Paul Thomas Anderson has done at most six films.
In 1993 , he wrote and directed a short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee on a budget of $ 20,000 .	Cigarettes & Coffee	Cigarettes & Coffee
After he attended the Sundance Institute , Anderson had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film , a neo-noir crime thriller titled Hard Eight , in 1996 .	Sundance Institute	Sundance Institute	Rysher Entertainment	Rysher Entertainment	Hard Eight	Hard Eight (film)
Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s .	Boogie Nights	Boogie Nights	Golden Age of Porn	Golden Age of Porn
His third feature , Magnolia -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , takes place over a single day in the San Fernando Valley , following the interconnected lives of several characters in search of happiness and resolution .	Magnolia	Magnolia (film)	San Fernando Valley	San Fernando Valley
In 2002 , the romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love , Anderson 's fourth feature , was released to generally favorable reviews .	Punch-Drunk Love	Punch-Drunk Love	drama	drama film
The epic drama There Will Be Blood -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , centers on a silver miner 's efforts to capitalize on the Southern California oil boom .	California	California	epic	epic film	drama	drama film	There Will Be Blood	There Will Be Blood	silver miner	silver miner	Southern California oil boom	History of oil in California through 1930
Anderson 's sixth film , the drama The Master -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , was released to critical acclaim .	drama	drama film	The Master	The Master (2012 film)
His seventh film , the crime comedy-drama Inherent Vice , based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon , was released in 2014 , to general acclaim .	drama	drama film	Inherent Vice	Inherent Vice (film)	same name	Inherent Vice	Thomas Pynchon	Thomas Pynchon
His eighth film , Junun , is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name .	same name	Inherent Vice	Junun	Junun	album of the same name	Junun (album)
His ninth film , Phantom Thread , which will reunite him with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , will be released on December 25 , 2017 .	Phantom Thread	Phantom Thread	Daniel Day-Lewis	Daniel Day-Lewis
