Ari Handel

Production

Ari Handel

Born 1957-09-03 · Zurich, Switzerland

Ari Handel is a Swiss-born American neuroscientist, film producer and writer. He is known for co-writing the films Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky and for producing these films along with four other films: The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale. He started co-writing the film Noah around 2003. Handel grew up in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, while his father was studying abroad, but he only lived there for about a year. Handel had an internship for Nova at WGBH, the Boston PBS station. He has a PhD in neurobiology from New York University. Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ari Handel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Whale poster
7.8

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

The Whale

2022

Caught Stealing poster
6.8

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

Caught Stealing

2025

mother! poster
7.0

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

mother!

2017

Noah poster
5.7

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Noah

2014

Jackie poster
6.5

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Jackie

2016

Pendulum poster
NR

A couple, journeys to a retreat in New Mexico seeking healing. Patrick grows skeptical of the retreat's leader as Abigail falls under her influence. They wonder if the group's practices offer genuine healing or conceal a terrifying truth.

Pendulum

2027

Holding Liat poster
6.8

Liat Atzili was kidnapped from her kibbutz on October 7. What begins as a chronicle of her parents, sister, and children's efforts to secure her return, becomes a portrait of conflicting impulses towards anger, indifference, and compassion straining the bonds of one grieving family.

Holding Liat

2025

Underland poster
5.3

A cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth.

Underland

2026

No artwork available
NR

A Siberian tiger attacks encroaching humans in its habitat. A conservationist game warden confronts the supernaturally powerful tiger in a fight only one can survive.

The Tiger