Ari Handel

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Ari Handel

Production 69 September 3, 1957

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 D…

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Black Swan

Black Swan

7.7 2010 Movie
mother!

mother!

6.9 2017 Movie
Noah

Noah

5.7 2014 Movie
The Whale

The Whale

7.8 2022 Movie
The Wrestler

The Wrestler

7.5 2008 Movie
The Fountain

The Fountain

6.9 2006 Movie
Pi

Pi

7.1 1998 Movie
Jackie

Jackie

6.5 2016 Movie
The Good Nurse

The Good Nurse

6.9 2022 Movie
Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

6.8 2025 Movie
Welcome to Earth

Welcome to Earth

7.6 2021 TV Show
Zipper

Zipper

5.5 2015 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2027
    Pendulum

    Movie Producer

  2. 2026
    Love, Rendered

    Movie Producer

  3. 2026
    Goodnight Lamby

    Movie Executive Producer

  4. 2026
    Underland

    Movie Producer

  5. 2026
    Pole to Pole with Will Smith

    TV show Executive Producer

  6. 2025
    Lowland Kids

    Movie Executive Producer

  7. 2025
    Holding Liat

    Movie Producer

  8. 2025
    Caught Stealing

    Movie Producer

  9. 2025
    Limitless: Live Better Now

    TV show Executive Producer

  10. 2025
    ANCESTRA

    Movie Executive Producer

  11. 2024
    Viktor

    Movie Executive Producer

  12. 2024
    Little Death

    Movie Executive Producer

  13. 2022
    Kindred

    TV show Executive Producer

  14. 2022
    The Whale

    Movie Producer

  15. 2022
    Limitless with Chris Hemsworth

    TV show Executive Producer

  16. 2022
    The Good Nurse

    Movie Executive Producer

More credits
  1. 2022
    The Territory

    Movie Executive Producer

  2. 2022
    Catch the Fair One

    Movie Executive Producer

  3. 2021
    Welcome to Earth

    TV show Executive Producer

  4. 2021
    Some Kind of Heaven

    Movie Executive Producer

  5. 2018
    One Strange Rock

    TV show Executive Producer

  6. 2017
    mother!

    Movie Producer

  7. 2016
    Jackie

    Movie Producer

  8. 2015
    Zipper

    Movie Executive Producer

  9. 2014
    Noah

    Movie Executive Producer

  10. 2010
    Black Swan

    Movie Executive Producer

  11. 2008
    The Wrestler

    Movie Associate Producer

  12. 2007
    Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

    Movie Himself

  13. 2006
    The Fountain

    Movie Story

  14. 1998
    Pi

    Movie Kaballah Scholar

  15. —
    The Tiger

    Movie Producer

  16. —
    Solidarity

    Movie Executive Producer