 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Cecilia Rivera, Peter Berling, Daniel Ades, Edward Roland, Armando Polanah, Alejandro Chavez
A 16th-century conquistador, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), leads a mutiny in Peru against his Spanish commander.
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Black and White in Color 1976 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jean Carmet, Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Dufilho, Claude Legros, Catherine Rouvel, Dora Doll, Maurice Barrier, Benjamin Memel, Peter Berling, Marius Beugre Boignan
This anti-war film centers on French residents of a colonial West African outpost in 1915 who learn that France is at war with Germany. This news is the catalyst that propels them into a mini-war against a neighboring German outpost that is now identified as the enemy. This picture won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Cobra Verde 1988  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
aka: Slave Coast
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, Jose Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Nana Agyefi Kwame, Peter Berling, Pedro Oliveira, Benito Stefanelli
Herzog takes on African slave trading in this epic that didn't make it as big as some of his other films. Aggressive Francisco (Klaus Kinski) oversees a sugar plantation, but after getting the boss's three daughters pregnant he is sent to Africa to round up slaves. Instead, he overthrows the king and takes over the tribe himself.
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Fitzcarraldo 1982  PG, 158 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Grande Othelo, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Peter Berling, David Espinosa, Milton Nascimento, Ruy Polanah, Salvador Godinez
Set along the Amazon during the turn of the 20th century, this is German director Werner Herzog's innovative film about Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) who wants to open a rubber plant that will provide funding for the opera to be brought to his remote area in the jungle.
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Martha 1974  TV, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven, Ortrud Beginnen, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Peter Berling, Gunter Lamprecht, El Hedi ben Salem
Martha (Margit Carstensen) has lived a protected life, but her lifestyle changes when, immediately following her father's death, she marries a stranger (Karlheinz Bohm), and the battles begin.
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The Mines of Kilimanjaro 1987  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Nino Guerrini
Cast: Christopher Connelly, Gordon Mitchell, Toblas Hoesi, Elena Pompei, Chen Wong, Francesca Ferre, Peter Berling, Al Cliver, Oliver Tobias
An American college student heads for Africa in search of lost diamond mines of Kilimanjaro as well as his missing professor. Along the way, he is pursued by a myriad of adversaries who try to hinder his expedition.
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Mister Scarface 1976 R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: The Big Boss
Rulers of the City
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Cast: Jack Palance, Al Cliver, Harry Baer, Gisela Hahn, Edmund Purdom, Vittorio Caprioli, Enzo Pulcrano, Roberto Reale, Rosario Borelli, Pietro Ceccarelli, Salvatore Billa, Peter Berling
Organized crime set in the poor ghettos of Italy provides the backdrop for this tale of ruthless crime boss Scarface (Jack Palance) who wreaks havoc and death throughout the area. Meanwhile, mob enforcer Tony (Harry Baer) wants to move up in the world–and taking on Scarface might be the avenue. Violent.
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Revolver 1973 R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller / Drama
aka: Blood in the Streets
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Frederic de Pasquale, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Peter Berling, Marc Mazza, Daniel Beretta, Sal Borgese, Steffen Zacharias, Paola Pitagora, Bernard Giraudeau, Gunnar Warner, Calisto Calisti
Vito's (Oliver Reed) wife (Agostina Belli) is kidnapped. The ransom demand is the release of imprisoned Milo (Fabio Testi). Vito, a prison official who knows that Milo is to be killed if released, teams up with the prisoner to foil the bad guys and free his wife.
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| 1. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
aka: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Black and White in Color (1976)
3. Cobra Verde (1988)
aka: Slave Coast
4. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
5. Martha (1974)
6. The Mines of Kilimanjaro (1987)
7. Mister Scarface (1976)
aka: The Big Boss
aka: Rulers of the City
8. Revolver (1973)
aka: Blood in the Streets
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