Master Gardener (2022)
Drama | Thriller
A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales, Scott Green
Director: Paul Schrader
The Card Counter (2021)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Schrader
Touch (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
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 Faulkner.
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon, Breckin Meyer
Director: Paul Schrader
First Reformed (2017)
Drama | Thriller
A priest of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Gaston, Philip Ettinger, Victoria Hill
Director: Paul Schrader
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook, Louisa Krause, Magi Avila, Omar J. Dorsey
Director: Paul Schrader
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Hardcore (1979)
Drama | Thriller
A deeply religious Midwestern businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films.
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Dick Sargent, Season Hubley, Gary Graham, Larry Block
Director: Paul Schrader
Dying of the Light (2014)
Drama | Thriller
Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake 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.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob
Director: Paul Schrader
Cat People (1982)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley Jr.
Director: Paul Schrader
The Canyons (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Documents five twenty-somethings' quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant, Amanda Brooks
Director: Paul Schrader
American Gigolo (1980)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
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.
Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Bill Duke, Nina van Pallandt, Brian Davies
Director: Paul Schrader
Affliction (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wade Whitehouse is a sheriff of a small New Hampshire town who achieved nothing in life in the opinion of his ex-wife Lillian and daughter Jill and is a heavy drinker. His girlfriend Margie accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt – and only Jack returns alive. Wade decides to play detective and starts investigating the case despite the fact Jack insists it was an accidental self-inflicted shot.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Brigid Tierney, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Schrader
Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
The Comfort of Strangers / Etrange séduction (1990)
Drama | Thriller
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 stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat. After this visit, the pair find the depth to face questions about each other, only to be drawn back into the mysterious and menacing fantasies of the stranger and his mate.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo
Director: Paul Schrader
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist / Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel (2005)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Lankester Merrin is a archaeologist by profession but an ordained Roman Catholic priest who has lost his faith and abandoned his vocation. He is haunted by what he was forced to do in his native Holland during World War II. The church he's excavated in Northern Kenyan dates to the Byzantine period but this puts its construction hundreds of years before Christianity was introduced to the area. the church was buried to the rooftop in sand and as its structure is exposed, a madness slowly descends on the camp. the local tribesmen are prepared to go to war and demand that the church be buried. Soon, two British soldiers are found dead and their commanding officer, Major Granville, shoots a innocent civilian in cold blood. As fear descends upon everyone in the camp, it becomes apparent that a young disabled boy, Cheche, is possessed by the devil forcing Merrin to re-examine his own beliefs.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown
Director: Paul Schrader
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