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Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

American screenwriter and film director
July 22, 1946 (77 years old)
U.S. 2022. Drama by Paul Schrader with Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell. As the head horticulturist of a large estate in the South of the United States, a repentant neo-Nazi is forced to take on his boss's mixed-race grandniece as an apprentice.
Runtime: 111 min.
Mex. 2022. Thriller by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa with José Maria Yazpik, Shannyn Sossamon, Tommy Flanagan. A man nicknamed "the Jesuit" devises a complex and dangerous plan to avenge the murder of his wife and rescue his son, kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 2021. Drama by Paul Schrader with Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish. While touring American casinos, a gambler and former military man meets a troubled young man, who proposes to join forces to take revenge on a common enemy.
Runtime: 112 min.
14A
U.S. 2017. Drama by Paul Schrader with Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Philip Ettinger. Suffering from a terminal illness, a pastor of a Reformed church experiences a crisis of faith when he comes into contact with a desperate environmental activist whose wife is pregnant.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2016. Police comedy by Paul Schrader with Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook. Three ex-convicts, tired of petty theft, play for all they
U.S. 2014. Spy drama by Paul Schrader with Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim. Suffering from premature dementia, an ex-CIA agent returns to duty to track down his former torturer, an Islamist terrorist with a serious blood disorder.
U.S. 2013. Thriller by Paul Schrader with Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk. In Los Angeles, a producer plots a bloody revenge against his wife who is cheating on him with the male star of his next film.
Runtime: 95 min.
All. 2008. Drama by Paul Schrader with Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi. The stay of a German magician and telepath, survivor of the Holocaust, in an experimental sanatorium in Israel.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 2005. Horror by Paul Schrader with Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar. Clerics investigate supernatural phenomena in a Kenyan village where a Byzantine-style church has been discovered buried underground.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 2002. Biography by Paul Schrader with Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson. A sitcom comedian who publicly portrays himself as a paragon of virtue is actually living a life devoted to sex and pornography.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1999. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol. Fourteen years after being unmasked by his mistress's millionaire husband, a man resurfaces to try to win her back.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1999. Psychological drama by Martin Scorsese with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames. An insomniac paramedic, who works nights in a New York City neighbourhood plagued by violence and drug trafficking, sees his life turned upside down in fifty-six hours.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1997. Psychological drama by Paul Schrader with Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek. Various incidents plunge the only police officer in a small town into a family and professional crisis.
Runtime: 114 min.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1995. Political drama by Harold Becker with John Cusack, Al Pacino, Bridget Fonda.
Runtime: 111 min.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1991. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany. A drug delivery man begins to question his illicit activities and becomes aware of his loneliness.
Runtime: 103 min.
It. 1990. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett. A young couple on a romantic trip to Venice falls under the spell of a mysterious man and his no less bizarre wife.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1988. Religious drama by Martin Scorsese with Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey. Crucified, Jesus experiences a hallucinatory delirium and glimpses the peaceful life of a patriarch.
Runtime: 160 min.
14A
U.S. 1988. Social drama by Paul Schrader with Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Frances Fisher. Kidnapped by a terrorist group, a wealthy heiress joins the anti-capitalist struggle of her kidnappers.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1987. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands. A young Cleveland worker and his sister are in a rock band, putting them at odds with their mother.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1986. Adventures by Peter Weir with Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Helen Mirren. A disillusioned inventor takes his family to Central America and becomes the leader of a village that he gifts with a giant icebox.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1985. Biography by Paul Schrader with Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Naoko Otani. Guided by his love of weapons and art, writer Yukio Mishima proclaims his loyalty to the emperor and crowns his existence by committing hara-kiri.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1982. Fantasy by Paul Schrader with Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard. In New Orleans, a young woman discovers that she belongs to a family whose members have the ability to transform into murderous beasts after making love.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1980. Biography by Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci.
Runtime: 129 min.
U.S. 1980. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1979. Psychological drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1978. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with George C. Scott, Season Hubley, Peter Boyle. A worker with deep religious convictions goes in search of his daughter who lives off pornography after running away.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1977. Social drama by Paul Schrader with Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto. Three workers are at odds with their union leaders after stealing a compromising notebook.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1977. Drama by John Flynn with William Devane, Linda Haynes, Tommy Lee Jones. A former prisoner of war sets out to find the criminals who killed his wife and child.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1976. Mores drama by Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster. A Vietnam veteran becomes a nighttime cab driver in New York City and finds it difficult to cope with the sordid world he has to live in.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1975. Thriller by Brian De Palma with Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow. A businessman falls in love with a young Italian woman who looks like his wife who died during a kidnapping.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1974. Crime drama by Sydney Pollack with Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Keiko Kishi. An American ex-police officer travels to Japan to find a friend's daughter kidnapped by a criminal clan.
Runtime: 112 min.

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