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Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer.
Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), Six in Paris (1965), and Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). He then transitioned into directing films such as More (1969), La Vallée (1972) and Barfly (1987), the last of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled, "The Trilogy of Evil", which includes the films, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), Terror's Advocate (2007) and The Venerable W. (2016).
He directed the drama Reversal of Fortune (1990) and earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director. He then directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female (1992), Kiss of Death (1995), Desperate Measures (1998) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He also acted in Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
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As director
Ricardo and Painting
The Venerable W.
What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder?
Amnesia
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
Terror's Advocate
Murder by Numbers
Our Lady of the Assassins
Desperate Measures
Before and After
Kiss of Death
Single White Female
Reversal of Fortune
Barfly
The Charles Bukowski Tapes
Cheaters
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
Maîtresse
General Idi Amin Dada
The Valley
Pork with Sweet Potatoes
Make-up
Sing Sing
More
As actor
The Family
Jean Douchet, Restless Child
The Venerable W.
What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder?
Rouge
Portrait of the Artist
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Electra, for Instance
Making More
Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
Comme un chien
The Duchess of Langeais
The Darjeeling Limited
Terror's Advocate
Paris Je T'aime
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer
Only the Night
Don't Do That!
Bukowski: Born Into This
Mars Attacks!
Queen Margot
Beverly Hills Cop III
The Golden Boat
Out 1
The Charles Bukowski Tapes
Cheaters
Short Memory
L.A.X.
Roberte
Cinématon