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After the wedding (2006)
Efter brylluppet
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Rolf Lassgård, Mads Mikkelsen
What appears to be a friendly invitation to a wedding sets in motion a devastating series of events.
[DVD]

      
Antonia (1995)
Antonia's line
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans
A Dutch matron oversees a close-knit community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
[VHS ]

      
Babette's feast (1987)
Babette's gæstebud
Director: Gabriel Axel
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Stephane Audran
Two sisters who have lived isolated lives take in a French woman refugee in 19th Century Denmark.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Black book (2006)
Zwartboek
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch
In occupied Netherlands during WW II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the Gestapo for the Dutch resistance.
[DVD]

      
Boss of it all (2006)
Direktøren for det hele
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Jens Albinus, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
An IT company hires an actor to play the company's president to help sell the business to a cranky Icelander.
[DVD]

      
Celebration (1998)
Festen
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Henning Moritzen, Ulrich Thomsen
Unpleasant family truths are revealed at a woman's 60th birthday party.
[VHS ]

      
Cries and whispers (1972)
Viskningar och rop
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann
A woman who is dying is visited one last time by her sisters.
[DVD]

      
Day of wrath (1943)
Vredens dag
Director: Carl Theodore Dreyer
Starring: Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft.
[VHS ]

      
Devil's Island (1996)
Djöflaeyjan
Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Starring: Gisli Halldórsson, Sigurveig Jónsdóttir
Hundreds of lower-income people live in bunkers left behind in Reykjavik following WW II.
[DVD]

      
Elvira Madigan (1967)
Director: Bo Widerberg
Starring: Thommy Berggren, Pia Degermark
A circus performer runs off with a married Swedish army officer.
[DVD]

      
Hunger (1966)
Sult
Director: Henning Carlsen
Starring: Gunnel Lindblom, Per Oscarsson
In 1890, a starving writer wanders the streetts in search of love and a chance to publish his work.
[DVD]

      
Man without a past (2003)
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Kati Outinen, Markku Peltola
A man with amnesia lives on the outskirts of Helsinki and tries to piece together a new life.
[DVD]

      
Mifune (1999)
Mifunes sidste sang
Director: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Anders Berthelsen, Iben Hjejle
A prostitute hoping to start a new life answers a man's ad for help on his farm.
[DVD]

      
My life as a dog (1985)
Mitt liv som hund
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Tomas von Brömssen, Anton Glanzelius
Shipped off to live with his uncle, 12-year-old Ingmar finds unexpected adventures with the help of the town's eccentrics.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Pelle the conquerer (1987)
Pelle Erobreren
Director: Bille August
Starring: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow
A Swedish man and his young son Pelle travel to Denmark in the hope of finding work and a better life.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Persona (1966)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
A nurse put in charge of a actress who can't talk finds that the actress' persona is melding with hers.
[DVD]

      
Smiles of a summer night (1955)
Sommarnattens leende
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson
Eight mismatched individuals become romantically and comically intertwined over a weekend.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The best intentions (1992)
Den goda viljan
Director: Bille August
Starring: Pernilla August, Samuel Froler
A love story based on the lives of Ingmar Bergman’s parents, he a poor theology student and she a rich man’s daughter.
[VHS ]

      
The seventh seal (1957)
Det sjunde inseglet
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against Death during the Black Plague.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The vanishing (1988)
Spoorloos
Director: George Sluizer
Starring: Gene Bervoets, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is kidnapped by a methodical psychopath.
[DVD]



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