Stellan Skarsgård
1) 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...
2) King Arthur
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Arthur must complete one final mission before the knights can earn their freedom from servitude and Arthur can return to Rome. As the Roman Empire falls, Arthur, under the guidance of Merlin and with Guenevere by his side, fights alongside his loyal Roundtable Knights for the freedom of the British people.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-winner Milos Foreman, "Goya's Ghosts" is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage...
6) Aberdeen
Publisher
distributed by First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Language
English
Description
Kaisa, a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together ... at least until her mother asks an enormous favor of her: to bring back her estranged, larger-than-life father. The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild and brutally funny, yet heartbreaking journey which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination.
9) Wind
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1992
Language
English
Description
A brash young sailor breaks with tradition in his quest to reclaim the America's Cup for the United States.
10) Taking sides
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow, who is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, they must face their foes. Lord Cutler Beckett, now has control of Jones' heart and forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, together. The Pirate Lords...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow, who is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, they must face their foes. Lord Cutler Beckett, now has control of Jones' heart and forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, together. The Pirate Lords...
14) Angels & demons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
15) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
17) 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.
19) 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...
20) 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