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Paul Schrader

Actor · 58 credits · 31 in highly-rated films

Best known for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Frequent collaborators: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola

Best Paul Schrader movies by genre

Movies (30 total, ranked by score)

  1. Hitchcock/Truffaut

    2015 · ★ 7.2 (256 votes)

    Documentary

    1

  2. A Decade Under the Influence

    2003 · ★ 7.9 (43 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. Making 'Taxi Driver'

    1999 · ★ 6.9 (28 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Talking with Ozu

    1993 · ★ 6.5 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Eames: The Architect and the Painter

    2011 · ★ 7.1 (35 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers

    2020

    6

  7. The Rules of Film Noir

    2009 · ★ 6.0 (13 votes)

    Documentary

    7

  8. Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

    2004

    Documentary

    8

  9. The Book of Harth

    2022 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. Untitled: New Blue

    1995 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

    2005 · ★ 7.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader

    2002

    12

  13. Ken San

    2016 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. Raging Bull: Before the Fight

    2005 · ★ 10.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    14

  15. The Road to Bresson

    1984 · ★ 6.8 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. Hollywood Mavericks

    1990 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Godard Made in USA

    2010

    Documentary

    17

  18. Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A

    2016

    Documentary

    18

  19. God's Lonely Man

    2007 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. Paul Schrader: Man in a Room

    2020 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    20

  21. Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

    1990 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    21

  22. Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

    2007 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. Schrader's Exorcism

    2008 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. We Blew It

    2017 · ★ 5.2 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Producing 'Taxi Driver'

    2007 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    25

  26. Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

    2020 · ★ 3.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    26

  27. Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades

    2026

    Documentary

    27

  28. Inside Mishima

    1985

    Documentary

    28

  29. Ritratti di cinema

    2025

    Documentary

    29

  30. Masterclass di Paul Schrader al Laceno d'Oro 48

    2025

    Documentary, TV Movie

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.