And Then There Were None 1974  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Ten Little Indians
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Stephane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Gert Frobe, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm, Adolfo Celi, Alberto de Mendoza
Agatha Christie's great novel does not seem to do well on screen (except for the excellent 1945 version). This one is set in an Iranian desert inn (to save money). The invited guests are killed one-by-one. Slow and boring.
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Ararat 2002  R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: David Alpay, Arsinee Khanjian, Christopher Plummer, Charles Aznavour, Marie-Josee Croze, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Simon Abkarian
This movie within a movie–about filming the story of the Armenian holocaust, 1915-1918–features David Alpay as young Raffi. While carrying back sealed cans of movie film for the production company, a suspicious customs official (Christopher Plummer) begins questioning Raffi who reveals aspects of his own life as well as that of the Armenian people–including his own father who was an Armenian freedom fighter.
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Candy 1968  R, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Christian Marquand
Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, John Astin, Elsa Martinelli, Sugar Ray Robinson, James Coburn
The cast is top of the line, and "Candy" is an amusing satire on the world of pornography.
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The Magic Mountain 1982 N/R, 153 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Hans Geissendoerfer
Cast: Chrisoph Eichhorn, Marie-France Pisier, Rod Steiger, Flavio Bucci, Charles Aznavour, Balduin Baas, Hans Christian Blech, Alexander Radszun, Margot Hielscher, Gudrun Gabriel
Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" is the basis for this ambitious film. Hans (Christoph Eichhorn) visits his cousin in a tuberculosis sanitarium and remains. Rod Steiger plays the wealthy Mynheer Peeperkorn.
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 Shoot the Piano Player 1960  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Shoot the Pianist
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michele Mercier, Albert Remy, Claude Mansard, Richard Kanayan, Jean-Jacques Aslanian, Daniel Boulanger, Serge Davri, Catherine Lutz
Charlie (Charles Aznavour) plays the piano in a bar where waitress Lena (Marie Dubois) has fallen in love with him. But Charlie has lived a previous life as a famous concert pianist and has given up on his professional and personal lives following his wife's suicide. Now, his brother, Chico (Albert Remy), arrives at the bar with two gangsters, and events turn violent.
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Sky Riders 1976 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Griffith, Zouzou, Steven Keats, John Beck, Anthony Antypas
Hang-gliding stunts provide the backdrop for this action film involving the rescue of a mother and her children caught up in an international terrorist's kidnapping scheme.
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The Tin Drum 1979 R, 144 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, Andrea Ferreol, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner
Based on Gunter Grass' novel, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story is about a little boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the rise of Nazism and destruction of his world.
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| 1. And Then There Were None (1974)
aka: Ten Little Indians
2. Ararat (2002)
3. The Blockhouse (1973)
4. Candy (1968)
5. The Magic Mountain (1982)
6. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
aka: Shoot the Pianist
7. Sky Riders (1976)
8. The Tin Drum (1979)
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