The Bay Boy 1984  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Alan Scarfe, Mathieu Carriere, Chris Wiggins, Thomas Peacocke, Isabelle Mejias, Stephane Audran, Leah Pinsent
In 1937, a hardworking Nova Scotia mother (Liv Ullmann) wants her son, Donald (Kiefer Sutherland), to become a priest. But after witnessing a murder and then being involved in a sexual encounter with his girlfriend, Donald questions the wisdom of choosing the priesthood for his future.
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Bluebeard 1972  R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Edward Dmytryk, Luciano Sacripanti
Cast: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Joey Heatherton, Nathalie Delon, Marilu Tolo, Karin Schubert, Agostina Belli, Sybil Danning, Edward Meeks, Jean Lefebvre, Mathieu Carriere
Richard Burton portrays Baron von Sepper who has killed off his wives (among them are Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon, Virna Lisi, and Marilu Tolo) by different, unique methods. His current wife (Joey Heatherton) has found the frozen bodies in a vault and figures out how they had died. She tries to get the Baron to talk about them and, in the process, find a way to save her own life.
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Coup de Grace 1976 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rudiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carriere, Marc Eyraud, Valeska Gert, Bruno Thost, Frederik von Zichy, Henry van Lyck, Franz Morek
World War I has just ended and the Soviet Civil War is in full swing in 1919 Latvia where three aristocrats have lived out the war on their estate–despite bombings and fighting around them. One of the aristocrats, Sophie (Margarethe von Trotta), is a Communist sympathizer and continuously falls in love with men who do not love her. An eerie film with abundant symbolism (much of which only a historian can pick up on).
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Don Juan 73 1973  R, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Ms. Don Juan
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carriere, Jane Birkin, Michele Sand, Antoine Fontaine, Dominique Zardi, Samson Fainsilber, Henri Attal
Jeanne (Brigitte Bardot) is a female Don Juan who pursues love/sex with man after man, leaving ruined lives in her wake. Bardot is fun to watch in one of her later films, but it still drags.
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A Girl Called Rosemarie 1996  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Bernd Eichinger
Cast: Nina Hoss, Heiner Lauterbach, Mathieu Carriere, Horst Krause, Hannelore Elsner, Katja Flint, Til Schweiger, Heinrich Schafmeister, Hanns Zischler, Manfred Andrae
Set in 1950s West Germany, this film is based on the famous unsolved murder of "high-class" prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt (Nina Hoss). She had a clientele of rich men, and lived with one. The downfall started when a wealthy Frenchmen, Fribert (Mathieu Carriere), came to town with a deal for her: tape her encounters with the rich and famous clients and then, for a price, turn them over to Fribert for use in blackmail schemes.
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Luther 2003 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eric Till
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Mathieu Carriere, Marco Hofschneider, Torben Liebrecht, Herb Andress, Jeff Caster
Joseph Fiennes stars in the role of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther who, in the early 1500s, challenged the Roman Catholic Church and ushered in the Reformation.
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 Shining Through 1992 R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Seltzer
Cast: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud, Sylvia Syms, Francis Guinan, Patrick Winczewski, Mathieu Carriere, Wolf Kahler
In 1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) suspected her boss (Michael Douglas) of spying. However, it is not until the U.S. becomes involved in World War II that she learns that her suspicions were correct. He enlists her aid, and she agrees to be dropped behind enemy lines where she is to penetrate the household of a high German official.
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Young Torless 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mathieu Carriere, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele, Fred Dietz, Jean Launay, Lotte Ledl, Hanna Axmann-Rezzori, Herbert Asmodi, Fritz Gehlen
In Austria at the beginning of the 20th century, two classmates–Bineberg and Reiting (Bernd Tischer and Fred Dietz)–catch fellow student Anselm von Basini (Marian Seidowsky) stealing. Instead of reporting Basini to school authorities, Bineberg and Reiting turn him into their victim by humiliating and abusing him both physicially and psychologically. Another student, Thomas Torless (Mathieu Carriere), witnesses the cruelty and, when he has had enough, reports his classmates. But in the end, it is Torless, not the perpetrators, who is told to leave the school.
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| 1. The Associate (1979)
2. The Bay Boy (1984)
3. Bluebeard (1972)
4. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
5. Coup de Grace (1976)
6. Don Juan 73 (1973)
aka: Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
aka: Ms. Don Juan
7. A Girl Called Rosemarie (1996)
8. La Passante (1982)
9. Luther (2003)
10. Shining Through (1992)
11. Young Torless (1966)
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