Smilla's Sense of Snow (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Richard Harris
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Robert Loggia
Beyond Rangoon (
1995) | IMDb:
6.5
Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
Starring:
Patricia Arquette
,
U Aung Ko
,
Frances McDormand
,
Spalding Gray
,
Tiara Jacquelina
,
Ann Howard