Madeleine Olnek

Directing

Madeleine Olnek

Place of birth

New York City, New York

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Madeleine Olnek is an American independent film director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright. She has written 24 plays and three feature films, including Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, The Foxy Merkins, and Wild Nights with Emily.

Known for

Wild Nights with Emily poster
5.9

Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.

Wild Nights with Emily

2018

Hold Up poster
5.5

A robber looks to make off with more than the money from a convenience store hold up.

Hold Up

2006

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same poster
4.5

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

2012

No artwork available
6.0

Carla gets more than she bargained for when her therapist begins baiting her with sexual suggestiveness.

Countertransference

2008

The Foxy Merkins poster
4.9

Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.

The Foxy Merkins

2013

Behind the camera

Wild Nights with Emily poster
5.9

Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.

Wild Nights with Emily

2018

Wild Nights with Emily poster
5.9

Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.

Wild Nights with Emily

2018

Wild Nights with Emily poster
5.9

Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.

Wild Nights with Emily

2018

Hold Up poster
5.5

A robber looks to make off with more than the money from a convenience store hold up.

Hold Up

2006

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same poster
4.5

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

2012

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same poster
4.5

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

2012

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same poster
4.5

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

2012

No artwork available
6.0

Carla gets more than she bargained for when her therapist begins baiting her with sexual suggestiveness.

Countertransference

2008

The Foxy Merkins poster
4.9

Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.

The Foxy Merkins

2013

The Foxy Merkins poster
4.9

Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.

The Foxy Merkins

2013