Ace Up My Sleeve 1975  R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Crime and Passion
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Karen Black, Omar Sharif, Joseph Bottoms, Elma Karlowa, Bernhard Wicki, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Volker Prechtel, Erich Padalewski, Robert L. Abrams, Franz Muxeneder
Omar Sharif plays a sex-crazed financier who takes one step too far with his secretary (Karen Black)–a decision that leads to their being targeted by her new husband.
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Dangerous Moves 1984  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Richard Dembo
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Michel Aumont, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bernhard Wicki, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jacques Boudet
This story centers on a world chess championship as competitors, the old master (Michel Piccoli) and a young admirer (Alexandre Arbatt), become more and more obsessed with winning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Killing Cars 1986  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Blitz
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gelin, Stefan Meinke, Bernhard Wicki, Peter Matic, William Conrad, Osman Ragheb, Axel Scholz
After inventing an electric/chemical car, Ralph Korda (Jurgen Prochnow) encounters corporate managers as well as oil men who employ strong-arm tactics against him that add to the intrigue as he tries to get his car into production.
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La Notte 1961 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Night
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi, Vincenzo Corbella, Gitt Magrini, Guido A. Marsan, Vittorio Bertolini, Ugo Fortunati, Gitt Magrini
A crucial 24-hour period in the lives of successful writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his frustrated wife, Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), is the subject of this drama. A visit to their dying friend Tommaso Garani (Bernhard Wicki) culminates the following day in the death of their own passionless marriage.
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Morituri 1965  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Wally Cox, William Redfield, Carl Esmond, Martin Benrath, Hans Christian Blech, Gary Crosby
In this film about a World War II naval blockade, Marlon Brando plays British spy Robert Crain. He convinces German Captain Mueller (Yul Brynner) to come over to the side of the Allies.
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Paris, Texas 1984  R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki, Tom Farrell, John Lurie, Sam Berry, Claresie Mobley, Viva, Justin Hogg, Jeni Vici
This excellent film tells the story of Travis Clay Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) who returns after four years to try to win back the love and respect of his son Hunter (Hunter Carson) he left behind. Accomplishing this, the two of them go in search of their missing wife and mother (Nastassja Kinski).
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The Visit 1964  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick, Claude Dauphin, Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli, Valentina Cortese, Eduardo Ciannelli, Fausto Tozzi, Jacques Dufilho
Based on Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, this is the story of Karla's (Ingrid Bergman) return to her hometown to seek vengeance against Serge (Anthony Quinn) who jilted her in the distant past.
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| 1. Ace Up My Sleeve (1975)
aka: Crime and Passion
2. Dangerous Moves (1984)
3. Killing Cars (1986)
aka: Blitz
4. La Notte (1961)
aka: The Night
5. Morituri (1965)
aka: The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri
6. Paris, Texas (1984)
7. The Visit (1964)
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