to realize this]].



* YoureNotMyFather: Arash finally loses patience with Hossein's drug addiction and self-pity and disowns him. [[spoiler:And ends up leaving town with the Girl despite knowing that she killed him.]]

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* YoureNotMyFather: Arash finally loses patience with Hossein's drug addiction and self-pity and disowns him. [[spoiler:And ends up leaving town with the Girl Girl, despite knowing that she killed him.]]
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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional city in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addicted father]], all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed. Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a full chador leaving his apartment. This girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...

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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional city hellhole in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addicted heroin-addict father]], all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed. Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back. back and reclaim his beloved car. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a full black chador leaving his apartment. This mysterious girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City]]...
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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional city in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addicted father]], all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed. Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a full chador leaving his apartment. This girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers killing the bad men of Bad City...]]

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The film takes place in [[WretchedHive Bad City]], a fictional city in Iran. A young man named [[NiceGuy Arash]] is trying to get by while taking care of his [[AddledAddict heroin-addicted father]], all the while being harrased by pimp/drug-dealer Saeed. Eventually, he resorts to [[StickyFingers stealing a pair of earrings]] in order to pay Saeed back. While waiting for Saeed by the gate, he sees a girl in a full chador leaving his apartment. This girl enjoys skateboarding, listening to music, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killing the bad men of Bad City...]]
City]]...
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''A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night'' is the 2014 first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour. It's a film about vampires, prostitution, teenage angst, and drug use.

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''A Girl Walks Home Alone At at Night'' is the 2014 first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour. It's a film about vampires, prostitution, teenage angst, and drug use.


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* AlmostKiss: When the Girl takes Arash home, she gets very close to kissing him, but doesn't. ''Then'' she looks like she's about to bite him, but doesn't do that either.
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* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Downplayed. The Girl isn't a good person, but she definitely favors {{Asshole Victim}}s as prey and is polite and kind to people who aren't her food.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Iran, and made by an Iranian-American director and with several Iranian actors, but filmed outside Bakersfield, California.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The Girl. Fitting, as she is a vampire.
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* TattooedCrook: Saeed, the pimp, moneylender, and drug dealer, is covered with tattoos in both Roman and Arabic script.

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* TattooedCrook: Saeed, the pimp, moneylender, and drug dealer, is covered with tattoos in both Roman and Arabic script. A FreezeFrameBonus reveals he also has a tattoo of Pac-Man heading for a mug of beer.

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