Azazel Jacobs

Directing

Azazel Jacobs

Born

1972-01-01 (54)

Place of birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Azazel Jacobs (born September 27, 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature films include The GoodTimesKid (2005), Terri (2011), The Lovers (2017), French Exit (2020), and His Three Daughters (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Azazel Jacobs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

His Three Daughters poster
6.8

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

His Three Daughters

2024

French Exit poster
5.6

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

French Exit

2021

Wristcutters: A Love Story poster
7.0

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.

Wristcutters: A Love Story

2007

Terri poster
6.3

Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.

Terri

2011

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse poster
8.2

Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS.

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse

2025

The Lovers poster
5.4

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

The Lovers

2017

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

His Three Daughters poster
6.8

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

His Three Daughters

2024

His Three Daughters poster
6.8

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

His Three Daughters

2024

His Three Daughters poster
6.8

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

His Three Daughters

2024

French Exit poster
5.6

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

French Exit

2021

Terri poster
6.3

Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.

Terri

2011

The Lovers poster
5.4

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

The Lovers

2017

The Lovers poster
5.4

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

The Lovers

2017

Kirk and Kerry poster
7.5

An actual couple, Kirk Acevedo and Kerry Johnson perform (or perhaps manifest) the problems of being a couple.

Kirk and Kerry

1997

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Danger 44

1999

Nobody Needs to Know poster
6.4

Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same time, actress Iris refusal to die in an audition spurs her to get out of the pretentious grind of being in. She becomes the focus of Lamonts camera as he follows Iris into her psychological descent, while her roommate Mira, is desperate for fame no matter the price.

Nobody Needs to Know

2003

Nobody Needs to Know poster
6.4

Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same time, actress Iris refusal to die in an audition spurs her to get out of the pretentious grind of being in. She becomes the focus of Lamonts camera as he follows Iris into her psychological descent, while her roommate Mira, is desperate for fame no matter the price.

Nobody Needs to Know

2003

Nobody Needs to Know poster
6.4

Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same time, actress Iris refusal to die in an audition spurs her to get out of the pretentious grind of being in. She becomes the focus of Lamonts camera as he follows Iris into her psychological descent, while her roommate Mira, is desperate for fame no matter the price.

Nobody Needs to Know

2003

No artwork available
4.7

A personal reflection of September 11th, 2001, combining documentary footage of lower Manhattan with voicemail messages left that morning.

Message Machine

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Momma's Man poster
6.2

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

Momma's Man

2008

Momma's Man poster
6.2

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

Momma's Man

2008

The GoodTimesKid poster
6.3

Hoping to improve his life, the temperamental Rodolfo Cano enlists in the Army. But when another Rodolfo Cano receives his sign-up orders, the two Rodolfos' lives collide -- with the first Rodolfo's girlfriend adding to the confusion.

The GoodTimesKid

2005

The GoodTimesKid poster
6.3

Hoping to improve his life, the temperamental Rodolfo Cano enlists in the Army. But when another Rodolfo Cano receives his sign-up orders, the two Rodolfos' lives collide -- with the first Rodolfo's girlfriend adding to the confusion.

The GoodTimesKid

2005