Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980  N/R, 930 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Helmut Griem, Udo Kier, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal, Franz Buchrieser, Peter Kollek
World War I Berlin is the backdrop of Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel. Presented as 14 individual episodes, the story follows the life of an ex-convict who tries to live an honorable existence but finds problems at every turn in the Berlin environment during the rise of Nazism.
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Kill Cruise 1990  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Keglevic
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley, Franz Buchrieser, Grazyna Szapolowska, Mario Stock, Carmel S. Aquilina, Manuel Cauchi, John Suda, Elton Mamo, John Ciantar
It's been months since Skipper's (Jurgen Prochnow) best friend was lost overboard from his boat off Gibraltar, and Skipper's wife left him. So, Skipper visits the local bar nightly, drunkenly telling of his troubles. When two bar employees, Sue and Lou (Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley), talk him into sailing them to the Caribbean, he accepts. But the trip will be more than he bargained for.
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Sheer Madness 1983  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Friends and Husbands
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser, Jochen Striebeck, Wladimir Yordanoff, Therese Affolter, Agnes Fink, Werner Eichhorn
Pianist and feminist literature teacher Olga (Hanna Schygulla) enjoys a relationship with an artist harboring suicidal tendencies, Ruth (Angela Winkler). The friendship is encouraged by Ruth's husband, Franz (Peter Striebeck). However, as the women rely more and more on each other, Franz feels left out, and problems ensue.
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| 1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
2. Kill Cruise (1990)
3. Noah's Ark Principle (1984)
4. Sheer Madness (1983)
aka: Friends and Husbands
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