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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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Peter Gauhe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl Scheydt, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Walter Sedlmayr, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes
Aging charwoman Emmi (Brigitte Mira) meets and begins an affair with a Moroccan, Ali (El Hedi Ben Salem), 20 years her junior. The couple is shunned by those around them and, after a time, they begin to have doubts about their relationship. Based on Douglas Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows," this is a good satire on prejudice.
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The Stationmaster's Wife 1977  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Volker Spengler, Gustl Bayrhammer, Udo Kier, Armin Meier, Peter Kern, Doris Mattes, Lilo Pempeit, Elma Karlowa
Beautiful, bored, philandering Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar) manipulates her Stationmaster husband, Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), in pre-Hitler Bulgaria.
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| 1. Ace Up My Sleeve (1975)
aka: Crime and Passion
2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
3. The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
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