Stellan Skarsgård
41) Last words
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English
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What if the last five people on earth in 2085 found joy and delight? A story of astonishing human tenderness and creativity in the face of ecological catastrophe.
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Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police pursues his most perplexing case: a savage attack has been perpetuated on a rich industrialist's private secretary. With the help of a visiting Swedish criminologist, Ghote edges closer to the truth and soon discovers he may not be dealing with murder at all, but something far more complex and profitable.
43) Metropia
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English
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In the not so distant future, the world is running out of oil and the underground train systems have been connected into a gigantic subway network. Whenever Roger from Stockholm enters this system he hears a stranger's voice in his head. He looks to the mysterious Nina to help him escape the disturbing web of the Metro, but the further they travel, the deeper he's involved in a dark conspiracy.
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English
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Arn Magnusson is born in 1150, in Western Sweden. He grows up to become an educated young man and a skilled warrior, and meets Cecilia, the love of his life. Then a cruel and jealous world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a monastery. Arn is sent to the Holy Land as a Knight Templar, where war is raging between Christians and Muslims.
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English
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MPAA rating: Brutal violent content including rape and torture, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, and language.
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation...
46) City of ghosts
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English
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Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
48) Helen of Troy
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English
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The story of two empires at war, with one woman at the center of it all. The legendary tale comes to life in this must-see epic adventure that delivers thrilling heroics, heart-pounding conflicts, and breathtaking action.
52) The physician
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English
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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.
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English
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Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband, Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him home paralyzed, she's filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
54) Metropia
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English
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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**.
55) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
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Norwegian
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engström travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engström quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
56) The railway man
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English
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Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime...
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"Having abandoned his faith in God, Father Merrin joins a British archaeological excavation in Kenya, where an inexplicably pristine Christian Byzantine church has been unearthed, looking as if it had been buried on the day it was completed. But beneath the church, something much older sleeps, waiting to be awoken. As madness swiftly descends upon the villagers and British soldiers, Merrin watches helplessly as atrocities are committed against an...
58) Taking sides
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English
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After Hitler took over power in 1933, many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwängler choose to stay. Though never a member of the party, he was a receipient of honors associated with party membership. However, the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of Jewish musicians from concentration camps. When U.S. Major Steve Arnold is tasked with the pre-trial investigations, his aim is to prove that the...
59) Thor
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English
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When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
60) Amistad
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English
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Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.