Fresh
Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero.
Tom Milne, Time Out
The American Friend
1977 · 2h 5m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Wim Wenders
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
The American Friend
Overview
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Gripping 1977 American thriller from Wim Wenders that turns back on itself with deadly European irony.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
More films
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Crime · Mystery · Thriller · R
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Cast
- Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie
IMDb
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes
25%
Metacritic
41
The Good German (2006)
Crime · Drama · Mystery · R
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Cast
- George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
IMDb
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes
34%
Metacritic
49
Maximum Risk (1996)
Action · Crime · Thriller · R
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder an...
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Ringo Lam Ling-tung
- Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade
IMDb
5.6
Rotten Tomatoes
35%
The Number 23 (2007)
Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · R
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Director
- Joel Schumacher
- Cast
- Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman
IMDb
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes
7%
The Girl on the Train (2016)
Crime · Mystery · Thriller · R
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Director
- Tate Taylor
- Cast
- Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett
IMDb
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes
44%
Metacritic
48
The Four Robinsons (1939)
Comedy · N/A
Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Eduardo García Maroto
- Cast
- Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey
IMDb
5.8
La mantilla de Beatriz (1946)
Drama · Romance · N/A
In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Director
- Eduardo García Maroto
- Cast
- Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert
Comments
Talk about the film with other members