Direction: Paul Schrader

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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....

Direction Paul Schrader

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

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

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Dennis Hopper · Penelope Ann Miller · Eric Bogosian · Sheryl Lee Ralph

Plot Detective Philip Lovecraft lives in Los Angeles in the 1950s when an ambitious Senator is holding hearings on Magic. Magic is the new influence in Tinsel Town. Lovecraft is unique...