Drafthouse Films has snapped up North American rights to Abel Ferrara‘s 1981 classic revenge thriller “Ms. 45,” which follows a mute garment seamstress (the late Zoe Lund) who starts a homicidal ...

11 years before he made his most famous film, Bad Lieutenant, director Abel Ferrara was already exploring sex and drugs and violence in New York. Ms. 45 starred Zoë Lund as a mute seamstress who goes ...

The 1980s saw a very direct carryover from '70s New Hollywood cinema in which directors were taking risks and studios were allowing it. A lot of stylized, grounded and realistic work came out of this ...

Bronx-born filmmaker Abel Ferrara considers all of his fiction films to be documentaries: What you see is what happened in the moment that was shot. That mentality informed the making of Ms. 45, ...

35 years ago today, New York indie filmmaker Abel Ferrara’s third feature, Ms. 45 (1981), arrived in cinemas. A violent, striking tale of trauma and revenge, it announced the arrival of filmmakers no ...

Drafthouse Films reached back into the vaults to snap up rights to the 1981 revenge thriller Ms. 45, the second film directed by Abel Ferrara after his 1979 horror pic The Driller Killer. The rape and ...

Seamstress Thana has often been downtrodden. But everything changes when she is raped on her way home. Returning to her flat, she confronts a burglar, whom she kills, taking his weapon. Thana then ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.