Stellan Skarsgard
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 **Cannes Film Festival** Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Björk). Rural factory worker Selma (Björk) is a single mother losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. To protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma saves money to get him an operation. At night, Selma escapes into...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The hit Oscar winning drama, that launched the careers of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, tells the tale of a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life, until he meets a relatable psychology professor (Robin Williams).
3) Hope
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Norwegian
Appears on list
Description
Based on filmmaker's Maria S�dahl's own experiences, this is the story of Anja and Tomas, longtime romantic partners whose large, blended family is upended when Anja receives a grave medical diagnosis. Anja and Tomas are forced to recalibrate their long-term relationship in ways that only a profound crisis can inspire.
4) Insomnia
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Bjorn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end, run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnro, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne. A story about the price of success.
6) Metropia
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Conspiracy abounds as Roger, guided by voices in his head, navigates an underground oil starved world. Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis lend their voices this award-winning animated thriller. Winner of the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the **Venice Film Festival** . Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
8) Chernobyl
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Epic five-part miniseries dramatizing the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident, as told through the stories of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nils (Stellan Skarsgård), uncovers his son's murderer, he begins to unravel. He embarks on a quest for revenge. Reminiscent of Tarantino and The Coen Brothers, Nils finds himself in a different world in order to bring his son's murderers to justice.
10) The Painted Bird
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Czech
Description
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski novel, THE PAINTED BIRD is about one boy's journey through Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its...
11) Gordon & Paddy
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Swedish
Description
As benevolent, work-weary Detective Gordon bites into an afternoon biscuit, the frog's mind is filled with visions of retirement. For many years he's kept the peace in his forest community, while protecting its citizens from the dreaded fox. In his eyes, the clever and ambitious mouse Paddy would make an excellent successor. But as soon as he has sworn her in she finds herself facing her first challenge: two young children have gone missing...
12) Goya's ghosts
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-winner Milos Foreman, "Goya's Ghosts" is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Norwegian
Description
This film follows Trond, a grieving widower to the remote woods of Norway to live out the rest of his years. A chance encounter with his neighbor Lars, rekindles dormant memories, as Trond realizes that he knew Lars back in the summer of 1948.
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Toby (Adam Driver) enters a world of time jumping fantasy when he meets "Don Quixote" (Jonathan Pryce), a delusional Spanish cobbler who believes Toby to be Sancho Panza. They embark on an epic adventure where dreams and reality intertwine.
15) City of Ghosts
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a bogus insurance scam sparks an FBI investigation, front man Jimmy Cremmins (Matt Dillon) flees to Cambodia to meet his mentor, Marvin (James Caan). But Jimmy gets more than he bargains for when against a backdrop of raw, dangerous beauty and ever-shifting loyalties, Marvin draws him into a web of deceit and murder from which there may be no way out! Gerard Depardieu and Stellan Skarsgård also star.
16) Last Words
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What if the last five people on earth in 2085 found joy and delight? Last Words is a story of astonishing human tenderness and creativity in the face of ecological catastrophe.
17) Romeo and Juliet
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Adapted by Julian Fellowes (Downtown Abbey) from the play by William Shakespeare.
19) The physician
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At the traumatic passing of his mother, a young boy discovers his gift of foretelling death. As an adult he travels to Persia to find the doctor of doctors in the city of Isfahan, hoping to develop his special powers.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
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