Abel Ferrara
Also Known As: Jimmy Laine, Абель Феррара, アベル・フェラーラ , 아벨 페라라, 에이블 페라라, 阿贝尔·费拉拉, Jimmy Boy L.
Biography: Abel Ferrara is an American movie screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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Ms .45
Overview: A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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The Night Burns
Overview: Massimo and his 20-year-old friends live in the suburbs; they spend their days stuffing themselves with drugs. When darkness falls, they troll the discotheques like animals of prey, to rob people using pepper spray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-09
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Siegfriedsdorf
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Original Language: it
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Overview: Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Exes
Overview: Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes, the hero of his first novel, wants to take revenge on her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Don Peyote
Overview: An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Mulberry St.
Overview: Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's been living on the block, and the feast of San Gennaro is the subject of his new film. While he has used this location for a few of his features, this time it's the star of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-17
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Uncle Bob
Overview: Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man who streaked the Academy Awards in 1974.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-26
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Soldato sotto la luna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-05-08
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Overview: This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the years. From the historically important to the utterly (and sublimely) absurd, they feature a cast of characters ranging from legendary avant-garde filmmakers, scholars, and other cultural figures to civilians whose legend has (until now) been confined to the offices of Anthology, thanks precisely to their witty, eloquent, eccentric – or in some cases unforgettably psychotic – voicemails. We’ve toyed with the idea of sharing these messages in some form for years, and the “Imageless Films” series provides a perfect pretext.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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At the Video Store
Overview: Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Odyssey in Rome
Overview: Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene. Featuring candid interviews and on-set footage with Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Matthew Modine, and Juliette Binoche, "Odyssey," brings to bear an impressive tableau of Ferrara's colleagues as they discuss his unique approach to creating dynamic films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Plankton Salesmen
Overview: A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-10-29
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The Passion According to Béatrice
Overview: In September 2022, Beatrice Dalle arrives in Italy. At the origin of this journey is the desire to walk in the footsteps of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-07
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Missing Pictures
Overview: For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures, Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, and Lee Myung-Se give us a guided tour of a story they were not able to tell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-09
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Nicky's Film
Overview: A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Overview: Recording and reporting on their various sexual experiences, as well as those of their friends, Pauline and Gypsy each use each other to explore their deepest sexual and emotional recesses.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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A Talent For Trouble
Overview: Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of a lifetime to direct his first feature film. In the midst of this celebration, comes a tumultuous breakup with his girlfriend as his neurosis loom overhead while he tries to reorganize his personal and professional life. A Talent For Trouble is a story of Sean's battle to balance real-life romance while living through a camera lens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Black Butterfly
Overview: Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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Abel/Asia
Overview: Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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At Sundance
Overview: A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Daddy Longlegs
Overview: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Overview: A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." Cinema has always been a part of her life, so much so that she cannot separate her childhood souvenirs from her film career. With Abel Ferrara, Peter Fonda, Marilyn Manson, Rancid, John Robinson...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Cannes: All Access
Overview: From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red carpet event of the year. Filmmaker Richard Schickel's fascinating documentary captures the glitz and glamour of the festival's incredible 60-year run with archival footage and unforgettable moments. Hollywood's biggest names including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein talk about the politics, madness, and thrills of competing for one of the industry's highest honors - the coveted Palme d'Or - and what it's like to be at the most fabulous festival by the sea.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Balkan Spirit
Overview: Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-08
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca
Overview: A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavattini’s revolutionary spirit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-24
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Alive in France
Overview: Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self portrait, showing another side of the director of legendary films BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK and THE ADDICTION. Ferrara is joined on stage by past collaborators, including composer Joe Delia, actor-singer Paul Hipp and his wife actress Cristina Chiriac for concerts at the Metronum in Toulouse and the Salo Club in Paris in October 2016.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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The Projectionist
Overview: In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrara uses the experience of one longtime cinema owner to chart the vast changes to the city’s theatrical landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-28
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The App
Overview: Loving girlfriend, family fortune, breakout movie role: he's got it all. Until an app awakens a powerful new yearning. While in Rome to shoot his first movie, actor and industrial heir Niccolò becomes obsessed with the dating app "US" that sends him into a self-destructive spiral.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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The Driller Killer
Overview: An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Wiara
Overview: Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-14
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Overview: Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-23
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Piazza Vittorio
Overview: Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps and relocated eastern Europeans, homeless men and women, artists, actors, and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Sportin' Life
Overview: Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals through the eyes of artists who evoke the Saint Laurent attitude of confidence, individuality and self-expression. The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp, it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening. Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-09-06
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-26
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Ultima Chiamata
Overview: A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the head, tries to open the door but it's locked, tries to call someone but nobody answers. He is a prisoner. A nightmare begins for him in which he will have to go through a path of understanding to finally get to understand what really happened.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Bleedings
Overview: Abel Ferrara - director and actor known for his stories of redemption, Christian interrogation and inner turmoil - gives voice to the scourgers through Gabriele Tinti's poetry.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-21
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Talking with the Vampires
Overview: Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-26
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Judas' Gospel
Overview: An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of Jesus when he disclosed his whereabouts for 30 pieces of silver. About to die, Judas reflects on his life and his relationship with Jesus and the disciples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-08-07
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Buon Lavoro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-07
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Marty Supreme
Overview: Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-25
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Embryo: Beyond the Door
Overview: The daughter of Jessica Barrett discovers she is carrying a child that is growing abnormally and begins to experience the same symptoms as her mother. It is up to her family to save her from her demonic offspring.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Sculpt
Overview: Sculpt depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. In this world, thought recording and fascination for the inner space are no longer fantasies but the object of a global market that thrives on a quest for these moments of pure intensity, beautiful experiences, thought, and obsession.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-16
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