Movies by Paul Schrader
As part of the cast:
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Tales from the Script (2009)
Cast: Allison Anders, Jane Anderson, Doug Atchison …
Directed by: Peter Hanson
Dozens of acclaimed Hollywood screenwriters discuss their successes and failures, share amusing anecdotes and insider insights, and reveal their experiences with big-name actors and directors…
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Murnau, Borzage & Fox Documentary (2008)
Cast: F.W. Murnau, William Fox, Frank Borzage …
Directed by: John Cork
John Cork's all-encompassing documentary examines the celluloid experiments and lives of William Fox, Frank Borzage and F.W. Murnau. In addition to rare vintage clips from a boom period…
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)
Cast: Arthur Penn, John Milius, William H. Macy …
Directed by: Kenneth Bowser
Based on former &NFi;Premiere Magazine&NFi_; writer Peter Biskind's best-seller about moviemaking during the tumultuous, golden era of the 1970s, this film offers insightful comments…
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Hardcore (1979)
Cast: Paul Schrader, George C. Scott, Peter Boyle …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Desperate father Jake (George C. Scott) investigates the seedy world of pornographic movies as he tries to locate his runaway daughter in this drama. After discovering that she is starring in…
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Adam Resurrected (2008)
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Decades after he survived the Holocaust by becoming a pet "dog" to a brutal concentration camp commandant (Willem Dafoe), Jewish circus entertainer Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) finds himself…
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The Walker (2007)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Openly gay Carter Page III often escorts middle-aged Washington, D.C., wives to high-society events their husbands can't attend. But when the lover of one of his women friends is killed,…
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Years before exorcising the devil from Regan MacNeil, Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) experiences a crisis of faith, leaves the priesthood and heads to Africa on an archaeological…
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Auto Focus (2002)
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Greg Kinnear stars in this absorbing glimpse into the colorful life and mysterious death of actor Bob Crane, who's best known as the star of TV's "Hogan's Heroes." But as his…
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Forever Mine (1999)
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
When Alan meets the seductive Ella at an exclusive Miami resort, they begin a passionate affair. But when Ella's husband, ruthless business man Mark Brice, discovers her betrayal, he…
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Affliction (1998)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is sheriff of a Podunk New Hampshire town, and he's not doing well on the job. Debilitated from years of abuse by his malevolent father (James Coburn), Wade…
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Touch (1997)
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Former monk Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) returns to Los Angeles after many years away and begins work at a rehab center, where he discovers stigmata on his palms and a miraculous gift for healing.…
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Light Sleeper (1992)
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Willem Dafoe stars as John LeTour, a cocaine dealer who loses his job when his boss (Susan Sarandon) decides to give up the drug business to open a cosmetics company. The reformed addict runs…
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The Comfort of Strangers (1991)
Cast: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
When two young lovers spend a holiday in Venice to sort out some of the kinks in their relationship, they meet an English-speaking Venetian (not quite by chance, it turns out) who lures the…
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Cast: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Director Paul Schrader and composer Philip Glass present a literate, sweeping chronicle of the life and work of controversial and challenging Japanese author and militarist Yukio Mishima, who…
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Cat People (1982)
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
When a panther is captured in New Orleans, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, the budding romance is complicated by Irina's dark family secret: that…
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American Gigolo (1980)
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a high-class escort for lonely women in this drama written and directed by Paul Schrader. When one of Julian's tricks turns up dead, his actual client…
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Hardcore (1979)
Cast: Paul Schrader, George C. Scott, Peter Boyle …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Desperate father Jake (George C. Scott) investigates the seedy world of pornographic movies as he tries to locate his runaway daughter in this drama. After discovering that she is starring in…
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Blue Collar (1978)
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
When Detroit autoworkers Jerry (Harvey Keitel), Smokey (Yaphet Kotto) and Zeke (Richard Pryor in a rare and brilliant dramatic performance) find bills piling up and pressures bearing down,…