on the waterfront classic films

Overview of films

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  Confession

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  Alexander Sokurov | 260' | Russia | -

  Masterful mixture of fiction, essay and documentary. About life as captain of a Russian submarine.
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  Dans le ville blanche

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  Alain Tanner | 108' | Portugal | -

  Bruno Ganz as a roaming sailor in a special view of Lisbon. Modern classic.

• The Docks of New York

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  Josef von Sternberg | 60' | USA | -

  Virtuoso silent melodrama about a sailor who first deceives a woman but later takes her in his arms for good. By the great Von Sternberg.…
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  Finis Terrae

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  Jean Epstein | 66' | France | -

  Impression of the coast of Brittany and its fishermen by one of the founders of modern cinema.
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  Fluchtweg nach Marseille

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  Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring | 210' | Germany | -

  Unsurpassed essay film about the hope and despair of refugees from the Nazis. Much hope evaporated within sight of the port of Marseilles.

• French Connection II

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  John Frankenheimer | 119' | USA | -

  Misplaced New-York cop (Gene Hackman) embarks on a one-man battle against the whole of criminal Marseilles.

• Hamnstad

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  Ingmar Bergman | 100' | Sweden | -

  Something worth discovering: a very early and unknown film by Ingmar Bergman. Even way back then about hard times in love.

• The Hunt for Red October

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  John McTiernan | 134' | USA | -

  Submarine classic. Russian captain wants to defect with a brand-new prototype, but that’s easier said than done. Sean Connery as the captain of a Russ

• La mujer del puerto

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  Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla | 76' | Mexico | -

  Classic Mexican melodrama about a woman who lost her father, her fiancé and her honour and sells her body to sailors. Until one day…

• On the Waterfront

  • on the waterfront classic films

  Elia Kazan | 108' | USA | -

  Marlon Brando as docker takes on the corrupt unions on his own. Classic among the classics.

• Querelle

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  Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 108' | France | -

  The sailor as the figure of great passions. Murder, drugs and sex in the imagination of Jean Genet/Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Also with Jeanne Moreau.
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  Razzia in St. Pauli

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  Werner Hochbaum | 65' | Germany | -

  Long before neo-realism, Hochbaum made an impressive neo-realist film in the harbour and prostitution district of Hamburg. About the sailor Karl and h