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Barfly

Barfly (1987) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn

Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based. The film concentrates on alcoholic writer Mickey Rourke (the Bukowski alter ego) who carries on a hate-hate relationship with bartender Frank Stallone. Rourke makes the acquaintance of another of society's ...

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Murder By Numbers

Murder By Numbers (2002) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn

When a pair of bright-but sociopathic teens conspires to commit the perfect murder, a troubled cop teams with her eager new partner to solve the case that left the community in fear and the police without a clue. High school ladies' man Richard Haywood (Ryan Gosling) and outcast Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt) have no motive to commit murder, but ...

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Desperate Measures

Desperate Measures (1998) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Joseph Cross

Although he enjoyed great critical success with crime dramas and slice-of-life pictures, director Barbet Schroeder continued dabbling in the thriller genre with this action-oriented film. Andy Garcia stars as Frank Conner, a widowed San Francisco police officer whose young son Matt (Joseph Cross) is suffering from leukemia. Without a bone marrow ...

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Single White Female

Single White Female (1992) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky

In this psychological thriller, a needy young woman finds fulfillment by trying to literally become her successful roommate. Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam (Steven Weber) proves unfaithful, Allison ...

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Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune (1990) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains in a "persistent vegetative state" resulting from a suspicious injection of insulin -- ...

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Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death (1995) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, Kathryn Erbe

A convict agrees to go undercover and gather evidence on a notorious crime lord in order to win an early release from prison in this tough, gritty crime drama. Much of the tension develops from the inner conflict of Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso), who feels torn between his desire to win freedom for the sake of his family and his belief in a code ...

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More (1969) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg, Heinz Engelmann, Louise Wink, Michel Chanderli

A young man from Germany (Klaus Grunberg) leaves home and travels to Paris. Hooking up with a group of hippies, he is enamored by an American girl (Mimsy Farmer) he meets at a party. The two leave for an island off the coast of Spain and become lovers. He becomes aware she is a heroin user and warns her about the drawbacks of narcotics. The ...

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Before and After

Before and After (1996) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon, Alfred Molina

Director Barbet Schroeder and screenwriter Ted Tally adapted the novel by Rosellen Brown into this intriguing drama that, while heavily criticized for a third-act revelation that is something of a cop-out, nevertheless features -- typically of Schroeder's work -- compelling performances, domestic discord, and a search for the truth. Meryl Streep ...

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La Vallée

La Vallée (1972) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valerie Lagrange

An early film by director Barbet Schroeder, La Vallée stars Bulle Ogier as the wife of a diplomat who embarks on a journey through the jungles of New Guinea in order to locate a rarely seen type of bird feather. During the course of her quest, she meets up with a group of free-spirited hippies who are seeking their own personal Shangri-la. She ...

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General Idi Amin Dada

General Idi Amin Dada (1974) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada was but a distant irritation to everyone but his own countrymen and the British Empire until his perfidy became headline material in the early '70s. The first director to provide an in-depth study of this gregarious madman was director Barbet Schroeder, with his General Idi Amin Dada. In this documentary, Schroeder ...

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Koko le Gorille Qui Parle (1978) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder

Penny Patterson, an American psychology student, began an experiment in primate communication in the early 1970s using a young zoo gorilla named Koko, who was loaned to Penny for the experiment. Due to a philosophical predisposition to consider that "humanizing" animals is wrong, and alarmed at the increasing publicity over the experiments, the ...

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Our Lady of the Assassins (2001) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Anderson Ballesteros, German Jaramillo

A middle-aged man wanting to revisit the city of his birth discovers time and corruption have taken a terrible toll in this drama. Fernando (German Jaramillo) is a successful gay writer who was born in Medellín, Colombia, but has lived in Europe for the past 30 years. Feeling jaded and uninspired, Fernando decides to return to Colombia after the ...

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Maîtresse (1976) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Tony Taffin

For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Looking for a measure of affection and companionship, Olivier (Depardieu) crosses the path of the lovely Ariane (Bulle Ogier). She happens to be a professional dominatrix-and from the evidence we're ...

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The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1987) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder

The five-star European director Barbet Schroeder - the creative force behind such efforts as Reversal of Fortune, Maitresse and La Vallée - in 1986 created one of the most surprising, shocking and delightful features of our time with the seriocomedy Barfly (1987). Schroeder, of course, directed the film from the semi-autobiographical script by ...

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Les Tricheurs (1984) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier, Kurt Raab, Virgilio Teixeira, Steve Baes

Like a glossy wrapping around an empty box, this film about sophisticated gamblers with nothing deeper than their gambling addiction involves a story no deeper than the tracks along its plot line: win at the casinos alone, win with a woman companion, and then cheat to win some more. Elric (Jacques Dutronc) is a professional gambler successfully ...

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Terror's Advocate (2007) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Bachir Boumaza, Jacques Verges, Jeff Sine, Magdalena Kopp, Yacef Saadi

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder transcends the borders of the political and judiciary arenas to explore the mystery of a man who stands up for some of society's most deplorable figures. Enigmatic lawyer Jacques Vergès began his career by defending Djamila Bouhired - an activist who became the manifestation of the people's hunger for freedom - during ...

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