Paul Schrader
          Director, Actor  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
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…