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Directed by Abel Ferrara

Sean Fennessey on Abel Ferrara

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    Ms .45

    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...

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    Fear City

    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...

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