Abel Ferrara

Turn in the Wound (2024)

Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine. ...

Padre Pio (2023)

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are despe ...

Zeros and Ones (2021)

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters ...

Sportin' Life (2020)

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 throug ...

Tommaso (2020)

Tommaso is an American expat film director living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingl ...

The Projectionist (2019)

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. ...

Alive in France (2018)

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 legen ...

Talking with the Vampires (2018)

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

Hans (2017)

In July of this year, Hans Hurch travelled to Rome to meet Abel Ferrara and discuss the terms and content for a potential Viennale trailer with him. Following Hurch's unexpected death, Ferrara conceived the trailer as an obituary: We see a landscape at dus ...

Piazza Vittorio (2017)

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. ...

Searching for Padre Pio (2015)

A documentary directed by Abel Ferrara for the series 'BOATS – Based On A True Story' about the Padre Pio di Pietrelcina. ...

Pasolini (2014)

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 ...

Welcome to New York (2014)

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A ...

4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)

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

Happy Life (2011)

New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the ...

42 One Dream Rush (2010)

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric ci ...

Mulberry St. (2010)

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 ...

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2010)

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the ...

Bandaged (2009)

Since his wife's death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide and ends up with her face completely burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of ...

Go Go Tales (2008)

A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future. ...

Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)

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 ...

Mylène Farmer : Music Videos IV (2006)

Find the unique visual universe of Mylène Farmer accompanying the albums "Les Mots," and "Avant que l'ombre...." from 2001 to 2005. ...

Mary (2005)

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 ...

White Boy (2002)

An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being brutally attacked by the gang he seeks revenge via his street connections. ...

'R Xmas (2001)

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. ...

Mylene Farmer: Music Videos II & III (2001)

Includes videos of Mylène Farmer made ​​by Laurent Boutonnat, Luc Besson, Abel Ferrara and Marcus Nispel. ...

New Rose Hotel (1999)

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

Subway Stories (1997)

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 Blackout (1997)

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered. ...

The Funeral (1996)

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge. ...

Mylène Farmer: California (1996)

Short film release ...

The Addiction (1995)

A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood. ...

Dangerous Game (1993)

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 (1993)

When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daugh ...

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

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 (1990)

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 (1989)

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

China Girl (1987)

Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown. ...

Crime Story: Pilot (1986)

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show. ...

The Gladiator (1986)

A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges. ...

Fear City (1984)

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again. ...

Ms .45 (1981)

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 (1979)

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. ...

Could This Be Love (1973)

Two carefree women have a fun day out, pick up a prostitute and take her to a party hosted by one's husband. ...

The Hold Up (1972)

Three men, laid off from their factory jobs, plan a gas station robbery. ...

Nicky's Film (1971)

A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed. ...

Marty Supreme (2025)

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. ...

Judas' Gospel (2025)

An innovative approach in retelling the tale of Judas Iscariot, known for his biblical betrayal of Jesus when he disclosed his whereabouts for 30 pieces of silver. About to die, Judas reflects on his life and his relationship with Jesus and the disciples. ...

The Passion According to Béatrice (2024)

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. ...

Soldato sotto la luna (2022)

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)

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 char ...

Buon Lavoro (2022)

The Night Burns (2021)

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. ...

Missing Pictures (2021)

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 o ...

Bleedings (2021)

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. ...

Sportin' Life (2020)

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 throug ...

The App (2019)

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 ...

The Projectionist (2019)

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. ...

Alive in France (2018)

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 legen ...

Talking with the Vampires (2018)

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

A Talent For Trouble (2018)

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 lifetime to direct his first feature film. In the midst of this celebration, comes a tumultuous breakup w ...

Wiara (2018)

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

Plankton Salesmen (2017)

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 and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov. ...

Piazza Vittorio (2017)

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. ...

Black Butterfly (2017)

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. ...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)

An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen. ...

Ultima Chiamata (2017)

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 ...

Sculpt (2016)

Sculpt depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. In this world, thought recording and fascination for the inner space are no longer fantasies but the object of a ...

Don Peyote (2014)

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

Balkan Spirit (2013)

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

Home Sweet Home (2012)

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 ancien ...

Abel Ferrara in Lucca (2012)

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 ...

Mulberry St. (2010)

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 ...

Uncle Bob (2010)

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. ...

Daddy Longlegs (2010)

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 ...

Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)

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 ...

Cannes: All Access (2007)

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 glam ...

Exes (2006)

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. ...

Odyssey in Rome (2005)

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, H ...

Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me! (2004)

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, ...

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003)

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. ...

Abel/Asia (1998)

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

At Sundance (1995)

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-directe ...

Ms .45 (1981)

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 (1979)

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. ...

Nicky's Film (1971)

A man is threatened by mobsters to pay up a loan or be killed. ...