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1) The hunt
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 10
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Ivan is the minister at a remote, rural church. A bit of a Pollyanna, he's volunteered the rectory as a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. His current charges are a Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell-raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd...
6) Teddy bear
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year old body builder who would like to find true love, has never had a girlfriend and lives with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a visit to Pattaya, as it seems love is easier to find there. Knowing his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya turns...
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Thriller about a special law enforcement unit set up to fight cross-border crime and terrorism across Scandinavia and Europe. Charismatic detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus) assembles a team of investigators equipped with the most advanced technology and high-tech weapons. Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, Hallgrim exudes confidence and self-assurance; but behind the dynamic facade lies a tormented personality"--From publisher...
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Thriller about a special law enforcement unit set up to fight cross-border crime and terrorism across Scandinavia and Europe. Charismatic detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus) assembles a team of investigators equipped with the most advanced technology and high-tech weapons. Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, Hallgrim exudes confidence and self-assurance; but behind the dynamic facade lies a tormented personality"--From publisher...