Paul Schrader films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 14 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, First Reformed and Affliction.

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts...
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First Reformed
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
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.
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The Card Counter
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
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...
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Auto Focus
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
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...
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Affliction
1998 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
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Master Gardener
2023 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
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...
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Oh, Canada
2024 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
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...
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American Gigolo
1980 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
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...
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Cat People
1982 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator is drawn to her...
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
2005 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Haunted by terrible acts the Nazis forced him to participate in, the disenchanted Father Lankester Merrin focuses his energies on helping with an archaeological dig in the northern part of Kenya. There, the crew uncovers a church that...
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Dog Eat Dog
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
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.
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Dying of the Light
2014 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Canyons
2013 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.
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