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Paul Schrader - what members say


  • American Gigolo
  • American Gigolo review by Simon from England
    Rated - 4 stars Dated but good 28 July 2004
    ...American Gigolo was slightly dated but nether the less a great script from Paul Schrader the writer of such classics as raging Bull and Taxi Driver. It is very intriguing to...  
  • Affliction
  • Affliction review by Graeme Barton from UK
    Rated - 3 stars Solid but unspectacular 25 April 2005
    ...stony, cold-hearted nature of ths story. In short, this is a solid film from Paul Schrader but ulimately, not as fulfilling as it could be. ...  
  • Touch
  • Touch review by McClennan from St Helens
    Rated - 2 stars Weak Elmore Leonard adaptation 29 January 2006
    ...Paul Schrader directed Elmore Leonard adaptation is the weakest of the ones that I've seen. Lacking the budgets that the others had it shows as Schrader's limited budget doe...  

Paul Schrader - filmography


  • Auto Focus on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Greg Kinnear,  Willem Dafoe,  Kurt Fuller
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 18
    AUTO FOCUS is the story of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), who was the star of the American television series Hogan's Heroes in the 1960s. Before he achieved that particular fame, Crane was a popular radio talk show host in Hollywood. His television work brought him a level of visibility and notoriety ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 57% from 150 members
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  • Forever Mine on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joseph Fiennes,  Ray Liotta,  Gretchen Mol
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 15
    A lifelong vendetta is formed between two men (Fiennes and Liotta) as what seemed to be an innocuous affair at a beach resort has deadly consequences for the people in question. The two men are still out for revenge a long time later and are determined to fight out the vendetta.
    Rate this: 2.0 42% from 143 members
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  • Affliction on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  James Coburn,  Sissy Spacek
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 15
    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 sheriff in a small New Hampshire town, where he and his brother, Rolfe (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 103 members
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  • Touch on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Bridget Fonda,  Christopher Walken,  Skeet Ulrich
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 15
    Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, TOUCH chronicles a young former Franciscan monk's return to Los Angeles following years spent in a remote jungle monastery. Charlie Lawson--or Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich), as he is known--takes a job in a rehab center, where he discovers stigmata on his palms and a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 46% from 182 members
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  • Light Sleeper on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Dana Delany,  David Clennon,  Mary Beth Hurt
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 15
    John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is loyal, decent, lumbering--a 40-year-old drug runner who suffers from insomnia but seems to be sleep-walking through life in LIGHT SLEEPER. When John's boss, the bubbly but sharp-witted Ann (Susan Sarandon), decides to retire, John must rethink his life's path. But ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 54% from 245 members
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  • Hardcore on DVD (1979)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Boyle,  Season Hubley
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 18
    When the daughter of devoutly religious midwestern businessman Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) disappears on a trip to Los Angeles sponsored by the family's Calvinist church, Jake's search for his daughter, Niki (Season Hubley), leads him into a shocking world of pornography. HARDCORE, an early ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 263 members
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  • Blue Collar on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Harvey Keitel,  Yaphet Kotto
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 18
    In 'Blue Collar', Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 269 members
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  • Adam Resurrected
    Starring: Jeff Goldblum,  William Dafoe
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: TBC
    A Jewish circus entertainer is kept alive by the Nazis to entertain Jews as they march to their deaths. He ends up in an asylum for Holocaust survivors, fighting to survive the madness around him.
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Paul Schrader - downloads


  • American Gigolo for Download (2001)
    Starring: Lauren Hutton,  Richard Gere
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 18
    Buy from: £4.99
    Run time: 112 minutes
    Richard Gere is Julian Kay, a slick emotionally and spiritually deprived L.A. hustler in AMERICAN GIGOLO. While servicing an upscale clientele in the Hollywood area, he becomes involved with a rich senator's wife (Lauren Hutton), their relationship extending beyond Julian's normal encounters. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 3 members
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  • Auto Focus for Download
    Starring: Ron Leibman,  Rita Wilson,  Maria Bello
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 18
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 101 minutes
    AUTO FOCUS is the story of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), who was the star of the American television series Hogan's Heroes in the 1960s. Before he achieved that particular fame, Crane was a popular radio talk show host in Hollywood. His television work brought him a level of visibility and notoriety ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 18 members
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  • Dominion - Prequel To The Exorcist for Download
    Starring: Gabriel Mann,  Ralph Brown,  Clara Bellar
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: 15
    Buy from: £9.99
    Run time: 116 minutes
    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 (AUTO FOCUS) found himself in this position when he completed ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 25 members
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Paul Schrader facts

5 most recent films


The Walker - 2.5 stars
Dominion - Prequel to the Exorcist - 2.5 stars
Auto Focus - 2.5 stars
Forever Mine - 2.0 stars
Affliction - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Blue Collar - 3.5 stars
Hardcore - 3.0 stars
Affliction - 3.0 stars
Light Sleeper - 3.0 stars
Auto Focus - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Adam Resurrected - 3 stars
Witch Hunt - 2.5 stars
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - 3.5 stars
Forever Mine - 2.0 stars
Patty Hearst - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Willem Dafoe - 5 times - show films
Mary Beth Hurt - 3 times - show films
Michael Rodgers - 2 times - show films
Natasha Richardson - 2 times - show films
Kurt Fuller - 2 times - show films