Abel Ferrara
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 movies include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones.
Ferrara also worked in a wide array of genres, including the sci-fi remake Body Snatchers (1993), cyberpunk thriller New Rose Hotel (1998), the religious drama Mary (2005), the black comedy Go Go Tales (2007), and the biopic Pasolini (2014), as well as in several documentary filmmaking projects.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2155 |
| Birthday | 1951-07-19 |
| Place of Birth | The Bronx, New York, USA |
| 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., |
1981
Ms .45
6.711/399
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
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Ms .45
2021
The Night Burns
7/1
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 dis...
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The Night Burns
Siegfriedsdorf
0/0
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Siegfriedsdorf
2003
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
8/3
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...
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2006
Exes
4.625/4
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 reven...
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Exes
2014
Don Peyote
3.6/20
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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Don Peyote
2010
Mulberry St.
6/8
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...
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Mulberry St.
2010
Uncle Bob
4.3/6
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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Uncle Bob
2022
Soldato sotto la luna
1/1
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Soldato sotto la luna
2022
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
0/0
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the...
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2005
Odyssey in Rome
7/1
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagi...
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Odyssey in Rome
2024
The Passion According to Béatrice
7/4
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.
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The Passion According to Béatrice
1971
Nicky's Film
6.75/4
A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed.
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Nicky's Film
1976
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
5.111/27
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...
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9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
2018
A Talent For Trouble
1/1
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...
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A Talent For Trouble
2017
Black Butterfly
6.214/572
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...
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Black Butterfly
1998
Abel/Asia
9/1
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.
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Abel/Asia
1995
At Sundance
5.8/5
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A...
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At Sundance
2010
Daddy Longlegs
6.6/57
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, a...
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Daddy Longlegs
2004
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
9/1
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...
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Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
2007
Cannes: All Access
3.8/4
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...
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Cannes: All Access
2013
Balkan Spirit
6.6/5
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
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Balkan Spirit
2012
Abel Ferrara in Lucca
0/0
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...
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Abel Ferrara in Lucca
2018
Alive in France
7.7/5
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his fami...
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Alive in France
2019
The Projectionist
6/5
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...
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The Projectionist
2019
The App
3/126
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 firs...
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The App
1979
The Driller Killer
5.162/197
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 t...
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The Driller Killer
2018
Wiara
0/0
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
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Wiara
2017
Piazza Vittorio
6.5/7
Vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, featuring talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeep...
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Piazza Vittorio
2008
Chelsea on the Rocks
5.6/11
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an un...
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Chelsea on the Rocks
2020
Sportin' Life
4.2/4
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This p...
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Sportin' Life
2012
Home Sweet Home
0/0
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 s...
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Home Sweet Home
2017
Ultima Chiamata
0/0
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 h...
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Ultima Chiamata
2021
Bleedings
0/0
Abel Ferrara - director and actor known for his stories of redemption, Christian interrogation and inner turmoil - gives voice to the scourgers throug...
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Bleedings
2018
Talking with the Vampires
0/0
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.
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Talking with the Vampires
2025
Judas' Gospel
5/2
An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of Jesus when he disclosed his whereabouts for 30 piec...
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Judas' Gospel
2022
Buon Lavoro
4/1
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Buon Lavoro
Embryo: Beyond the Door
0/0
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....
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Embryo: Beyond the Door
2016
Sculpt
1/2
Sculpt depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. In this...
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Sculpt
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
5.2/5
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2014
Don Peyote
3.6/20
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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Don Peyote
2017
Plankton Salesmen
0/0
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders an...
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Plankton Salesmen
2025
Marty Supreme
7.383/1656
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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Marty Supreme
The Night Burns
0/0
Massimo and his friends live in the suburbs of Rome. They have a dangerous hobby: stealing from rich young people in discos. One night something goes...
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