The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Phantom of Terror
Point of Terror
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf, Umberto Raho, Renato Romano, Giuseppe Castellano, Pino Patti, Werner Peters, Gildo Di Marco, Rosita Torosh, Omar Bonaro, Fulvio Mingozzi, Karen Valenti
After witnessing an attempted murder in a Rome art gallery, American tourist Sam Dalmas' (Tony Musante) passport is taken by police, and he learns that there have been a series of unsolved murders. When Sam performs his own investigation, his actions put Sam and girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) in jeopardy when the serial killer begins to stalk them.
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Fedora 1978  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Henry Fonda, Michael York, Hildegarde Neff, Mario Adorf, Gottfried John, Hans Jaray, Stephen Collins, Arlene Francis, Jacques Maury, Christine Mueller, Ellen Schwiers
Adapted from Thomas Tryon's "Crowned Heads," this tale is about a down-on-his-luck movie producer, Barry Detweiler (William Holden), who tries to lure an elusive movie star, Fedora (Marthe Keller), out of her retirement on the Greek isles. Nothing is like appears, and the "surprise" ending is unsurprising. Kinda long.
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The Holcroft Covenant 1985   R, 112 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Hepton, Richard Munch, Carl Rigg, Andre Penvern, Shane Rimmer, Andy Bradford
Based on Robert Ludlum's novel, this story revolves around the efforts of Noel (Michael Caine) to find the fortune willed by his German General father to make war reparations. The plot contains so many twists and turns that it is difficult to separate the good guys from the bad.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975  R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jurgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Harald Kuhlmann, Rolf Becker, Herbert Fux, Regine Lutz, Werner Eichhorn, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Angelika Hellebrecht, Horatius Haberle, Henry van Lyck
Based on Heinrich Boll's novel, this is a film denouncing the German press and police as the story appeals for respect for human rights. The story evolves around Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) who falls in love and, naively, lets her new lover, Ludwig (Jurgen Prochnow) spend the night. The next morning, he has disappeared, the police are at her door, and she is arrested. Too late, Katharina learns that her lover is a terrorist and traitor, and she will be the victim of persecution.
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Major Dundee 1965  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Brock Peters, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Michael Pate, Karl Swenson
Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) is a member of the Union Cavalry who, as a result of his mistakes at the Battle of Gettysburg, has been sent out West to be in charge of a Union prison in New Mexico. The Apache Indians, led by Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), have been raiding U.S. bases and kidnapping children, and Major Dundee decides to take on the job of capturing the raiders and rescuing the victims. But, he does not have enough men under his command, so he recruits Confederate prisoners–including his childhood friend Captain Benjamin Tyreen (Richard Harris)–and leads a motley group of men across the border into Mexico in pursuit of the marauding Apaches.
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Malastrana 1971 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Director: Aldo Lado
Cast: Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach, Fabijan Sovagovic, Jose Quaglio, Piero Vida, Daniele Dublino, Sven Lasta, Luciano Catenacci, Relja Basic, Michaela Martin, Vjenceslav Kapural, Jurgen Drews, Semka Sokolovic-Bertok
This low-budget Italian flick is another in the long line of horror/thrillers popular in the 1970s. Gregory (Jean Sorel) appears to be dead on his arrival at the hospital, even though his body temperature is still normal. He is duly declared dead and sent for an autopsy. But Gregory is indeed alive, though paralyzed, and as he awaits the autopsy he tries to figure out what happened to place him here. Good, creepy film.
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Money 1991 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Maryam d'Abo, Bruno Cremer, F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Plummer, Mario Adorf, Anna Kanakis, Bernard Fresson, Tomas Milian, Angelo Infanti, Raymond Gerome, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
After being raised as a rich kid, when Franck (Eric Stoltz) learns that his inheritance has been embezzled, he sets off on a global mission to find those who have stolen his millions.
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The Red Tent 1971 G, 121 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Cast: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti, Mario Adorf, Luigi Vannucchi, Nikita Mikhalkov, Eduard Martsevich, Grigori Gaj, Nikolai Ivanov, Boris Khmelnitsky, Yuri Solomin, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis
This story about the 1928 dirigible crash includes the eventual rescue of its crew. While spending months in the Arctic waiting for rescue, the survivors' stories are told through flashbacks.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow 1997 R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: Bille August
Cast: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Loggia, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Mario Adorf, Emma Croft, Bob Peck, Peter Capaldi, Ona Fletcher, Agga Olsen, Patrick Field, Matthew Marsh, Charlotte Bradley
A Copenhagen boy falls from the roof of his building and dies in the snow. Smilla (Julia Ormond), daughter of a long-dead Inuit and American doctor (Robert Loggia), is suspicious of circumstances surrounding the death but has her work cut out for her in convincing others of the validity of her doubts.
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Ten Little Indians 1965 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Fabian, Shirley Eaton, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daliah Lavi, Dennis Price, Marianne Hoppe, Mario Adorf, Christopher Lee
This version of Agatha Christie's novel at least keeps the author's ending. Guests are invited to an Austrian castle, and after the mysterious host announces that each guest has caused the death of an innocent person, the guests begin being killed–one-by-one.
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The Tin Drum 1979 R, 144 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, Andrea Ferreol, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner
Based on Gunter Grass' novel, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story is about a little boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the rise of Nazism and destruction of his world.
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| 1. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
aka: Phantom of Terror
aka: Point of Terror
2. The Dirty Game (1965)
3. Fedora (1978)
4. The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
5. Lola (1981)
6. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
7. Major Dundee (1965)
8. Malastrana (1971)
aka: Short Night of the Glass Dolls
9. Money (1991)
10. The Red Tent (1971)
11. Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
12. Ten Little Indians (1965)
aka: And Then There Were None
aka: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
13. The Tin Drum (1979)
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