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 follows a prominent international banker (Gérard Depardieu) as he spirals out of control during a drug- and sex-fueled trip to the U.S., culminating in a shocking crime and his subsequent arrest. Pushing his trademark themes of power, corruption, and compulsion to their limits, director Abel Ferrara offers a fearless portrait of a man whose wealth and privilege cannot save him from himself.
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Tommaso
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2019 • Italy, United States, Greece
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The Projectionist
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...
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Padre Pio
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2022 • Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore RuoccoWith 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...
