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| Viewing 1 through 10 of 62 total results | | Beowulf Music & Concert NR | 
 | Finally, the long awaited recording is made! Since 1990, Benjamin Bagby has been performing the great epic Beowulf at major festivals and venues around the world. Now we have his remarkable performance on DVD, beautifully filmed by the award-winning Swedish director Stellan Olsson.
While Beowulf has come down to us as literature, as a written poem, the epic's pre-literate medieval audience would have known it through the performance of a scop, a bardic storyteller, as Bagby presents himself h...
Cast: Benjamin Bagby
Director: Stellan Olsson | | Student Of Prague Silent NR | 
 | The Long-Lost Silent Horror Classic
Balduin (Paul Wegener) is a penniless student in 19th century Prague who, in a chance encounter, rescues the beautiful Countess Margit Schwarzenberg and become romantically obsessed with her. Scapinelli, the sorcerer, lures the student with a bargain - 100,000 gold pieces - a vast fortune - in return for which"...he shall take from his room whatsoever he chooseth for his own use..." and Balduin hastily signs the contract. Much to the students astonishment, ...
Cast: Paul Wegener, lydia salmonova, grete berger, john gottowt, fritz weidemann
Director: stellan rye | | Aberdeen Drama NR | 
 | "Beautifully acted, ferociously observant!" -New York Times
Kaise (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together… at least until her mother Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favor: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild, brutally funny yet heartbreaking journey, which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destin...
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Lena Headey, Stellan Skarsgard, Ian Hart
Director: Hans Petter Moland | | Insomnia (1997) Foreign NR | 
 | Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (BREAKING THE WAVES, GOOD WILL HUNTING) gives a compelling performance as Jonas Engstrom, an exiled Swedish city detective working in Norway who travels to the small coastal town of Tromso in order to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. When he makes a fatal mistake in the investigation, however, his own conscience, coupled with the insomnia caused by the 24-hour summer sunlight of northernmost Norway, sets Engstrom on the path to insanity. Director Erik Skj...
Cast: Stellan Skarsg¥rd, Sverre Anker Ousdal
Director: Erik Skjoldbj¦rg | | Harlan County War Drama NR | 
 | It's Her Turn To Fight Back.
Academy Award®-winner Holly Hunter (The Piano) stars as Ruby, the wife of a coal miner in Harlan County, Kentucky. After two senseless deaths, the union calls a strike against the mining company. What follows is one of the most violent, bitter and notorious union battles in history.
With no end to the strike in sight, Ruby decides to fight the company her way. Ted Levine (Georgina) and Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting) also star in this fictional s...
Cast: Holly Hunter, Ted Levine, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Tony Bill | | Anita - The Shocking Account of a Young Nymphomaniac Foreign NR | 
 | The Shocking Account Of A Young Nymphomaniac
Anita is a classic of controversial Swedish exploitation starring cult film starlet Christina Lindberg (Thriller: A Cruel Picture) and a very young Stellan Skarsgard (Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End) in one of his first ever film roles! A young girl named Anita (Lindberg) suffers from psychological problems and sexual promiscuity due to her troubled childhood and uncaring parents. She meets Erik (Skarsgard), a student at a local university,...
Cast: Christina Lindberg, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Torgny Wickman | | Perfect Murder - Merchant Ivory Collection, The Suspense NR | 
 | Merchant-Ivory Productions, famous for their films exploring Indian-European relations, is the studio behind THE PERFECT MURDER. The film is based on the first novel in a series by H.R.F. Keating featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police department, played here by prolific Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah. Ghote is investigating an assault on the secretary of a rich mogul, and is assisted on the case by a Swedish forensics expert (international character actor Stellan Skarsgard, of BREAKING TH...
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Madhur Jaffrey, Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Zafar Hai | | Breaking The Waves Suspense R | 
 | "An Amazing Film Of Oceanic Power!" -Chicago Tribune
When Bess, a naïve young woman, marries Jan, a handsome oil-rig worker, she experiences passion and physical pleasure that she never imagined. Their bliss is cut short when an accident on the rig leaves Jan paralyzed. Believing he will never make love to Bess again, he tells her to take other lovers, convincing her that this will help his recovery. Bess is sent spiraling into a world of dark emotions she cannot understand.
Remarka...
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Katrin Cartlidge, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Emily Watson
Director: Lars Von Trier | | Time Code Drama R | 
 | "A pioneering breakthrough in movie storytelling." -L.A. Weekly
Time Code is unlike anything you've ever seen. A new and innovative kind of movie for the new millennium! Academy Award-nominated director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas 1995), weaves an extraordinary behind-the-Hollywood-scenes drama including a star-studded ensemble cast, featuring Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Weber, Kyle MacLachlan and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
Four separate cameras follow the intri...
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Director: Mike Figgis | | The Killing Gene Thrillers R | 
 | How far would you go to save the one you love?
Stellan Skarsgard (Exorcist: The Beginning) stars as Eddie Argo, a veteran cop investigating a string of bizarre serial murders. In each case, the victims were forced to make the unconscionable decision to save themselves or the life of a loved one. Now Eddie and his rookie partner (Melissa George, Alias) must stop the carnage before the killer strikes too close to home. Featuring Selma Blair (Hellboy) in a terrifying performance, The Killing Gene ...
Cast: Selma Blair, Melissa George, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hardy, Paul Kaye, Ashley Walters, John Sharian
Director: Tom Shankland | |
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