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Cat People (1982) Paul Schrader, Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed Read More »
Dark (2017) Paul Schrader, Nicolas Cage, Irène Jacob, Anton Yelchin
A government agent must track down and kill a terrorist Read More »
Patty Hearst (1988) Paul Schrader, Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970’s. Read More »
Light of Day (1987) Paul Schrader, Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett
The siblings Patti and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland Read More »
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Paul Schrader, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them Read More »
Light Sleeper (1992) Paul Schrader, Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany
A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. Read More »
Witch Hunt (1994) Paul Schrader, Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian
Detective Philip Lovecraft lives in Los Angeles in the 1950s when an ambitious Senator is holding hearings, on Magic. Read More »
Forever Mine (1999) Paul Schrader, Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol
Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred Read More »
Blue Collar (1978) Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. Read More »
Touch (1997) Paul Schrader, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, 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 Read More »
Hardcore (1979) Paul Schrader, George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Drama, Thriller
Jake Van Dorn is a businessman from the American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. His teenage daughter is missing from her church youth convention trip to California and Van Dorn hires a private investigator to find her. The result of the investigation is his daughter is spotted in a cheap X-rated movie. Van Dorn decides to bring her back personally and during the quest he becomes familiar with the pornographic underworld.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Paul Schrader, Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan’s celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko’s House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, “The Last Day”…
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Adam Resurrected (2008) Paul Schrader
“Adam Resurrected” follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer–cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician–loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant’s “dog”, entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. “Who brought a dog in here?” he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog but Adam finds him–a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs–and their journey begins. “Adam Resurrected” is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
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