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Gregg Araki

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Born: December 17, 1959
From: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, consisting of Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997), has been heralded as a cult classic. His film Kaboom (2010) was the inaugural winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. On January 23, 2026, his erotic comedy thriller film I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregg Araki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

2017 Series 8.4

13 Reasons Why

2017 Series 7.5

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Mysterious Skin

White Bird in a Blizzard

Smiley Face

The Doom Generation

Filmography

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2026

I Want Your Sex

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2025

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X

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2022

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

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American Gigolo

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2019

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

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Now Apocalypse

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2018

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2017

13 Reasons Why

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2016

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2015

American Crime

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2014

White Bird in a Blizzard

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2010

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2008

Protect You + Me

Crew (Thanks)

2007

Smiley Face

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2005

Mysterious Skin

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2001

Rescued from the Closet

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2000

This Is How the World Ends

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But I'm a Cheerleader

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1999

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1997

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1995

The Doom Generation

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At Sundance

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1994

Totally F***ed Up

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1992

The Living End

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1989

the long weekend (o' despair)

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1987

Three Bewildered People in the Night

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Undated

The Decline of F*cking Western Civilization

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