Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara

Born: July 19, 1951
in The Bronx, New York, USA
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).

Movies for Abel Ferrara...

The Last Days of Humanity
Title: The Last Days of Humanity
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 8, 2023
Type: Movie
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?
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Soldato sotto la luna
Title: Soldato sotto la luna
Character: Anicio
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Title: Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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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The Night Burns
Title: The Night Burns
Character: Abel
Released: November 9, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Missing Pictures
Title: Missing Pictures
Character: Himself
Released: June 9, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Bleedings
Title: Bleedings
Released: March 21, 2021
Type: Movie
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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Sportin' Life
Title: Sportin' Life
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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The App
Title: The App
Released: December 26, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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At the Video Store
Title: At the Video Store
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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The Projectionist
Title: The Projectionist
Character: Himself
Released: April 28, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Alive in France
Title: Alive in France
Character: Himself
Released: August 15, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Talking with the Vampires
Title: Talking with the Vampires
Released: June 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.
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Wiara
Title: Wiara
Character: Himself
Released: January 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
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Plankton Salesmen
Title: Plankton Salesmen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 29, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Piazza Vittorio
Title: Piazza Vittorio
Character: Himself
Released: September 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Black Butterfly
Title: Black Butterfly
Character: Pat
Released: May 26, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Ultima Chiamata
Title: Ultima Chiamata
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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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Don Peyote
Title: Don Peyote
Character: Taxi Cab Driver
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
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Title: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
Bourdain travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals. Known for his curiosity, candor, and acerbic wit, Bourdain takes viewers off the beaten path of tourist destinations – including some war-torn parts of the world – and meets with a variety of local citizens to offer a window into their lifestyles, and occasionally communes with an internationally lauded chef on his journeys.
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Balkan Spirit
Title: Balkan Spirit
Character: Himself - Director
Released: April 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Released: November 26, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca
Title: Abel Ferrara in Lucca
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Mulberry St.
Title: Mulberry St.
Character: Self
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Uncle Bob
Title: Uncle Bob
Character: Self
Released: June 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Daddy Longlegs
Title: Daddy Longlegs
Character: Robber
Released: May 14, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Title: Chelsea on the Rocks
Character: Himself
Released: May 23, 2008
Type: Movie
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
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Cannes: All Access
Title: Cannes: All Access
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Exes
Title: Exes
Character: Caïn
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Odyssey in Rome
Title: Odyssey in Rome
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Title: Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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...
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Title: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Character: Himself
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Abel/Asia
Title: Abel/Asia
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.
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At Sundance
Title: At Sundance
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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.]
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Ms .45
Title: Ms .45
Character: 1st Rapist
Released: April 24, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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The Driller Killer
Title: The Driller Killer
Character: Reno Miller
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Title: 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
Character: Old Man (as Jimmy Laine)
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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 darkest sexual and emotional recesses.
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Nicky's Film
Title: Nicky's Film
Character: Man in junkyard
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
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Siegfriedsdorf
Title: Siegfriedsdorf
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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La Passion Selon Béatrice
Title: La Passion Selon Béatrice
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Exclusive video piece taped by and featuring filmmaker Abel Ferrara
Title: Exclusive video piece taped by and featuring filmmaker Abel Ferrara
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Exclusive video piece taped by and featuring filmmaker Abel Ferrara on The Masters of Cinema BLU-RAY.