
Person
Ira Sachs
Directing · Born 1965-11-21 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Biography
Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. Sachs began his career directing short films, including Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993), before making his feature film debut with The Delta (1997). Sachs later won acclaim for his dramatic independent films, including Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Keep the Lights On (2012), Love Is Strange (2014), Little Men (2016), and Passages (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ira Sachs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Plainclothes
Thanks

The Man I Love
Director

Passages
Director

Peter Hujar's Day
Director

Little Men
Director

Vaudeville
Writer

Dick Johnson Is Dead
Self

Married Life
Producer
Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day"
Self

Keep the Lights On
Writer
Filmography
- 2027The Man I LoveDirector
- 2026Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day"Self
- 2025Peter Hujar's DayDirector
- 2025Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink NarcissusSelf
- 2025PlainclothesThanks
- 2023PassagesDirector
- 2020Deauville et le rêve américainSelf
- 2020Film About a Father WhoSelf
- 2020Dick Johnson Is DeadSelf
- 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand ReleasingDirector
- 2019Before I ForgetDirector
- 2019FrankieScreenplay
- 2016Little MenDirector
- 2016Film HawkSelf
- 2014How I Learned to Love the NumbersSelf
- 2014Love Is StrangeDirector
- 2012Keep the Lights OnWriter
- 2012In Search of Avery WillardExecutive Producer
- 2011Woman's PictureExecutive Producer
- 2010Last AddressDirector
- 2008Married LifeProducer
- 2005Forty Shades of BlueDirector
- 2002Underground ZeroDirector
- 2002Get It While You CanDirector
- 2002UntitledDirector
- 200010/26/00Director
- 1997The DeltaDirector
- 1993LadySelf (voice)
- 1992VaudevilleWriter
- —Monty CliftWriter
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