Ash Wednesday 1973  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Peerce
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Margaret Blye, Maurice Teynac, Monique Van Vooren, Henning Schluter, Dino Mele, Kathy Van Lypps, Andrea Esterhazy, Carlo Puri, Irina Wassilchikoff, Jill Pratt, Dina Sassoli
This drama involves a middle-aged woman, Barbara Sawyer (Elizabeth Taylor), who thinks plastic surgery will not only bring back her former looks but her husband Mark (Henry Fonda) as well. Get ready for some very graphic operating-room scenes.
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Conversation Piece 1974  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsoni, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Patrizi, Elvira Cortese, Romolo Valli, Dominique Sanda, Guy Trejan
A down-and-out professor (Burt Lancaster) finds a renewed interest in life when a couple with a teenage daughter moves into the upstairs apartment. There is also an Italian-language version.
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The Damned 1969  R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Albrecht Schoenhals, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan
The wealthy Von Essenbeck family meets its demise when the Nazis come into power at the rise of Hitler's Third Reich.
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Faceless 1987  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum, Stephane Audran, Caroline Munro, Christiane Jean, Anton Diffring, Tilda Thamar, Howard Vernon, Florence Guerin, Gerard Zalcberg, Henri Poirier, Laure Sabardin, Amelie Chevalier
Mad Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) kidnaps models in Paris to provide skin for rebuilding the face of his sister who was disfigured from acid. Can private investigator Sam Morgan (Christopher Mitchum) save the latest victim?
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Ferocious 1977 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
aka: Mad Dog Killer
Mad Dog
Beast With a Gun
Director: Sergio Grieco
Cast: Helmut Berger, Marisa Mell, Richard Harrison, Marina Giordana, Luigi Bonos, Vittorio Duse, Claudio Gora, Nello Pazzafini, Ezio Marano, Antonio Basile, Sergio Smacchi, Alberto Squillante
Psychotic criminal Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger) bears a grudge against policeman Giulio Santini (Richard Harrison) whose testimony against him put Nanni in jail. Now, Nanni escapes, kidnaps Santini's girlfriend Giuliana Caroli (Marisa Mell), and will stop at nothing to escape being captured.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971  R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Raffaele Curi, Camillo Cesarei, Inna Alexeievna, Katina Morisani, Cinzia Bruno, Barbara Pilavin
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the story of the wealthy Jewish family, Finzi-Continis, who ignored the dangers of fascism in the late 1930s that overtook Italy–until it was too late. While many Jewish families left Italy, the Finzi-Continis family remained believing that their sprawling estate would protect them from fascism. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is invited to their home to do research for his school studies and falls in love with Micol Finzi-Contini (Dominique Sanda). Giorgio tries to draw Micol away from Italy, but she refuses, and now the politics of war close in on them.
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The Godfather Part III 1990 R, 161 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Raf Vallone, Richard Bright, Sophia Coppola, Franc D'Ambrosio, Donal Donnelly, Helmut Berger, Don Novello
The Corleone family is back, and this time Michael (Al Pacino) tries to get into a legitimate business while also doing all in his power to bring the family together. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (Andy Garcia)..
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The Great Battle 1978  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Battle Force
The Greatest Battle
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Cast: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Henry Fonda, Edwige Fenech, Ray Lovelock, Aldo Massasso, Venantino Venantini, Rik Battaglia, Guy Doleman, Orson Welles, Ida Galli, Andrea Bosic
Narrated by Orson Welles, this German film relates the final tank battles of the Panzer Corps in Tunisia during World War II. Poorly made and poorly acted by big-name stars.
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Mountain of the Cannibal God 1978 R, 86 min.
Genre: Adventure / Horror
aka: Slave of the Cannibal God
Director: Sergio Martino
Cast: Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Antonio Marsina, Claudio Cassinelli, Franco Fantasia, Helmut Berger, Gianfranco Spinola, Carlo Longhi, Luigina Rocchi, Dudley Wanaguru, Lanfranco Spinola, Akushula Selayah, T.M Munna, M. Suki, Giovanni Massini
Susan (Ursula Andress) heads to the jungles of New Guinea with her brother (Antonio Marsina) and an anthropologist (Stacy Keach) in search of her missing husband. What they find is a tribe of cannibals. Hmmm, it appears there are problems ahead. Violent at times, weak all the time. 1 User Review
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The Romantic Englishwoman 1975 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Beatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Marcus Richardson, Nathalie Delon, Julie Peasgood, Anna Steele, Frankie Jordan, Frances Tomelty, David de Keyser, Phil Brown
This sophisticated British comedy is entertaining as it interweaves fact with fiction in the lives of British writer Lewis Fielding (Michael Caine) and his wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) who has just returned from Europe. Lewis imagines that Elizabeth has been unfaithful. In fact, she had been attracted to drug smuggler Thomas (Helmut Berger). Lewis invites Thomas into their home for a visit. Now, Elizabeth starts to fall in love with Thomas, and Lewis realizes he has made a big mistake.
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Victory at Entebbe 1976 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Linda Blair, Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins, Helmut Berger, David Groh, Jessica Walter, Richard Dreyfuss
This was the first (of three) movie about the Israeli attack on Entebbe to rescue Jewish hostages taken during a skyjacking. The other two, made a year later, are better–"Raid on Entebbe" and "Operation Thunderbolt."
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| 1. Ash Wednesday (1973)
2. Conversation Piece (1974)
3. The Damned (1969)
4. Faceless (1987)
5. Ferocious (1977)
aka: Mad Dog Killer
aka: Mad Dog
aka: Beast With a Gun
6. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
7. The Godfather Part III (1990)
8. The Great Battle (1978)
aka: Battle Force
aka: The Greatest Battle
9. Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
aka: Slave of the Cannibal God
10. The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
11. Victory at Entebbe (1976)
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