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 holidays approach, a mother (Drea de Matteo of “The Sopranos”) sees her picture-perfect life—a fairy-tale facade of Manhattan prosperity that’s secretly sustained by a sleazy drug-dealing business—unravel when her husband (Lillo Brancato Jr.) is kidnapped by rival dealers, forcing her to wage war against the underworld to protect all she’s built.
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Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2009 • Italy
Starring Fabio Gargano, Shanyn Leigh, Peppe LanzettaAbel 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...
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4:44 Last Day on Earth
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2011 • United States, France, Switzerland
Starring Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha LyonneAbel 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...
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Welcome to New York
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2014 • France, United States
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Marie MoutéA 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...
