"The American Friend"
1977
Directed by Wim Wenders

Using Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, Wim Wenders made this spellbinding existential thriller, which moves from the docks of Hamburg to the streets of New York. Dennis Hopper plays Ripley, an art forger and sociopath who lures desperate family man Bruno Ganz deeper and deeper into international intrigue and murder. With appearances by Sam Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Jean Eustache, Gerard Blain and Daniel Schmid. German and English with English subtitles.  127 minutes.