Safe Haven (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, Cobie Smulders
Director: Lasse Hallström
A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners.
Starring: Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Bryce Gheisar, K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Macfadyen, Mackenzie Foy, Helen Mirren, Sergei Polunin
Director: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
ABBA: The Movie (1977)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama | Music
An incompetent radio DJ tries to get an interview with the Swedish pop group during their famous week-long 1977 tour of Australia.
Starring: Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Robert Hughes, Stig Anderson
Director: Lasse Hallström
A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners.
Starring: Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz, Juliet Rylance
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Dear John (2010)
Drama | Romance | War
A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, Scott Porter, Luke Benward
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Drama
A story centered on an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Charlotte Le Bon, Manish Dayal, Rohan Chand, Juhi Chawla
Director: Lasse Hallström
My Life as a Dog / Mitt liv som hund (1985)
Comedy | Drama
A twelve-year old Swedish boy is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a country village after his mother becomes ill.
Starring: Anton Glanzelius, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kicki Rundgren, Tomas von Brömssen, Ralph Carlsson
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Shipping News (2001)
Drama | Romance
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn
Director: Lasse Hallström
Chocolat (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Leslie Caron
Director: Lasse Hallström
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Drama
A down on her luck woman, desperate to provide care for her daughter, moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas, Damian Lewis, Camryn Manheim, Becca Gardner
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Hypnotist / Hypnotisören (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
Starring: Tobias Zilliacus, Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Helena af Sandeberg
Director: Lasse Hallström
Casanova (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova (Ledger) is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty, Francesca (Miller), who does the one thing he never thought possible refuse him. Through a series of clever disguises and scheming ruses, he manages to get ever closer to Francesca. However, he is playing the most dangerous game he has ever encountered one that will risk not only his life and reputation but his only chance at true passion.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin, Omid Djalili
Director: Lasse Hallström
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When Britain's leading fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Drama | Romance
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine
Director: Lasse Hallström
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Drama | Romance
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
Director: Lasse Hallström
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Drama | Family
This heartwarming true story is an U.S. adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty. Today, a bronze statue of Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya station in Japan as a permanent reminder of his devotion and love.
Starring: Richard Gere, Joan Allen
Director: Lasse Hallström
