Abel Ferrara

Born: 1951-07-19

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).


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Ms .45

as 1st Rapist
Released: 1981-04-24

A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She...

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Black Butterfly

as Pat
Released: 2017-05-26

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay....

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The App

as uncredited
Released: 2019-12-26

Loving girlfriend, family fortune, breakout movie role: he's got it all. Until an app awakens a...

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The Driller Killer

as Reno Miller
Released: 1979-06-15

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care...

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Daddy Longlegs

as Robber
Released: 2010-04-28

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every...

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Don Peyote

as Taxi Cab Driver
Released: 2014-05-01

An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to...

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Odyssey in Rome

as uncredited
Released: 2005-09-30

Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling...

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Cannes: All Access

as Self
Released: 2007-10-27

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the...

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Plankton Salesmen

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-10-29

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in...

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Chelsea on the Rocks

as Self
Released: 2008-05-23

Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New...

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A Talent For Trouble

as Self
Released: 2018-04-06

Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music...

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At the Video Store

as Self (archival footage)
Released: 2019-10-11

Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death...

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Uncle Bob

as Self
Released: 2010-06-26

Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the...

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The Passion According to Béatrice

as Self
Released: 2024-08-07

In September 2022, Beatrice Dalle arrives in Italy. At the origin of this journey is the desire...

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At Sundance

as Self
Released: 1995-01-01

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew...

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Alive in France

as Himself
Released: 2018-08-15

Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to...

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Mulberry St.

as Self
Released: 2010-07-17

Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film...

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Buon Lavoro

as uncredited
Released: 2022-06-07

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The Last Days of Humanity

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-05-08

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no...

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The Projectionist

as Himself
Released: 2019-04-28

In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel...

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Talking with the Vampires

as uncredited
Released: 2018-06-26

Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE...

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Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!

as Himself
Released: 2004-03-01

A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All...

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Exes

as Caïn
Released: 2006-10-04

Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty,...

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Bleedings

as uncredited
Released: 2021-03-21

Abel Ferrara - director and actor known for his stories of redemption, Christian interrogation...

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Sportin' Life

as Self
Released: 2020-09-06

Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint...

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Soldato sotto la luna

as Anicio
Released: 2022-09-30

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Piazza Vittorio

as Himself
Released: 2017-09-09

Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with...

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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

as Himself
Released: 2003-09-12

Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film...

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Balkan Spirit

as Self - Director
Released: 2013-04-08

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the...

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The Night Burns

as Abel
Released: 2021-11-09

Massimo and his 20-year-old friends live in the suburbs; they spend their days stuffing...

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Home Sweet Home

as uncredited
Released: 2012-11-26

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A...

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Abel Ferrara in Lucca

as uncredited
Released: 2012-02-24

A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010,...

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Abel/Asia

as Self
Released: 1998-01-01

Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.

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Ultima Chiamata

as uncredited
Released: 2017-01-01

A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't...

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Missing Pictures

as Self
Released: 2021-06-09

For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto...

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Wiara

as Himself
Released: 2018-01-14

Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and...

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9 Lives of a Wet Pussy

as Old Man
Released: 1976-08-20

Recording and reporting on their various sexual experiences, as well as those of their friends,...

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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

as Self
First aired: 2013-04-14

Bourdain travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate...

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