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Frank Mosley
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Directing
Credits
99 titles
Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker from Texas living in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. His directing work includes Good Condition (Fantasia 2023), Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and The Event (Fantastic Fest 2022), which debuted as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was named a "Top 12 Film of 2023" on NoBudge. Acting credits include Obex (Sundance 2025, Oscilloscope Laboratories), Rent Free (Tribeca 2024, Vinegar Syndrome), Quantum Cowboys (Fantastic Fest 2022, Factory 25), Freeland (SXSW 2020, MUBI), Chained for Life (NYTimes Critics Pick 2018, Kino Lorb…
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Jealous over his girlfriend's porn career, a man goes to desperate lengths to reclaim his masculinity.
Cuck
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6.1Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
2013
6.8A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Thunder Road
2018
6.3A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Upstream Color
2013
NRWhen Daniel is sent to a CEDU school, part of America's troubled teen industry in the late 90s, he is forced into transgressive therapy sessions called "Raps" that are bent on breaking him down.
Raps
2023
NRAn experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey.
Panhandle Jim
2014
Film credits
2020s · 23 titles
NRWhen Daniel is sent to a CEDU school, part of America's troubled teen industry in the late 90s, he is forced into transgressive therapy sessions called "Raps" that are bent on breaking him down.
Raps
2023
6.1Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
Obex
2026
NROn the night before Halloween in a small New England town, a local hot wiener delivery driver attempts to get out of work on time for a holiday tradition he’s kept since childhood. Things prove difficult as he navigates car troubles, a rival pizza delivery driver, and a cast of lonely regulars all keeping him stuck.
Hot Wieners and Coffee Milk
2026
5.9A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.
Taurus
2022
4.5Working hard to support her daughter, Monica is a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and her daughter becomes more perilous.
They Want Me Gone
2022
9.0When a coal miner in 1930s Utah hides the loss of his job from his family, the quiet deception sets off a slow-burning collapse.
Jackrabbit
2026
NRIn a quietly apocalyptic world a lonely woman discovers a small wooden door on the side of her body and must decide whether or not to open it.
Little Doors
2026
10.0Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single day, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a radical act they believe will change the world. As paranoia builds and fractures deepen, the lines between purpose, fear, and identity blur.
The Plan
2026
7.0After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.
Rent Free
2024
6.6Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician.
Quantum Cowboys
2023
NRAn expectant couple's parenting skills are put to the test when a hungry stranger shows up on their doorstep.
Kiddo
2022
NRAn unexpected visit from an old friend
It Was Just A Nightmare
2026
NRA monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool.
El Tonto Por Cristo
2025
NRTwo brothers come to blows over how to discipline a child for trying to drown the family cat. Things go haywire as one of the brothers is determined that the generational darkness of corporal punishment ends with him.
Whoopin'
2026
NRIn this poetic, fragmented portrait set in rural Oregon, three white millennials struggle to come to terms with their increasing sense of alienation from contemporary society. Their despair leads them to confront their perceived adversities in the most terrible way imaginable. A searing critique of white American values, KIN invites its viewers to contemplate the troubled and long-brewing reality of Trump's America.
Kin
2021
NRDiane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal.
Love and Work
2026
4.4Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.
Freeland
2021
A filmmaker hires an actor to recreate memories from childhood in order to explore an estranged family relationship.
Gus is my Brother
2025
NRAn isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system.
The Finger
2020
NRA man happens to run into an old acquaintance from high school while on a hike in the woods.
Reunion
2025
NRCharlie, a depressed night manager of a motel, and Bridgette, a young naive woman on the brink of adulthood, engage in late-night conversation, sharing intimate secrets that shift how they see each other.
I'm Not Sure
2025
2.0Featuring Bella Samman in the title role and Frank Mosley as her driver’s ed instructor. It is a misadventure involving blackmail, a pitbull and a clueless Instagram influencer.
Ilsa
2021
7.0Jenks has been pushed to the brink by a system that does not care about him. Desperate for life-saving medicine, he resorts to robbing a small-town drug store. But when he injures a mysterious woman involved in a black market pharmacy, his attempts to save her life may end up jeopardizing his own.
