Frank Mosley

Frank Mosley

Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker. He is an alumnus of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, a participant of the 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and a graduate of Black Factory Cinema's 2016 Auteur Workshop, led by the late Abbas Kiarostami in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba. Much of his directing work is available on Fandor, including his 2014 sophomore feature Her Wilderness, which has been called "a unique work with a distinctive voice" (Indiewire), "a vibrant fantasy that transcends the narrative form" (Smells Like Screen Spirit), and "at once alien and achingly resonant...burrows deep into your subconscious like a vivid fever dream" (Indie Outlook). His performances have been seen at festivals such as Cannes Semaine de la Critique, Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, AFI, Viennale, BAMcinemafest, Slamdance, and the American Film Festival in Wroclaw. Frank's leading role in Cameron Bruce Nelson's 2014 IFP Narrative Labs feature Some Beasts has been called "one of his best performances to date" (Hammer To Nail), "a subtle, quiet miracle...a career making performance with physical choices that leap off the screen" (Truth On Cinema), and won him the Independent Visions Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival. He's acted in other films such as Shane Carruth's Upstream Color (2013 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner), Daniel Patrick Carbone's segment in the omnibus feature Collective Unconscious, Calvin Reeder's companion films The Bulb and The Procedure (2016 Sundance winner for U.S. Short Fiction), Jon Jost's final narrative film They Had It Coming, Zachary Shedd's Americana, Dustin Guy Defa's Person to Person, and Justin D. Hilliard's The Other Side of Paradise, where his 2009 breakout role was hailed as "a potent dose of sexual chutzpah" (Variety) and "an appealing performance with intriguing elements of depth" (The Hollywood Reporter). Biography By: Frank Mosley (May 2017)

Movies for Frank Mosley...

Rent Free
Title: Rent Free
Character: Ron Gelman
Released: June 7, 2024
Type: Movie
After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.
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Don't Die
Title: Don't Die
Character: Trevor
Released: April 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Jenks has been pushed to the brink by a system that does not care about him. Desperate for life-saving medicine, he resorts to robbing a small-town drug store. But when he injures a mysterious woman involved in a black market pharmacy, his attempts to save her life may end up jeopardizing his own.
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Love and Work
Title: Love and Work
Character: Hank
Released: January 20, 2024
Type: Movie
Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal.
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Quantum Cowboys
Title: Quantum Cowboys
Character: Depew
Released: October 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!
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Puncher's Chance
Title: Puncher's Chance
Released: October 10, 2023
Type: Movie
A struggling single father and former Boxer, reluctantly takes a match on short notice.
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Raps
Title: Raps
Released: May 11, 2023
Type: Movie
When Daniel is sent to a CEDU school, part of America's troubled teen industry in the late 90s, he is forced into transgressive therapy sessions called "Raps" that are bent on breaking him down.
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Taurus
Title: Taurus
Character: Day Drinker (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.
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They Want Me Gone
Title: They Want Me Gone
Character: Bill
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Working hard to support her daughter, Monica is a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and her daughter becomes more perilous.
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Kiddo
Title: Kiddo
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
An expectant couple's parenting skills are put to the test when a hungry stranger shows up on their doorstep.
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Dear Mr. Brody
Title: Dear Mr. Brody
Character: Donald Thomas Moore
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
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The Event
Title: The Event
Character: Jack
Released: January 27, 2022
Type: Movie
It's 2 AM, and Vince just wants to know why.
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Katja Dreams of Waking Up
Title: Katja Dreams of Waking Up
Character: Podcast Pete
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Katja (27) lives in Berlin and dreams every night of her own death, and her waking hours are a constant stream of work, digital distraction and a paranoia about the future - her inner life moving at a speed that seems unsustainable. While on vacation in northern Norway, she has an extreme encounter with raw nature and gets a new perspective on herself - she returns to Berlin with the intentions of changing her life. But the demon inside her is hard to shake off.
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Freeland
Title: Freeland
Character: Josh
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.
