Direction: Paul Schrader

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Nick Nolte · James Coburn · Sissy Spacek · Willem Dafoe

Synopsis 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ken Ogata · Kenji Sawada · Yasosuke Bando · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous death, but also on his work. Schrader uses three...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Richard Pryor · Harvey Keitel · Yaphet Kotto · Ed Begley Jr.

Synopsis Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers' union is doing them no greater good than their screwed-up bosses. So the trio...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Willem Dafoe · Susan Sarandon · Dana Delany · David Clennon

Synopsis John LeTour (Dafoe) is a 40-year-old drug dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis when his boss Ann (Sarandon) decides to retire. He encounters his ex-lover (Delany), by chance, which leads to his involvement in a murder case concerning...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast George C. Scott · Peter Boyle · Season Hubley · Dick Sargent

Synopsis Jake Van Dorn is businessman from American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. His teenage daughter is missing from the trip in L.A. and Van Dorn hires private investigator. Result of the investigation is his...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ethan Hawke · Amanda Seyfried · Cedric the Entertainer · Michael Gaston

Synopsis An ex-military chaplain (Ethan Hawke) is wrecked by grief over the death of his son in Iraq. Amanda Seyfried plays a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Oscar Isaac · Tye Sheridan · Tiffany Haddish · Willem Dafoe

Synopsis William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. Tell’s meticulous life is thrown into disarray when he encounters Cirk, a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy. With backing from mysterious...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Christopher Walken · Rupert Everett · Natasha Richardson · Helen Mirren

Synopsis 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Joel Edgerton · Sigourney Weaver · Quintessa Swindell · Esai Morales

Synopsis A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Greg Kinnear · Willem Dafoe · Rita Wilson · Maria Bello

Synopsis An absorbing glimpse into the colorful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane. Handsome and charming, Crane became well known as the star of television's hit comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Capitalizing on his fame, Crane dove into the freewheeling...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Nastassja Kinski · Malcolm McDowell · John Heard · Annette O'Toole

Synopsis A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex....

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Natasha Richardson · William Forsythe · Ving Rhames · Frances Fisher

Synopsis The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Richard Gere · Lauren Hutton · Hector Elizondo · Bill Duke

Synopsis Julian Kay (Richard Gere) makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle (Lauren Hutton), a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is...

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Synopsis 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Richard Gere · Uma Thurman · Jacob Elordi · Michael Imperioli

Synopsis A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed right in front of his wife…

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Jeff Goldblum · Willem Dafoe · Vasile Albinet · Idan Alterman

Synopsis Once, in the 1920s, Adam Stein was a happy man: a caring husband, the proud father of two daughters, and a celebrated star of Berlin’s vaudeville scene. He was a clown, an entertainer and a magician. Thirty years later he...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Woody Harrelson · Kristin Scott Thomas · Lauren Bacall · Moritz Bleibtreu

Synopsis Drama about a former high-class Beverly Hills male escort who now services society women in Washington D.C. Based on a character depicted in the 1980 film, American Gigolo, now aged 50.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Skeet Ulrich · Bridget Fonda · Christopher Walken · Gina Gershon

Synopsis 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.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Stellan Skarsgard · Gabriel Mann · Clara Bellar · Ralph Brown

Synopsis 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Joseph Fiennes · Ray Liotta · Gretchen Mol · Vincent Laresca

Synopsis An affair between a cabana boy and the young wife of a sinister politician triggers a 16-year vendetta between the two men.