Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (/ˈʃreɪdər/; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis.
Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before transitioning to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films, beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). Schrader has described three of his recent films as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022).
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Películas (87)
The Basics of Philosophy
2026 · Writer, Director
Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades
2026 · Himself
Masterclass di Paul Schrader al Laceno d'Oro 48
2025 · Self - filmmaker, guest
Ritratti di cinema
2025 · Self
Vulcanizadora
2025 · Thanks
Oh, Canada
2024 · Director, Screenplay
El maestro jardinero
2023 · Director, Writer
The Book of Harth
2022 · Self
No hay santos
2022 · Executive Producer, Screenplay
El Contador de Cartas
2021 · Director, Writer
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
2020 · Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020 · Self
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020 · Self, Thanks
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Self
La iglesia de la salvación
2018 · Writer, Director
We Blew It
2017 · Self
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016 · Self
Dog Eat Dog
2016 · El Greco, Director
Ken San
2016 · Self
American Johns
2015 · Thanks
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 · Self
Dying of the Light
2014 · Director, Screenplay
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Self (segment Paul Schrader), Director
The Canyons
2013 · Director
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self
Milius
2013 · Self
Walk of Fame
2012 · Thanks
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011 · Self
Godard Made in USA
2010 · Self
The Rules of Film Noir
2009 · Self
Tales from the Script
2009 · Self
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008 · Self
Schrader's Exorcism
2008 · Self
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Director
God's Lonely Man
2007 · Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
2007 · Self
Producing 'Taxi Driver'
2007 · Himself
The Walker
2007 · Screenplay, Director
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006 · Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Self
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
2005 · Director
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005 · Self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004 · Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003 · Self
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Self
Auto Focus
2002 · Director
Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader
2002 · Self
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 · Screenplay
Forever Mine
1999 · Director, Writer
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999 · Self
Affliction
1998 · Director, Screenplay
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Touch
1997 · Director, Screenplay
City Hall
1996 · Writer
Untitled: New Blue
1995 · Himself (uncredited), Director, Writer
Witch Hunt
1994 · Director
Talking with Ozu
1993 · Self
Light Sleeper
1992 · Director, Writer
The Comfort of Strangers
1990 · Director
Hollywood Mavericks
1990 · Self
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
1990 · Self
Pictures of Europe
1990 · Self
Patty Hearst
1988 · Director
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Screenplay
Light of Day
1987 · Director, Screenplay
The Mosquito Coast
1986 · Screenplay
Inside Mishima
1985 · Self
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 · Writer, Director
The Road to Bresson
1984 · Self
Cat People
1982 · Screenplay, Director
Raging Bull
1980 · Screenplay
American Gigolo
1980 · Director, Writer
Old Boyfriends
1979 · Writer, Executive Producer
Hardcore
1979 · Director, Writer
Blue Collar
1978 · Director, Screenplay
Rolling Thunder
1977 · Original Story, Screenplay
Obsession
1976 · Screenplay, Story
Taxi Driver
1976 · Writer
The Yakuza
1974 · Screenplay
Non Compos Mentis
· Director, Writer
Amber Light
· Writer
Life from the Other Side
· Screenplay
Three Guns at Dawn
· Writer
The Doors of Perception
· Director, Writer
Clang
· Writer