Don't Die
2023
2010s · 27 titles
6.1Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
2013
6.8A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Thunder Road
2018
6.3A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Upstream Color
2013
NRAn experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey.
Panhandle Jim
2014
5.2Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
Person to Person
2017
5.5A stoic farmhand in Appalachia is haunted by a mysterious presence in the woods as he cultivates his future in an effort to leave his past behind.
Some Beasts
2015
3.5An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.
Americana
2016
7.2Loss and heartbreak challenges one man to forgive the unforgivable.
Gallows Road
2015
4.3An imprisoned criminal rats out his former boss for one last chance to reunite his family and become the father he never was.
The Ghost Who Walks
2019
6.8After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.
Sabbatical
2014
NRA visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.
Two Story
2015
NRTwo men design and build a detention center.
Boundaries
2019
6.3A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life
2019
Oliver is having the worst day.
Go Fuck Yourself Oliver
2015
6.3A 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
4.5A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.
Aimy in a Cage
2015
NRA backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved.
Coyotes Kill for Fun
2017
NRJerry and Carl have conned their way from one small Texas town to another, but things go haywire when one of them falls in love with Maureen. Not to mention the P.I. that's hot on their trail... A musical comedy based on "Two Gallants" by James Joyce and the songs of John Prine.
Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
2018
A man is tranquilized on the street numb and finds himself tied up in empty room. But what is that thing coming down?
The Procedure
2016
4.7Bailey has settled into his new country home and has a crush on a dog from the other side of the fence. When her brother Felix is stolen, Bailey and his brother, Duke, set out to save him before he gets sold at the exchange in historic Cowtown. Will Bailey rescue Felix and win the love of his sweetheart?
Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
2013
6.0A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.
Black Soil, Green Grass
2016
1.5A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.
The Ladies of the House
2015
A conservative business owner gets a rude awakening when his sister-in-law stops by to talk about his dying father.
And By We I Mean Me
2017
5.8The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.
Don't Ever Change
2017
NRA lonely man walks the streets of an upscale neighborhood at night.
The Prowler
2018
3.7In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years later, the only known survivor returns only to find the ghosts of the past have not been resting in peace.
Don't Look in the Basement 2
2015
6.0Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room.
The Bulb
2016
2000s · 4 titles
2.0A group of old friends are hanging at one of their houses exchanging stories of sexual escapades, awaiting another friend to arrive so they can celebrate a birthday at a nude bar. When one of them is suddenly accused of having masturbated in his friend's bathroom, what starts as a McCarthy-era trial of accusations at one individual suddenly escalates into a night of judgment that tests the truth of their words and the strength of all their friendships. LIONS' DEN is an entirely improvised drama using both actors and non actors shot over the course of an evening, based from a loose outline. It ultimately is a probing of the way men behave with one another. It also emphasizes the way people point the finger at others to hide their own sins and actions. A melting pot of lies, truths, egos, and masculinity that is stirred with documentary-style filmmaking.
Lions' Den
2007
NRBilly the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tries to make amends with various people in his life. For Billy, the real battle may be on the home front rather than the front lines. LEAVE is an entirely improvised drama that was shot over the course of one day in Arlington, Texas, using both actors and non actors, both family and friends of the director, all from a one page outline. The story ultimately describes the different ways people express their love to one another, and how these ways of communicating love are sometimes lost.
Leave
2007
NRScott and Amanda have an announcement. Over Sunday dinner they admit to their father and younger brother, Darren, that they've been involved in an incestuous relationship for some years and that Amanda is pregnant. Now Scott and Amanda find themselves not only ostracized from their family but at odds with each other over the pregnancy.
Relation
2007
NRFor 25 years, Avron Coleman performed cello with the New York Philharmonic, as well as in numerous important string quartets. Retiring in 1997, this active, talkative, prolific, fascinating man still plays, and recounts tales of music and of his own life in music. The film contains lots of beautiful music by Schubert, Bach, Schumann, Brahms, and others.