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Ilsa
Title: Ilsa
Character: John
Released: August 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Featuring Bella Samman in the title role and Frank Mosley as her driver’s ed instructor. It is a misadventure involving blackmail, a pitbull and a clueless Instagram influencer.
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Kin
Title: Kin
Character: Kurt
Released: March 5, 2021
Type: Movie
In this poetic, fragmented portrait set in rural Oregon, three white millennials struggle to come to terms with their increasing sense of alienation from contemporary society. Their despair leads them to confront their perceived adversities in the most terrible way imaginable. A searing critique of white American values, KIN invites its viewers to contemplate the troubled and long-brewing reality of Trump's America.
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The Carnivores
Title: The Carnivores
Character: DogMan
Released: March 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Alice and Bret's dog Harvie is dying, and he's ruining everything. What had been a bright little family is quickly getting consumed by clouds of self-doubt, suspicion and a disturbing amount of ground beef.
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Chained for Life
Title: Chained for Life
Character: Frank
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
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The Ghost Who Walks
Title: The Ghost Who Walks
Character: Stitches
Released: July 21, 2019
Type: Movie
An imprisoned criminal rats out his former boss for one last chance to reunite his family and become the father he never was.
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The Phantom 52
Title: The Phantom 52
Character: (voice)
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
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Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
Title: Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
Character: Les
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Jerry and Carl have conned their way from one small Texas town to another, but things go haywire when one of them falls in love with Maureen. Not to mention the P.I. that's hot on their trail... A musical comedy based on "Two Gallants" by James Joyce and the songs of John Prine.
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Thunder Road
Title: Thunder Road
Character: Homeless Man
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
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The Prowler
Title: The Prowler
Character: The Prowler
Released: July 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A lonely man walks the streets of an upscale neighborhood at night.
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Coyotes Kill for Fun
Title: Coyotes Kill for Fun
Character: Freddie
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved.
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Person to Person
Title: Person to Person
Character: Arguing Man
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
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Innards
Title: Innards
Character: The Child Actor / Twin Brother
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared--as the lead in a schlocky, shot-on-video cannibal film, "Innards."
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Don't Ever Change
Title: Don't Ever Change
Character: Jason
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.
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And By We I Mean Me
Title: And By We I Mean Me
Character: Frank
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A conservative business owner gets a rude awakening when his sister-in-law stops by to talk about his dying father.
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Black Soil, Green Grass
Title: Black Soil, Green Grass
Released: August 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.
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Americana
Title: Americana
Character: Josh McAllister
Released: June 9, 2016
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.
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The Procedure
Title: The Procedure
Released: March 26, 2016
Type: Movie
A man is tranquilized on the street numb and finds himself tied up in empty room. But what is that thing coming down?
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Collective: Unconscious
Title: Collective: Unconscious
Character: Frank
Released: March 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
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A Feast of Man
Title: A Feast of Man
Character: Ted
Released: February 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Five socialites are put to the test when their recently-deceased friend asks them to commit the ultimate taboo in order to inherit his fortune.
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The Bulb
Title: The Bulb
Released: January 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room.
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Two Story
Title: Two Story
Released: August 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.
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Go Fuck Yourself Oliver
Title: Go Fuck Yourself Oliver
Character: Oliver
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Oliver is having the worst day.
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The Ladies of the House
Title: The Ladies of the House
Character: Piglet
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.
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Don't Look in the Basement 2
Title: Don't Look in the Basement 2
Character: Dr. Lance White
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years later, the only known survivor returns only to find the ghosts of the past have not been resting in peace.
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They Had It Coming
Title: They Had It Coming
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more experimental with the structure as well. The essay film, which takes place in Missouri where they live an outdated lifestyle and where old culture still exists, confuses the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. The movie is based from a true story but instead of telling the exact story, the director casts real actors and gives a little twist to it. The actors explain about the inhumane incidents that happened in the village and while reviving it, they create their own narratives.
