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Abel Ferrara

1951 - Today

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Abel Ferrara (Italian: [ferˈraːra]; born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use and redefinition of neo-noir imagery. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known movies include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones. Ferrara also worked in a wide array of genres, including the sci-fi remake Body Snatchers (1993), cyberpunk thriller New Rose Hotel (1998), the religious drama Mary (2005), the black comedy Go Go Tales (2007), and the biopic Pasolini (2014), as well as in several documentary filmmaking projects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abel Ferrara is the 609th most popular film director (down from 496th in 2019), the 4,499th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,131st in 2019) and the 160th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Abel Ferrara ranks 609 out of 2,041. Before him are Les Kurbas, Yuri Norstein, Genndy Tartakovsky, John Badham, Charles Vidor, and Jörn Donner. After him are Stan Winston, Gore Verbinski, Arnold Fanck, King Hu, Luca Guadagnino, and Thelma Schoonmaker.

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Among people born in 1951, Abel Ferrara ranks 205. Before him are Alec John Such, Charly García, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Iván Fischer, Izhar Cohen, and Slavica Đukić Dejanović. After him are Sulejman Tihić, Timo Salonen, Kazuo Saito, Migueli, John Stagliano, and Shigeru Umebayashi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abel Ferrara ranks 4,499 out of 20,380. Before him are Eddie Bracken (1915), Judy Collins (1939), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Gregory Benford (1941), and David Butler (1894). After him are Tonya Harding (1970), Stan Winston (1946), Larry Niven (1938), Terry Funk (1944), Gore Verbinski (1964), and Evelyn Berezin (1925).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Abel Ferrara ranks 160. Before him are Jennifer Lee (1971), John Lasseter (1957), Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893), Robert Mulligan (1925), Burt Kennedy (1922), and Robert Surtees (1906). After him are Stan Winston (1946), Gore Verbinski (1964), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), John Stagliano (1951), and Peter Hyams (1943).

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