Ari Handel

Ari Handel is a Swiss-born American neuroscientist, film producer and writer. He is known for co-writing the films Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky and for producing these films along with four other films: The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale. He started co-writing the film Noah around 2003. Handel grew up in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, while his father was studying abroad, but he only lived there for about a year. Handel had an internship for Nova at WGBH, the Boston PBS station. He has a PhD in neurobiology from New York University. Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ari Handel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Pi

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Release Date1998-07-10

Charactersd Kaballah Scholar

Vote Count2394

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.

Release Date2007-05-15

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count4

Caught Stealing

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

Release Date2025-08-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count639

Black Swan

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

Release Date2010-12-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count15196

The Whale

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Release Date2022-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4409

Little Death

A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.

Release Date2024-01-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

One Strange Rock

A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts.

Release Date2018-03-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count85

The Fountain

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Release Date2006-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2984

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth

Chris is on a mission to live better for longer. With the help of top scientists, he takes on six epic challenges to test mind and body to the max.

Release Date2022-11-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count56

mother!

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Release Date2017-09-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6941

Noah

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Release Date2014-03-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count6466

Holding Liat

Liat Atzili was kidnapped from her kibbutz on October 7. What begins as a chronicle of her parents, sister, and children's efforts to secure her return, becomes a portrait of conflicting impulses towards anger, indifference, and compassion straining the bonds of one grieving family.

Release Date2025-09-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Lowland Kids

As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been in their family home for generations. Feature film continuation of a short of the same name.

Release Date2025-11-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Zipper

Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.

Release Date2015-08-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count170

Welcome to Earth

Will Smith whose curiosity and wonder is positively infectious—is guided by National Geographic Explorers traveling to different corners of the world to get up close and personal with the weirdest, most unusual, dangerous and thrilling spectacles of the planet.

Release Date2021-12-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count422

The Wrestler

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

Release Date2008-09-07

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count3876

Ancestra

When childbirth spirals into crisis, a mother's love becomes a cosmic force to save her daughter's life.

Release Date2025-06-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Limitless: Live Better Now

Chris Hemsworth takes on epic challenges to reveal ways we can all live better today.

Release Date2025-08-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count9

The Good Nurse

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Release Date2022-10-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1363

Jackie

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Release Date2016-12-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2394

Kindred

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

Release Date2022-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count39

Pole to Pole with Will Smith

Five years in the making, the series follows Will across all seven continents, taking him from the icefields of Antarctica to the jungles of the Amazon, the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Africa, the islands of the Pacific and the icebergs of the Arctic. Inspired by his late mentor to explore life's big questions, Will throws himself into incredible challenges for 100 days: skiing to the South Pole, catching a giant anaconda, milking a venomous tarantula, climbing mountains, and diving under the ice of the North Pole. He will venture from pole to pole in the company of scientists, explorers and local experts.

Release Date2026-01-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Sentient

For centuries we've set ourselves apart from nature because of the way we think and feel and learn, but the latest revelations from the fields of animal behavior, cognition and psychology reveal some astonishing truths about the other minds with which we share our planet. The series will show that life at all scales — plants, animals and arguably, entire ecosystems — has aspects of sentience and will ask us to rethink our place in nature.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

Catch the Fair One

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Release Date2022-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count89

Some Kind of Heaven

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

Release Date2021-02-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count35

Solidarity

A cross-cultural look at the immigrant experience in Los Angeles, through the parallel lives of a Mexican seamstress and a Lithuanian butcher.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Underland

Based on Robert Macfarlane’s bestseller, UNDERLAND is a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth.

Release Date2025-06-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Pendulum

Young couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help his wife but becomes distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic leader even as Abigail falls under her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple must determine if the group’s unconventional spiritual practices offer genuine healing or mask a terrifying truth that threatens to consume them both.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Territory

The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.

Release Date2022-08-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count24

Viktor

Viktor, who was born deaf, worships the figure of the samurai warrior. When bombs start falling on his countryside home in Kharkiv, his quasi-romantic obsession with war is put to the test.

Release Date2024-09-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer