Patricia Highsmith
1) Tom Ripley I
Author
Series
Anagrama compendium volume 21
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Presents the first two appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he travels to Europe to convince a rich man's son to return home, and establishes himself on the continent with a new identity, and, twenty years later, as a seemingly respectable man married to an heiress.
Author
Series
Anagrama compendium volume 22
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Presents the final three appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he becomes involved with another man, is followed around by an unusual teenager, and must deal with people who seem to know his secrets and plan to use them against him.
Author
Series
Ripley novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The cunning schemes of a young American ne'er-do-well, who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
7) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young picture framer thinks that he has a terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.