The Cellist
2002
Undated · 6 titles
Jealous over his girlfriend's porn career, a man goes to desperate lengths to reclaim his masculinity.
Cuck
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NRSet a decade after It Follows. Plot TBA.
They Follow
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On the eve of retirement, a veteran crime-scene cleaner and his replacement must cover up a deadly mistake when a routine job leaves them with one body too many and a dangerous higher-up on the way.
Lucky Us
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A once-prominent leftist podcaster struggles to break into comedy after his co-hosts get canceled. He loses his home to L.A. fires and bounces between friends' places before ending up at a Malibu health center with sinister secrets.
A Fresh Hell
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Albert, a melancholic logger, heads into the Canadian wilderness in 1924 to pan for gold and change his fortunes. His escape into solitude is cut short when he is violently abducted by a Sasquatch and taken to a cave it shares with its mate and their daughter. As the days pass, Albert is pulled into a world of isolation, strange rituals, and forbidden intimacy – an ordeal that ends in bloodshed, and an act of creation.
Fur
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A man happens to run into an old acquaintance from high school while on a hike in the woods.
Reunion
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Behind the camera
3.8A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. Inspired by The Kuleshov Effect, a dizzying provocation on art and objectification.
Parthenon
2017
3.8A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. Inspired by The Kuleshov Effect, a dizzying provocation on art and objectification.
Parthenon
2017
NRA chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.
Holy the Sabbath
2006
NRA chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.
Holy the Sabbath
2006
NRA chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.
Holy the Sabbath
2006
7.8A mercurial narrative about the reunion of two old friends. Loosely inspired by Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.
Spider Veins
2016
7.8A mercurial narrative about the reunion of two old friends. Loosely inspired by Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.
Spider Veins
2016
4.3An imprisoned criminal rats out his former boss for one last chance to reunite his family and become the father he never was.
The Ghost Who Walks
2019
2.0A group of old friends are hanging at one of their houses exchanging stories of sexual escapades, awaiting another friend to arrive so they can celebrate a birthday at a nude bar. When one of them is suddenly accused of having masturbated in his friend's bathroom, what starts as a McCarthy-era trial of accusations at one individual suddenly escalates into a night of judgment that tests the truth of their words and the strength of all their friendships. LIONS' DEN is an entirely improvised drama using both actors and non actors shot over the course of an evening, based from a loose outline. It ultimately is a probing of the way men behave with one another. It also emphasizes the way people point the finger at others to hide their own sins and actions. A melting pot of lies, truths, egos, and masculinity that is stirred with documentary-style filmmaking.
Lions' Den
2007
2.0A group of old friends are hanging at one of their houses exchanging stories of sexual escapades, awaiting another friend to arrive so they can celebrate a birthday at a nude bar. When one of them is suddenly accused of having masturbated in his friend's bathroom, what starts as a McCarthy-era trial of accusations at one individual suddenly escalates into a night of judgment that tests the truth of their words and the strength of all their friendships. LIONS' DEN is an entirely improvised drama using both actors and non actors shot over the course of an evening, based from a loose outline. It ultimately is a probing of the way men behave with one another. It also emphasizes the way people point the finger at others to hide their own sins and actions. A melting pot of lies, truths, egos, and masculinity that is stirred with documentary-style filmmaking.
Lions' Den
2007
NRA visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.
Two Story
2015
NRA visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.
Two Story
2015
NRA visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.
Two Story
2015
NRA fire rages in the woods near a village. This fire triggers a memory in a lonely, middle-aged woman, which pushes her to utter aloud the words she's always wanted to say.
Casa de mi madre
2016
NRA fire rages in the woods near a village. This fire triggers a memory in a lonely, middle-aged woman, which pushes her to utter aloud the words she's always wanted to say.
Casa de mi madre
2016
NRLonging for reunion with the dead and seduced by the chaotic allure of possession, a young woman struggles to find meaning in a barren, apocalyptic landscape, while those around her succumb to despair and madness.
