Gregg Araki Filmography

Born:: New York City, NY
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent cinema, filmmaker Gregg Araki emerged on the film scene with the subtlety of a gunshot to the head with The Living End in 1992. His story of two HIV-positive gay lovers on a highway rampage quickly...Read More

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Smiley Face

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Anna Faris, Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Masterson, Ben Falcone, Adam Brody

Synopsis: One woman's day goes all to pot in this resinous comedy from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. Jane (Anna Faris) is a college dropout and aspiring actress who suffers from a certain lack of ambition, doubtless reinforced by her fondness for marijuana. One morning, Jane wakes with a busy day ahead Read More

2007
Mysterious Skin

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on Read More

5/6/05
Splendor

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech, Matt Keeslar, Kelly MacDonald, Eric Mabius

Synopsis: A struggling actress forges an unusual family unit with two separate boyfriends in this romantic comedy from indie auteur Gregg Araki. Veronica (Kathleen Robertson) hasn't had a decent date for a year, but one Halloween she meets not one but two perfect guys: Zed (Matt Keeslar), a rock drummer who Read More

9/17/99
Nowhere

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Guillermo Diaz, Jeremy Jordan, Debi Mazar

Synopsis: Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid" (with no suggestions of what it might be cut with), Nowhere is a companion piece with Araki's previous meditations on youth gone wild in the 1990s, Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation -- Araki's self-described "teen Read More

1997
The Doom Generation

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Lauren Tewes, Margaret Cho

Synopsis: Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's Read More

1995
Totally F***ed Up

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill, Gilbert Luna

Synopsis: A group of gay and lesbian teen characters addresses the camera directly in this pseudo-documentary about the travails of queer adolescence in early-'90s Los Angeles. Andy (James Duval), who hides his sensitive side beneath a nihilistic exterior, really yearns to find a nice boyfriend and settle Read More

1993
The Living End

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Darcy Marta, Scot Goetz

Synopsis: A gentle film critic hooks up with a violent drifter in this HIV-positive road movie, which marked the emergence of writer/director Gregg Araki into the art house mainstream. Jon (Craig Gilmore) has just learned he has the virus that causes AIDS. Still in a state of shock, he stumbles through his Read More

1992
The Long Weekend

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bretton Vail, Nicole Dillenberg, Marcus D'Amico

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Gregg Araki has probably set a record for low budgets in this current feature The Long Weekend. It came in at around $5,000 and yet was shown in legit moviehouses to respectful (if not overwhelmingly positive) reviews. As with his other movies, the central characters in this Read More

1989
Three Bewildered People in the Night

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Darcy Marta, Mark Howell, John Lacques

Synopsis: The titular trio in Three Bewildered People in the Night is played by Darcy Marta, Mark Howell and John Lacques. Experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki follows the threesome -- aspiring artists all -- as they wander through the apartments, galleries and coffee shops of Greenwich Village. Their lives Read More

1987
Long Weekend

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Michael Aitkens

Synopsis: An Australian couple sets off on a weekend to the coast in this psychological thriller. Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) are at each other's throats from the moment they pull out of the driveway, as Peter sneaks his dog along for the weekend and Marcia is harboring anger about a Read More

1978