Frank Mosley

Directing

Frank Mosley

Known for

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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Film credits

2020s · 23 titles

Raps poster
NR

When 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

Obex poster
6.1

Conor 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

Hot Wieners and Coffee Milk poster
NR

On 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

Taurus poster
5.9

A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.

Taurus

2022

They Want Me Gone poster
4.5

Working 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

Jackrabbit poster
9.0

When 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

Little Doors poster
NR

In 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

The Plan poster
10.0

Inside 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

Rent Free poster
7.0

After 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

Quantum Cowboys poster
6.6

Two 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

Kiddo poster
NR

An expectant couple's parenting skills are put to the test when a hungry stranger shows up on their doorstep.

Kiddo

2022

It Was Just A Nightmare poster
NR

An unexpected visit from an old friend

It Was Just A Nightmare

2026

El Tonto Por Cristo poster
NR

A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool.

El Tonto Por Cristo

2025

Whoopin' poster
NR

Two 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

Kin poster
NR

In 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

Love and Work poster
NR

Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal.

Love and Work

2026

Freeland poster
4.4

Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.

Freeland

2021

No artwork available
NR

A filmmaker hires an actor to recreate memories from childhood in order to explore an estranged family relationship.

Gus is my Brother

2025

The Finger poster
NR

An isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system.

The Finger

2020

Reunion poster
NR

A man happens to run into an old acquaintance from high school while on a hike in the woods.

Reunion

2025

I'm Not Sure poster
NR

Charlie, 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

Ilsa poster
2.0

Featuring 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

Don't Die poster
7.0

Jenks 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

Ain't Them Bodies Saints poster
6.1

Bob 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

Thunder Road poster
6.8

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Thunder Road

2018

Upstream Color poster
6.3

A 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

Panhandle Jim poster
NR

An experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey.

Panhandle Jim

2014

Person to Person poster
5.2

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

Person to Person

2017

Some Beasts poster
5.5

A 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

Americana poster
3.5

An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.

Americana

2016

Gallows Road poster
7.2

Loss and heartbreak challenges one man to forgive the unforgivable.

Gallows Road

2015

The Ghost Who Walks poster
4.3

An 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

Sabbatical poster
6.8

After 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

Two Story poster
NR

A 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

Boundaries poster
NR

Two men design and build a detention center.

Boundaries

2019

Chained for Life poster
6.3

A 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

No artwork available
NR

Oliver is having the worst day.

Go Fuck Yourself Oliver

2015

Collective: Unconscious poster
6.3

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

Aimy in a Cage poster
4.5

A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.

Aimy in a Cage

2015

Coyotes Kill for Fun poster
NR

A 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

Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes poster
NR

Jerry 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

No artwork available
5.6

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

Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown poster
4.7

Bailey 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

Black Soil, Green Grass poster
6.0

A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.

Black Soil, Green Grass

2016

The Ladies of the House poster
1.5

A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.

The Ladies of the House

2015

No artwork available
NR

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

Don't Ever Change poster
5.8

The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.

Don't Ever Change

2017

The Prowler poster
NR

A lonely man walks the streets of an upscale neighborhood at night.

The Prowler

2018

Don't Look in the Basement 2 poster
3.7

In 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

The Bulb poster
6.0

Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room.

The Bulb

2016

2000s · 4 titles

Lions' Den poster
2.0

A 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

Leave poster
NR

Billy 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

Relation poster
NR

Scott 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

The Cellist poster
NR

For 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

Behind the camera

Parthenon poster
3.8

A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. Inspired by The Kuleshov Effect, a dizzying provocation on art and objectification.

Parthenon

2017

Parthenon poster
3.8

A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. Inspired by The Kuleshov Effect, a dizzying provocation on art and objectification.

Parthenon

2017

Holy the Sabbath poster
NR

A chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.

Holy the Sabbath

2006

Holy the Sabbath poster
NR

A chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.

Holy the Sabbath

2006

Holy the Sabbath poster
NR

A chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.

Holy the Sabbath

2006

Spider Veins poster
7.8

A mercurial narrative about the reunion of two old friends. Loosely inspired by Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.

Spider Veins

2016

Spider Veins poster
7.8

A mercurial narrative about the reunion of two old friends. Loosely inspired by Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.

Spider Veins

2016

The Ghost Who Walks poster
4.3

An 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

Lions' Den poster
2.0

A 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

Lions' Den poster
2.0

A 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

Two Story poster
NR

A 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

Two Story poster
NR

A 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

Two Story poster
NR

A 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

Casa de mi madre poster
NR

A 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

Casa de mi madre poster
NR

A 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

Tears of God poster
NR

Longing 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

Leave poster
NR

Billy 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

Leave poster
NR

Billy 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

Leave poster
NR

Billy 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

Good Condition poster
NR

Barry's starting over.

Good Condition

2023

Relation poster
NR

Scott 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

Relation poster
NR

Scott 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

The Cellist poster
NR

For 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

The Event poster
NR

It's 2 AM, and Vince just wants to know why.

The Event

2022

I Could Live in Hope poster
NR

A 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

I Could Live in Hope poster
NR

A 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

I Could Live in Hope poster
NR

A 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

Hold poster
NR

HOLD 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

Hold poster
NR

HOLD 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

Invaders from Venus! poster
NR

A small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.

Invaders from Venus!

2003

Invaders from Venus! poster
NR

A small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.

Invaders from Venus!

2003

Balls in the Icebox poster
NR

A man is sent by his wife on a midnight errand.

Balls in the Icebox

2003

Balls in the Icebox poster
NR

A man is sent by his wife on a midnight errand.

Balls in the Icebox

2003

Dogbite poster
NR

A series of strange phone calls force a man into a whirlwind of violence.

Dogbite

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No Hands poster
NR

Over drinks, an old friend reveals a wild masturbation technique that must be experienced to be believed.

No Hands

2025

Her Wilderness poster
3.6

An 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

Her Wilderness poster
3.6

An 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

Her Wilderness poster
3.6

An 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

Little Boy poster
NR

The 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