Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980  N/R, 930 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Helmut Griem, Udo Kier, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal, Franz Buchrieser, Peter Kollek
World War I Berlin is the backdrop of Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel. Presented as 14 individual episodes, the story follows the life of an ex-convict who tries to live an honorable existence but finds problems at every turn in the Berlin environment during the rise of Nazism.
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 Johnny Mnemonic 1995  R, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller
Director: Robert Longo
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Don Francks, Dennis Akayama, Tracy Tweed, Falconer Abraham, Diego Chambers, Sherry Miller, Arthur Eng
Johnny Mnemonic (Keanu Reeves) stores computer data in a chip inside his head as he smuggles data containing a cure for a deadly disease. As a result of his computer chip implant, Johnny has no memory of his past. Leaking data creates visions through which Johnny becomes aware of eminent danger from those who would kill him to obtain his hidden data.
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M. Butterfly 1993 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon, Shizuko Hoshi, Vernon Dobtcheff, Tristram Jellinek, Richard McMillan, David Hemblen, David Neal, Damir Andrei, Antony Parr, Margaret Ma, Philip McGough
While impersonating a woman, Song Liling (John Lone) is an opera singer who manages to have an 18-year love affair with French Embassy accountant Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons). When Gallimard is promoted to vice consul, Song spies on him for the Communists. Finally, Gallimard sees Song nude and flees from the relationship. Later, Gallimard is arrested and put on trial for treason, and the affair with Song is revealed while Gallimard maintains that he had no idea of the ruse.
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Marianne and Juliane 1981  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rudiger Vogler, Doris Schade, Franz Rudnick, Verenice Rudolph, Luc Bondy, Julia Biedermann, Ina Robinski, Patrick Estrada-Pox
Two sisters, Juliane (Jutta Lampe) and Marianne (Barbara Sukowa), become embroiled in West Germany's political turmoil during the 1960s and 1970s, but they employ very different methods to obtain their goals. Exceptionally well acted.
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Office Killer 1997  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cindy Sherman
Cast: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Michael Imperioli, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Eddie Malavarca, David Thornton, Mike Hodge, Alice Drummond, Florina Rodov
Carol Kane takes on the role of a secretary who systematically murders her office mates and stores their bodies in her home.
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Romance & Cigarettes 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: John Turturro
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Stritch, Eddie Izzard, Amy Sedaris, P.J. Brown, Adam LeFevre
In this off-beat musical, Kitty (Susan Sarandon) confronts her Queens construction worker husband, Nick (James Gandolfini), with evidence of pornography he has written. It turns out that Nick is having an affair with sexy underwear salesgirl Tula (Kate Winslet), and Kitty has the solution. With their three daughters–Rosebud (Aida Turturro), Constance (Mary-Louise Parker), and Baby (Mandy Moore)–supporting her, Kitty kicks Nick out of the house leaving him to make up his own mind of what he really should do. Throughout their trials, everyone seems to sing and dance in this down and dirty musical love story.
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The Sicilian 1987 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Barbara Sukowa, Giulia Boschi, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Joe Regalbuto, Aldo Ray, Ray McAnally, Barry Miller, Richard Bauer, Andreas Katsulas
This story by Mario Puzo deserved a far better fate than what happened to it when filmmakers got their hands on the property. It did attempt to tell the story of Salvatore Giuliano, an outlaw leader using Mafia ties to achieve his dreams.
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The Third Miracle 1999 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Rispoli, Charles Haid, Ken James, Barbara Sukowa, James Gallanders, Jean-Louis Roux, Caterina Scorsone
A Chicago priest, Father Frank Shore (Ed Harris), is a Vatican-appointed investigator of purported miracles, who is sent to look into the events surrounding the recovery of a terminally ill girl. But Father Frank soon questions his life's purpose when he falls in love with Roxanne (Anne Heche), the daughter of the woman being considered for sainthood.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
Director: Jill Sprecher
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Barbara Sukowa, Tia Texada, Frankie Faison, Shawn Elliott, William Wise
"What is happiness?" and "How does one find it?" are the questions this film deals with in crisscrossing stories involving New Yorkers whose reactions run the gamut from happiness to self-destruction.
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Urbania 2000 R, 103 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jon Shear
Cast: Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keeslar, Josh Hamilton, Lothaire Bluteau, Bill Sage, Barbara Sukowa, Paige Turco, Megan Dodds, Gabriel Olds, Samuel Ball, James Simon, Gerry Bamman, Scott Denny, Pamela Shaw
First-time director Jon Shear brings to the screen a fascinating film centering on a lonely, grief-stricken Charlie (Dan Futterman) who roams the streets of New York City by night looking for a mysterious man he has only seen from afar. In the process, Charlie experiences bizarre visions that leave the viewer wondering whether they are just memories or, in fact, ghosts.
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Zentropa 1991 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Europa
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Erik Mork, Jorgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow, Benny Poulsen
American of German descent Leopold (Jean-Marc Barr) arrives in post-World War II Germany to help a torn-up country. He gets a job on the large Zentropa train line and meets Katharina Hartmann (Barbara Sukowa), the daughter of the train's executive–who may also be a Nazi sympathizer. Leopold becomes stuck between the American and Railroad executives' interests. Narration of the English-dubbed version is by Max von Sydow, which helps in the understanding of this somewhat confusing, surrealistic film.
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| 1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
2. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
3. Lola (1981)
4. M. Butterfly (1993)
5. Marianne and Juliane (1981)
6. Office Killer (1997)
7. Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
8. The Sicilian (1987)
9. The Third Miracle (1999)
10. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
11. Urbania (2000)
12. Zentropa (1991)
aka: Europa
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