This was one of Fassbinders first films to get a release in this country and helped confirm his reputation as one of German cinema's great modern directors. The story itself is a simple one, the affair between an elderly widow and a young Arab immigrant, but it is the acutely observed presentation of racism and bigotry, hate and fear which is the heart of the film. Fear Eats The Soul is a hard, powerful and moving drama.
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THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
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The original and best version of the detective thriller classic. Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the gambling debts of a rich man's daughter, but is plunged into a twilight world of intrigue, blackmail and violence. Stylish and gripping.
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VERTIGO (1958)
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Another Hitchcock masterpiece, featuring some of the most inventive and unsettling camera work in cinema. Stewart plays a retired detective who is hired by a friend to follow his unstable wife. However the plot is considerably more entangled than it appears from the outset as Stewart becomes a witness to the wife's death. A moody and considered psycho-drama...
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987)
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The story is of two angels in modern day Berlin silently watching mortals going about their lives. When one falls in love and wants to become human the tension between flawless divinity and the allure of material life surfaces. A masterpiece.
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