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 American Soldier 1970  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Kurt Raab, Marius Aicher, Gustl Datz, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In this tribute to U.S. gangster films, Ricky (Karl Scheydt), an American Vietnam vet originally from Munich, is hired by crooked cops to eliminate criminals they have not been able to catch. Things don't go as the cops planned, as Ricky plays the bad guys against the "good" guys.
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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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In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: In a Year of Thirteen Moons
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes, Gunther Kaufmann, Lilo Pempeit, Isolde Barth, Karl Scheydt, Walter Bockmayer, Bob Dorsay, Peter Kollek
Formerly a man, Elvira Weishaupt (Volker Spengler) had a sex change after telling Anton Saitz (Gottfried John) that she loved him and being told, "Too bad, you aren't a woman." Now, Elvira tries to win Anton's love, but Anton is simply not interested.
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The Merchant of Four Seasons 1972 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Andrea Schober, Gusti Kreissl, Kurt Raab, Heide Simon, Klaus Lowitsch, Karl Scheydt, Ingrid Caven
This is a bleak, but powerful, portrait of Hans, a fruit peddler on the streets of a German town. Starting with high hopes after returning from a tour in the French Foreign Legion, he settles into a loveless marriage, and his depression gets deeper as his failures mount. He finally drinks himself to death.
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| 1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
2. The American Soldier (1970)
3. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
4. In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
aka: In a Year of Thirteen Moons
5. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
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