Film i Väst (Sweden): 13

Sundown (2021), a drama by Michel Franco, follows London native Neil Bennett on his Acapulco vacation with sister Alice and her children Colin and Alexa. Staying in a luxurious hotel and dining at fancy restaurants, the family enjoys various activities. However, Neil is not. Suddenly, Alice receives a call informing her of their mother’s hospitalization. Packing up to leave immediately, they are soon met with another call revealing their mother’s passing. While Alice breaks down in tears, Neil remains composed. In the airport, he realizes he left his passport at the hotel and the family departs without ...

The film Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) is an American action comedy directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O’Connor and Brandon and Phillip Murphy. The main character, Michael Bryce, takes a break from his bodyguarding career to vacation in Capri while he awaits the reinstatement of his license. However, his peace is interrupted when Sonia Kincaid finds him and convinces him to help rescue her hitman husband Darius, who has been kidnapped by ...

Rambo: Last Blood (2019) is an American action film directed by Adrian Grünberg. Co-written by Matthew Cirulnick and Sylvester Stallone, from a story by Dan Gordon and Stallone, the movie is based on the character John Rambo created by author David Morrell for his novel First Blood. As the fifth installment in the Rambo franchise, it serves as a sequel to ...

Atomic Blonde (2017), an American action thriller film directed by David Leitch, is adapted from the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart. Set in November 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, MI6 agent James Gascoigne is killed and his wristwatch, which contains a crucial microfilm document known as The List, is stolen by KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin. In response, top-level MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton is called in for a debriefing with MI6 executive Eric Gray and CIA agent Emmett ...

Norwegian disaster film, The Wave (2015), by director Roar Uthaug, was Norway’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. Despite this, it failed to secure a nomination. Geologist Kristian Eikjord’s last day in the popular tourist spot Geiranger takes an unexpected turn when sensors on the mountain signal a disappearance of groundwater at Åkerneset. With his wife Idun still working at the local hotel for a few more days and his children Sondre and Julia with him, Kristian realizes something is amiss and quickly heads back to the geology center. ...

Directed by James Watkins and written by Jane Goldman, The Woman in Black (2012) is a gothic supernatural horror film. It tells the story of lawyer Arthur Kipps, who is sent to the village of Crythin Gifford in 1889 to retrieve documents from the late owner of Eel Marsh House, Alice Drablow. During his visit, three young girls tragically pass away after seemingly being hypnotized by a mysterious presence. In 1906, Arthur’s wife Stella dies after giving birth to their son Joseph, and four years later he makes his journey to Crythin Gifford. Despite being met with ...

The Hunt (2012) is a Danish psychological drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. Lucas, a member of a close-knit rural Danish community, misses his teenage son Marcus, who mostly lives with his ex-wife. However, he has formed strong relationships with the young children at the local kindergarten, where he works since the school at which he taught closed. Things start to look up for Lucas when Marcus expresses a desire to live with him and he starts dating Nadja, a co-worker. One of the children at the kindergarten is Klara, daughter of ...

Kon-Tiki (2012), a historical drama directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, tells the story of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. It was primarily filmed on the island of Malta. The film follows Thor Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, as he attempts to prove his theory that Polynesia was settled by people from South America before Columbus’s time. This theory is supported by the similarities between statues found in South America and those on Easter Island, as well as Polynesian folklore about an ancient tribe known as the Hanau epe who were ...

Agnès Merlet directs the fantasy thriller film, Hideaways (2011), written by Nick Murphy. Starring Rachel Hurd-Wood and Harry Treadaway, it is a co-production between France, Ireland, and Sweden. James Furlong comes from a long line of family members with strange abilities. His grandfather, Charlie, would go temporarily blind at the thought of sex while his father, Philip, could shut off electrical devices when frightened. Despite a tumultuous birth resulting in the death of ...

Neon Flesh (2010) is a neo-noir thriller with comedic undertones directed by Paco Cabezas. Following his release, Ricky reunites with his mother, Pura, who has resorted to prostitution to make ends meet. Pura has been saving up money to fulfill Ricky’s wish of opening a brothel, but her untimely death in a car accident changes everything. Determined to honor her memory, Ricky decides to pursue his own dream and open a high-end brothel. To achieve this goal, he enlists the aid of his former cellmate, Angelito, and friend, Carlos. However, their pursuit becomes complicated when they become targets of the ruthless El ...

The Swedish-Danish-German production, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest (2009), was directed by Daniel Alfredson and written by Ulf Rydberg. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Following the events in The Girl Who Played with Fire, computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is taken to a hospital in Gothenburg to recover from gunshot wounds inflicted by her father, crime boss Alexander Zalachenko. Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist whom Salander had previously assisted, continues his efforts to clear her ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) is a Swedish-Danish-German crime thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson and based on the novel of the same name by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It serves as a sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and follows Lisbeth Salander, who returns to Sweden after a year abroad. She reconnects with her ex-girlfriend Miriam Wu and allows her to stay in her old apartment. Later, Salander confronts her former abusive guardian Nils Bjurman after hacking into his email. She discovers that he has made an appointment with a ...

The Swedish-Danish crime thriller film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and produced by Søren Stærmose. It is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. In December 2002, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of independent magazine Millennium, is sentenced to three months in prison after losing a libel case involving unproven allegations against billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. To investigate Blomkvist’s background, Henrik Vanger, patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, hires Lisbeth ...