Stellan Skarsgård
Birthday: 1951-06-13
Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Biography: Stellan Skarsgård (born June 13, 1951) is a Swedish actor, known internationally for The Hunt for Red October and Good Will Hunting, as well as his supporting roles in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Mamma Mia!, and Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchises. Skarsgård is particularly associated with director Lars von Trier and has appeared in six of the Danish auteur's features: The Kingdom, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac.
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Dancer in the Dark
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' ...
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Breaking the Waves
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow f...
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Good Will Hunting
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. ...
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Dogville
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...
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Savior
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...
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The Glass House
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenl...
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Thor
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly r...
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The Hunt for Red October
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast un...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...
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No Good Deed
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon ...
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Exorcist: The Beginning
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in...
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Beowulf & Grendel
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. He...
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Goya's Ghosts
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether...
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Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation r...
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The Simple-Minded Murderer
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's...
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Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues....
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Mamma Mia!
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites ...
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Amistad
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...
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Code Name Coq Rouge
His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a g...
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God on Trial
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Tria...
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Ronin
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its w...
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City of Ghosts
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his sha...
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The Avengers
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of th...
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King Arthur
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...
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Insomnia
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a...
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Aberdeen
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers...
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Kill Your Darlings
A desperate young writer is lured on a wild ride through the desert by a mysterious woman in this da...
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Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he ...
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Angels & Demons
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of...
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Arn: The Knight Templar
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land...
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Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. W...
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The Slingshot
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing bro...
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Metropia
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of undergroun...
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WΔZ
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated...
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The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery
When Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry tries to break doctor Busé out of jail, they get Herman Melvin inste...
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Melancholia
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens...
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Peter-No-Tail in Americat
Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying...
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What Remains
In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to s...
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Anita, Swedish Nymphet
Anita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a k...
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Signs & Wonders
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love aff...
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The Democratic Terrorist
The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece fr...
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Guilty Hearts
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidel...
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World...
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King of Devil's Island
Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are...
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Frankie & Alice
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her tr...
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Jim and the Pirates Blom
Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but...
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Light Keeps Me Company
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir...
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The Glass-Blower's Children
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in ...
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Soul of a Man
Adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe short story called “Bon-Bon”. The film is a dark comedy about a man...
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The Interrogation
Carl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American co...
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Zero Kelvin
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Gr...
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Raid in the Summer
Erik works during the summer at a filling station for boats in the Stockholm archipelago and devotes...
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Thor: The Dark World
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith ret...
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Wrath of Gods
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard ...
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False as Water
John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made h...
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P & B
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a busines...
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Schrader's Exorcism
A documentary chronicling director Paul Schrader's ride through hell and back while making film hist...
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Åke and His World
Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doct...
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The Railway Man
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A t...
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Hip Hip Hurrah!
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast durin...
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Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin...
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The Serpent's Way
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt....
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The Last Dance
Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then cont...
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The Making of King Arthur
Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004)....
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The Office Party
Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to...
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Tabu
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a you...
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The Women on the Roof
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works...
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Noon Wine
The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives o...
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The Physician
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and van...
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Harlan County War
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly...
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S/Y Joy
A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. Th...
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Hemåt i natten
Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marri...
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In Order of Disappearance
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the ...
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Harry & Sonja
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. On...
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Friends
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream ...
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells h...
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The Dogs of Riga
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Po...
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Our Kind of Traitor
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian mil...
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My Son the Fanatic
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islam...
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life an...
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him...
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Wind
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defe...
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Thor: Love and Thunder
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinct...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting....
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the m...
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The Perfect Murder
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been...
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Boogie Woogie
In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he h...
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Birthing Mamma Mia!
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!"....
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mighti...
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Five Days in August
Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyd...
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Timecode
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tr...
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor....
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The Ox
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and ...
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Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Documentary about the Swedish writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten....
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Deep Blue Sea
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to de...
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Romeo & Juliet
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the...
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Powder Keg
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of...
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Dogville Confessions
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others...
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Parker Kane
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murd...
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film dire...
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The School of Wives
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She...
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Who's Who
Stina Wirsén’s beloved characters from the Who series—Little Teddy, Cat, Birdie, and Bunny—are all g...
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Sentimental Value
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned ...
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Borg vs McEnroe
The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain...
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish sh...
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Passion of Mind
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman lea...
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Murder at the Savoy
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockh...
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D-Day
Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebration...
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Room 1112
In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsé...
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Return to Montauk
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters ...
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The Hotel
The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten,...
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In ...
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The Kingdom II
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a ...
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The Painted Bird
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War...
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Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, ha...
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Our Need for Consolation
Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, ...
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The Intruders
When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings aw...
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Den byxlöse äventyraren
Lasse-Maja's (actually Lars Molin's) peculiar fate and adventure from his younger years until 1813, ...
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Gordon & Paddy
The forest’s police chief Gordon is about to retire and he needs to find a new assistant. Paddy, a c...
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Out Stealing Horses
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year'...
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with vo...
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Filmworker
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de...
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Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia'
Conversation between Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on the making of the 1997 film 'Insomnia...
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The Wedding
"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some pro...
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Dune
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, ...
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Eiffel Tower
A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missi...
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I'll Find You
Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic...
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To Kill a Child
Mother, father and child in the kitchen. They've run out of sugar and the child is sent over to gran...
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Hope
Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will imp...
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Dimension
A poetic gangster story and a thriller about the passage of time. Recorded between 1991 and 1997 but...
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Svenska ord i bild och tal
Ronny Svensson and Markus Strömqvist have produced a documentary "Svenska Ord i bild och tal", which...
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Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced a...
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I Remember Lena Svedberg
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make thei...
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Behind the Moomins
Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'...
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Time of the Wolf
The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a gr...
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Last Words
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors...
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Dune: Part Two
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of...
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The Ape Star
The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out st...
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11 Colours of the Bird
A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives...
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Cinderella
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmot...
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As If I Am Not There
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson...
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Being Bo Widerberg
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and ...
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