Film i Väst (Firm)
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Bjorn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end, run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnroe, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne. A story about the price of success.
2) Easy money
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Swedish
Description
Lower-class business student JW falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle, he's lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and the Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Swedish
Description
Evert Baackstromis a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius, and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently, but DNA points to her death in the 2004 tsunami. Prosecutor Hanna Hwassbelieves it's a mistake, but Backstrom sees a case only he can solve: a woman who has died twice.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
5) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
8) Holy spider
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Persian
Description
Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed sixteen women between 2000 and 2001.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why, and no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town. The dead rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living, and the citizens of the town...
11) Brimstone
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
12) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
14) The spy
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process...
15) Diana
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A look into the private realm of one the world's most iconic and inescapably public women in the last two years of her meteoric life, and explores the Princess of Wales' final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.