Paul Schrader — Playwright (20)
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City Hall (1996)
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Harold Becker actor: Al Pacino / John Cusack …
other title: City Hall - Conspiração no Alto Escalão / City Hall (La sombra de la corrupción)
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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Rolling Thunder (1977)
Rolling Thunder
John Flynn actor: William Devane / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Der Mann mit der Stahlkralle / Légitime violence …
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
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Light Sleeper (1992)
Light Sleeper
Paul Schrader actor: Willem Dafoe / Susan Sarandon …
other title: Lo spacciatore / Posibilidad de escape …
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.
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Dying of the Light (2014)
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Paul Schrader actor: Nicolas Cage / Anton Yelchin …
other title: Il nemico invisibile / Vingança ao Anoitecer …
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 his sworn enemy.
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The Card Counter (2021)
The Card Counter
Paul Schrader actor: Oscar Isaac / Tiffany Haddish …
other title: Il collezionista di carte / The Card Counter: O Jogador …
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 chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.
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Cat People (1982)
Cat People
Paul Schrader actor: Nastassja Kinski / Malcolm McDowell …
other title: Il bacio della pantera / A Felina …
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Bringing Out the Dead
Martin Scorsese actor: Nicolas Cage / Patricia Arquette …
other title: Al di là della vita / Nattens skygger …
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Affliction (1998)
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Paul Schrader actor: Nick Nolte / Sissy Spacek …
other title: Den Jagede / Der Gejagte …
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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The Yakuza (1974)
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Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Mitchum / Ken Takakura …
other title: Yakuza / Den hemmelige liga
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese actor: Willem Dafoe / Harvey Keitel …
other title: L'ultima tentazione di Cristo / Den sidste fristelse …
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.