 The American Friend 1977  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Der Amerikanische Freund
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Jean Eustache, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Rudolf Schundler, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel, Heinz Joachim Klein, David Blue, Rosemarie Heinikel
This psychological thriller stars Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley who sells forged paintings. Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz) suffers from a fatal illness, and Ripley persuades him to become the paid killer of a French Mafioso. Zimmerman plans to use the money to support his family after his death. But, one murder leads to another.
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The Boys from Brazil 1978  R, 123 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, John Dehner, Rosemary Harris, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, Steve Guttenberg, John Rubinstein, Bruno Ganz, Walter Gotell, Jeremy Black, David Hurst
Former Nazi concentration-camp war-criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) is trying to re-establish the Third Reich by using DNA to clone Hitler. When Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) is clued into the insane plot by young Nazi hunter Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg), he is not interested. But, after Kohler is murdered, Lieberman takes Kohler's words seriously and starts to investigate. The trail leads Lieberman to Paraguay where he uncovers Mengele's scheme to murder hundreds of men as part of the cloning experiment.
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 Bread and Tulips 2000 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Marina Massironi, Giuseppe Battiston, Felice Andreasi, Antonio Catania, Tiziano Cucchiarelli, Matteo Febo, Silvana Bosi, Ludovico Paladin
When housewife Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) is accidentally left behind by her tour bus, she hitchhikes home–with a stopover in Venice, which lasts until her loyalties to husband and two sons draw her back home.
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Circle of Deceit 1981 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: False Witness
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila von Weitershausen, Peter Martin Urtel, John Munro, Fouad Naim, Josette Khalil, Khaled El Sayed, Sarah Salem, Tafic Najem
The Lebanon War, as seen through the eyes of German journalist Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz), is the subject of this film. Laschen stays long after other journalists pull out because of danger as he tries to understand the violence between Christians and Palestinians and report it to the world.
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Downfall 2004  R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Ulrich Noethen, Birgit Minichmayr, Andre Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Justus von Dohnanyi
Adolf Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) secretary Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) narrates this story of Hitler's last ten days, which he spent in a Berlin bunker before his suicide in 1945. Hitler's Reich is crumbling, and his mistress Eva Braun (Juliane Kohler) throws parties. Meanwhile, Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) and his wife Magda (Corinna Harfouch) contemplate murdering their six children and then killing themselves. Meanwhile, Hitler refuses to leave and, like the others in the bunker, will choose suicide rather than facing the Allies after Germany is defeated.
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Eternity and a Day 1998 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Achileas Skevis, Despina Bebedelli, Helene Gerasimidou, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Alexandra Ladikou, Iris Chatziantoniou, Nikos Kouros, Alekos Oudinotis
Alexander (Bruno Ganz) learns from his doctor that he is dying, and then he comes across a letter from his deceased wife, Anna (Isabelle Renauld), that causes him to reflect on what his life has signified since she died. The letter serves as a catalyst that leads him to a 10-year-old refugee (Achileas Skevis) in dire need of love and help.
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Faraway, So Close! 1993 N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe, Roberto Benigni, Horst Buchholz
In this remake/sequel to Wenders' classic "Wings of Desire," the angels still hover over Berlin and bring their kind of magic to the people in a now-unified Germany. Mikhail Gorbachev, the ex-Soviet head, makes a cameo appearance with philosophical comments. A pretty good follow-up to the original.
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Luther 2003 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eric Till
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Mathieu Carriere, Marco Hofschneider, Torben Liebrecht, Herb Andress, Jeff Caster
Joseph Fiennes stars in the role of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther who, in the early 1500s, challenged the Roman Catholic Church and ushered in the Reformation.
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 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Vera Farmiga, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Sakina Jaffrey, Ted Levine, Miguel Ferrer, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney, Pablo Schreiber, Dorian Missick, Anthony Mackie
In this updated version of "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Gulf War veteran Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is still in the Army, but his squad sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), left the Army a hero and is now running for Vice President. Marco is having nightmares over what happened to their platoon while under the leadership of Shaw and tries to contact him. But, a big player in Shaw's campaign is his mother, Eleanor (Meryl Streep), who is determined to keep Marco away from her son. She wants him to be Vice President–no matter what!
