Gregg Araki

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregg Araki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
8.0

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

Release Date: 2022-09-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2652

American Gigolo
6.8

American Gigolo

Julian Kaye has always been an object of desire, so much so that people are willing to destroy him in order to have him. Exonerated, after 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he now faces the challenge of picking up the pieces as the detective who put him behind bars tries to unravel the mystery that led to his wrongful incarceration.

Release Date: 2022-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 70

6.0

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Release Date: 2019-12-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

Now Apocalypse
7.1

Now Apocalypse

This surreal, coming-of-age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford, and Severine, who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame. Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed.

Release Date: 2019-03-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 65

Heathers
6.9

Heathers

A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers. Based on the 1988 cult classic film.

Release Date: 2018-10-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 32

13 Reasons Why
7.6

13 Reasons Why

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

Release Date: 2017-03-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 4283

Riverdale
8.4

Riverdale

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

Release Date: 2017-01-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13535

Greenleaf
7.1

Greenleaf

The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each other, but beneath the surface lies a den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry and conflicting values—that threatens to tear apart the very core of their faith that holds them together.

Release Date: 2016-06-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 114

6.2

Here Now

Kenzo creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon have tapped American independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, one of the leading lights of the New Queer Cinema movement, to write and direct an original short film featuring the brand's fall collections for men and women.

Release Date: 2015-07-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 13

American Crime
6.7

American Crime

An anthology drama focusing on all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system dealing with crimes committed in America.

Release Date: 2015-03-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 124

Red Oaks
7.2

Red Oaks

A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye and her corporate raider father Getty.

Release Date: 2014-08-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 105

6.2

White Bird in a Blizzard

In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

Release Date: 2014-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 736

5.6

Kaboom

Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?

Release Date: 2010-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 336

6.0

Smiley Face

Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.

Release Date: 2007-11-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 286

Indie Sex
5.2

Indie Sex

Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.

Release Date: 2007-08-01

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 19

7.7

Mysterious Skin

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Release Date: 2005-03-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1123

6.0

Rescued from the Closet

A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.

Release Date: 2001-05-29

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

This Is How The World Ends

This Is How The World Ends

This Is How The World Ends was a TV Pilot episode for a series that revolved around a group of sexually active teenagers in Los Angeles.

Release Date: 2000-07-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

7.1

But I'm a Cheerleader

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

Release Date: 2000-07-07

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 719

6.0

Splendor

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?

Release Date: 1999-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 70

6.8

Nowhere

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Release Date: 1997-05-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 180

6.5

The Doom Generation

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Release Date: 1995-10-27

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 264

5.5

At Sundance

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]

Release Date: 1995-01-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

6.6

Totally F***ed Up

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.

Release Date: 1994-08-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 95

6.7

The Living End

Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

Release Date: 1992-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 70

6.0

The Long Weekend (O' Despair)

The film follows three couples, one gay, one lesbian and one heterosexual, spending a weekend together.

Release Date: 1989-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

5.1

Three Bewildered People in the Night

David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.

Release Date: 1987-08-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

I Want Your Sex

When fresh-faced Elliot lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

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