Paul Schrader

All Movies of Paul Schrader

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  8.6
  Mr. Scorsese
  This documentary series explores the multifaceted life of a visionary filmmaker through the lens of his groundbreaking work, shedding light on both his extraordinary career and unique personal journey. Featuring unprecedented acce...
  Character: Self

   2025

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  5.3
  Oh Canada
  A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed right in front of his wife…
  Director of the film

   2024

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  7.0
  Master Gardener
  A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
  Director of the film

   2022

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  6.5
  The Card Counter
  William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. Tell’s meticulous life is thrown into disarray when he encounters Cirk, a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy. Wi...
  Director of the film

   2021

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  7.5
  What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
  Pauline Kael was likely the most powerful, and divisive, movie critic of the 20th century. Her love of movies was revealed in her ruthless pursuit of what made a movie or an actor's performance work, or not, and why -- which made ...
  Character: Self

   2018

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  Dark
  Dark is an American psychological thriller film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nicolas Cage, about a government agent who must track down and kill a terrorist before he loses his full memory from dementia.
  Director of the film

   2017

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  8.0
  First Reformed
  The film follows an ex-military chaplain (Ethan Hawke) who is wrecked by grief over the death of his son. Amanda Seyfried plays a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in
  Director of the film

   2017

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  4.7
  Dog Eat Dog
  Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life. The Californ...
  Director of the film

   2016

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  8.3
  Hitchcock/Truffaut
  Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
  Character: Himself

   2015

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  4.3
  The Dying of the Light
  Evan Lake, a desk-bound Langley CIA agent, is forced into retirement by signs of early onset dementia. At the same time he discovers his former tormentor, Jihadist Muhhamed Banir, is not dead as assumed for two decades but is aliv...
  Director of the film

   2014

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  4.0
  The Canyons
  Director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis join producer Braxton Pope to finance THE CANYONS, an original Ellis script about youth, glamour, sex and Los Angeles, circa 2012. "We came to the same point at the same tim...
  Director of the film

   2013

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  7.4
  Milius
  The life story of one of the most influential and controversial film directors in the history of Hollywood, John Milius. From his childhood aspirations to join the military to his formative years at the USC Film School, his legend...
  Character: Himself

   2013

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  5.5
  Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  70 short movies about cinema and its future.
  Director of the film

   2013

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  5.0
  Adam Resurrected
  Once, in the 1920s, Adam Stein was a happy man: a caring husband, the proud father of two daughters, and a celebrated star of Berlin’s vaudeville scene. He was a clown, an entertainer and a magician. Thirty years later he is ber...
  Director of the film

   2008

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  5.3
  The Walker
  Drama about a former high-class Beverly Hills male escort who now services society women in Washington D.C. Based on a character depicted in the 1980 film, American Gigolo, now aged 50.
  Director of the film

   2007

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  Budd Boetticher: An American Original
  Character: Self

   2005

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  4.0
  Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
  Hollywood is littered with stories of aborted attempts at moviemaking, with many directors finding themselves unceremoniously ousted from a project when a studio gets cold feet and rejects their work. Writer-director Paul Schrader...
  Director of the film

   2005

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  Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
   2004

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  7.2
  A Decade Under the Influence
  The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and l...
  Character: Self

   2003

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  6.5
  Auto Focus (Autofocus)
  An absorbing glimpse into the colorful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane. Handsome and charming, Crane became well known as the star of television's hit comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Capitalizing on his fame, Cra...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  6.0
  Forever Mine
  An affair between a cabana boy and the young wife of a sinister politician triggers a 16-year vendetta between the two men.
  Director of the film

   1999

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  7.4
  Making 'Taxi Driver'
  This 70-minute documentary delves into the making of Scorsese's film and highlights the many contributions put forth by Taxi Driver's ensemble of talented actors and artisans.
  Character: Himself - Screenwriter

   1999

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  Touch
  When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulk
  Director of the film

   1997

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  7.9
  Affliction
  Based on the novel by Russell Banks, AFFLICTION is a sobering, absorbing psychological study of the precarious relationship between an abusive father and his two sons. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a middle-aged ineffectual sher...
  Director of the film

   1997

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  Witch Hunt (TV)
  Detective Philip Lovecraft lives in Los Angeles in the 1950s when an ambitious Senator is holding hearings on Magic. Magic is the new influence in Tinsel Town. Lovecraft is unique in that he is the only one who refuses to use magi...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  6.0
  Light Sleeper
  Light Sleeper is a 1992 drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany. John LeTour (Dafoe) is a 40-year-old drug dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis w...
  Director of the film

   1992

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  6.0
  The Comfort of Strangers
  An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stran...
  Director of the film

   1990

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  5.5
  Patty Hearst
  The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were f...
  Director of the film

   1988

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  5.7
  Light of Day
  The siblings Patty and Joe live in an industrial suburb. While Patty's ambition is their rock band "The Barbusters" only, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son Benji. Their pious mother re...
  Director of the film

   1987

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  7.0
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous ...
  Director of the film

   1985

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  6.0
  Cat People
  A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex. Arriving t...
  Director of the film

   1982

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  6.2
  American Gigolo
  Julian Kay (Richard Gere) makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle (Lauren Hutton), a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clien...
  Director of the film

   1980

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  7.0
  Hardcore
  Jake Van Dorn is businessman from American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. His teenage daughter is missing from the trip in L.A. and Van Dorn hires private investigator. Result of the...
  Director of the film

   1979

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  7.4
  Blue Collar
  Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers' union is doing them no greater good than their screwed-up bosses. So the trio pulls of...
  Director of the film

   1978