 Heaven 2002  R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Mattia Sbragia, Stefania Rocca, Alessandro Sperduti, Alberto Di Stasio, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Gianfranco Barra, Vincenzo Ricotta
Philippa (Cate Blanchett) detonates a bomb in an office building as her last resort to get police to arrest the man who she believes killed her husband. But the bomb kills innocent people, and Philippa is arrested. The ensuing tale revolves around her developing romance with an investigating police officer (Giovanni Ribisi).
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The International 2009  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi, Jay Villiers, Fabrice Scott, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Jack McGee, Allesandro Fabrizi, Felix Solis, Nilaja Sun
Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) teams up with Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit and its connection to an Italian arms dealer. Salinger and Whitman find their lives in peril as they travel through Berlin, Milan, New York, and Istanbul on the trail of the bank's paid assassin, The Consultant (Brian F. O'Byrne). They end up at New York's Guggenheim Museum where bullets fly and concrete shatters as they try to stop the bank's financing of war and terror.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006 R, 147 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, John Hurt, David Calder, Simon Chandler, Sian Thomas, Corinna Harfouch, Birgit Minichmayr, Paul Berrondo, Jessica Schwartz
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) has a unique ability of using his superb olfactory senses and apprentices himself to perfume maker Guiseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to learn how to capture those scents. After his lessons, Grenouille is able to create popular aromas, but his perfumes are made from the corpses of fresh-smelling virgins who he must kill in order to create scents that he hopes will be so sublime that they will erase the world's evils.
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The Princess and the Warrior 2000  R, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Joachim Krol, Marita Breuer, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Jurgen Tarrach, Ludger Pistor, Natja Brunckhorst, Susanne Bredehoft
In this romantic thriller, Franka Potente takes on the role of Sissi, a psychiatric nurse working at Birkenhof Asylum. Her life crosses that of drifter Bodo (Benno Furmann). After Bodo causes an accident and then saves Sissi's life, she becomes obsessed with the idea that Bodo is the man of her dreams and pursues him.
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 Run Lola Run 1998 R, 81 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Animation
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Ludger Pistor, Suzanne von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper, Julia Lindig, Lars Rudolph, Andreas Petri
Lola (Franka Potente) is a tattooed punkette whose boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), inadvertently leaves 100,000 marks on the train. The money was being taken to a gangster, and Manni now has only 20 minutes to recover the loot. In desperation, Manni calls Lola for help, which sets her off and running to find the cash.
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Winter Sleepers 1997 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler, Laura Maori Tonke, Sophia Dirscherl, Sebastian Schipper, Saskia Vester, Werner Schnitzer
This slow-moving story revolves around events resulting from a road accident through which five characters' lives become bound forever.
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| 1. Heaven (2002)
2. The International (2009)
3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
4. The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
5. Run Lola Run (1998)
6. Winter Sleepers (1997)
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