Eleanore Pienta

Acting

Eleanore Pienta

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Eleanore Pienta is an American screen and stage actress, comedienne, dancer and filmmaker. Weaving in and out of the independent low-budget US film circuit, Pienta has carved out a niche for herself by portraying uncompromising and complex characters, her presence on screen is at once alluring albeit menacing.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

A Different Man poster
6.9

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

A Different Man

2024

Josephine poster
NR

After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a brutal assault, she begins acting out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice and a way to feel safe again.

Josephine

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

Soft & Quiet poster
6.4

Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.

Soft & Quiet

2022

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight poster
NR

Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City.

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight

2026

10th Floor Transformation poster
NR

After breaking down in a stuck elevator, a new mom has a transformative experience.

10th Floor Transformation

2026

How to Say Goodbye poster
10.0

After their break-up, Mia has to return to her ex-girlfriend's apartment. This is going to be their very last moment together, before they say goodbye.

How to Say Goodbye

2024

Young Mom poster
NR

A young lesbian kidnaps the child she nannies to try to satisfy her girlfriend's desire for domesticity.

Young Mom

2022

The French Italian poster
10.0

Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.

The French Italian

2024

Kendra and Beth poster
6.6

A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.

Kendra and Beth

2021

Plaisir poster
3.8

A lonely American faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France.

Plaisir

2021

Man of God poster
NR

A dark comedy about David, a closeted preacher in the 1980s Deep South. After losing his lover and church, he inherits a Miami nightclub and faces his dangerous stepmother in a world that could be his ruin or rebirth.

Man of God

2025

Let The Lion Out poster
NR

A guy basically can’t even right now with this breakup… and she literally has no idea…

Let The Lion Out

2024

Important Police Shit poster
7.0

A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day.

Important Police Shit

2020

Relationship to Patient poster
6.0

A woman arrives at the hospital to visit the man she's dating, but in navigating her way to his bedside she begins to question whether she really belongs there.

Relationship to Patient

2024

No artwork available
NR

A single mother searches for the master.

Master of the House

2024

2010s · 23 titles

A Bad Idea Gone Wrong poster
6.4

Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.

A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

2017

No artwork available
NR

A tense slow burning thriller about a woman consumed by the image of her husband's affair. She takes to the country to clear her head and becomes entangled in a bigger injustice.

Low Road

2018

The Unspeakable Act poster
5.6

Jackie Kimball is a normal 17-year-old girl - except that for as long as she can remember, she's been in love with her older brother Matthew. The two siblings rely on each other for friendship and support, but Matthew doesn't share his sister's feelings. When Matthew departs for college, Jackie sets out to meet other boys, and for the first time, must contend with life on her own.

The Unspeakable Act

2013

Damsel poster
10.0

Eight-year-old Cal desperately craves attention from her childish father, and is prone to running away. John is a lonely widower whose life is filled with fear. When they meet one weekend in the shining woods of New England, their lives change forever.

Damsel

2017

Notes on an Appearance poster
5.3

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

Notes on an Appearance

2018

Hair Wolf poster
7.0

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Hair Wolf

2018

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone poster
5.2

Dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance lounges about, passes gas, and bursts into bizarre dance routines while navigating outer space interludes, doctor boners, and a '90s-style girl group meltdown.

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

2017

See You Next Tuesday poster
4.2

An odd pregnant girl disrupts the lives of her campy recovering alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown.

See You Next Tuesday

2014

The Pound Hole poster
4.0

During a night at the strangest club on earth, DJ Douggpound learns the very real dangers of texting while DJing.

The Pound Hole

2015

Dick Pics! (A Documentary) poster
NR

A stop-motion documentary that asks men one of the crucial questions of our era: “What compels you to send pictures of your penis to non-consenting others?”

Dick Pics! (A Documentary)

2019

No artwork available
6.1

Podcast giants join forces for one night in New York City, to create the "Lollapalooza of podcasts." Featuring live stage performances by Radiolab, Invisibilia, Reply All, The Truth, Lauren Lapkus and SNL's Bobby Moynihan. Plus music by horn quartet The Westerlies, dance by Cocoon Central Dance Team, cameos by Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig, original comedy videos, and more.

Cast Party

2015

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

7 Chinese Brothers poster
5.3

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?

7 Chinese Brothers

2015

Joy Kevin poster
3.0

A young married couple tries to make a home out of a two room apartment. She's a dancer and needs a lot of space. He's a comedian and needs a lot of therapy. These things don't always fit so well. Behold love, despair, and fantasies of burning the place to the ground.

Joy Kevin

2014

Little Cabbage poster
NR

Madeline is an eccentric composer in the 1950's living a solitary life in the deep south. Her passion is creating a grand opus in which her music students have been assigned performance parts in. Madeline's world unravels when she is given a magical instrument that distorts her perception of reality and relationships.

Little Cabbage

2014

Bad at Dancing poster
5.2

A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other's sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal manifestation of jealous rivalry.

Bad at Dancing

2015

A Maine Movie poster
7.0

A group of mismatched friends spend a weekend together in Maine.

A Maine Movie

2018

I Turn to Jello poster
6.5

A metropolitan nightmare unfurls as a nervous cellist (Eleanore Pienta) cracks under pressure at an audition—and again, and again, and ... (courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center).

I Turn to Jello

2016

Ada poster
NR

Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose.

Ada

2018

Laugh poster
NR

A short film by Tori Pope.

Laugh

2015

Punching Bag poster
NR

After years of being broken up, Adam and Meg meet once again to share a peculiar intimacy.

Punching Bag

2014

Romance Analyst poster
2.0

Felicia, a woman who is feeling uninspired by her filmmaking career and spiraling into a comedic depression, starts seeing a therapist, at her best friend Max’s recommendation. Soon, she becomes enamored with this new woman in her life, but when things eventually start to feel off, she wonders who this woman really is

Romance Analyst

2018

Asphyxia poster
6.3

A run in at a roadside bar between a repressed boy and a curious girl leads to an exploration of their darker impulses.

Asphyxia

2016

Series credits

Behind the camera