A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Persian: دختری در شب تنها به خانه می‌رود Dokhtari dar šab tanhâ be xâne miravad) is a 2014 Persian-language American Western horror film[4] written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour.

Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night takes place in "the Iranian ghost-town Bad City" and depicts the doings of "a lonesome vampire".

[6] A hard-working young Iranian man named Arash lives with and takes care of his heroin-addicted father, Hossein.

They are harassed by a ruthless, drug-dealing pimp named Saeed, who seizes the young man's prized car in exchange for money the father owes him.

In a crime of opportunity, Arash steals a pair of diamond earrings from the wealthy young woman he works for, Shaydah.

Later, he goes to a costume party at a nightclub dressed up as Dracula, where he is persuaded by Shaydah into taking one of the ecstasy pills he is selling.

The woman with the chador spends her time listening to music alone in her apartment, skateboarding, or bedeviling pedestrians at night, until she comes across the lost Arash.

Rockabilly, a gender-bending, minor background character who exists on the fringe of Bad City throughout the duration of the movie, acts as a silent observer to the events around them.

[12] A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was shot over the course of twenty-four days, in the town of Taft in Kern County in Southern California.

[14] In an interview with MovieMaker, Amirpour spoke regarding her relationship with filmmaking: People ask me, "Why did you make A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night?"

[16] Its style is clearly inspired by Spaghetti Westerns like those of Sergio Leone, featuring a mysterious, lone, antihero with a vigilante streak.

"[14] A limited-edition vinyl pressing of the soundtrack, and accompanying album art, was released by Death Waltz Records in January 2014.

The website's critics consensus reads, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night blends conventional elements into something brilliantly original – and serves as a striking calling card for writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour.

"[20] Guy Lodge of Variety said in his review that "Ana Lily Amirpour's auspicious debut feature is a sly, slinky vampire romance set in an imaginary Iranian underworld".

[1] Andrew O'Hehir of Salon called the film "the year's biggest discovery" and praised its feminist themes.