Paul Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 18 feature films, including his directing debut crime drama, Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader), the crime drama Hardcore (a loosely autobiographical film also written by Schrader), his 1982 remake of the horror classic Cat People, the crime drama American Gigolo (1980), the biographical drama Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), the true life biopic Patty Hearst (1988), the cult film Light Sleeper (1992), the drama Affliction (1997), the biographical film Auto Focus (2002), the erotic dramatic thriller The Canyons (2013), and the dramatic thriller First Reformed (2017), the latter earning him his first Academy Award nomination.
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| Conformist, The | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| In The Mood For Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
The Lady Eve |
1941 | Preston Sturges |
Orpheus |
1950 | Jean Cocteau |
Pickpocket |
1959 | Robert Bresson |
| Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Ozu Yasujirô |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
The Wild Bunch |
1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
Paul Schrader: Collected Screenplays Volume 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper (Paperback)
Schrader on Schrader (Directors on Directors Series) Hardcover
Taxi Driver (Faber Film) Paperback
Taxi Driver: Signed Limited Screenplay Edition (Hardcover)
