Josephine Decker

Acting

Josephine Decker

Born 1981-04-02 · Dallas, Texas, USA

Josephine Decker is an American actress, filmmaker, and performance artist. As of 2020, she has directed four feature films: experimental psychological thriller Butter on the Latch (2013), experimental erotic thriller Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), experimental drama Madeline's Madeline (2018), and semi-biographical thriller Shirley (2020). Decker also co-directed the documentary Bi the Way (2008) with Brittany Blockman.

Acting credits

Art History poster
4.4

Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.

Art History

2011

Tormenting the Hen poster
5.8

A lesbian couple experiences microaggressions at a workshop upstate. Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New York City to the Berkshires, where Claire has been invited to stage her latest work at a rural theater company. While Claire's actors question her ability to write heterosexual dialogue, Monica encounters her own source of micro-aggression in the form of Mutty, the groundskeeper.

Tormenting the Hen

2017

Collective: Unconscious poster
6.2

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Collective: Unconscious

2016

No artwork available
NR

The employees of a cult-like biotech start-up test their production on themselves.

Aquaculture

2017

Sisters of the Plague poster
3.1

Sensing evil, a haunted house tour guide seeks a medium's help only to be warned that she is facing a vengeful power beyond her control.

Sisters of the Plague

2015

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present poster
7.3

Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

2012

Autoerotic poster
4.1

Four interconnected Chicago couples explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.

Autoerotic

2011

Once Upon a River poster
6.5

After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity.

Once Upon a River

2019

Uncle Kent poster
5.3

A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.

Uncle Kent

2011

Saturday Morning Massacre poster
4.3

A dark and bloody parody about a Scooby-Doo-like team of paranormal investigators and their devoted dog.

Saturday Morning Massacre

2012

Young Bodies Heal Quickly poster
5.3

Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.

Young Bodies Heal Quickly

2014

No artwork available
NR

Just The Three Of Us is a short fiction film about an interracial couple in their 70s looking to spice up their marriage.

Just the Three of Us

2014

Black Box poster
NR

A grad student in theatre directs a group of undergrads in an adaptation of a 1980s young adult novel, altering them all in unexpected ways.

Black Box

2013

Flames poster
5.3

A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?

Flames

2017

No artwork available
4.5

Tuna and long time friend, Alex, are on their quest to go to Richard's wedding in Central Park. The duo meet up with their motley assortment of old friends only to revive old jealousies and debates on politics, religion, and the meaning of success, as the whole party runs the risk of going off the rails in a downpour of rain and emotions.

Richard's Wedding

2012

Funny Bunny poster
5.5

Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene discovers that Titty has an ongoing online relationship with the beautiful but reclusive Ginger, who is an animal activist. Gene convinces Titty to make a pilgrimage to meet Ginger where the two men form a close bond despite both of them being drawn to the enigmatic Ginger, who is in need of rescue.

Funny Bunny

2015

Loves Her Gun poster
5.9

Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.

Loves Her Gun

2013

Abby Singer/Songwriter poster
9.0

A has-been New York rock-star teams up with a wannabe filmmaker to destroy hipster culture in New York... if they don't destroy each other first.

Abby Singer/Songwriter

2015

Rosehill poster
NR

After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a local road trip through a place that has seen better days. Part road trip, part meditation, part improvised fiction, part documentary, Rosehill is a film about crisis and eternal change, the darkness and resilience of the human spirit.

Rosehill

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hank Patterson and the Mystery of the CuttyRainBrownTrout

2016

Behind the camera

Shirley poster
6.1

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Shirley

2020

The Sky Is Everywhere poster
5.7

Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.

The Sky Is Everywhere

2022

The Sky Is Everywhere poster
5.7

Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.

The Sky Is Everywhere

2022

Art History poster
4.4

Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.

Art History

2011

Chasing Summer poster
7.5

After losing both her job and boyfriend, Jamie retreats to her small Texas hometown where friends and flings from a fateful high school summer turn her life upside down.

Chasing Summer

2026

Collective: Unconscious poster
6.2

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Collective: Unconscious

2016

Collective: Unconscious poster
6.2

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Collective: Unconscious

2016

Madeline's Madeline poster
5.9

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

Madeline's Madeline

2018

Madeline's Madeline poster
5.9

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

Madeline's Madeline

2018

Squeezebox poster
6.0

Anything can happen in an accordion store.

Squeezebox

2010

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely poster
5.3

The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

2014

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely poster
5.3

The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

2014

No artwork available
NR

A biopic about Irish musician Sinéad O’Connor, who became one of the most legendary figures in Irish cultural history and a trailblazer for women across the world.

Untitled Sinéad O’Connor Biopic

The Mask Task poster
5.3

Josephine Decker employs uncanny masks, intricate sound design, and choreography inspired by Japanese butoh to create a visceral exploration of fear, stress, and childhood development.

The Mask Task

2018

The Mask Task poster
5.3

Josephine Decker employs uncanny masks, intricate sound design, and choreography inspired by Japanese butoh to create a visceral exploration of fear, stress, and childhood development.

The Mask Task

2018

A Stable Marriage poster
NR

A woman's sexual fantasy is fulfilled - with surprising ramifications.

A Stable Marriage

2026

A Stable Marriage poster
NR

A woman's sexual fantasy is fulfilled - with surprising ramifications.

A Stable Marriage

2026

A Stable Marriage poster
NR

A woman's sexual fantasy is fulfilled - with surprising ramifications.

A Stable Marriage

2026

My Eyes poster
NR

Kids Songs: "My Eyes, Your Eyes" by Monkey Monkey Music with Meredith LeVande

My Eyes

2010

Bi the Way poster
4.8

This documentary explores the bisexual youth subculture in mid-00's America.

Bi the Way

2008

Me the Terrible poster
6.4

A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.

Me the Terrible

2012

Me the Terrible poster
6.4

A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.

Me the Terrible

2012

Flames poster
5.3

A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?

Flames

2017

Flames poster
5.3

A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?

Flames

2017