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Directing

Carl Bessai

Career: Active from 1999 to 2025, busiest in 2010 and 2014 with 3 main titles each.

Average score: 47/100

Highest rated: Cole
71/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 8 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Carl Bessai Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Historical
0.4, average 2.6
Nostalgia
2.0, average 3.8
Politics
1.1, average 2.6
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 3
Lighthearted 3
Dysfunctional Family 2
Social Commentary 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

31

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Influence

Director

T.U.R.D

as Quarrell McHumphrey

2020s

5 titles

Waltz for the Dead Clown

Production Manager

Field Sketches

Director, Writer

4 or 5 things I want you to know about me (an essay)

Director, Writer

WAR TIMES

Production Supervisor

Evelyne

as Gary

2010s

12 titles · average score 38

Kreuzberg

Director

The Lears

Director, Writer

Rehearsal

Writer, Producer

Ungodly Acts

Director

No Clue

43

Co-Producer, Director

Mr. Miracle

53

Director

Bad City

Director of Photography, Director

Embrace of the Vampire

23

Director

Repeaters

34

Director, Director of Photography

Sisters & Brothers

34

Producer, Director

Fathers & Sons

Cinematography, Director

Fathers and Sons

Writer, Director

2000s

10 titles · average score 54

Gloves of Stone

55

Writer

Cole

71

Director

Mothers & Daughters

as Documentary Filmmaker

A Charman Event

Director

Normal

56

Producer, Director

Unnatural & Accidental

49

Director

Severed

43

Director, Author

Floored by Love

Director of Photography

Emile

51

Director of Photography, Writer

Lola

52

Director

1990s

2 titles

Johnny

Writer, Director

Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan

Director