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Abel Ferrara
Director 75 years old

Abel Ferrara

The Bronx, New York, USA

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... Read full bio →

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21 titles
Zeros and Ones

Zeros and Ones

Abel Ferrara 2021 1h 25m 5.0

An American soldier stationed in Rome with the Vatican blown up, embarks on a hero's journey to uncover and defend against an unknown enemy threatening the entire world.

Siberia

Siberia

Abel Ferrara 2019 1h 31m 6.0

Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.

Welcome to New York

Welcome to New York

Abel Ferrara 2014 2h 5m 5.7

Fiction inspired from the story of the rise and the fall of french politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Pasolini

Pasolini

Abel Ferrara 2014 1h 27m 4.0

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo.

4:44 Last Day on Earth

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Abel Ferrara 2011 1h 22m 5.3

A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.

Go Go Tales

Go Go Tales

Abel Ferrara 2007 1h 41m 3.0

A screwball comedy centered on a Manhattan go-go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business's future.

Mary

Mary

Abel Ferrara 2005 1h 23m 6.0

The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him.

'R Xmas

'R Xmas

Abel Ferrara 2001 1h 25m 6.8

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel

Abel Ferrara 1998 1h 33m 8.0

A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground

SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground

Bob Balaban, Jonathan Demme 1997 1h 21m

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

The Funeral

The Funeral

Abel Ferrara 1996 1h 39m 8.3

The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks, climaxing in a shocking ending.

The Addiction

The Addiction

Abel Ferrara 1995 1h 22m 7.5

In director Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION, New York University anthropology grad student Kathleen (Lili Taylor) becomes a philosophic vampire after an alleyway attack, trying to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

Dangerous Game

Dangerous Game

Abel Ferrara 1993 1h 48m 8.0

A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.

Body Snatchers

Body Snatchers

Abel Ferrara 1993 1h 27m 6.7

A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant

Abel Ferrara 1992 1h 36m 7.4

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

King of New York

King of New York

Abel Ferrara 1990 1h 43m 7.3

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Cat Chaser

Cat Chaser

Abel Ferrara 1989 1h 30m

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

China Girl

China Girl

Abel Ferrara 1987 1h 30m 8.5

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

Fear City

Fear City

Abel Ferrara 1984 1h 35m 5.5

Tom Berenger plays an ex-boxer and "talent" agent who finds his life closing in around him when a psychopathic martial artist starts stabbing and slashing strippers on their way home from nightclubs.

Ms .45

Ms .45

Abel Ferrara 1981 1h 21m 7.8

After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.

The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer

Abel Ferrara 1979 1h 41m 6.0

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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