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Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs

Director · Born November 21, 1965 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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Biography

Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. Sachs began his career directing short films, including Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993), before making his feature film debut with The Delta (1997). Sachs later won acclaim for his dramatic independent films, including Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Keep the Lights On (2012), Love Is Strange (2014), Little Men (2016), and Passages (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ira Sachs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 19

2010s

  1. 2019

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    Director

  2. Before I Forget

    Director

  3. 2016
  4. 2014
  5. 2012
  6. 2010

    Last Address

    Director

2000s

  1. 2008
  2. 2005

    Forty Shades of Blue

    Director

  3. 2002

    Underground Zero

    Director

  4. Get It While You Can

    Director

  5. Untitled

    Director

  6. 2000

    10/26/00

    Director

1990s

  1. 1997

    The Delta

    Director

  2. 1993

    Lady

    Director

  3. 1992

    Vaudeville

    Director

Wrote 11

2000s

  1. 2008
  2. 2005

    Forty Shades of Blue

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1997

    The Delta

    Writer

  2. 1992

    Vaudeville

    Writer

Produced 7

2010s

  1. 2016
  2. 2014
  3. 2012
  4. In Search of Avery Willard

    Executive Producer

  5. 2011

    Woman's Picture

    Executive Producer

2000s

  1. 2008
  2. 2005

    Forty Shades of Blue

    Producer

Camera 1

2020s

  1. 2020

    Film About a Father Who

    Director of Photography

Appearances6

2020s

  1. 2025

    Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus

    Self

  2. 2020

    Deauville et le rêve américain

    Self

  3. Film About a Father Who

    Self

2010s

  1. 2014

    How I Learned to Love the Numbers

    Self

1990s

  1. 1993

    Lady

    Self (voice)

Thanked in the credits1