Anthony Minghella · 1999 · thriller

Anthony Minghella's 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel. Tom Ripley, a nobody, is hired to sail to Italy and bring home a shipping heir, but he falls in love with the golden life of Dickie Greenleaf, murders him, and assumes his identity, a deception that carries him from a sun-drenched coastal village to Rome, the Riviera, and Venice as the lies and the bodies pile up.

1. 1
   New York

   Tom Ripley, a young nobody, is hired by a shipping magnate to retrieve his wayward son from Italy, and sails for Naples.

2. 2
   Mongibello

   He charms his way into the idle, sunlit world of Dickie Greenleaf and his fiancee Marge on the coast near Naples.

3. 3
   Rome

   In Rome the friendship sours, and the deception begins to take a darker shape.

4. 4
   San Remo

   On a small boat off San Remo, Tom kills Dickie and resolves to live the rest of his life as him.

5. 5
   Venice

   Moving between his two identities, Tom builds a glittering life in Venice even as the murders and lies close in around him.