Posted on June 15, 2022 |
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55 Steps / Eleanor & Colette (2017)
Biography | Drama
When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Richard Riddell, Michael Culkin, Johan Heldenbergh
Director: Bille August
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Tags: Bille August, Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Johan Heldenbergh, Michael Culkin, Richard Riddell
Posted on December 4, 2018 |
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The Chinese Widow / In Harm's Way / Feng huo fang fei (2017)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In the 1940s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed Americans' morale. The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo, raising the public's hopes. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. However, after completing their missions, the bombardment air craft pilots had to bail out at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to a shortage of fuel. A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, who risked her life as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between the two.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Yifei Liu
Director: Bille August
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Posted on January 21, 2016 |
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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Biography | Drama | History
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Patrick Lyster, James Gregory, Tyrone Keogh
Director: Bille August
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Tags: Bille August, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, James Gregory, Joseph Fiennes, Patrick Lyster, Tyrone Keogh
Posted on April 7, 2015 |
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Stille hjerte / Silent Heart (2014)
Drama
Three generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother's wish to die before her disease worsens gets harder to handle as old conflicts come to the surface.
Starring: Ghita Nørby, Morten Grunwald, Paprika Steen, Danica Curcic, Jens Albinus, Pilou Asbæk
Director: Bille August
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Tags: Bille August, Danica Curcic, Ghita Nørby, Jens Albinus, Morten Grunwald, Paprika Steen, Pilou Asbæk
Posted on February 26, 2014 |
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Pelle the Conqueror / Pelle erobreren (1987)
Drama
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.
Starring: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume, Axel Strøbye, Troels Asmussen, Sofie Gråbøl, Lars Simonsen
Director: Bille August
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Tags: Astrid Villaume, Axel Strøbye, Bille August, Björn Granath, Erik Paaske, Lars Simonsen, Max von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Sofie Gråbøl, Troels Asmussen
Posted on March 8, 2013 |
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Marie Kroeyer / Marie Krøyer (2012)
Biography | Drama
The story of the marriage between the painters Marie and P.S. Krøyer.
Starring: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Sverrir Gudnason, Lene Maria Christensen, Tommy Kenter
Director: Bille August
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Tags: Bille August, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Lene Maria Christensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Sverrir Gudnason, Tommy Kenter
Posted on January 10, 2013 |
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Les Misérables (1998)
Crime | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes
Director: Bille August
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