Alphaville, A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution 1965   N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance / Thriller
aka: Alphaville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Louis Comolli, Michel Delahaye, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Christa Lang
The New Wave French film director Jean-Luc Godard pays homage to comic books in this tale of secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) visiting a futuristic society on a distant planet where science and technology have taken over, and love is forbidden.
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Beware of a Holy Whore 1971  N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Hannes Fuchs, Ulli Lommel, Marcella Michelangeli, Kurt Raab, Karl Scheydt
The cast and crew of a German film company are on location awaiting materials (due to lack of funds) and the director, Jeff (Lou Castel). While they wait, the time is spent drinking, fighting, and sleeping around. When Jeff arrives, the funding has still not shown, and so more of the same antics continue as insights are gained on the filmmakers' lives.
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It Lives Again 1978  R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: It's Alive II
Director: Larry Cohen
Cast: Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, Eddie Constantine, John Marley, John P. Ryan, Andrew Duggan, James Dixon, Melissa Inger, Bobby Ramsen, Glenda Young, Dennis O'Flaherty, Victoria Jill, Lynn Wood, Greg Cannom
In this sequel to "It's Alive" (1974), Frank Davies (John P. Ryan), the father of the original monster baby from the first film, warns Eugene and Jody Scott (Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd) that their expected baby may also be at risk and that a national task force, led by Mallory (John Marley), is ruthlessly killing the monster babies. Eugene and Jody escape to Davies' hideout where Jody gives birth to her killer baby, and bloody mayhem ensues when their baby is joined by two others in their search for survival through human blood.
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The Long Good Friday 1980  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Mackenzie
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Eddie Constantine, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, George Coulouris, Paul Freeman, P.H. Moriarty, Daragh O'Malley, Alan Ford
In this good gangster film, London mob boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is fighting to keep power in his dangerous world when bombs explode in his Rolls Royce and the pub he owns. Then, a third bomb is discovered in his casino. It is Easter weekend, and Shand appears to be doomed because the IRA is behind the bombings, and he cannot defend himself against their terrorism.
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The Third Generation 1979 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler, Gunther Kaufmann, Hark Bohm, Bulle Ogier, Harry Baer, Vitus Zeplichal, Raul Gimenez, Y Sa Lo, Lilo Pempeit, Claus Holm
German terrorists–Rudolf, Paul, and August (Harry Baer, Raul Gimenez, and Volker Spengler)–masquerade as clowns and kidnap prominent industrialist Peter Lurz (Eddie Constantine) in an effort to attract attention to the evils of capitalism, but their inane mistakes prove to be their undoing.
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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. Alphaville, A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (1965)
aka: Alphaville
2. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
3. It Lives Again (1978)
aka: It's Alive II
4. The Long Good Friday (1980)
5. The Third Generation (1979)
6. Zentropa (1991)
aka: Europa
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