The American Friend
 The American Friend (German: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 film by Wim Wenders loosely adapted from the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. The film is of the neo-noir genre and features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin.