Love Is All You Need (
2012) | IMDb:
6.5
Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.
Starring:
Pierce Brosnan
,
Trine Dyrholm
,
Molly Blixt Egelind
,
Sebastian Jessen
,
Paprika Steen
,
Kim Bodnia
King of Devil's Island (
2010) | IMDb:
7.5
Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.
Starring:
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Benjamin Helstad
,
Kristoffer Joner
,
Trond Nilssen
,
Morten Løvstad
,
Daniel Berg
Mammoth (
2009) | IMDb:
6.8
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.
Starring:
Gael García Bernal
,
Michelle Williams
,
Marife Necesito
,
Sophie Nyweide
,
Tom McCarthy
,
Natthamonkarn Srinikornchot
Directed by:
Lukas Moodysson
The Boss of It All (
2006) | IMDb:
6.6
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Starring:
Jens Albinus
,
Peter Gantzler
,
Benedikt Erlingsson
,
Henrik Prip
,
Mia Lyhne
,
Casper Christensen
Manderlay (
2005) | IMDb:
7.2
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Starring:
Bryce Dallas Howard
,
Isaach De Bankolé
,
Danny Glover
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Michaël Abiteboul
,
Lauren Bacall
Dogville (
2003) | IMDb:
8
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman
,
Harriet Andersson
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Jean-Marc Barr
,
Paul Bettany
,
Blair Brown
Dancer in the Dark (
2000) | IMDb:
7.9
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
The Idiots (
1998) | IMDb:
6.8
A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Starring:
Bodil Jørgensen
,
Jens Albinus
,
Anne Louise Hassing
,
Troels Lyby
,
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
,
Louise Mieritz
Directed by:
Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves (
1996) | IMDb:
7.8
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Starring:
Emily Watson
,
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Katrin Cartlidge
,
Jean-Marc Barr
,
Adrian Rawlins
,
Jonathan Hackett