Paul Schrader

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Bandō Mitsugorō X

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

Dir. Brian De Palma · With Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Eiji Okada

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

Dir. Kent Jones · With Bob Balaban, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

Dir. John Flynn · With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Dir. Peter Weir · With Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix

After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Héctor Elizondo

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar

Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Dir. Harold Becker · With Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda

William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan

A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.

Dir. Alfonso Pineda Ulloa · With José María Yázpik, Shannyn Sossamon, Tommy Flanagan

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall

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.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook

Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim

The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nolan Gerard Funk, Lindsay Lohan, James Deen