Paul Schrader

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Blue Collar (1977): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor; As one might expect from the writer of TAXI DRIVER, dir. Schrader's debut is a gritty, tough–minded drama of macho ethics, set in the grinding…
Hardcore (1979): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. George C. Scott, Peter Boyle; Paul Schrader, rehashing his script of TAXI DRIVER, pits a Catholic mid–westerner against the seedy, amoral underworld of California's adult…
American Gigolo (1980): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo; Low–key but effective drama. Richard Gere is suspected in a Hollywood murder.
Cat People (1982): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard; Loose remake of the Val Lewton classic fleshes out the innate connection between human sexuality and animal instinct. Nymphette Nastassja Kinski…
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ken Ogata; Fascinating study of the controversial Japanese author/militarist whose desire to merge life and art led to his ritualistic suicide. A luminous…
Patty Hearst (1988): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames…; Intense depiction of Patty Hearst's kidnapping, confinement and brain–washing by 'urban guerillas' the SLA, from that specialist in American…
Comfort of Strangers, The (1991): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken…; Genuinely unsettling, if not ultimately coherent, tale of an English couple (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson) in Venice who become the…
Light Sleeper (1992): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany…; Writer of TAXI DRIVER delivers a complex, understated character study of an ex–junkie drug–courier (Willem Dafoe) unable to escape the…
Witch Hunt (1995): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Dennis Hopper; Dennis Hopper plays P.I. Philip Lovecraft and becomes embroiled in the murder of a Hollywood producer with supernatural side–effects. Pleasing…
Touch (1997): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken; Auteur of urban paranoia Paul Schrader opts for a lighter touch in this satirical roam through the vagaries of contemporary American religion and its…
Affliction (1997): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek…; A murder–mystery obscured in a snowbound landscape of wrecked relationships and alcoholic longings, this gets right under the skin of its…
Forever Mine (2001): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, Joseph Fiennes; The victim of a squelched distribution deal, this film–noir romance from dir. Schrader (AFFLICTION) is one of the most notable films to ever go…
Auto Focus (2002): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe; A savvy true Hollywood story detailing the sordid life of “Hogan’s Heroes” TV star Bob Crane, whose illicit 'sex addiction' led to…
Walker, The (2007): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall…; Woody Harrelson plays against type as a sharp–witted blueblood socialite who tries to solve the mystery of a murder he's framed for after…
Adam Resurrected (2008): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi…; Troubling tale of a former Jewish circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber by serving as the camp commandant's pet dog. Based on…
Canyons, The (2013): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk…; Dir. Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis collaborate on this seedy tale of independent film production, set in a washed out L.A. Lindsay Lohan…
Dying of the Light (2014): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim…; Curious thriller with Nicolas Cage as a CIA agent in the earl stages of dementia going rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a…
Dog Eat Dog (2016): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe; Demonstrating that age hasn't tamed him, 70–year–old director Paul Schrader delivers this frenetic, nihilistic black comedy based on the…
First Reformed (2017): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric The Entertainer; Ethan Hawke plays a 46–year old pastor of a historic First Reformed church in upstate New York whose existential troubles span questions of…

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