Abel Ferrara
Birthday: 1951-07-19
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Biography: Abel Ferrara (Italian: [ferˈraːra]; born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use and redefinition of neo-noir imagery. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known movies include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones. Ferrara also worked in a wide array of genres, including the sci-fi remake Body Snatchers (1993), cyberpunk thriller New Rose Hotel (1998), the religious drama Mary (2005), the black comedy Go Go Tales (2007), and the biopic Pasolini (2014), as well as in several documentary filmmaking projects.
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Ms .45
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress goes insane, takes to the ...
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The Night Burns
Massimo and his 20-year-old friends live in the suburbs; they spend their days stuffing themselves w...
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film mak...
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Exes
Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes...
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Don Peyote
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to dis...
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Mulberry St.
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career ...
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Uncle Bob
Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man...
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that...
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Odyssey in Rome
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obst...
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The Passion According to Béatrice
In September 2022, Beatrice Dalle arrives in Italy. At the origin of this journey is the desire to w...
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Missing Pictures
For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the b...
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9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Recording and reporting on their various sexual experiences, as well as those of their friends, Paul...
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A Talent For Trouble
Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music vide...
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Black Butterfly
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. Howev...
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Abel/Asia
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel....
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At Sundance
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, R...
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Daddy Longlegs
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he...
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Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." ...
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Cannes: All Access
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca...
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Balkan Spirit
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning...
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca
A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, wit...
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Alive in France
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs an...
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The Projectionist
In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrar...
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The App
Loving girlfriend, family fortune, breakout movie role: he's got it all. Until an app awakens a powe...
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The Driller Killer
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for ...
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Wiara
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life...
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New Yor...
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Piazza Vittorio
Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African...
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Sportin' Life
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laure...
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Home Sweet Home
A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man t...
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Ultima Chiamata
A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand w...
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Bleedings
Abel Ferrara - director and actor known for his stories of redemption, Christian interrogation and i...
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Talking with the Vampires
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICT...
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Judas' Gospel
An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of J...
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Marty Supreme
In 1950s New York, Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to Hell and back in ...
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Embryo: Beyond the Door
The daughter of Jessica Barrett discovers she is carrying a child that is growing abnormally and beg...
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Sculpt
Sculpt depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sou...
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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Don Peyote
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to dis...
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Plankton Salesmen
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. ...
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