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20 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Blue Collar. 1978 1h 54m R. 7.5 (11K) Rate. 77 Metascore. When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
- ‘First Reformed’
- ‘American Gigolo’
- ‘Blue Collar’
- ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’
- ‘Auto Focus’
- ‘Affliction’
- ‘Hardcore’
- ‘Cat People’
- ‘Light Sleeper’
- ‘The Card Counter’
WithFirst Reformed, Schrader kicked off his self-declared loose trilogy of movies along withThe Card Counter and Master Gardener. The acclaimed film broke the director out of a rut of movies where he was more of a work for hire than an inspired auteur. In the film, Ethan Hawke plays a pastor going through a spiritual crisis who meets a radical envi...
American Gigolo explores the sordid underbelly of wealthy male escorts, where Julian Kay, played by Richard Gere, lives and works. Julian lives a fast and free lifestyle he is desperate to maintain, even as the friends he can count on are dwindling. The movie is ultimately a love story about two people at polar opposite ends of the social spectrum ...
Blue Collar, Schrader’s directorial debut, was an extremely impressive first effort that showed that he could be successful as both a writer and a filmmaker. The crime drama follows three struggling Detroit autoworkers played by Richard Pryor,Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel,who set out to rob their union. The trio pulls off the heist successfully, ...
What follows when unwavering loyalty to a cause compels one to make a grave choice? That’s the central question at the heart of one of Hollywood's most unconventional biopics, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. The story follows the life and tragic demise of controversial Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Using a combination of black and white and colo...
Schrader puts his own unique take on a biopic once again in Auto Focus. Auto Focus follows Hogan’s Heroes actor Bob Krane (Greg Kinnear), who led an unconventional lifestyle before facing a grisly demise. The scope includes Krane’s tenure on Hogan’s Heroes, its aftermath, and his developing friendship with John Henry Carpenter (Willem Dafoe). The t...
The main character in Affliction, Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), is a bit of a loser who has alienated almost everyone except for his girlfriend Margie Fogg (Sissy Spacek) and younger brother (Willem Dafoe). He is a small-town sheriff who also drives snow plows on the side. He stumbles into what he believes to be a vast criminal conspiracy that even...
Schrader’s preoccupation with sex and small-town life converges once again in Hardcore. Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott), a small-business owner, starts looking for his missing daughter, which leads him to brothels, pornographic theaters, and sleazy video stores. He must also cast aside his devout Christian principles and work with an escort (Season...
Cat People is a bit of an anomaly in Schrader’s oeuvre, as it’s one of the few unadulterated horror movies he’s ever done, but he absolutely kills this remake of one of the best classic monster movies. The story is about Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski), a formerly orphaned young woman whose genealogy is cursed with the ability to turn into a cat. ...
The neo-noir stars Schrader’s longtime muse, Willem Dafoe, as John LeTour, an aging drug dealer who peddles his wares to an affluent clientele. LeTour has decided to quit the business, much to the chagrin of his handler Ann (Susan Sarandon), who would prefer he work for her indefinitely. LeTour encounters many difficulties while attempting to escap...
The Card Counter’s William Tell (Oscar Issac) lives in a world that’s seemingly forgotten what America was like post-9/11 except for him and a young man named Cirk (Tye Sheridan) he meets by chance. The sins born from The War On Terror haunt both men, and they choose to deal with the repercussions in their own way. There are also enjoyable gambling...
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- 'The Godfather' (1972) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. It's hard to find anyone who dislikes The Godfather, which speaks to its status as an essentially perfect film.
- 'Metropolis' (1927) Director: Fritz Lang. 1927 was a year that saw the introduction of talkies, and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, it also stood as a year that marked a last hurrah of sorts for silent cinema.
- 'The Wild Bunch' (1969) Director: Sam Peckinpah. The Wild Bunch didn't end the Western genre for good, by any means, but it almost feels like it could've.
- 'Vertigo' (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Not just one of the best films of its year, but frequently held up as one of the greatest of all time, Vertigo's reputation precedes it.
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- 'Patty Hearst' (1988) - IMDb: 6.3/10. This biographical drama tells the true story of Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
- 'The Comfort of Strangers' (1990) - IMDb: 6.3/10. The Comfort of Stranger s is a psychological thriller, with a script by playwright Harold Pinter based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
- 'American Gigolo' (1980) - IMDb: 6.3/10. Julian (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles who becomes romantically entangled with Michelle (Lauren Hutton), the wife of a powerful politician.
- 'Auto Focus' (2002) - IMDb: 6.6/10. Auto Focus dramatizes the true story of Bob Crane (played by Greg Kinnear), an actor who appeared on the TV show Hogan's Heroes in the late 1960s.
May 16, 2018 · In honor of the release of his latest film First Reformed, Vulture has ranked Schrader’s 20 features — his TV movie Witch Hunt was not included — and the result is a diverse list that can...
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Apr 30, 2022 · 5 American Gigolo. Paramount Pictures. Paul Schader’s lonely man mixed with the classic Robert Bresson aesthetic makes for a unique foray into the world of dark eroticism transposed in...
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1. Taxi Driver. 1976 1h 54m R. 8.2 (924K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. Director Martin Scorsese Stars Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Cybill Shepherd. 2. Adam Resurrected. 2008 1h 46m R. 6.2 (4.5K) Rate.
