Directed by David Mamet • 2000 • United States
Starring Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charles Durning

Writer-director David Mamet channels Preston Sturges in this uproarious satire of both the movie industry and small-town America. When a big-budget Hollywood movie crew arrives in a quai...

Directed by Wes Anderson • 2001 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his e...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1981 • United States
Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with THIEF, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most ri...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1978 • United States
Starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto

Paul Schrader’s hard-nosed directorial debut features searing performances by comic great Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto. Fed up with the indignities of factory work, three disgru...

Directed by Richard Linklater • 1993 • United States
Starring Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich

America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, DAZED AND CONFUSED eavesdrops on a group of seniors-t...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1986 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen

Michael Mann’s hypnotic, hyperstylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel “Red Dragon” was the first film to introduce audiences to the infamous Hannibal Lecter. Will Graham (William Petersen) is a...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 2013 • United States
Starring Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant

“American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis and acclaimed director Paul Schrader join forces for this daring and infamously divisive erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex, and surveillance. Manip...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1997 • United States
Starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

Driven by powerhouse performances from Nick Nolte and an Oscar-winning James Coburn, Paul Schrader’s searing adaptation of the novel by Russell Banks is an emotionally intense exploration of family, ...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1977 • United States
Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

William Friedkin takes Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic palm-sweater THE WAGES OF FEAR and transforms it into a blood-and-guts opera of existential delirium. The setup is familiar: four desper...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1979 • United States
Starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley

Paul Schrader’s potent sophomore feature stars George C. Scott as a conservative Calvinist businessman from the Midwest who is drawn into California’s pornographic underground as he searches for...

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan • 1983 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum

After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending the weekend together, reminiscing about their shared past as children of the si...

Directed by Dario Argento • 1982 • Italy
Starring Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Dario Argento raises the giallo genre to new heights with this darkly humorous and notoriously grisly murder mystery, widely considered one of his finest works. American mystery author Peter Neal (Ant...

Directed by Slava Tsukerman • 1982 • United States
Starring Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas

One of the coolest and most outrageously stylish oddities to emanate from the 1980s indie underground is a postpunk science-fiction fantasia set in New York’s zonked-out bohemian demimonde....

Directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont • 1998 • United States
Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo

The John Hughes–style teen comedy gets a ’90s update, boasting a who’s who of the decade’s hottest young stars and a soundtrack that rocks everything from Blink-182 to Bu...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1985 • Japan, United States

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between s...

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1973 • United Kingdom
Starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terr...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1988 • United States
Starring Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames

Who was the real Patty Hearst? Built around a remarkable performance from Natasha Richardson, this chilling biopic explores the many dimensions of one of the twentieth century’s most contr...

Directed by Doug Liman • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie Holmes

Director Doug Liman’s follow-up to SWINGERS is a hyperkinetic, MDMA-fueled cult joyride that bounces, with whiplash-inducing abandon, between a coterie of twentysomething Californians chasing drug...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1982 • United States
Starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

Paul Schrader’s kinky-stylish reworking of the 1942 Val Lewton classic transfers the action to a voodoo-spooky New Orleans, adds an incestuous undercurrent, and ups the sex and gore. Nastassj...

Directed by John Boorman • 1967 • United States
Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn

With this fractured, coolly minimalist thriller, director John Boorman reimagined the film noir for a new era of Hollywood filmmaking. Lee Marvin stars as Walker, a gangster shot “point blank” and l...

Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1997 • United States
Starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey

Perhaps the finest neonoir since CHINATOWN, Curtis Hanson’s masterful adaptation of the novel by James Ellroy brings the sleazy underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles to the screen with sizzle and punch. F...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1999 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

This searing collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader continues their ongoing inquiry into questions of guilt, torment, faith, and existential meaning. S...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • 2023 • Turkey
Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ek...