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Some Beasts
Title: Some Beasts
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A stoic farmhand in Appalachia is haunted by a mysterious presence in the woods as he cultivates his future in an effort to leave his past behind.
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You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body
Title: You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body
Character: Jacob Evans
Released: November 11, 2014
Type: Movie
A group of estranged siblings must reconcile with the past when the death of their mother coincides with the appearance of an apocalyptic cult, suicidal clown, and the second coming of Christ.
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White Creek
Title: White Creek
Character: Noah
Released: July 27, 2014
Type: Movie
White Creek is a place from another universe. A place where feudalism remains intact and people struggle to break free from debt. One family must escape the dangers of this decaying society, as the power in their valley changes hands. In the end they are left to decide how to move forward in this universe and the next.
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Sabbatical
Title: Sabbatical
Character: John
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Title: Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Character: Lt. Carson
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
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Upstream Color
Title: Upstream Color
Character: Husband
Released: April 5, 2013
Type: Movie
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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Suburbanite
Title: Suburbanite
Character: Rick
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: Movie
John, a white-collar family man, finds his life turned upside down when he hits a man on his way home from work. He takes the body home to his garage, convinced that he can cover up the accident. But before he has a chance to bury the body, the man wakes up. Mack, the victim, forms and unlikely bond with John but this bond is short lived.
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Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
Title: Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Bailey has settled into his new country home and has a crush on a dog from the other side of the fence. When her brother Felix is stolen, Bailey and his brother, Duke, set out to save him before he gets sold at the exchange in historic Cowtown. Will Bailey rescue Felix and win the love of his sweetheart?
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Knife
Title: Knife
Character: Brother
Released: December 31, 2011
Type: Movie
Set in rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit. In the beginning we see him returning to his family. Where he’s been is unknown. Wherever it was – prison, maybe war – the years have not been kind to him. In spite of his family’s warm welcome the man can’t shake an anger that builds in him so he must leave them again. This time to return to the land that was once theirs, a land that had been in the family for generations, a land that has been stolen, plundered, and sewn with seeds of greed. There’s a force at work, a corruption that destroys homes, nature, families, and memories. The Man decides to lay his stakes down and pits himself against it all. He is on a ruinous mission to sate the hatred in his heart with the knife he carries in his hand.
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Cork's Cattlebaron
Title: Cork's Cattlebaron
Character: Jon
Released: April 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A young protege and his boss sit down for the most epic steak dinner of their lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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I Could Live in Hope
Title: I Could Live in Hope
Released: March 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.
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Wuss
Title: Wuss
Character: Franklin
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
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The Other Side of Paradise
Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Jamie Hewitt Jr.
Released: December 17, 2009
Type: Movie
"The Other Side of Paradise" is a highly entertaining comedy about a girl named Rose who embarks on a journey of self-discovery on the way to her first gallery opening. Along the way, she picks up Alex, the newly single friend she's always had feelings for, and her misfit younger brother Jamie, who recently was released from prison. On the road trip, the trio encounter off-the-wall characters and hilarious cameos that chew up the Texas countryside. In the end, the three must come to grips with their own issues of trust, abandonment, love, and ultimately hope.
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Wednesday
Title: Wednesday
Released: July 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Wednesday is a story of life, love, loss, and redemption. It is divided into four separate segments: Luke & Lucy, Purgatory, Lyrics of a Lowly Life, and Narcissus Flower. Each segment details how different people deal with love and loss. These basic human emotions exist across the world, it's how we individually deal with them that separates and connects us all.
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Invaders from Venus!
Title: Invaders from Venus!
Character: FBI Agent #1
Released: October 2, 2003
Type: Movie
A small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.
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Deadendz
Title: Deadendz
Character: Ray
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using avant-garde methods.
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The Finger
Title: The Finger
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system.
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Boundaries
Title: Boundaries
Character: Manager
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men design and build a detention center.
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El Tonto Por Cristo
Title: El Tonto Por Cristo
Character: Genesius
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool.
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OBEX
Title: OBEX
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie