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Crew: Director
Synopsis: The Chelsea Hotel has long been consider the creative epicenter of New York City, a sort of unofficial gathering point for the most renowned artists and entertainers that the city has to offer. But while the Chelsea Hotel was once considered an impenetrable, untouchable monument to the creative Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, Asia Argento, Riccardo Scamarcio, Lou Doillon
Synopsis: Indie stalwart Abel Ferrara helms this quirky comedy about the goings-on at a downtown cabaret. Willem Defoe stars as Ray Ruby, the proprietor of a joint where all of the dancing girls have big dreams of working their way up to bigger and better things. But trouble begins to brew when money Read More
Actors: Matthew Modine, Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis: An egotistical film director (Matthew Modine), a contemplative talk show host (Forrest Whitaker) and an actress in the throes of a religious epiphany (Juliette Binoche) cross paths in this allegorical drama from director Abel Ferrara. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Abel Ferrara, Echo Danon, Frank De Curtis, Pamela Tiffin, Simone Lageoles
Synopsis: Originally made for French television, Iranian filmmaker Rafi Pitts directs the English-language documentary Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty. Pitts explores the life and work of maverick American filmmaker Abel Ferrara, shooting the director in his hometown of New York City. Ferrara provides ample Read More
Actors: Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Ice-T, Victor Argo
Synopsis: Cult favorite Abel Ferrara directed and co-wrote this story set in New York City in 1993, before Mayor Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized crusade against street crime put a dent in semi-public drug dealing in the city. It's a few days before Christmas, and a Latin American couple living on the city's Read More
Actors: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Yoshitaka Amano, Annabella Sciorra
Synopsis: Abel Ferrara directed this erotic thriller adapted by Ferrara and Christ Zois from a short story by science fiction author William Gibson (in his Burning Chrome collection). Global corporations rule the world, and corporate raider Fox (Christopher Walken) and his deputy X (Willem Dafoe) could Read More
Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Lassez
Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures of life in Hollywood, so he heads to Miami to Read More
Actors: Rosie Perez, Mercedes Ruehl, Lili Taylor
Synopsis: Subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of distinct vignettes made by ten of Hollywood's top directors and featuring some of Tinseltown's most popular actors. The episodes are based on real stories submitted by scores of subway regulars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More
Actors: Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo, Isabella Rossellini, Annabella Sciorra, Benicio Del Toro
Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this dark, emotional tale of life among the criminal underworld, set in the late 1930s. The Tempio Brothers -- Ray (Christopher Walken), Chez (Chris Penn), and Johnny (Vincent Gallo) -- work with the mob; Ray is the cool and methodical type, Chez is an angry man Read More
Actors: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon
Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral "Art" film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and Read More
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara, Reilly Murphy
Synopsis: Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she Read More
Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Billy Wirth, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker
Synopsis: Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is the third screen version of Jack Finney's cold war science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible Read More
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Tamerlis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel, Eddie Daniels
Synopsis: If police lieutenant Harvey Keitel's life could get any more sordid, he could probably sell tickets. The least of his vices is gambling, which has gotten him in Dutch with the mob. He abuses his body with drugs and his soul with hookers, and now he's turned to exploiting teenage girls for sex. Read More
Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes
Synopsis: The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Anthony Correa, Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Frederic Forrest, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Elmore Leonard's brittle novel is brought to the screen in this adaptation by director Abel Ferrara and screenwriter James Borrelli. Peter Weller plays George Moran, a Miami hotel owner who in times past fought in Santo Domingo during the American intervention into that country. George finds Read More
Actors: James Russo, Sari Chang, Richard Panebianco, David Caruso, Russell Wong
Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara liberally employs his blackjack intensity in this lunatic gang romance that comes across as a cross between Mean Streets and West Side Story. The New York City street gangs of Chinatown and Little Italy are rattling their sabers and they become drawn when a Chinese restaurant Read More
Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a young Los Angeles man is killed by a drunken driver and his brother attempts to avenge his death by ridding the streets of dangerous drivers. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: First telecast September 18, 1986, Crime Story was the two-part pilot for the subsequent series which traced the longstanding relationship between Chicago cop Lt. Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison). As head of the major crime unit, Torello is not above Read More
Actors: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi
Synopsis: To paraphrase 1930s wit Wilson Mizner, Fear City is like a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. In exploitation-flick fashion, the film exposes the seedy "nether world" of contemporary Manhattan. Unsavory Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nick (Jack Scalia) run a topless bar/booking agency, in Read More
Actors: Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau, Peter Yellen, Darlene Stuto
Synopsis: Undeservedly thrashed by mainstream critics in its initial theatrical run, this stylish urban thriller from quirky director Abel Ferrara has since developed a modest cult following. The late Zoe Tamerlis stars as Thana, a mute seamstress in New York's Garment District who is raped by two different Read More
Actors: Jimmy Laine, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Bob de Frank, Harry Schultz, Peter Yellen
Synopsis: Iconoclastic filmmaker Abel Ferrara made his directorial debut with this gory but fascinating horror tale about a troubled artist (played by Jimmy Laine, aka Abel Ferrara). Haunted by bizarre hallucinations and the fear he'll end up a wino like his father, the artist eventually snaps and begins Read More
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