 Enemy at the Gates 2001  R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Thomson, Eva Mattes, Matthias Habich, Sophie Rois, Ivan Shvedoff, Mario Bandi, Mikhail Matveyev, Hans Martin Stier, Clemens Schick
This film is based on true facts of a cat-and-mouse game of survival played between a Russian, Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law), and his enemy, German businessman Major Koenig (Ed Harris) during World War II. When fate brings them together, Zaitsev and Koenig, who have both fallen in love with Tanya (Rachel Weisz), engage in their own battle while the Battle of Stalingrad rages.
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Killing Blue 1988  R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Midnight Cop
Director: Peter Patzak
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Fairchild, Frank Stallone, Michael York, Julia Kent, Monika Bleibtreu, Allegra Curtis, Harvey Friedman, Josef Sumner, Ludger Pistor, Constanze Saskia Rahn, Hans Martin Stier
Inspector Alex Glas (Armin Mueller-Stahl) immerses himself in a tough case that includes drugs, prostitution, and murder as a retreat from his memories of a failed marriage–along with his accidental killing of a girl. Convoluted and hard to follow.
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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. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
2. Killing Blue (1988)
aka: Midnight Cop
3. Wings of Desire (1987)
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