The American Friend

Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper), an American forger who deals in fake paintings, is brushed off at a Hamburg auction by Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a picture framer. When the gangster Raoul Minot asks Ripley to find someone to kill a rival, he offers up the framer. Wim Wenders puts a man with a terminal illness and a wife and child in the path of men who know exactly how little time he has.