From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ira Sachs (b. November 21, 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American filmmaker. His first film was the acclaimed short Lady (1993).
He directed Sundance Film Festival selection The Delta (1997) and directed Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize winning Forty Shades of Blue (2005). He also directed Keep the Lights On, Life is Strange and Little Men. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ira Sachs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
Self
2014-11-27
How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OC…
Film About a Father Who
Self
2020-02-11
From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the web…
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Self
2020-01-23
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her f…
Ira Sachs Directing Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Forty Shades of Blue
Director
2005-12-07
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband’s estranged son comes to visi…
Married Life
Director
2007-09-12
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu…
Keep the Lights On
Director
2012-02-25
An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Pau…
The Delta
Director
1997-08-15
A glimpse into the lives of two young queer men in Memphis. One is white, closeted and well-off; the other is a biracial Vietnamese refugee….
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartme…
Little Men
Director
2016-08-05
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlik…
Vaudeville
Director
1992-06-23
A traveling theatrical troupe, made up primarily of gay and lesbian performers, mirrors the troubles of a political and social community through its t…
Underground Zero
Director
2002-03-15
A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11….
The Second Wife
Director
The story revolves around the Christodora, an East Village apartment building that was ground zero for the AIDS crisis….
Frankie
Director
2019-08-28
About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal….
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019-12-14
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the p…
Lady
Director
1993-06-04
Camp portrait of a performer. Is she a woman playing a gay man playing a woman?…
Before I Forget
Director
2019-12-14
In this short film Ira decided to pay tribute to another one of Strand’s filmmakers, Jacques Nolot. His film is a meditation on not only the passage…
10/26/00
Director
2000-01-01
This short video uses surveillance-type images of men standing on an anonymous street corner as the conceptual foreground for an examination of the re…
Untitled
Director
2002-01-01
Made for Underground Zero: Independent Filmmakers Respond to 9/11 This short video is made up of portraits taken from the fliers posted on the street…
Get It While You Can
Director
2002-01-02
A portrait of the filmmaker’s father, an American businessman on a quest for money and women in modern Moscow….
Passages
Director
2022-12-12
About two men who’ve been together for fifteen years, and one of them has an affair with a woman….
Ira Sachs Production Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Married Life
Producer
2007-09-12
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu…
Forty Shades of Blue
Producer
2005-12-07
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband’s estranged son comes to visi…
Keep the Lights On
Producer
2012-02-25
An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Pau…
Writing
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Forty Shades of Blue
Writer
2005-12-07
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband’s estranged son comes to visi…
Married Life
Screenplay
2007-09-12
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu…
Keep the Lights On
Writer
2012-02-25
An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Pau…
The Delta
Writer
1997-08-15
A glimpse into the lives of two young queer men in Memphis. One is white, closeted and well-off; the other is a biracial Vietnamese refugee….
Love Is Strange
Writer
2014-02-07
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartme…
Monty Clift
Screenplay
2021-12-31
During production of A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift meets the woman who will become his closest confidant and best friend, Elizabeth Taylor….
Vaudeville
Writer
1992-06-23
A traveling theatrical troupe, made up primarily of gay and lesbian performers, mirrors the troubles of a political and social community through its t…
Little Men
Writer
2016-08-05
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlik…
Frankie
Writer
2019-08-28
About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal….
Passages
Screenplay
2022-12-12
About two men who’ve been together for fifteen years, and one of them has an affair with a woman….
Other Info
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Film About a Father Who
Camera Operator
2020-02-11
From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the web…
