Abel Ferrara

Harvey Keitel portrays a New York City police lieutenant who takes advantage of his position in order to steal, take, and sell drugs, and who in addition has a major gambling problem. He investigates the rape of a nun, but is even more preoccupied with betting on the National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Between these two events, his life seems to be plunged in directions beyond his control.

Matty is a film star who is tired of Hollywood life and moves to Miami, where he makes a proposal to his girlfriend Annie. She is not ready to marry him, and it is revealed that she had an abortion. Depressed because he lost his baby (though it was him who initially asked for abortion), Matty, together with his friend Micky, go on a wild night. (imdb)

Maas and Hosaka are two large Corporations in the future world. They are fighting to get control over the best minds of the world. The best is Hiroshi and at the moment he is working for the Maas Corporation. Fox has accepted an offer to persuade Hiroshi to go over to the Hosaka Corporation. Sandii is a little Italian girl from Japan and she should be the way to get to Hiroshi. X is the man who should train Sandii to break Hiroshi's Heart. But if X falls in love with Sandii? And if the Hosaka Corporation breaks the agreement? And if Sandii is not a little Italian girl? (imdb)

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.

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

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. (imdb)

A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

An actress (Binoche) becomes obsessed with Mary Magdelene after playing her in a film. (imdb)

The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes... (imdb)

In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs... (imdb)

New York City, the 1930s. A powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses. Against this turbulent backdrop, the family's three street-hardened brothers and the women they love are about to be plunged into a deadly confrontation with their enemies, with each other, and with their own dark heritage of violence, madness and murder. (imdb)

Kathleen Conklin, a doctoral student in philosophy, finds herself with a new perspective on the nature of evil and humanity after being bitten by a vampire in New York City. (imdb)

A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

Two care-free women have a fun day out, pick up a prostitute and take her to a party hosted by one's husband. (imdb)

A woman must earn enough money to save her criminal husband.

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. (imdb)

The spiritual home to Manhattan bohemia... where Luc Besson filmed Léon, like Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls, where Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road and Sid Vicious stabbed her girlfriend... New York's legendary 125-year-old Chelsea Hotel is the lead character of this brilliant documentary that premiered at Cannes in 2008 out of competition at a special screening. (www.iksv.org)

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

An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the general off. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli, Abel Ferrara's new project, is not only a portrait of the city itself, but a deep sight into its humanity, vital and brutal, passionate and cruel at the same time. (mubi.com)

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

A look at what would happen if everyone knew the world was ending. (imdb)

A young & rich couple (Farmer and Esposito) is preparing to attend a reception where they are invited. Meanwhile, a prostitute and a pimp (also played by Farmer and Esposito) are quarreling. The woman looks at the prostitutes on the sidewalk and sees her double threatened by her pimp who then murders her. After the reception, the woman disguises herself as a prostitute and joins those outside. She makes love with the pimp and savagely kills him to avenge her double. (Wikipedia)

A series of interrelated episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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 terrified man. A lost man. (imdb)

One of the greatest director and actor alliances of all time join again to bring the world a glimpse of the the final days of a God among filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini, after he went Salò.

Documentary chronicles and celebrates the eponymous Roman square.

An affectionate documentary profile of Cyprus-born theater owner Nick Nicolaou, recalls New York's fading art house and adult film scene from the 1970s to the present. (MoMA)

Ferrara's musical collaborators Joe Delia and Paul Hipp join him for a series of live performance dates in this behind-the-scenes documentary focused on his creative process and celebrity. (MoMA)

The story of an American artist living in Rome with his young European wife Nikki and their 3-year-old daughter, Dee Dee. (imdb)

This is the festival trailer for Viennale 2017 (Vienna International Film Festival). Made by Abel Ferrara. (imdb)

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

A man flees from one world to another that is strange and cold. Furs and fires keep him warm; a cave serves as his shelter. He is a broken man who wants to be alone. But even isolation does not bring him inner peace. Once again, he goes on a journey, this time into the self. (berlinale.de)

Filmmaker Abel Ferrara documents his experiences screening 'Siberia' at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020 before being forced in quarantine during the Coronavirus outbreak. (imdb)

NO SAINTS is a web series directed by Abel Ferrara, chronicling fictional events that take place at the fashion/textile company, MTI USA. The web series star non-actors, namely Tommaso Rulli and Said Dib, partners at MTI. Tommaso and Said find themselves in the middle of a drug scandal induced by their client, Daniel Beck. When Said finds out that a bag of cocaine was hidden in the pocket of a jacket MTI manufactured for Daniel, he finds himself betrayed by his partner, Tommaso. (imdb)

The Abel Ferrara directed video for the song "You Don't Look So Good" by the band Dead Combo.

The Abel Ferrara directed video for the song "Move with Me" by Kyrsten Dior.

The Abel Ferrara directed video for the song "Don't Change Your Plans" by the band Ben Folds Five.

The Abel Ferrara directed video for the song "Rain" by Abenaa Frempong-Boadu.

The Abel Ferrara directed video for the song "Iowa" by the band The Phoids.

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. (imdb)

A Catholic monk struggles with guilt and visions of Christ. At the same time and location, a political conflict builds up to a tragedy.