Stellan Skarsgard
Author
Language
Swedish
Description
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish businessmen on a rescue mission of Hungarian Jews. He distributed Swedish papers ("Wallenberg passports"), protected Jews in "Wallenberg houses," internationalized the ghetto to give...
Author
Language
Norwegian
Description
Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) is a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go. Reluctantly back on the streets following a stint in prison, Ulrik’s boss greets him with open arms. With a demented sense of professional pride, Ulrik’s boss sets in motion a plan to right the wrong done to his star employee. The problem is Ulrik would rather go about his own business instead of getting involved with his ragtag colleagues again. This dark feel good comedy...
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**.
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.
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...
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.
11) Last words
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) The Physician
Author
Language
English
Description
In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
14) Hope
Author
Language
Norwegian
Description
ANJA lives with TOMAS in a large family of biological children and stepchildren. For a number of years the two adults have grown independent of each other, with creative jobs in parallel worlds. When Anja gets a terminal cancer diagnosis, their modern life breaks down and exposes neglected love. Alone with her grief and her fears, Anja realizes that she needs Tomas' full help and support. It's their only chance. How else will their children find the...
15) Hope
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Norway’s Official Submission for Best International Feature 93rd Academy Awards® Shortlisted ANJA lives with TOMAS in a large family of biological children and stepchildren. For a number of years the two adults have grown independent of each other, with creative jobs in parallel worlds. When Anja gets a terminal cancer diagnosis, their modern life breaks down and exposes neglected love. Alone with her grief and her fears, Anja realizes that...
16) Metropia
Author
Language
English
Description
Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis voice this award winning digitally animated thriller. Conspiracy abounds as Roger, guided by voices in his head, navigates an underground oil starved world.
17) Last Words
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others
18) 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...
19) I'll Find You
Author
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's classic paradigm finds contemporaneity, as we find two lovers ensnared by the tumult of World War II.
20) The Railway Man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Colin Firth stars as a former army officer who sets out on a mission of revenge to confront the man who tormented him while he was prisoner at a Japanese labor camp during World War II.