Tears of God
2015
NRBilly the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tries to make amends with various people in his life. For Billy, the real battle may be on the home front rather than the front lines. LEAVE is an entirely improvised drama that was shot over the course of one day in Arlington, Texas, using both actors and non actors, both family and friends of the director, all from a one page outline. The story ultimately describes the different ways people express their love to one another, and how these ways of communicating love are sometimes lost.
Leave
2007
NRBilly the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tries to make amends with various people in his life. For Billy, the real battle may be on the home front rather than the front lines. LEAVE is an entirely improvised drama that was shot over the course of one day in Arlington, Texas, using both actors and non actors, both family and friends of the director, all from a one page outline. The story ultimately describes the different ways people express their love to one another, and how these ways of communicating love are sometimes lost.
Leave
2007
NRBilly the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tries to make amends with various people in his life. For Billy, the real battle may be on the home front rather than the front lines. LEAVE is an entirely improvised drama that was shot over the course of one day in Arlington, Texas, using both actors and non actors, both family and friends of the director, all from a one page outline. The story ultimately describes the different ways people express their love to one another, and how these ways of communicating love are sometimes lost.
Leave
2007
NRBarry's starting over.
Good Condition
2023
NRScott and Amanda have an announcement. Over Sunday dinner they admit to their father and younger brother, Darren, that they've been involved in an incestuous relationship for some years and that Amanda is pregnant. Now Scott and Amanda find themselves not only ostracized from their family but at odds with each other over the pregnancy.
Relation
2007
NRScott and Amanda have an announcement. Over Sunday dinner they admit to their father and younger brother, Darren, that they've been involved in an incestuous relationship for some years and that Amanda is pregnant. Now Scott and Amanda find themselves not only ostracized from their family but at odds with each other over the pregnancy.
Relation
2007
NRFor 25 years, Avron Coleman performed cello with the New York Philharmonic, as well as in numerous important string quartets. Retiring in 1997, this active, talkative, prolific, fascinating man still plays, and recounts tales of music and of his own life in music. The film contains lots of beautiful music by Schubert, Bach, Schumann, Brahms, and others.
The Cellist
2002
NRIt's 2 AM, and Vince just wants to know why.
The Event
2022
NRA looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.
I Could Live in Hope
2011
NRA looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.
I Could Live in Hope
2011
NRA looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.
I Could Live in Hope
2011
NRHOLD is a tense, spare, and lean drama about a young couple's relationship in the aftermath of a violent home invasion. Boasting no musical score and filmed in claustrophobic closeups, it investigates the frailty of the hero complex by putting a microscope on American paranoia.
Hold
2009
NRHOLD is a tense, spare, and lean drama about a young couple's relationship in the aftermath of a violent home invasion. Boasting no musical score and filmed in claustrophobic closeups, it investigates the frailty of the hero complex by putting a microscope on American paranoia.
Hold
2009
NRA small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.
Invaders from Venus!
2003
NRA small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.
Invaders from Venus!
2003
NRA man is sent by his wife on a midnight errand.
Balls in the Icebox
2003
NRA man is sent by his wife on a midnight errand.
Balls in the Icebox
2003
NRA series of strange phone calls force a man into a whirlwind of violence.
Dogbite
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NROver drinks, an old friend reveals a wild masturbation technique that must be experienced to be believed.
No Hands
2025
3.6An elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
Her Wilderness
2014
3.6An elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
Her Wilderness
2014
3.6An elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
Her Wilderness
2014
NRThe second installment of Frank Mosley's Perception Trilogy, inspired by Greek philosopher Plato's quote, "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." It is an examination of responsibility during the creation of the Atomic bomb during 1945. Shot on a soundstage to invoke the sense of theater, it highlights a moment in time where innocence is lost and only uncertainty lies ahead. Michael Morse is an anonymous man working for an anonymous sector of the Manhattan Project when he gets two phone calls in quick succession: that the atomic bomb has been completed and that his wife has just given birth to their son at the local hospital. What happens next is a fusing of past, present, and future, interweaving in the head of a man doomed to be the messenger of destruction.
Little Boy
2007