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror
aka: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast, Dan van Husen, Jan Groth, Carsten Bodinus, Martje Grohmann, Rijk de Gooyer, Clemens Scheitz, Lo van Hensbergen
In this remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic silent-film representing the Expressionist movement in art, the vampyre Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) takes over a small town and then attempts to spread his evil influence to areas far and wide. He yearns for Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) who is married to Jonathan (Bruno Ganz). Will Lucy's self-sacrifice bring an end to Dracula's curse?
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The Reader 2008 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, David Kross, Jeanette Hain, Susanne Lothar, Alissa Wilms, Forian Bartholomai, Friederike Becht, Matthias Habich, Frieder Venus, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Rainer Sellien, Hendrik Arnst
Based on Bernard Schlink's novel, this story begins in post-war Germany with the forbidden romance between 15-year-old Michael Berg (David Kross) and 30-ish Hanna (Kate Winslet) that develops when Michael reads stories to her. One day, Hanna vanishes, but the two reunite eight years later in 1966 when Michael (now played by Ralph Fiennes) is a law student and finds Hanna as a defendant in a court case. She is on trial for serving as a guard at Auschwitz where she condemned inmates to death. Michael has evidence that could change the verdict in Hanna's case, but will he present it or simply remain silent? Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also received four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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Saint-Ex 1997 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson, Janet McTeer, Katrin Cartlidge, Ken Stott, Eleanor Bron, Brid Brennan, Karl Johnson, Daniel Craig, Anna Calder-Marshall
This is a very good film-biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the pilot who delivered the mail and still managed to author the beloved children's classic, "The Little Prince." The story centers on the relationship of Saint-Ex and his wife, Consuelo Carillo.
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Strapless 1989 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Hare
Cast: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough, Hugh Laurie, Camille Coduri, Imogen Annesley, Suzanne Burden, Rohan McCullough
Dr. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) is an American doctor who marries a man (Bruno Ganz) while on vacation in Lisbon. When her younger sister, Amy (Bridget Fonda), visits the newlyweds at home in London, Lillian starts rethinking her marriage.
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Vitus 2007 PG, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fredi M. Murer
Cast: Fabrizio Borsani, Teo Gheorghiu, Julika Jenkins, Urs Jucker, Bruno Ganz, Eleni Haupt, Kristina Lykowa, Tamara Scarpellini, Daniel Rohr, Norbet Schwientek, Heidy Forster, Daniel Fueter
Six-year-old child prodigy Vitus von Holtzen (Fabrizio Borsani) has parents (Urs Jucker and Julika Jenkins) who have plans for him to become a pianist. Now it is six years later, and 12-year-old Vitus (Theo Gheorghiu) is doing well at a conservatory–until he jumps from a balcony wearing wooden wings styled by his grandfather (Bruno Ganz). Vitus suffers head injuries, but those injuries do not harm his intelligence, and he goes on with his life, this time, on his own terms.
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 Wings of Desire 1987 PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier, Elmar Wilms, Sigurd Rachman, Beatrice Manowski, Lajos Kovacs, Bruno Rosaz, Laurent Petitgand, Chick Ortega
This West German film provides an insightful perspective of life on Earth as seen through the eyes of an Angel (Bruno Ganz) who comes to Earth, travels through Berlin, falls in love, and tries to comprehend the thinking and values of the contemporary world.
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| 1. The American Friend (1977)
aka: Der Amerikanische Freund
2. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
3. Bread and Tulips (2000)
4. Circle of Deceit (1981)
aka: False Witness
5. Downfall (2004)
6. Eternity and a Day (1998)
7. Faraway, So Close! (1993)
8. Lumiere and Company (1995)
9. Luther (2003)
10. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
11. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
aka: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
12. The Reader (2008)
13. Saint-Ex (1997)
14. Strapless (1989)
15. Vitus (2007)
16. Wings of Desire (1987)
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