Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1979 • United States
Starring Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day

In a career that has encompassed such controversial classics as MS. 45 and BAD LIEUTENANT, none of Abel Ferrara’s films have quite managed to match the shock, extremity, and downright notorious nature ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1981 • United States
Starring Zoë Lund, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto

Abel Ferrara’s exploitation-scuzz classic takes place in the cesspool of 1980s New York, where mute garment-district worker Thana (Zoë Lund, who also cowrote Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT) is raped once, t...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1984 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams

Cult auteur Abel Ferrara offers a bracing plunge into the sordid neon underbelly of 1980s Times Square in this stylishly pulpy neonoir sleazefest. There’s a psychopath loose on the streets...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1987 • United States Starring James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang

Auteur of sin and sleaze Abel Ferrara brings his inimitable brand of pulp poetry to this gritty,...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1990 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso

Renegade director Abel Ferrara—working in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Nicholas St. John—brings his murky moral worldview and eye for pulp imagery to this kinetic, stylish...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1992 • United States
Starring Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley, Victor Argo

Abel Ferrara’s harrowing vision of sin, Catholic guilt, and the search for salvation in a grimy New York City underworld is one of the most controversial and indelible works of the art of the 1990s...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States, Italy
Starring Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo

One of outsider auteur Abel Ferrara’s most daring, emotionally raw forays into the depths of human torment, DANGEROUS GAME is a fascinatingly fractured, self-reflexive vision of moviemaking as a p...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States
Starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar

Abel Ferrara brings his subversive vision to the sci-fi/horror genre with this potent adaptation of the novel by Jack Finney (previously filmed twice as INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). “They get yo...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1995 • United States
Starring Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra

On the streets of Greenwich Village, an NYU philosophy student (Lili Taylor) finds herself the victim of a vampiric encounter, inaugurating an insatiable craving for blood that drives her ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1997 • United States
Starring Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Dennis Hopper

Abel Ferrara’s terrifying, hallucinatory exploration of addiction, memory, and cinematic voyeurism is one of his most daringly abstract works, a relentlessly dark, surreal vision of psychic d...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1998 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento

Abel Ferrara’s slick, sexy adaptation of a story by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson journeys deep into the world of corporate espionage, as shady businessmen Fox (Christopher Walken) and X ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2001 • United States
Starring Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato Jr., Lisa Valens

Blending raw, almost documentary-like realism with flashes of his trademark urban expressionism, Abel Ferrara serves up a strangely affecting Christmas morality tale as only he can. As the ho...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2009 • Italy
Starring Fabio Gargano, Shanyn Leigh, Peppe Lanzetta

Abel Ferrara takes his camera onto the streets of Naples, Italy, for this gritty journey through the city’s infamous underside. Combining interviews with women prisoners and local residents with scripted...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2011 • United States, France, Switzerland
Starring Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne

Abel Ferrara’s typically subversive take on the disaster film approaches the apocalypse from a uniquely human perspective. With the world set to end from environmental collaps...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2014 • France, United States
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Marie Mouté

A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel-room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world. Inspired by the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, WELCOME TO NEW YORK foll...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2019 • Italy, United States, Greece
Starring Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Anna Ferrara

Abel Ferrara reflects on his own bad-boy image with newfound insight and maturity in this semi-autobiographical portrait of an artist confronting the shadows of his turbulent past...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2019 • United States, Greece

Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who, as a teenager, began working in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification, changing view...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2022 • Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Ruocco

With this impassioned biography of revered Catholic mystic Padre Pio, director Abel Ferrara brings the spiritual dimensions long inherent in his work to the fore. In post–Worl...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2024 • United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
Starring Patti Smith

An intensely visceral, aesthetically bold personal response to the war in Ukraine that only the fearlessly iconoclastic director Abel Ferrara could make, this form-breaking documentary blends harrowing battlefi...